New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-23
Apostles of KuItur Attack
Sick and Dying, Disregard
ing Sign of the Red Cross
on Battle Front.
FOUR SQUADRONS OF
AIRMEN IN ASSAULT

/ Heavy Explosives and shrapncl Blast
! Buildings and Tents to Pieces,
killing Nurses and Patients-Lust
for Blood Brings Repetition of
Initial Attack-Caprurcd Captain
CalIous to Horror.
With the British Army in Franco,
May 23 (By the Associated Press. y
German airmen again nave bombed
heavily British hospitals in the area
behind the lines and this time have
killed and woundet some. hundreds
among the personnel and patients Of
many different hospitals in the group.
Recorded in the casualty list are
the names of several sisters who, with
other women nurses, stood brayely by
their posts throughout terrific deluge
of explosives. .Et
There is in the neighborhood one
large American hospital and another
in which there are American workers
but neither of these appears to have
suffered. Last summer q number of
American doctors and nurses were
killed and wounded when these same
hospitals were raided by the Germans.
Moro Than 20 Attacking Machines.
This latest horror Was perpetrated
Sunday night, apparently by four
squadrons Of enemy planes which ap-
pear to have comprised more than a
score of machines "A great mum Der
of bombs were dropped, about 80 per
cent of them huge affairs, which dug
vast craters in the hospital grounds,
and the rest high explosives shrapnel,
which sent their death dealing bullets
tearing i'll every direction through the
crowded hospital tents and buildings
A three-seated airplane was brought
down by gunfire while flying at a low
altitude and the occupants were
made prisoners The enemy captain
and the pilot sustained comparatively
light Shrapnel wounds while the OBJ
server was not hurt. When questioned
why he had directed his men against
hospitals the captain explained in q
matter of fact way that he didn't see
the Red Cross signs. He said he was
seeking military objectivcs and had
no desire to modest hospitals
Complains of Hospital Sites.
With a shrug Of his shoulders he
added that if the British choose to
build their hospitals near railways
they must expect to get them
D6mbed.
The captain spoke excellent Eng
lish. Asked where he had learned it,
he replied he had been in diplomatic
service before the war.
Sunday nights raid was divided in
to two phases, the first of which be-
gan shortly after 10 o'clock and last
eG until II o'clock. Not satisfied with
This the enemy returned at 11:40
O'clock and heavily bombed hospitals
Allied with wounded men.
In the building which was dam -
aged most seriously all the patients
we're suffering from compound frac-
lures which made necessary their
limbs being strapped in the air.
Not woman deserted her ward,
but throughout the terrible bombing
1each one kept going her rounds and
uuieting the unfortunate men, who
might easily have done themselves
lasting harm by springing from their
beds.
One sister was killed outright while
she was administering to the soldiers
wants and another was SO seriously
hurt that she died shortly afterward.
Still another was dying today.
Enemy Military Positions Bombed.
London, May 23.-Railway stations
In German Lorraine and the railway
near Liege, Belgium, and a chloride
factory at Mannheim, on the Rhine
were bombed Tuesday night and Wed
nesday by British aviators. Three
fires were caused at Mannheim and
large confagrations near Liege
British aviators destroyed 16 German
airplanes and two observation balloons
and drove down two airplanes out OF
control Three British machines are
missing.