The Bombardment of Reims

10 Bombardment in morning; renewed 5:30 P. M.

11 Bombardment 5:30 P. M.

12 Bombardment in morning; renewed 3:30 P. M.; again 5:30 P. M.

13 Bombardment 11 A. M.; renewed in afternoon and night.

14 No report available.

15 Bombardment 8 P. M.

16 Bombardment in afternoon.

17 Bombardment 4:30 P. M.; renewed 7 P. M.

18 Bombardment 1 P. M., 3 killed; renewed 4 to 5 P. M.; again 9 P. M.

19 Bombardment 6 P. M.

2 °Copious bombardment.

21 Bombardment at noon.

22 Bombardment 6 to 7 P. M.

23 Bombardment in afternoon; renewed 9 P. M.

24 Bombardment 8:30 to 9 A. M.

25 Bombardment 8:30 P. M.

26 Bombardment 4:30 A. M.; renewed in evening.

27 Kaiser's birthday; bombardment afternoon and evening.

28 Heavy bombardment; renewed 5:30 P. M.

29 Bombardment 3 to 4:30 P. M.; renewed 8 P. M.

30 Bombardment in morning; renewed 5 P. M.

31 Bombardment 6 A. M.

February, 1915

1 Calm.

2 Calm.

3 Bombardment of vacant land in morning; renewed 2 P. M.; again 6 P. M.

4 Bombardment 11:30 A. M. to 1 P. M.; renewed at night.

5 Bombardment in evening.

6 Copious bombardment.

7 Calm.

8 Some small calibre shells in morning.

9 Bombardment 12:15 P. M.; renewed 3 P. M., 1 killed, 3 wounded.

10 Some shells.

11 Calm.

12 Bombardment 1 P. M.

13 Bombardment 11 A. M.

14 Bombardment in morning.

15 Calm.

16 Bombardment 5 P. M.

17 Bombardment in afternoon, 1 killed, 3 wounded.

18 Bombardment 11 A. M. and in afternoon, 9 killed, several wounded.

19 Bombardment 9 A. M.

20 Bombardment 9 P. M.

21 Bombardment 2:30 P. M.; ferociously renewed 9 P. M. to 2:30 A. M.

22 Bombardment continued to 2:30 A. M., 2000 shells, many killed and wounded; renewed in day, 4 killed.

23 Bombardment continued.

24 Bombardment 10:15 A. M.; renewed 7 P. M.; Taube dropped bomb.

25 Bombardment from 7 A. M.

26 Bombardment from 9 A. M.; renewed 1 to 5 P. M.; 2 shells on cathedral.

27 Bombardment from 6 A. M.; renewed in afternoon.

28 Bombardment in morning.

March, 1915

1 Day calm; bombardment at night; several killed and wounded.

2 Bombardment 12 to 5 P. M.; renewed 9:30 P. M., 2 wounded.

3 Bombardment morning and afternoon, 4 killed, 14 wounded.

4 Bombardment 11 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., 1 killed, 6 wounded; renewed 2 to 5:30 P. M., 3 killed, 2 wounded.

5 Bombardment 9 A. M. to 2 P. M., 1 killed, 2 wounded; renewed 4 P. M.; again 8 to 9:30 P. M., 1 killed, 4 wounded.

6 Bombardment in morning, 3 wounded.

7 Bombardment most of the day.

8 Bombardment continued, and at night.

9 Bombardment continued, 8 wounded; renewed 8 P. M. to 4 A. M.

10 Bombardment continued to 4 A. M., 1 killed, 1 wounded; renewed 5 P. M.; again from 7:30 P. M.

11 Bombardment 5:30 P. M.; renewed 8 P. M.

12 Day calm; bombardment from 7:30 P. M., 1 wounded.

13 Bombardment 10 A. M., 2 victims; renewed 8 P. M. to 4 A. M.; Taube in afternoon.

14 Bombardment continued to 4 A. M.; renewed in day, 4 wounded.

15 Bombardment 4 A. M.; renewed 9 A. M.; again 5 to 6 P. M., 4 wounded.

16 Calm; some shells at night.

17 Bombardment 2:15 to 4 P. M.

18 Day relatively calm; some shells.

19 Moderate bombardment; some shells 5 P. M.

20 Unimportant bombardment in afternoon.

21 Bombardment 4 A. M.; Taubes dropped bombs in morning; some shells in evening.

22 Day relatively calm; some shells 6 P. M.

23 Bombardment 11 A. M. to noon.

24 Bombardment in morning; renewed 2 to 4 P. M., again 10 P. M.

25 Bombardment afternoon and night.

26 Intermittent bombardment.

27 Bombardment morning and afternoon.

28 Bombardment morning and afternoon; Taube dropped bomb on cathedral apse.

29 Bombardment continued.

30 Taube dropped 3 bombs 7 A. M.

31 Almost complete calm.

April, 1915

1 Taube dropped 4 bombs 7 A. M.; bombardment in afternoon.

2 Taube dropped bombs 6 A. M.

3 Unimportant bombardment.

4 Easter Day. Nothing to note.

5 Bombardment on vacant land.

6 Nothing to note.

7 Nothing to note.

8 Intense bombardment 9 P. M. to 2 A. M.

9 Bombardment continued to 2 A. M.; no shells in the day.

10 Nothing to note.

11 Unimportant bombardment.

12 No report available.

13 Almost calm; some incendiary bombs 4 P. M.; shells 9 P. M.

14 No report available.

15 Taube dropped 4 bombs 7 A. M.

16 Taube 6 A. M.; bombardment 4:30 to 6:30 P. M.

17 Bombardment continued.

18 Taube dropped 3 bombs 5:30 A. M.; bombardment 5 P. M.

19 Some incendiary bombs 3 P. M.

20 Incendiary bombs 5 A. M.; bombardment continued through day.

21 Bombardment 5 to 7 P. M.; renewed at night.

22 Incendiary bombs 10 A. M.; bombardment in afternoon.

23 Calm.

24 Bombardment 9:30 A. M.; afternoon and night calm.

25 Bombardment 11:30 A. M.; renewed 4 P. M.

26 Some shells in morning.

27 Calm.

28 Bombardment 10:30 A. M.; renewed 4 to 5 P. M.; again 7 to 11 P. M.

29 Taubes in morning; bombardment in afternoon.

30 Bombardment 7:30 A. M., 20 shells; violent bombardment 5 to 7 P. M.

May, 1915

1 Taube 4:30 A. M.; bombardment morning and afternoon.

2 Bombardment in morning.

3 Bombardment 7 A. M.

4 Bombardment 7 A. M.; renewed 5 to 6 P. M.

5 Bombardment 10 A. M.

6 Bombardment 9 A. M.; renewed 3 to 5 P. M.

7 Bombardment 6:30 A. M.

8 Bombardment 9:30 A. M.

9 Bombardment in morning.

10 Taubes dropped 2 bombs 5:30 A. M.; rifle fire at night.

11 Bombardment morning and afternoon.

12 Bombardment in morning.

13 Infantry fire on French lines at night.

14 Bombardment in morning.

15 Taubes and bombardment in morning.

16 More intense bombardment.

17 Calm.

18 Calm.

19 Calm.

20 Bombardment in morning, 2 or 3 shells.

21 Bombardment 9 P. M.

22 Bombardment at noon, 20 shells.

23 Calm; a few shells at midnight.

24 General calm.

25 Bombardment at night.

26 Calm.

27 Calm.

28 Bombardment in afternoon.

29 No shells; some rifle shots in sector at night.

30 Bombardment in day.

31 Taube; bombardment in afternoon.

June, 1915

1 Bombardment 9 A. M. to noon.

2 Day calm; Germans bombard French aeros 7 A. M.

3 Bombardment 9 to 11 A. M.; renewed 5 to 6:30 P. M.

4 Bombardment 5 to 6 P. M.

5 Tranquil.

6 Brief bombardment.

7 Violent artillery combat on front, 1 to 4 A. M., 6 shells on Reims.

8 Calm.

9 Calm.

10 Bombardment in afternoon.

11 Nothing to note.

12 Nothing to note; violent artillery fire on front east of Reims at night.

13 Nothing to note.

14 No report available.

15 Bombardment, 2 or 3 shells; renewed 11 to 11:30 P. M., 80 shells, some on cathedral.

16 No report available.

17 Bombardment 10 A. M., 3 or 4 shells.

18 Calm.

19 Bombardment in afternoon.

20 German fire on French aeros.

21 Nothing to note.

22 Nothing to note.

23 Nothing to note.

24 Nothing to note.

25 Nothing to note; French artillery at night; no response.

26 Nothing to note; French artillery in day; no response.

27 Bombardment from 6:15 A. M.

28 Nothing to note.

29 Bombardment in morning.

30 Bombardment in afternoon.

July, 1915

1 Bombardment in morning; renewed 5:30 P. M.

2 Calm.

3 German fire on French aeros in morning; bombardment 9 to 9:30 P. M.

4 Bombardment 3 to 6 P. M.

5 Bombardment 4:30 P. M.

6 Nothing to note.

7 Nothing to note.

8 Nothing to note.

9 Nothing to note.

10 Nothing to note.

11 Bombardment 10 A. M. to 2 P. M.

12 Nothing to note.

13 Nothing to note.

14 Bombardment 2 P. M.

15 Calm.

16 Calm.

17 Bombardment 10 A. M. to noon, 20 shells, 1 killed, 1 wounded.

18 Copious bombardment.

19 Bombardment 3:30 A. M.; renewed 9 A. M.; again 4 P. M.

20 Taube 5 A. M.; bombardment 11 A. M. to 12:15 P. M.

21 Taube 7 A. M., 1 shell; aeros at night.

22 Calm; artillery on front at night.

23 Bombardment 11:30 A. M.; renewed 6:45 P. M.; again 11 to 11:20 P. M.

24 Bombardment 9:30 to 10:15 A. M.; renewed at night, 12 shells.

25 Calm.

26 Calm; violent cannonade at night.

27 Bombardment 5:30 P. M.

29 Bombardment 8 A. M.; renewed at night.

30 Bombardment 6 P. M., 12 shells; artillery on all fronts at night.

31 Some shells in day.

August, 1915

1 No report available.

2 Bombardment 9:30 A. M., 2 bombs on faubourgs; renewed 5 P. M.

3 Nothing to note.

4 Nothing to note.

5 Some shells 5:30 P. M.

6 French aviator violently cannonaded.

7 Nothing to note; violent cannonade around Reims at night.

8 Cannonade around Reims in day; some shells 5:15 P. M.; incendiary bombs at night.

9 Cannonade on front at night.

10 Unimportant bombardment.

11 No report available.

12 No shells on Reims; artillery actions on near-by places.

13 Calm.

14 Calm.

15 No report available.

16 Calm.

17 Some shells in afternoon.

18 Bombardment from 10:40 A. M.; some victims.

19 Bombardment 2 to 3:30 P. M.; some killed and wounded.

20 Bombardment 2 to 3:30 P. M.; some victims.

21 Some shells 10 A. M.; heavy bombardment 2 to 3:30 P. M., some victims.

22 Some shells in morning; bombardment 2 to 3:30 P. M.

23 Calm; fire on Taube.

24 Fire on Taube; some shells 5 P. M.

25 Taube dropped 3 bombs 5:20 P. M., 1 killed; bombardment 6 to 7:10 P. M., 150 shells, 1 killed, 4 wounded.

26 Calm.

27 Bombardment 4:30 P. M.

28 Calm.

29 Bombardment 2:45 P. M.; renewed 5 P. M., 1 killed; cannonade at night.

3 °Calm.

31 Bombardment 7:30 A. M.; rest of day calm.

September, 1915

1 Bombardment 11 A. M. to noon, 1 wounded; renewed 1 to 1:30 P. M., 2 wounded; 100 shells for the day.

2 Bombardment 10 to 10:15 A. M.

3 Bombardment 10 A. M.; renewed 3:15 P. M.

4 Anniversary of first bombardment. Bombardment 4 A. M., 20 shells; renewed 5 P. M.

5 Calm.

6 Calm.

7 Calm.

8 Calm.

9 No shells; French cannonade morning and afternoon.

10 Artillery duel; some shells 10 A. M.

11 Day calm; French artillery and German fire on aeros in afternoon.

12 Day calm; bombardment 11:40 P. M.

13 Bombardment 10 A. M.; cannonade at night.

14 Calm.

15 Calm.

16 Calm.

17 Bombardment in afternoon, 6 shells.

18 Bombardment 7 A. M.; cannonade at night.

19 Anniversary of cathedral fire in 1914; Way of the Cross by the priests of Reims in the cathedral. French artillery 4 A. M., feeble response; bombardment in morning and at 5 P. M., 1 wounded.

20 Bombardment 3 P. M.; cannonade at night.

21 Bombardment 9:30 to 10 A. M.; renewed 4 to 5 P. M.

22 Bombardment morning and afternoon, 30 shells.

23 Bombardment 3 to 5:30 P. M., 150 shells, 3 killed, several wounded.

24 Bombardment 4 to 5:30 P. M., 100 shells, 4 killed, 2 wounded.

25 Bombardment 10 A. M., 20 shells, 1 killed; renewed 3 P. M.; 100 shells for the day.

26 French artillery.

27 Artillery on left front; some shells on Reims 3 P. M.

28 2 or 3 shells on faubourgs; cannonade on front.

29 No shells on Reims; less cannonade.

3 °Calm.

October, 1915

1 Calm.

2 Calm.

3 Artillery duel; some shells on faubourgs at night.

4 No report available.

5 Some shrapnel on faubourgs in afternoon.

6 Some shells; French artillery at night.

7 French artillery; no shells on Reims.

8 Calm.

9 Calm.

10 Some shrapnel in afternoon.

11 Calm.

12 Bombardment 10:30 A. M.; renewed 3 P. M.; again 4 P. M.; French aeros over German lines.

13 Some shells in morning.

14 Bombardment 2:30 to 5 P. M.; French aeros.

15 Taube dropped bomb in afternoon; bombardment in evening.

16 Taube dropped bombs.

17 Calm in sector; 3 shells at night.

18 A few shells 5 P. M.

19 French artillery 5 A. M.; bombardment 8 to 11 A. M., 500 shells, some wounded.

20 Bombardment 1:30 to 8 P. M., more than 200 shells and 100 shrapnel; 6 shells at night, 2 killed, 6 wounded.

21 Calm.

22 Some shells afternoon and night.

23 Calm.

24 Calm.

25 Calm.

26 Calm.

27 Calm.

28 1 shell 4:45 P. M.

29 Calm; complete stoppage of artillery on front.

3 °Complete calm.

31 Incessant cannonade on front.

November, 1915

1 Calm.

2 Bombardment 11 A. M.; renewed 2 P. M.

3 Some shells morning and afternoon.

4 Calm.

5 Calm; cannonade on front.

6 Calm; cannonade on front.

7 Calm; a shell at night.

8 Calm.

9 Calm.

1 °Calm; cannonade on front in afternoon.

11 Calm; cannonade on front in afternoon.

12 Calm.

13 1 bomb 4:30 P. M.

14 Calm; French artillery, no response.

15 Calm.

16 No shells; artillery on front all afternoon.

17 No shells; artillery on front in afternoon.

18 Calm.

19 Artillery action; some shells in morning.

20 Artillery; no shells on Reims.

21 Artillery all day; no shells on Reims.

22 Artillery in morning; fire on aeros in afternoon.

23 French artillery in afternoon.

24 Artillery action; 4 shells 2:15 P. M.

25 Calm.

26 Some shells.

27 Calm.

28 French artillery; no shells on Reims.

29 Artillery in afternoon.

30 Some shells in morning.

December, 1915

1 Bombardment in morning.

2 Artillery action; some shrapnel.

3 Bombardment in morning, 1 killed.

4 Bombardment 8:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., 50 shells.

5 Some shells day and night.

6 Calm.

7 Some shrapnel in morning.

8 Calm; 1 shell 9:30 A. M.

9 French artillery 4 P. M.; no response.

1 °Calm.

11 French artillery 12:30 P. M.; German response 4:30 P. M.; no shells on Reims.

12 Artillery duel 3:30 P. M.

13 Cannonade 7 A. M.; renewed 10:30 A. M.

14 Calm; French aero over German lines 2:30 P. M.

15 Cannonade 6:30 to 8 A. M.

16 Calm.

17 Short violent cannonade at noon.

18 French artillery all day; no shells on Reims.

19 15 shells on faubourgs in afternoon; intermittent cannonade at night.

20 Bombardment 10 A. M.; renewed in afternoon, 1 wounded.

21 1 shell in afternoon.

22 Calm; French artillery at long intervals.

23 Calm.

24 Calm.

25 Christmas Day. Bombardment 2 to 3 P. M., 400 shells.

26 Reciprocal cannonade.

27 Heavy bombardment from 9 A. M., 2 killed, 14 wounded.

28 Artillery duel 9:30 A. M.

29 Cannonade 9 A. M.; 1 shell 11 A. M.; renewed in afternoon, again at 9 P. M.; again at 11 P. M.

30 Intense cannonade in Reims sector in afternoon.

31 Calm; Taube 2:30 P. M.

1916

January, 1916

1 Artillery duel at night.

2 Artillery duel in afternoon; artillery at night.

3 Nothing to note.

4 French artillery; some shells on outskirts.

5 Taube; some shells.

6 Day calm; French artillery at night; small response.

7 Calm; artillery to left, 4 P. M.

8 Calm; artillery at night.

9 Artillery duel in morning; Taubes in afternoon; violent artillery at night.

1 °Calm.

11 Day calm; artillery at night.

12 Taube 2 P. M.; artillery at night.

13 A shell fell in a garden 10 A. M.; Taube 2 P. M.; night calm.

14 Some artillery 4 P. M.

15 Calm.

16 Calm.

17 Aerial battle 11 A. M.

18 Calm; artillery at end of afternoon and at night.

19 Bombardment 2 to 2:30 P. M., 200 shells, 1 killed.

20 Day calm; bombs in evening, 3 killed, 5 wounded.

21 Artillery in sector.

22 Calm; artillery on front.

23 Artillery morning and afternoon; aerial combat in afternoon.

24 Calm.

25 Day calm; short cannonade at midnight.

26 Calm; artillery chiefly to north of Reims.

27 Kaiser's birthday. Bombardment 11 A. M. to 2 P. M., 7 killed, 27 wounded.

28 Calm; Taube 12:30 P. M.; French artillery to west of Reims.

29 Bombardment 2 P. M., 50 shells; renewed 7 P. M.; Taube 3 P. M.

3 °Calm.

31 Artillery on all Reims fronts; Taubes and aeros 10 A. M. to 2 P. M.

February, 1916

1 Taubes; artillery duel to right and left.

2 Bombardment from 2:30 P. M., 250 shells.

3 Aeros; French artillery 1 P. M.

4 Calm.

5 Bombardment 3 to 4:30 P. M., 20 shells.

6 3 shells on a faubourg 10 A. M.

7 French artillery; no response; artillery duel on front 9 P. M.

8 Bombardment 11 to 11:30 A. M., 4 shells on faubourg; renewed 2 to 2:30 P. M., 50 shells, 1 wounded.

9 Bombardment 5 P. M., 12 shells on faubourg; artillery duel 7 to 9 P. M.

10 French artillery on left 9 A. M.

11 Artillery in sector in morning.

12 Violent bombardment 9:30 to 11:30 A. M., 110 shells, 1 killed; renewed in afternoon; French artillery on left at night.

13 Bombardment in morning, 12 shells; renewed 12:15 P. M., 6 shells, 6 wounded.

14 Bombardment on left 3:30 to 10 A. M.; renewed 10:30 A. M. to 12:30 P. M., more than 100 shells.

15 Calm.

16 Some shells on faubourgs.

17 Cannonade 10 A. M.; some shells.

18 Artillery in sector.

19 Artillery in sector.

20 Bombardment 2 to 3 P. M., 20 shells.

21 Taube dropped 7 bombs 9:30 A. M., 2 killed, 5 wounded; 2 shells in afternoon; French artillery at night, no response.

22 French artillery from 4 P. M.

23 Day calm; 1 shell in evening.

24 Taube dropped bomb 11 A. M.; French artillery 4 to 5 P. M.

25 Violent cannonade and some bombs on extremities in afternoon.

26 Bombardment 9 to 11:30 A. M., 40 shells, 2 killed, 1 wounded; renewed 2 to 4 P. M., 6 shells.

27 Bombardment 11 A. M., 8 shells; renewed 3 to 5 P. M., 7 shells.

28 Bombardment 8 A. M., 12 shells; renewed 12:30 to 2:30 P. M., 32 shells; Taube 2 P. M.; renewed 4 to 5 P. M., 50 shells, 3 wounded.

29 10 shells on suburbs in morning; French artillery 6 P. M.

March, 1916

1 Bombardment 9 A. M. to 2 P. M., 120 shells, 10 killed; renewed 8 to 9 P. M.

2 Bombardment 10 A. M. to 2 P. M., 5 killed, 4 wounded; renewed 7 to 9:30 P. M., 50 shells, 2 wounded.

3 French artillery 5 A. M.; bombardment 1:45 P. M.; renewed 6 to 8 P. M., 50 shells, 1 killed, 2 wounded.

4 Bombardment 5 A. M.; renewed on faubourgs 5:30 P. M.

5 Bombardment 11 A. M.; renewed 3 P. M.

6 Aerial bomb 9 A. M.; some shells 11 A. M.; French artillery in afternoon.

7 Aerial activity; no shells on Reims.

8 Aerial activity and bombs, 2 wounded.

9 Aerial activity and bombs; artillery on front in evening.

10 Aerial activity.

11 Aerial activity; French artillery 9 A. M., feeble response.

12 Taube 9 A. M.; bombardment 5 to 6 P. M., 50 shells, several wounded.

13 Aerial activity from 8 A. M.; bombardment 4 P. M.

14 Aerial combat 10 A. M.; no shells on Reims.

15 Calm; some shells on faubourgs.

16 Aerial shell 5:15 A. M.; bombardment in morning, 15 shells; French artillery in evening.

17 Bombardment 1:30 to 3:30 P. M.; renewed 4 to 6:30 P. M., 200 shells, some wounded.

18 Artillery 2:30 and 5 A. M.; Taube 7 A. M.; aerial activity in morning; artillery duel in afternoon; cannonade 11 P. M.

19 Artillery and aerial activity.

2 °Calm.

21 Calm; short artillery action in morning.

22 Feeble cannonade in morning; no shells on Reims.

23 Calm; French artillery in sector 11 to 12 P. M.

24 Calm.

25 2 aerial bombs 4 P. M.

26 Calm.

27 Heavy bombardment 9 to 11 A. M., 300 shells, 25 killed and wounded; renewed 2 P. M.

28 Calm.

29 Artillery on front from 1 A. M. to daybreak; day calm in Reims.

30 Aeros; no shells.

31 Aeros; Taubes and some shells.

April, 1916

1 Some shells on faubourgs.

2 Violent bombardment 9 A. M. to 5:30 P. M., 1500 shells, 5 killed, 41 wounded.

3 Calm.

4 Bombardment 5 to 6 P. M., 150 shells.

5 Some shells; artillery at night.

6 Day calm; French artillery at night.

7 Day calm; artillery at night, 15 shells.

8 French artillery in morning; 1 shell 8 P. M.

9 French artillery; Taubes morning and afternoon; cannonade at night.

10 Taubes 9 A. M.; bombardment 11 A. M., 50 shells, 1 killed; renewed 4 to 4:30 P. M., 9 shells; again 10 to 11:30 P. M., 26 shells.

11 Taube 6 A. M.; artillery afternoon and night.

12 Bombardment 10 A. M., 2 victims; renewed 3 P. M.; artillery afternoon and night.

13 Some shells 3 to 4 P. M.; artillery at night.

14 Some shells 2 P. M.; artillery day and night.

15 Bombardment 10 to 11:40 A. M.; renewed 2 to 5:30 P. M.; again 8:30 P. M.

16 Taubes 6:30 and 9 A. M.; bombardment 11 to 11:30 A. M.; renewed 5:30 P. M.

17 Bombardment in afternoon.

18 No shells on Reims.

19 Calm.

20 Some shells 6:30 A. M.; aerial combat 5:30 P. M.

21 Bombardment 11 A. M., 12 shells.

22 Bombardment 3 P. M., 2 shells, 1 wounded; renewed 4:15 P. M., 4 shells; again 5 to 6 P. M.

23 Easter Day. No shells.

24 Taubes in morning; bombardment 2:30 to 7:30 P. M., 200 shells. 4 killed, 19 wounded.

25 Calm.

26 Bombardment 10:30 to 11:30 A. M., 30 shells.

27 Anti-aerial fire in afternoon; 5 or 6 shells in evening; French artillery at night.

28 Bombardment 7 to 11 A. M., 16 shells; renewed 1:30 to 3:30 P. M., 28 shells; again 5 to 6 P. M., 15 shells; again 9 P. M., 9 shells.

29 A few shells.

30 Bombardment 3 to 5 P. M., 8 shells; renewed 5:15 to 6 P. M., 11 shells; again 9:30 P. M., 7 shells, 2 victims.

May, 1916

1 Taube dropped bomb 5:30 A. M.; bombardment 11:45 A. M., 6 shells; renewed 6 to 8 P. M., 50 shells.

2 Day calm; bombardment to south and north-west 8:30 P. M., 9 shells.

3 Taube 6 A. M.; no shells on Reims; artillery at night.

4 Taube 7:30 A. M. and 11:30 A. M.; bombardment 7 to 8 P. M., 37 shells, 1 wounded.

5 Bombardment 10 to 11 A. M., 15 shells; renewed 4:30 P. M., 3 shells.

6 Bombardment 8 to 10 A. M., 2 wounded; renewed 2:30 to 2:45 P. M., 4 shells; artillery at night.

7 Bombardment 7 to 8 A. M., 2 shells; renewed 9 to 10 A. M., 23 shells.

8 Bombardment 8 A. M.; renewed 3 to 6 P. M.; artillery at night.

9 Bombardment 7:30 A. M., 5 shells; renewed from 9 A. M. to night, 300 shells; French artillery at night.

10 Bombardment 7 to 9 P. M., more than 100 shells, 4 wounded; renewed 10 P. M.

11 Bombardment 8 to 10 A. M.; renewed 1 to 2 P. M., 30 shells, 3 wounded.

12 1 shell in morning; bombardment of observation balloon, 5 to 6 P. M., 25 shells.

13 1 shell 9 A. M.

14 Complete calm.

15 Short bombardment 3 P. M.; some shells at night.

16 Taube early morning; bombardment 11 A. M. to noon, 100 shells; renewed 5 to 7 P. M., 4 killed, 10 wounded.

17 Aerial combat 8 A. M.; bombardment 12:30 to 2:30 P. M., 120 shells, 8 killed, 10 wounded; renewed 4 to 6 P. M.

18 Bombardment 2 A. M.; 2 Taube bombs; renewed 9 to 11 A. M., more than 200 shells; French artillery at night.

19 Bombardment in afternoon, 50 shells.

20 Bombardment 2:15 to 2:30 P. M., 15 shells, 1 killed; renewed at midnight, 20 shells.

21 Bombardment 12:30 A. M., 1 shell; renewed 11 A. M. to noon, 20 shells; again 2 to 3 P. M., 32 shells; again 5 P. M., 6 shells.

22 Bombardment 3 A. M.; Taube 6 A. M.; bombardment renewed 2 to 3 P. M., 32 shells; again 5:30 P. M., 6 shells; artillery at night.

23 Day calm; bombardment 9:30 P. M., 12 shells, 2 killed.

24 Bombardment 1:30 to 5 P. M., 1 killed, 11 wounded.

25 Intermittent bombardment from 1:30 P. M.

26 Bombardment in afternoon.

27 Some shells in afternoon.

28 Bombardment 9 A. M.; renewed 2 P. M.

29 Artillery duel; some shells in morning.

3 °Calm.

31 Day calm; some shells 8:30 and 11:30 P. M.

June, 1916

1 Taube at dawn; bombardment 6:30 to 9 A. M., 5 shells; renewed 10 to 11 A. M., 8 shells; again 3:30 to 4 P. M., 15 shells; again 10 P. M., 3 shells, 1 wounded.

2 Bombardment 6 to 7:30 A. M., 25 shells; renewed 11 A. M.; again 3 P. M.