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Show .BOMBING PlilS RAID AMERICANS Largest Force of German Aviators Since Offensive Began Be-gan Assail Back Areas. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VERDUN. Oct. 22. 5:30 p. m. (By the Associated Press.) In retaliation for the destruction de-struction wrought by American bombing bomb-ing 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 Mouse and in the Argonne. In addition to attacking the infantry tho Germans bombed tho region around Clermont, Montfaucon and Rarecourt. Four bombs were dropped near the American hospital in the neighborhood of Rarecourt, one of the bombs tearing tear-ing down an outbuilding. The glass ends of four former French barracks, now used by the Americans as hospital wards, were shattered. A Red Cross nurse, Margery Sawyer of Buffalo, N. Y., was blown from her bed but was not Injured. All the patients pat-ients were taken to dug-outs, none of them being injured. Another Red Cross nurse, Mabel Butler of New Haven, Conn., was in the same building with Miss Sawyer, but wrts not hurt. Both of them immediately went to the aid of tho patients. When the first bomb fell the hospital attendants gave their first attention to their charges, leading lead-ing or carrying them to shelter. Rocks thrown up where this bomb struck, broke the windows in the southern end of tho building. Ten other bombs were planted in succession in a great semicircle. semi-circle. Throughout most of the night German planes were heard many times, passing over. nn |