South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-01
Getting Ont Paper Under
Battle Fire at Rheims

PARIS. June L. The most re-
markable newspaper IN the world is
printed in Rheims-that shell-blast-
ed city where the sound Of the Ger
man guns is never quiet
Few OF the inhabitants Of Rheims
remain. but the city is fun OF sol
diors For their benefit the news
paper is printed.
Claude Helluy. editor Of the Cour-
rier de la Champagne. the oldest
paper in Rheims, has just arrived
here and said today:
Although I have closed down my
printing Office. the inhabitants Of
Rheims are not without a news
paper. for the Eclaireur de FEST
continues TO appear in the bonn bard
ed city Produced on a pedal press
almost daily. IT consists Of a small
sheet quarto size, printed in two
columns on both sides Of the paper.
Newspapers Contents.
"Its contents are chiefly made up
Of the official war commuriques is
sued by the French and British gov
eminent. the number Of shells
which have fallen on the previous
day. the list of killed and wounded
by the bombardment, municipal no.
tices and some scraps of local
news.
During the last two years the
Courier was obliged TO change it's
address twice. II moved first to the
premises Of a photo-engraVer whose
workshop was situated in a part of
Rheims which enjoyed certain
amount OF tranquility. When we left
there II was for the center of the
city. a commercial printing office
opposite the little door OF the cath
edral
The Courier was originally aC-
CommOdated in the premises of a
we'll known firm Of English wool
combers. The journal had acquired
the private residence Of the princi-
pal owner of the wool plant near
the wool-comb bling factory on one
side and not far from the Colbert
barracks on the other This proved
70 be doubly dangerous. for IL re-
ceived on the one hand the shells
falling too short, intended for the
barracks. and, on the other, those
too long. meant for the factory.
Shell Hits Press.
"One day when we were busy
printing off the edition a shrapnel
shell struck the cylinder of the press
and the fragments flew in all direc-
tons BY a miracle no one was hit.
AS the staff fed into the adjoining
shop they were followed by another
shell, which exploded in the middle
Of a roll of paper They we're about
10 take refuge in the publishing de-
partment when a third shell antici-
pated them, coming through the
cei' hg and destroying the machine
used 10 print addresses The work
men only reached the cellar 40 feet
deep. in time.
The same cellar served shortly
after for a battery of artillery which
was passing on the neiEhboring
boulevard wien a shell fell in their
midst.
Sees New Battle Scars.
After we had settled down near
the cathedral. occasionally revisit
ed our old premises at Holden's and
every time I went there 1 noticed
new depredatiOns. A shell. landing
at the foot OF a wall. tore a hole in
a brick partition and, striking a
linotype machine, threw il forward
nearly two feet I traced the marks
Of so projectiles on the house. which
is now partly destroyed. Behind our
office. the Holden factory, which
covered several acres. had been
burned by a shower Of incendiary
shells, and the chimney stack. $50
feet high. had been knocked over