America's Growing Army.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 June 1918, Page 3

America's Growing Army.

MILLION ALREADY IN FRANCE. Received tliis day 9.30 a.m. Vancouver, May 31. Senator Lewis has announced that a million Americans are now in France. AMERICANS HOLD THEIR OWN. Received this day 11.45 a.in. London, May 31. An American communique says —The enemy attacks on positions at Qantigny were again completely repulsed by artillery and infantry. Active artilfcrying continues there anil in Lorraine, where gas shells were used. AIR MURDERERS. Received this day 11.45. a.m. London, May 31. The United Press says the German airmen on Corpus _ Christi Day bombed British hospitals far in the rear, killing nurses, doctors and patients and setting fire to buildings, wherein the wounded lay. The United Press correspondent. reports that, on the day the Archbishop of Cologne requested the Allies to refrain from bombing, the Germans bombed the British hospitals. After dropping flares the airmen loosed off huge bombs, one scoring a direct hit on a large hospital displaying the Red Cross prominently. The bomb ignited the wrecked building wherein v some Sisters were pinned or struck down in the very act of ministering to "the patients. [The Germans made a request that British airmen would not ( raid the Rhine towns on Corpus Christi Day, and this concession was granted for the saint day, notwithstanding that the Germans killed many people in a Paris Church on Good Friday, and raided London on Whit Sunday.] PANIC IN RHINE TOWNS. Received this day 11.45 a.m. Geneva, May 31. German airmen returning to their aerodrome caused a, panic amongst the people at Mannheim on Tuesday. In the mad rush for shelter eighteen women and children were trampled to death. Public bodies in the Rhine. towns continue to petition the Reich-1 stag to obtain a cessation of reprisal raids. PLENTY OF FOOD IN BRITAIN. Received this day 11.30 a.m. Washington, May 31. It is officially announced in advices from the British Ministry that supplies of food are now normal and the meat rations have been restored as a result of meat shipments from the United States. HUN SAVAGERY IN RUSSIA. Received this day 11.30 a.m. London, May 31. The Daily Express's, Petrograd correspondent says, angered at the resistance of the Ukraine peasantry the Germans loosed poison gas in several villages and large numbers were asphyxiated.