May, 1916

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1 Taube dropped bomb 5:30 A. M.; bombardment 11:45 A. M., 6 shells; renewed 6 to 8 P. M., 50 shells.
2 Day calm; bombardment to south and north-west 8:30 P. M., 9 shells.
3 Taube 6 A. M.; no shells on Reims; artillery at night.
4 Taube 7:30 A. M. and 11:30 A. M.; bombardment 7 to 8 P. M., 37 shells, 1 wounded.
5 Bombardment 10 to 11 A. M., 15 shells; renewed 4:30 P. M., 3 shells.
6 Bombardment 8 to 10 A. M., 2 wounded; renewed 2:30 to 2:45 P. M., 4 shells; artillery at night.
7 Bombardment 7 to 8 A. M., 2 shells; renewed 9 to 10 A. M., 23 shells.
8 Bombardment 8 A. M.; renewed 3 to 6 P. M.; artillery at night.
9 Bombardment 7:30 A. M., 5 shells; renewed from 9 A. M. to night, 300 shells; French artillery at night.
10 Bombardment 7 to 9 P. M., more than 100 shells, 4 wounded; renewed 10 P. M.
11 Bombardment 8 to 10 A. M.; renewed 1 to 2 P. M., 30 shells, 3 wounded.
12 1 shell in morning; bombardment of observation balloon, 5 to 6 P. M., 25 shells.
13 1 shell 9 A. M.
14 Complete calm.
15 Short bombardment 3 P. M.; some shells at night.
16 Taube early morning; bombardment 11 A. M. to noon, 100 shells; renewed 5 to 7 P. M., 4 killed, 10 wounded.
17 Aerial combat 8 A. M.; bombardment 12:30 to 2:30 P. M., 120 shells, 8 killed, 10 wounded; renewed 4 to 6 P. M.
18 Bombardment 2 A. M.; 2 Taube bombs; renewed 9 to 11 A. M., more than 200 shells; French artillery at night.
19 Bombardment in afternoon, 50 shells.
20 Bombardment 2:15 to 2:30 P. M., 15 shells, 1 killed; renewed at midnight, 20 shells.
21 Bombardment 12:30 A. M., 1 shell; renewed 11 A. M. to noon, 20 shells; again 2 to 3 P. M., 32 shells; again 5 P. M., 6 shells.
22 Bombardment 3 A. M.; Taube 6 A. M.; bombardment renewed 2 to 3 P. M., 32 shells; again 5:30 P. M., 6 shells; artillery at night.
23 Day calm; bombardment 9:30 P. M., 12 shells, 2 killed.
24 Bombardment 1:30 to 5 P. M., 1 killed, 11 wounded.
25 Intermittent bombardment from 1:30 P. M.
26 Bombardment in afternoon.
27 Some shells in afternoon.
28 Bombardment 9 A. M.; renewed 2 P. M.
29 Artillery duel; some shells in morning.
30 Calm.
31 Day calm; some shells 8:30 and 11:30 P. M.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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