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Show 2 AMERICANS HURT BY BOMB DROPPED BY THE GERMANS By the AfiScinlfMl Prfiss. ! WITH THf: .U1KRKWN. ARMY IN : KRANriO, Her. 7. A bomb tlroppfil by a Ormiin aviator during a recent flight at iiitiht struck in the street of a town through which two American aviation media ni elans, one from Detroit, M ich., and the other from Buffalo, Mo., were passing. The Detroit man was wounded In the shoulder and the Misscuirlnn's nose whs broken and he received other In- ; juries to the face. At the tsame time an ambulance driver from Hannibal, Mo., was struck on the back by a flying: brick. Tlie three men are in a base hospital and their condition is reported , as not serious. The men were half wny through the town when they heard bombs dropping. They paused and heard the whirr of propellers pro-pellers overhead. Immediately afterward a bomb fell near by and splinters flew in all directions. In addition to wounding the Americans, two French women were killed. One American in a hospital said he had learned his lesson, and that the next 1 1 me he heard the hum of propellers he would take to cover. In the same tow n at the time of the bomb-dropping was an American arms-cook arms-cook who was on a visit to show the French army cooks how to make pie. The bombing sta rted before his lessons had been completed. The cook disappeared, remarking later that the French eooks in that town never would learn the art of pie-making from him. A warning of the impending air raid was given to all towns within a radius of rn.itiy mik-3 and ail of tl'ieni wrr-; darkened. dark-ened. A!! rxf-ept two of th Aiiieri'-'aii HnMir-is who h;ive bef-n woiMnll in ti:j I rtivli: :u : rapi'Ilv rv-'-ovf-niig at. I Iif hni- ho--pirnl-, Some of the nn-n virh minoi injuries in-juries already are ln-inc iJin'.-irirtM. |