The Bombardment of Reims

3 Bombardment 6 to 7 P. M., 100 shells; renewed 9 to 10 P. M., 11 shells.

4 Bombardment 8:30 to 9 P. M.

5 Bombardment 9:30 A. M., 7 shells; renewed 3 P. M., 5 shells.

6 Bombardment 9 to 10 A. M., 20 shells; renewed 5 P. M., 3 shells.

7 Bombardment 9 to 10 A. M., 12 shells; renewed at noon, 3 shells; again 8 P. M., 4 shells on vacant land.

8 1 shell 9 A. M.; 1 shell 5 P. M.

9 Bombardment 8 to 9 A. M.; renewed in afternoon, 8 shells; again 10 P. M.

10 Bombardment 7:30 to 9 A. M., 6 shells.

11 Bombardment 9 to 10 A. M.

12 Calm.

13 1 shell; artillery on front.

14 Some shells in afternoon.

15 Calm.

16 Calm.

17 Taube 5 A. M.; bombardment 8:43 to 11 A. M., 7 shells; renewed 1 to 1:30 P. M., 3 shells; French artillery 4 P. M.

18 No shells.

19 Bombardment 9 to 11 A. M. on faubourgs; aerial combat in afternoon, 4 shells fell into Reims.

20 Aerial fire 6:30 P. M.; artillery on front at night.

21 Anti-aerial shell fell back 6:15 A. M.

22 Artillery on front; bombardment 3 to 4 P. M., 24 shells; aerial shell fell back 6:30 P. M.

23 Bombardment 9:30 to 10 P. M., 41 shells.

24 Bombardment 3:30 to 5 P. M., 50 shells.

25 French artillery 4 P. M., no response.

26 Calm.

27 French artillery, no response.

28 Bombardment 2 to 2:30 P. M., 5 shells; French artillery at night.

29 Bombardment 9:30 to 11:15 A. M., 45 shells; renewed 12 to 1:30 P. M., 18 shells, 1 killed; again 3:30 to 5 P. M., 34 shells.

30 Bombardment 9:30 to 10 A. M., 10 shells; renewed 2:20 to 2:45 P. M., 15 shells, 1 killed, 2 wounded; again 4 to 5 P. M., 6 shells, 3 killed, 2 wounded; French artillery at night.

July, 1916

1 Taubes in morning; bombardment 5 to 6 P. M., 12 shells; artillery at night.

2 Bombardment 5 to 8 P. M., 356 shells.

3 3 Taube bombs 4:30 A. M.; somewhat tranquil.

4 Nothing to note.

5 Some shells 4:30 P. M.; artillery on front.

6 Taube 6:30 A. M.

7 Complete calm.

8 Complete calm.

9 Complete calm.

10 Taube 10 A. M.; 1 bomb 2 P. M.; French artillery at night.

11 Bombardment 10 A. M., 4 shells; renewed 5:45 to 7 P. M., 96 shells; again 9 P. M., 50 shells, 5 killed, 6 wounded; French artillery at night.

12 Some German prisoners passed through Reims.

13 Calm.

14 Calm.

15 Calm.

16 Calm; French fire on German trenches in afternoon, no response.

17 Calm.

18 Calm; artillery duel at night.

19 2 Taube bombs on fields.

20 French aeros over German lines 3 A. M.

21 Artillery duel 4 P. M.

22 Taube 6 A. M.; French artillery 10 P. M.

23 Calm.

24 Taube 4:30 A. M.

25 Taube 6 P. M.; French artillery at night, no response.

26 Day calm; Taube 5 P. M.; French artillery and some shells at night.

27 Taube 6 A. M.; bombardment 3:30 P. M., 13 shells.

28 Bombardment 5 P. M., 3 shells; 20 shells later.

29 Some artillery in afternoon; French aeros over German lines.

3 °Calm.

31 1 shell 6 A. M.; Taube 8 A. M.

August, 1916

1 Bombardment 5 to 6 A. M., 55 shells; renewed 6 to 7 P. M., 54 shells; French artillery 10 P. M. to 1 A. M.

2 French artillery to 1 A. M.; shells early morning; artillery on front 10 P. M. to 2 A. M.

3 Artillery on front to 2 A. M.; bombardment 4:30 to 5:15 P. M., 5 shells; 1 shell at night.

4 Bombardment 4:30 to 5:30 P. M., 3 shells; artillery at night.

5 Bombardment 1 to 2 P. M., 3 shells; renewed 5 to 6:30 P. M., 34 shells; again 10 P. M.

6 Taube early; intermittent bombardment; more serious 4:15 to 7 P. M.; French artillery 11:15 P. M., no response.

7 Day calm; bombardment 7:30 to 8 P. M., 3 shells; French artillery at night.

8 Some shells 6 P. M.

9 Taube early; bombardment 11 to 11:30 A. M., 5 shells; renewed 6 P. M.

10 Bombardment 5:30 P. M., 2 shells; renewed 6:15 P. M., 2 shells; again 8 to 9 P. M., 50 shells.

11 Day calm; French artillery at end of afternoon.

12 Bombardment 5:30 P. M., 14 shells, 1 killed, 2 wounded; renewed 7 to 8 P. M., 25 shells; French artillery at night, no response.

13 7 Taubes dropped 19 bombs, 7 P. M., 21 victims. Civil Hospital burned; St. Remi menaced; 21 shells from bombardment.

14 Calm; French artillery at night.

15 4 shells in evacuated zone; bombardment 10 to 11:30 P. M.

16 Calm.

17 Day calm; 8 shells at night.

18 Calm; Taube 9 P. M.

19 Calm.

2 °Calm.

21 Calm.

22 Calm.

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.

3 °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.

1 °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.

2 °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.

3 °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.

26 Relatively calm.

27 Heavy bombardment 6:45 A. M. to 5 P. M., about 1200 shells.

28 Bombardment 3 to 5 P. M., 13 shells.

29 Calm.

30 French artillery in morning, no response.

31 Some shells in morning.

November, 1916

1 Bombardment 2:45 to 3:45 P. M., 7 shells; renewed 4 to 5 P. M., 12 shells.

2 Calm.

3 Morning calm; anti-aerial fire in afternoon.

4 French artillery 8 A. M.; bombardment 9:45 to 11 A. M., 28 shells; violently renewed 2 to 4:30 P. M., 600 shells.

5 Artillery in sector.

6 Bombardment 3:10 to 5:30 P. M., 100 shells.

7 Bombardment 6:30 to 7:30 A. M., 36 shells; renewed 11 to 11:30 A. M., 67 shells.

8 Bombardment 7:30 P. M., 6 shells.

9 Nothing to note.

10 Aviation 10 A. M.; French artillery in afternoon.

11 Taube 11 A. M.; French artillery in afternoon.

12 Nothing to note.

13 Nothing to note.

14 Bombardment 11 to 11:30 A. M., 12 shells; renewed 12:30 to 1 P. M., 12 shells; French artillery 8:30 to 10 P. M.

15 Taube; bombardment 2 to 4 P. M., 14 shells; renewed 5 to 6:30 P. M., 12 shells; again 7 P. M.

16 Taube; light bombardment 11 A. M.; renewed 5 to 6:15 P. M., 12 shells.

17 Bombardment 3 P. M., 12 shells.

18 Calm.

19 Bombardment 3:30 to 4 P. M., 7 shells.

20 Nothing to note.

21 Nothing to note.

22 Nothing to note.

23 Nothing to note.

24 Aerial activity.

25 Nothing to note.

26 Nothing to note.

27 Nothing to note.

28 Nothing to note.

29 Bombardment of fields near Reims 10 A. M.

30 Short artillery duel in morning.

December, 1916

1 Calm.

2 4 shells in morning.

3 Nothing to note.

4 Nothing to note.

5 Nothing to note.

6 Calm.

7 Complete calm.

8 Complete calm.

9 Some shells morning and afternoon.

10 Bombardment 1 to 2 P. M., 15 shells.

11 Bombardment morning and afternoon.

12 Complete calm.

13 Bombardment 9 to 9:45 A. M.; renewed 1 to 2 P. M.; 9 shells.

14 Bombardment 1 to 4 P. M., 32 shells.

15 Bombardment 10 A. M. to 12:30 P. M., 36 shells.

16 Nothing to note.

17 Nothing to note.

18 Bombardment at intervals.

19 Bombardment in afternoon to 11:30 P. M., 39 shells.

20 Some shells in afternoon.

21 Calm.

22 Calm.

23 Calm.

24 Cannonade in afternoon.

25 Christmas Day; nothing to note.

26 Artillery in afternoon.

27 Bombardment 8:30 to 11:30 A. M., 50 shells; renewed 5:30 to 8 P. M., 6 shells.

28 Calm.

29 Calm.

30 Violent cannonade in sector all day and greater part of night; no shells on Reims.

31 No shells.

1917

January, 1917

1 Day calm; 1 shell at night.

2 Bombardment 1 to 3 P. M., 19 shells.

3 Bombardment 11 A. M., 2 shells; artillery at night.

4 Some shells.

5 Some shells.

6 Calm.

7 Calm.

8 Nothing to note.

9 Bombardment 5 to 5:30 P. M., 16 shells.

10 Almost complete silence.

11 Nothing to note.

12 Calm.

13 Calm.

14 Bombardment 12:15 to 1 P. M., 12 shells; heavy cannonade on front to next morning.

15 Intermittent artillery in day; more active at night.

16 Some artillery; continued in night.

17 Nothing to note.

18 Nothing to note.

19 Nothing to note.

20 Nothing to note.

21 Bombardment 12:30 to 3 P. M., 15 shells; renewed 3 to 4 P. M., 24 shells.

22 Bombardment 5:30 to 6 P. M., 8 shells.

23 Bombardment 7 A. M., 1 shell; renewed 10:30 to 11:45 A. M., 10 shells; again 4:30 P. M., 1 shell; again 5 to 6:30 P. M., 10 shells.

24 Bombardment 9 A. M. to noon, 26 shells; renewed 12:30 to 2 P. M., 19 shells; again 2 to 4:30 P. M., 13 shells; again 7 to 8 P. M., 14 shells.

25 Various bombardments in day; 10 shells, 5 to 6 P. M.

26 Relatively calm; some shells.

27 Kaiser's birthday. Bombardment 11 A. M. to 5 P. M., 77 shells; renewed 9 P. M.

28 Bombardment 12 to 5 P. M., 24 shells; renewed 9 to 9:45 P. M., 10 shells.

29 Bombardment 10:30 A. M. to 12:30 P. M., 4 shells; renewed 3 to 4 P. M., 4 shells; again 10 P. M. to 3 A. M.

30 Bombardment continued to 3 A. M.; intermittent bombardment in afternoon.

31 Bombardment 4 to 6 P. M., 82 shells.

February, 1917

1 Nothing to note.

2 Absolute calm.

3 Nothing to note.

4 Nothing to note.

5 Some shells at end of day.

6 Intermittent bombardment all day; 16 shells 4:30 to 5:30 P. M.

7 Bombardment 10 to 11 A. M., 14 shells; renewed 3 to 5 P. M., 12 shells.

8 Bombardment 4 P. M., 13 shells; renewed 8 to 8:30 P. M., 16 shells.

9 Bombardment 9:30 A. M.; renewed 1 to 5 P. M., 57 shells.

10 Nothing to note.

11 Bombardment 4:30 to 5 P. M., 2 shells.

12 Bombardment 3:15 to 3:45 P. M., 5 shells.

13 Bombardment 11:30 A. M. to 3:30 A. M., 117 shells.

14 Bombardment continued to 3:30 A. M.; day calm; renewed 9:30 P. M.

15 Bombardment 10 A. M. to noon, 8 shells; renewed 12 to 3 P. M., 8 shells; again 5 to 6 P. M., 64 shells; again 8 P. M., 1 shell.

16 Nothing to note.

17 Nothing to note.

18 Some shells in early morning.

19 Calm.

2 °Calm.

21 Calm.

22 1 shell in afternoon.

23 Nothing to note.

24 Bombardment 7:30 to 10 P. M., 13 shells; renewed 10:30 P. M. to 2 A. M., 25 shells.

25 Bombardment continued to 2 A. M.; renewed at noon, 3 or 4 shells; again 9 P. M., 3 shells.

26 Bombardment 5:30 P. M., 3 shells; renewed 9:30 P. M. to 5:30 A. M., 20 shells.

27 Bombardment continued to 5:30 A. M.; renewed 9 A. M., 5 shells; distant artillery afternoon and night.

28 Bombardment 3 A. M., 5 shells; renewed 5:30 P. M., 5 shells; 3 shells in night.

March, 1917

1 Bombardment 1:30 to 4:30 P. M., 20 shells.

2 Relatively calm; some distant shells.

3 Bombardment 3:30 P. M., 2 shells and distant projectiles.

4 Bombardment 5 to 6:30 P. M., 18 shells.

5 Bombardment 4:30 to 6 A. M., 6 shells; renewed 11:30 A. M., 1 shell.

6 Bombardment 11:30 A. M., 4 shells; renewed 3:45 P. M., 1 shell; again 8:30 P. M., 1 shell.

7 Day relatively calm; some shells at night.

8 Distant shells 12:30 P. M.

9 Distant artillery.

10 Some distant shells at night.

11 Bombardment 11:30 A. M., 2 shells; renewed 2:30 P. M., 2 shells; distant artillery at night.

12 Bombardment 10:30 to 11:30 A. M., 15 shells; agitated night.

13 Bombardment 1 to 7:30 A. M., 200 shells; renewed 5 to 6 P. M., 20 shells.

14 Bombardment 9 to 10 A. M., 12 shells; renewed 1:15 to 2 P. M., 19 shells; again 6 P. M., 5 shells.

15 Bombardment 12 to 3 P. M.; renewed 5:30 to 7 P. M., 50 shells.

16 Bombardment in morning; renewed 1 P. M., 12 shells; again 4:30 P. M., 20 shells; again 6 P. M., 12 shells.

17 Bombardment 4:30 to 5:30 A. M., 541 shells; renewed 1 P. M., 3 shells; agitated night.

18 Bombardment 8:10 A. M., 12 shells; renewed 10:30 A. M., 9 shells; occasional shells in afternoon and evening.

19 Bombardment 9 to 10 A. M., 180 shells; renewed 6 P. M., 27 shells.

20 Distant shells all morning; bombardment 2:10 to 5:45 P. M., 41 shells; renewed 7 P. M. to 5 A. M., 120 shells.

21 Bombardment continued to 5 A. M.; renewed 10 to 11 A. M., 18 shells; renewed 2:30 P. M., 4 shells.

22 Bombardment 12:30 P. M., 4 shells; boisterous night.

23 Bombardment 10 A. M. to 2 P. M., 82 shells; boisterous night.

24 Bombardment 9 A. M. to noon, 234 shells; 12 shells in afternoon.

25 Bombardment 8 A. M. to 2 P. M., 453 shells; renewed 2:30 P. M., 26 shells.

26 Bombardment 1:30 A. M., 39 shells; some shells in afternoon.

27 Bombardment 3 to 4 A. M.; renewed 8 A. M. to noon and at night.

28 Bombardment 10 A. M. to noon, 401 shells; renewed 2 to 5:30 P. M., 181 shells.

29 Bombardment 1:45 to 2 P. M., 9 shells; renewed 4:45 to 5:15 P. M., 4 shells; again 5:40 P. M., 2 shells; again 8 to 9 P. M., 37 shells.

30 Bombardment 12:30 A. M., 2 shells; renewed 2 A. M., 8 shells; again 9 A. M. to 1:50 P. M., 56 shells; again 3 to 6 P. M., 160 shells.

31 Bombardment from midnight to 5:30 A. M., 29 shells; renewed 8:30 to 10:30 A. M., 45 shells; again 3 to 6 P. M., 32 shells; again 7 to 7:30 P. M., 6 shells.

April, 1917

1 Bombardment 4:30 to 5:30 A. M., 684 shells; renewed from 9 A. M., 2048 shells; total for the day, 2732 shells.

2 Bombardment from 8 A. M., 2259 shells; some shells at night.

3 Bombardment 9 A. M. to 8:30 P. M., 1744 shells.

4 Bombardment all day, particularly violent 4:30 to 8 P. M., 2123 shells; some shells 9 P. M.

5 Bombardment in morning, 10 shells; renewed in afternoon to 5:30 A. M., 795 shells.

6 Bombardment continued to 5:30 A. M.; renewed 4 to 8 P. M., and again in night.

7 Bombardment to 8 P. M., 8785 shells for April 6 and 7. Grand Séminaire burned 4 P. M.

8 Easter Day. Bombardment 2:30 to 9 P. M., particularly violent 5:30 P. M.

9 Bombardment from 4:30 A. M.; particularly violent 2 to 4 P. M. and at 7 P. M.; continued during part of the night; evacuation of civil population ordered.

10 Bombardment in afternoon; particularly violent 4 to 9 P. M.; continued in night.

11 Bombardment day and night.

12 Bombardment day and night, particularly at 9 P. M.; perhaps 7000 or 8000 shells.

13 Bombardment diminished 7 A. M.; renewed for the day, 10 A. M.

14 Bombardment day and night, particularly from 5 P. M. to 5 A. M.

15 Bombardment day and night; St. André burned 4:30 P. M.; 15 shells on the cathedral.

16 Bombardment 2:30 to 5 P. M.

17 Bombardment day and night.

18 Bombardment 12:30 to 3 P. M.; French artillery from 4:30 P. M.; 80 fires in Reims from April 7 to April 18.

19 Bombardment from midnight to 3 A. M.; renewed 10:30 A. M. to 7:30 P. M., 25 shells on cathedral, north tower, vaults and transept injured; renewed 10 P. M. to 5 A. M., 600 shells. Cardinal Luçon issued protest against bombardment.

20 Bombardment continued to 5 A. M.; renewed 10 to 11 A. M., 50 shells; again 12 to 8:30 P. M., 300 shells, particularly violent 6 P. M.; 2 shells on cathedral.

21 Bombardment 3 to 6 A. M.; renewed 10:30 A. M.; again 1 P. M., Hôtel de Ville gravely injured; again 2:30 P. M.; again 6 to 8 P. M.; artillery at night. Cathedral injured, 8 shells.

22 Bombardment 9 A. M. to noon, 100 shells; renewed 2 to 6 P. M., 600 shells; cathedral injured, 3 shells; agitated night.

23 Bombardment 7:30 A. M. to 3 P. M.; renewed 6:30 P. M.; night calm; cathedral injured.

24 Cannonade from 4 A. M.; bombardment from 7:30 A. M., furious from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M., cathedral injured; few night shells.

25 Bombardment 9:30 A. M. to 7 P. M.; disturbed night.

26 Bombardment 1 A. M.; renewed 7:30 A. M. to 4 P. M.; again 7 P. M.; night calm.

27 Bombardment from 7:30 A. M.

28 Bombardment continued, particularly violent 12 to 3 P. M. and 7 to 8:20 P. M.; St. Thomas and St. André injured.

29 Bombardment all day.

30 Bombardment continued; perhaps 1200 shells.

May, 1917

1 Bombardment continued, 1200 shells.

2 Bombardment violently continued, 600 shells.

3 Bombardment continued day and most of night; Hôtel de Ville took fire 2 P. M.; library lost.

4 Bombardment continued day and night; Hôtel de Ville still burning.

5 Bombardment continued; furious at night.

6 Bombardment continued day and night.

7 Bombardment continued; night less agitated.

8 Bombardment from 9 A. M.; centre of Reims violently bombarded 11:30 A. M.; some shells in afternoon; renewed 10 to 11 P. M.

9 Bombardment 9 A. M.; renewed 10 P. M.; perhaps 900 shells.

10 Bombardment from 10 A. M.; redoubled 1 to 7:30 P. M.; renewed 9 P. M. for the night.

11 Bombardment continued to 11:30 A. M.; renewed at noon; considerably diminished 2 P. M.; renewed 4:30 P. M.

12 Bombardment continued day and night.

13 Bombardment continued day and night; 15,000 shells, estimated, since May 11.

14 Bombardment 9 A. M. to 2 P. M.; renewed in night.

15 Bombardment continued afternoon and part of night, with less intensity.

16 Bombardment continued, less intense.

17 Bombardment continued.

18 Bombardment 11:55 A. M.; renewed 2 to 3 P. M.; continued in night; 500 shells in day.

19 Bombardment continued; 3000 to 4000 shells estimated for day and night.

20 Bombardment day and night, about 500 shells.

21 Bombardment continued day and night, 1000 shells.

22 Bombardment continued with less intensity, about 200 shells.

23 Bombardment continued day and night, 500 shells.

24 Morning calm; bombardment in afternoon, 200 shells.

25 Bombardment continued; 500 shells.

26 Relatively calm; bombardment 2 P. M., 200 shells.

27 Bombardment from 5 A. M., more than 1000 shells; asphyxiating shells 6 to 8 A. M.; night relatively calm.

28 Bombardment from 6 A. M.; perhaps 2000 shells.

29 Bombardment from 4 A. M., day and night.

30 Bombardment continued in day, 300 shells; night calm.

31 1 shell 1 A. M.; bombardment from 6 A. M., day and night, 200 shells.

June, 1917

1 Taube dropped 2 bombs 12:30 A. M.; bombardment continued, 500 shells; night calm.

2 Bombardment from 7 A. M., 500 shells.

3 Bombardment from 6:30 A. M., day and night, more than 1000 shells.

4 Bombardment from 7 A. M., 300 shells.

5 Bombardment from 7 A. M., 200 shells.

6 Bombardment from 6:30 A. M., 1500 shells; St. Benoît injured.

7 Bombardment from 5:30 A. M., 200 shells; night calm.

8 Bombardment continued, 400 shells.

9 Bombardment day and night, 500 shells.

10 Bombardment from 4 P. M.

11 Bombardment afternoon and night, 500 to 600 shells.

12 Bombardment from 6 A. M., 1200 shells.

13 Bombardment from 5 A. M., 400 to 500 shells.

14 Bombardment from 6 A. M., 500 shells.

15 Bombardment from 5 A. M.

16 Bombardment from 5 A. M.; violent 9 A. M. to 2 P. M., 500 shells; continued at night; 1500 shells in all.

17 Bombardment from 7:30 A. M., day and night, 2500 shells.

18 President Poincaré visited Reims; gave decoration of Legion of Honour to Cardinal Luçon, Archbishop of Reims; MM. de Bruignac and Émile Charbonneaux, adjuncts to the Mayor of Reims; Dr. Harman of the hospital service; M. Beauvais, director of the School of Commerce and Industry; M. Martin, secretary-in-chief to the Sous-Préfecture, and M. Paul Dramas, editor-in-chief of "L'Eclaireur de l'Est." Bombardment from 5 A. M. and at night, 500 to 600 shells.

19 Bombardment all day, 3000 shells.

20 Bombardment from 6 A. M., day and night, 500 to 600 shells.

21 Morning calm; bombardment 4 to 7 P. M., 450 shells; renewed at night.

22 Bombardment most of the day; renewed 10 P. M. to 4 A. M., 850 shells.

23 Bombardment continued to 4 A. M.; renewed 6 A. M., more than 1300 shells (800 from 9 A. M. to 1 P. M.; 205 from 1 to 3 P. M.; 255 from 3 to 7 P. M.; more than 50 at night).

24 Bombardment continued, 717 shells.

25 Bombardment continued; terrible in the afternoon and night, 2442 shells.

26 Bombardment day and night, less intense, 617 shells.

27 Bombardment continued day and night.

28 Bombardment continued; 8 shells on the cathedral.

29 Bombardment continued day and night, 772 shells.

30 Day relatively calm; intense bombardment at night, 200 shells.

July, 1917

1 Bombardment continued, 200 shells.

2 Bombardment continued, more than 600 shells.

3 Bombardment continued, 1200 shells (120 from 9 A. M. to 1 P. M.; 400 from 2 to 5 P. M.; 20 from 7 to 8 P. M.; 600 from 9 P. M. to 2 A. M.).

4 Bombardment continued, 300 shells.

5 Bombardment continued, 800 shells (100 from 12 to 2 P. M.; 700 from 2 to 8:30 P. M.; 3 in the night).

6 Bombardment continued, 600 shells (350 from 6 A. M. to 2 P. M.; 50 from 3 to 4 P. M.; 200 after 4 P. M.).

7 Bombardment continued, 350 shells (250 from 4 to 9 A. M.; 15 from 9 to 10 A. M.; 1 at 6:45 P. M.; 100 from 11 P. M. to midnight).

8 Bombardment continued; 12 shells at 9 A. M.; 14 shells at 2 P. M.

9 Bombardment continued; 20 shells 2 to 5 A. M.; 90 at 8 A. M.; 25 from 9 A. M. to noon; 40 from 2 to 3 P. M.; 2 at 8 P. M.

10 Bombardment continued; 20 shells 4 to 5 P. M.; 60 at 8 P. M.; 55 in the night.

11 Bombardment continued; 61 shells 9 to 11 A. M.; 12 at 7 P. M.

12 Bombardment continued, 1350 shells (30 from 7 to 10 A. M.; 1260 from 8 to 10 P. M.; 60 from 10 P. M. to 2 A. M.).

13 Bombardment continued, 2000 shells (250 from 7:30 to 11 A. M.; more than 300 in the afternoon; 900 from 5 to 10 P. M.; more than 500 in the night).