THE DOOM OF REIMS CATHEDRAL
FAMOUS EDIFICE TOTTERING UNDER GERMAN BOMBARDMENT. (Hoc. May U, 10.30 p.m.) Paris, May 23. Tho Government expert reports that Reims Cathedral will probably collapse, as the edifice is tottering. The central transept has suffered severely from the bombardment of recent days. Thousands of shells have been hurled into the city every day. Over half tho fire brigade have been killed or wounded. Almost all tho . civilians have evacuated tho city. Thousands of people had remained since early in tho war, sending their children daily in gas-masks to underground schools. A great underground city existed, in which manifold activities, municipal and otherwise, wore conducted. Now all that lias been changed under (ho systematic bombardment by tho Germans.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assa.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3093, 25 May 1917, Page 5
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123THE DOOM OF REIMS CATHEDRAL Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3093, 25 May 1917, Page 5
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