Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-27 | Page 39 | Rheims Tots Wear Gas Masks to School, Fearing Death by Asphyxiating Bombs

RHEIMS TOTS WEAR GAS MASKS TO SCHOOL FEARING DEATH BY ASPHYXIATING BOMBS RHEIMS IS France Prance Feb 26 26 School goes on in Rheims while German shells break over the city and the boom of cannon punctuates I the lesson lessons in the classrooms But it is the strangest school France or or- probably any other nation ever ver has seen Each little b boy boy- y and girl goes to school wearing a mask and carrying a respirator tor for tor-for for nobody knows when one of the Germans' Germans poisonous gas bombs which have been thrown into the city at in int intervals in- in Intervals t is going to jo burst in or beside the schoolhouse Several children have been killed by pieces of shell in the bombardments of th the city and a fe few fe perished perished- in fumes of poisonous gases Then the regulation regulation regula regula- i tion was issued th that a t all all- should wear gas masks to prevent a recurrence of I th these se fatalities r CLASS OF GIRLS IN THE ONLY SCHOOL I OPEN IN RHEIMS AN AND A SCHOOL I TOT FULLY MASKED