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Show TEUTONS BOMBARD AMERICAN HOSPITAL GERMAN AIRMEN DROP BOMBS WITH INTENT OF DESTROY-, DESTROY-, ING HOSPITAL. Windows Are Smashed But None of the Occupants of Hospital Are injured. in-jured. Villages Behind Lines Also Bombed by Boches. With American Forces in France. The enemy apparently .attempted to bombnhe American field hospital Saturday Sat-urday evening. An airplane descended to within 800 feet of the ground, gunned the locality with a machine (run and dropped eight high explosive bombs. Three of these failed to explode. ex-plode. The remainder tumbled into an adjacent field, raining' a shower of dirt and bits of steel against the hospital walls. Windows were smashed, but no one was injured. The patients were removed from the hospital, being taken further to the rear, owing to the danger dan-ger of shells and bombs. The enemy also shelled villages behind be-hind the line ineffectively. There was desultory artillery firing all day. Four privates were wounded by hand grenade explosions. |