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Show 400 INHABITANTS OF RHEIMS KILLED LONDON, Kept. 21, 3:50 a. ui. A dispatch dis-patch to the Kxpress says that the bombardment bom-bardment of Rheims began on Friday from German hattcries posted six miles nortn of the city The first shots shattered tho nriccless old windows of the cathedral, which was flying the Red Cross flag ow-it ow-it to the fact that 500 Wounded German prisoners were under earn in its chan- C60f these 150 suffered further wounds (lurins the bombardment. Four hundred inhabitants of the town were killed dur-h," dur-h," the bombardment, the dispatch says, which continued tliroush Saturday. All of the historic buildings in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of the cathedral have been destroyed de-stroyed and mucli of the town la now in flames. The population Is flying to the southwest. |