Reims (France) -- History; World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Reims
23 Bombardment 10:45 to 11:15 A. M., 20 shells.
24 Taube 8 A. M.; bombardment 12:15 P. M.; aerial combat 1 P. M.,
2 bombs dropped.
25 Bombardment 11 to 11:15 A. M., shells on faubourgs.
26 Bombardment 5 to 5:15 P. M., 7 shells; again 9 P. M., 4 shells.
27 Bombardment 8:30 A. M., 12 shells; renewed 11:30 A. M. to 1:15 P. M.,
26 shells.
28 Bombardment 10 to 10:15 A. M., 12 shells, 1 wounded; renewed 5 to
6:30 P. M., 28 shells.
29 Bombardment 8 to 9:30 A. M., 13 shells, 2 wounded.
30 Calm.
31 Bombardment 10 A. M. to noon, 36 shells.
September, 1916
1 Calm.
2 Calm; 2 Taubes 5 P. M.
3 Taube; bombardment 8:30 to 10:30 A. M., 13 shells; renewed
5 to 7 P. M.
4 Calm.
5 Bombardment 10:30 A. M., 3 shells.
6 No shells.
7 No shells.
8 No shells.
9 Some shells in morning, 1 wounded; Taube dropped 2 bombs 6 P. M.,
1 killed, 1 wounded; artillery to south at night.
10 Calm.
11 French artillery in morning; no shells.
12 Calm.
13 Calm.
14 Calm.
15 20 Taube bombs 12:15 P. M., 2 killed, 1 wounded; intermittent French
artillery at night.
16 Calm.
17 Taubes in morning; no shells; French artillery to south in afternoon;
Taube 6 P. M.
18 Calm.
19 Anniversary of cathedral fire in 1914; calm; Taube in afternoon;
French artillery at night.
20 Calm.
21 French artillery 11 A. M., no response.
22 Bombardment 9:30 A. M. to noon, 32 shells, 1 killed, 6 wounded.
23 Taube 8 A. M.; bombardment 9:30 to 11 A. M., 33 shells.
24 Taube 8 A. M.; bombardment 11 A. M., 32 shells; renewed 1:30 P. M.,
10 shells on observation balloon in rear of Reims.
25 German fire on aeros; bombardment 1:30 to 4 P. M., 21 shells.
26 Bombardment 3:30 to 5 P. M.; renewed 5:30 to 6:30 P. M.; 19 shells in
all.
27 Bombardment 1:30 to 3:30 P. M., 31 shells.
28 Bombardment 10:30 A. M.; no shells on Reims.
29 Very calm; no cannon sounds in sector.
30 Calm.
October, 1916
1 Bombardment 1 P. M., 3 shells; renewed 1:15 P. M., 13 shells.
2 Calm; some cannonade in morning.
3 Nothing to note.
4 Taube 6 A. M.; bombardment 10 to 11 A. M., 9 shells; renewed 4 to
5:45 P. M., 40 shells.
5 Bombardment 12 to 12:30 P. M., 7 shells; renewed 4 P. M., Taube
shrapnel, 1 wounded.
6 Taube 10 A. M.
7 Nothing to note.
8 Calm.
9 Calm.
10 Taube in morning; bombardment 3:30 to 6 P. M., 28 shells.
11 4 Taubes 6 to 11 A. M., dropped 4 shells; artillery 5 P. M.
12 Calm.
13 Bombardment 8 A. M., 4 shells.
14 Distant bombardment 11 A. M.; some shells.
15 Calm.
16 Bombardment 2 P. M.
17 Bombardment 8 A. M., 10 shells.
18 No shells; French artillery 4 P. M.
19 Calm.
20 Bombardment 10 to 11 A. M., 18 shells; renewed 3 to 5 P. M.,
13 shells.
21 Bombardment 9:30 to 11:30 A. M., 19 shells; 8 shells in afternoon.
22 Fire on Taubes.
23 Fire on Taubes 7 A. M.; some shells in the day.
24 Fire on Taubes.
25 Bombardment 10:30 A. M., 11 shells; renewed 1:30 to 5 P. M., 400 to
500 shells; French artillery from 9 P. M.
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