. Rheims and the battles for its possession . •,*sm THE FIRST AND SECOND STORIESOF A HOUSE IN THE RUEDANJOU, AFTER THE BURST-ING OF AN 8-IN. SHELL. THE EFFECT OF AN iPREMISES OF LA -IN. SHELL IN THEMUTUALITE, IN THE Rl I. DES ELUS (SEPT. 8, 1915) lung at the rale of one shell every three min-utes, or again at night. Sometimes would be used, at others Jack John-sons of 8-in., 12-in. and 15-in. calibre; some-times all four at the same time. Both explo-sive and incendiary shells were used, whileaeroplane bombs, darts and asphyxiating gaswere resorted to occasionally. Public holidayswe
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . •,*sm THE FIRST AND SECOND STORIESOF A HOUSE IN THE RUEDANJOU, AFTER THE BURST-ING OF AN 8-IN. SHELL. THE EFFECT OF AN iPREMISES OF LA -IN. SHELL IN THEMUTUALITE, IN THE Rl I. DES ELUS (SEPT. 8, 1915) lung at the rale of one shell every three min-utes, or again at night. Sometimes would be used, at others Jack John-sons of 8-in., 12-in. and 15-in. calibre; some-times all four at the same time. Both explo-sive and incendiary shells were used, whileaeroplane bombs, darts and asphyxiating gaswere resorted to occasionally. Public holidayswere the occasion of the fiercest bombard-ments, in the hope of increasing the numberill victims. For instance, the shelling wasparticularly murderous on All Saints Day of1914, when the eastern and southern ceme-teries (generally crowded on this day) wereespecially aimed at. Easter Monday of 1916and Good Friday of 1917 were similarlyfavoured. After each check—at Verdun, in Cham-pagne, on the Somme or wherever it mightbe—the Germans revenged themselves onRheims. In this way the Cathedral was firedby incendiary shells after the defeat on the
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