Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-31 | Page 2 | Germans Locate the Hospitals by Using Flares

GERMANS LOCATE THE HOSPITALS BY USING FLARES WITH THE AMKRH'AN FORCKS ON THE FRENCH FRONT, Wednesday, May 29. (By the Associated Press.) The Herman air attack on Tuesday night on American hospitals In a town many miles hehind the front was carried out with the utmost apparent deliberation. The German airmen used umbrella flares to aid them in picking out their targets. Their bombs also started a fire in a garage ga-rage which lighted up the neighborhood, in which is located one of the four finest cathedrals in France, built In the twelftii century. The airmen also turned their machine guns on the firemen engaged in fighting the flames and upon ambulance drivers. Besides the killing of one French nurse and the probable mortal injury of another, an-other, while flying glass slightly Injured a number of Americans, the patients in one American ward were In some cases hurled out of their beds by the shock of a bomb explosion. In some of the hospitals hos-pitals It was necessary to remove the patients, pa-tients, including some Americans, to the cellars for safety. Nearly every window in one of the largest hospitals was shattered, as were the windows In the historic church ad-Joining, ad-Joining, now also used as a hospital. Scores of American patients and hundreds of sick and wounded French soldiers were In the various Hospitals attacked.