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Show GERMANS BOMB WWII AH Patients Were Taken to Dugouts and Escaped Injury, WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VERDUN,- Oct. 22, 5:30 p. m. (By the Associated Press.) In retaliation for the destruction wrought by American bombing planes within the enemy's lines recently, German aviators last night raided the American front and back areas in the largest force since the American offensive began on the Meuse and in the Argonne. In addition to attacking at-tacking the infantry. the Germans bombed the region around Clermont, Montfaucon and Rarecourt. Four bombs were dropped near the American hospital in the neighborhood of Rarecourt, one of the bombs tearing down an outbuilding. The glass ends ,g four former French barracks, now usedy the Americans as hospital wards, were shattered. shat-tered. A Red Cross nurse, Margery Sawyer of Buffalo. N. Y.. was blown from her bed, but was not injured. All the patients were taken to dugouts, none of them being be-ing injured. Another Red Cross nurse. Mabel Butler of New Haven. Conn, was. in the same building with Miss Sawyer, but was not hurt. Both of them Immediately Imme-diately went to the aid of the patients. When the first bomb fe'l the hospital attendants gave their first attention to their charges, leading or carrying litem to shelter. Rocks thrown up where this bomb struck broke l he windows In the southern end of the building. Ten other bombs were ilanterl in succession in a great semicircle. Throughout most of the night German planes were hearj many times passing over. FKteen American night filers responded to alert signals when the Germans raided the front and back areas Monday night and searched for the enemy airmen up and down t he lines. One American saw the tracer bullets of a German tiring his machine gun at a supposed troop movement, move-ment, but he was unable to cngare the r.erny raider. |