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Show GERMAN SHELL HITS MATERNITY HOSPITAL Two Mothers and One Baby Are Killed; Act Sends Shudder Through City of Paris. PARIS, April 15 (Correspondence of the Associated Press). The German long distance shell which struck a maternity hospital recently, killing mothers by the side of their infants, sent a shudder of horror through Paris which, since the hecatomb of Good Friday, thought it had become Impervious to such an emotion. emo-tion. It also created confusion among tho surviving mothers, some of whom have been unable to identify their offspring among the babies that escaped the shell of the assaasin. The projectile exploded in a dormitory containing twenty beds, killing two mothers and one baby, wounding many others and competely wrecking the room. Through the cloud of dust and dirt, nurses and attendants rushed In and carried car-ried the wounded and women who were ill to another room, returning Immediately Immediate-ly for the Infants. One baby had been thrown cmt of its credle ten feet away, but was unhurt. The babies were carried and depositooH pell-mell on beds In a room quickly prepared pre-pared to receive the patients so violently ejected by the German gun. After some order had been restored, it was found that six mothers were unable un-able to decide which was their own among six infanta They had all been born on the same day, and in the hustle and bustlo of removing the infants from one room to the other, the identifying tags had become detached. |