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Show " HDSPiTALS IE " SOUGHT BY THE , TEUTWRMEN Killing of Four Americans and Wounding of 10 Others Oth-ers Part of Dastardly Campaign. CHICAGO UNIT HAS NARROW ESCAPE . All Dispatches From Scene of Tragedy Agree That Raid of Germans Was p- Deliberate. By International News Service. PARIS, Sept. 8 A 22-year-old boy, whose father and mother were' bnrn in Germany, was among the four Americans Ameri-cans whose lives were snuffed out by German bombs hurled from the fleet of Teuton airplanes upon the Harvard and St. Louis hospitals in a French coast towu last Tuesday.' He is Rudolph Ku-bins, Ku-bins, Jr., whose parents, two broth eja and a sister live in the Bronx, fus death is the first of the grim fricks of irony that the war between America Amer-ica and Germany is expected to play. It developed today that the hospitaJ occupied by the Chicago unit had a narrow escape from being wiped out with its patients and staff of doctors v' and nurses. A huge bomb fell just outside out-side the hospital. It did not explode. The four dead Americans are: FIRST LIEUTENANT WILLIAM T, FITZSIMMONS, Kansas City. He was adjutant to the colonel in charge of the hospital. PRIVATE LESLIE C. WOODS, L s Stromyer. JU. , OSCAK LA TUGO, Boston. RUDOLPH RUBINS, JR., New York. Three first lieutenants, six privates and one nurse, all Americans, were wounded. AH dispatches from the scene of the tragedy agree that the raid was deliberate, delib-erate, since no aviator could have failed to recognize the clear markings of the hospitals and German aviators had circled cir-cled the skies above them several times in daylight. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. The death of , - First Lieutenant William T. Fltzsim-f Fltzsim-f mens, medical corps, U. S. A., killed ; Thursday when German aviators bombed i.' hospitals behind the lines in France, was announced in a dispatch received by the war department tonight from the Ameri-can Ameri-can enibassv at London. No mention was nuule of othor Americans reported killed in press reports. UeuteniuU Fitzeimmotis joined the nrmy medical I'orces at Kansas City, his ho inf. la si May. He was just ears of ape and a graduate of Kansas university. uni-versity. By International News Service. : BOSTON, Mass.. Sept. 8. Oscar La Tngo was a private in number five unit, headed bv Dr. Harvey dishing of Peter Rent Brigham hospital, this city. La Tugo did clerical work at the hospital in France. |