BOMBING OF HOSPITAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1917, Page 5

BOMBING OF HOSPITAL.

GERMAN MT^psj^RAll>S! TERROR QSVPRISONERS. London, Auguit $X The of the Dally Mall at British headquarters, Mr. Beach Thomas, describing the German 'on hospitals, states that a great fnglish surgeon was visiting one,hospital with American surgeons,' They heard the hum of aeroplanes, and the company went out and saw a big machine flying straight for the hospital. They retreated to cover. A succession of crashes followed. The hospital echoed with the guttural shouts and screams of the German patients. The whole place was plunged into darkness. A flash-lamp rc» vealed a horrible scene. Three hundred pound bombs had made huge craters, | tuggesting ;j|uit the raider was on« of the giants. > The firsfysbrift:. struck a wardful ot i Germans, nine of ; .whom were instantly i killed. hi all tliejr" experience, 'ib* I doctors said, they %ftd not witnef)se| such a horrible scene. Other nurgea and doctors came to their help. other wa|d <suffered|as severelyas &ha| ; |n whiclf 'the Germans were. ' Tare! Ipther hospitals were attacked tbeciftml iliight. '.'/' '.:'•■■ 'JOO'lf i Another correspqndent made _ ttjfc jcMigo - d.ispassioii&afy WM(m&itlf J flare the Germans'aelibeAWrslswotw ;allied hospitals and clearing station.* f<* !aerial'attttQjcs. One •:three ! clearing stations ! Throe- women nurses were %"Punw * 'the first, one doctor was kiJled'nutittlirJp wounded in the second, and mans.wefp \youndcd in their tjft ;third... -.;■,;: ;.- ■;}.'{<-■')■/•>. "1 ' The f ne3ft>.flight they similar,!? pther a* man .wounded were being also ,oontained;..a large number,of British, >whq, ; re»ained silent and,(ft(;jj[r«o|trolled, .while,, ,tho Germans iwcri?. Jtioisy and panic stricken. A was being tended by a nurse as a Iwitto fell, held lip his hajidß in terror arid cried plteously, "Kiimerttd!"" Kamcnd!" The aerqfWnc 'bombardment' ot the French hospital 'the 1 same .light killed 22 and woiiiidett '6'ty'mostly hospital orderlies. Some of the wounded were soldiers. The hospital contained 180 Germans, under the care of the orderlies. Some of the latter were killed, and'some of the Germans hurt. . ; Several aeroplanes participated,; In the attack. One, which had" Wpped !t» bombs, continued to hover, after 'firing the hospital. The airmen dpscendiid low and deliberately used machine-guns on the inmates. As the flame* brilliantly illuminated the vicinity, it is impossible to plead the darkness as an ex :iwe. The outrage was deliberate and coni'dotrt.