August, 1915

1   No report available.
2   Bombardment 9:30 A. M., 2 bombs on faubourgs; renewed 5 P. M.
3   Nothing to note.
4   Nothing to note.
5   Some shells 5:30 P. M.
6   French aviator violently cannonaded.
7   Nothing to note; violent cannonade around Reims at night.
8   Cannonade around Reims in day; some shells 5:15 P. M.; incendiary bombs at night.
9   Cannonade on front at night.
10   Unimportant bombardment.
11   No report available.
12   No shells on Reims; artillery actions on near-by places.
13   Calm.
14   Calm.
15   No report available.
16   Calm.
17   Some shells in afternoon.
18   Bombardment from 10:40 A. M.; some victims.
19   Bombardment 2 to 3:30 P. M.; some killed and wounded.
20   Bombardment 2 to 3:30 P. M.; some victims.
21   Some shells 10 A. M.; heavy bombardment 2 to 3:30 P. M., some victims.
22   Some shells in morning; bombardment 2 to 3:30 P. M.
23   Calm; fire on Taube.
24   Fire on Taube; some shells 5 P. M.
25   Taube dropped 3 bombs 5:20 P. M., 1 killed; bombardment 6 to 7:10 P. M., 150 shells, 1 killed, 4 wounded.
26   Calm.
27   Bombardment 4:30 P. M.
28   Calm.
29   Bombardment 2:45 P. M.; renewed 5 P. M., 1 killed; cannonade at night.
30   Calm.
31   Bombardment 7:30 A. M.; rest of day calm.

September, 1915

1   Bombardment 11 A. M. to noon, 1 wounded; renewed 1 to 1:30 P. M., 2 wounded; 100 shells for the day.
2   Bombardment 10 to 10:15 A. M.
3   Bombardment 10 A. M.; renewed 3:15 P. M.
4   Anniversary of first bombardment. Bombardment 4 A. M., 20 shells; renewed 5 P. M.
5   Calm.
6   Calm.
7   Calm.
8   Calm.
9   No shells; French cannonade morning and afternoon.
10   Artillery duel; some shells 10 A. M.
11   Day calm; French artillery and German fire on aeros in afternoon.
12   Day calm; bombardment 11:40 P. M.
13   Bombardment 10 A. M.; cannonade at night.
14   Calm.
15   Calm.
16   Calm.
17   Bombardment in afternoon, 6 shells.
18   Bombardment 7 A. M.; cannonade at night.
19   Anniversary of cathedral fire in 1914; Way of the Cross by the priests of Reims in the cathedral. French artillery 4 A. M., feeble
response; bombardment in morning and at 5 P. M., 1 wounded.
20   Bombardment 3 P. M.; cannonade at night.
21   Bombardment 9:30 to 10 A. M.; renewed 4 to 5 P. M.
22   Bombardment morning and afternoon, 30 shells.
23   Bombardment 3 to 5:30 P. M., 150 shells, 3 killed, several wounded.
24   Bombardment 4 to 5:30 P. M., 100 shells, 4 killed, 2 wounded.
25   Bombardment 10 A. M., 20 shells, 1 killed; renewed 3 P. M.; 100 shells for the day.
26   French artillery.
27   Artillery on left front; some shells on Reims 3 P. M.
28   2 or 3 shells on faubourgs; cannonade on front.
29   No shells on Reims; less cannonade.
30   Calm.

October, 1915

1   Calm.
2   Calm.
3   Artillery duel; some shells on faubourgs at night.
4   No report available.
5   Some shrapnel on faubourgs in afternoon.
6   Some shells; French artillery at night.
7   French artillery; no shells on Reims.
8   Calm.
9   Calm.
10   Some shrapnel in afternoon.
11   Calm.
12   Bombardment 10:30 A. M.; renewed 3 P. M.; again 4 P. M.; French aeros over German lines.
13   Some shells in morning.
14   Bombardment 2:30 to 5 P. M.; French aeros.
15   Taube dropped bomb in afternoon; bombardment in evening.
16   Taube dropped bombs.
17   Calm in sector; 3 shells at night.
18   A few shells 5 P. M.
19   French artillery 5 A. M.; bombardment 8 to 11 A. M., 500 shells, some wounded.
20   Bombardment 1:30 to 8 P. M., more than 200 shells and 100 shrapnel; 6 shells at night, 2 killed, 6 wounded.
21   Calm.
22   Some shells afternoon and night.
23   Calm.
24   Calm.
25   Calm.
26   Calm.
27   Calm.
28   1 shell 4:45 P. M.
29   Calm; complete stoppage of artillery on front.
30   Complete calm.
31   Incessant cannonade on front.

November, 1915

1   Calm.
2   Bombardment 11 A. M.; renewed 2 P. M.
3   Some shells morning and afternoon.
4   Calm.
5   Calm; cannonade on front.
6   Calm; cannonade on front.
7   Calm; a shell at night.
8   Calm.
9   Calm.
10   Calm; cannonade on front in afternoon.
11   Calm; cannonade on front in afternoon.
12   Calm.
13   1 bomb 4:30 P. M.
14   Calm; French artillery, no response.
15   Calm.
16   No shells; artillery on front all afternoon.
17   No shells; artillery on front in afternoon.
18   Calm.
19   Artillery action; some shells in morning.
20   Artillery; no shells on Reims.
21   Artillery all day; no shells on Reims.
22   Artillery in morning; fire on aeros in afternoon.
23   French artillery in afternoon.
24   Artillery action; 4 shells 2:15 P. M.
25   Calm.
26   Some shells.
27   Calm.
28   French artillery; no shells on Reims.
29   Artillery in afternoon.
30   Some shells in morning.

December, 1915

1   Bombardment in morning.
2   Artillery action; some shrapnel.
3   Bombardment in morning, 1 killed.
4   Bombardment 8:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., 50 shells.
5   Some shells day and night.
6   Calm.
7   Some shrapnel in morning.
8   Calm; 1 shell 9:30 A. M.
9   French artillery 4 P. M.; no response.
10   Calm.
11   French artillery 12:30 P. M.; German response 4:30 P. M.; no shells on Reims.
12   Artillery duel 3:30 P. M.
13   Cannonade 7 A. M.; renewed 10:30 A. M.
14   Calm; French aero over German lines 2:30 P. M.
15   Cannonade 6:30 to 8 A. M.
16   Calm.
17   Short violent cannonade at noon.
18   French artillery all day; no shells on Reims.
19   15 shells on faubourgs in afternoon; intermittent cannonade at night.
20   Bombardment 10 A. M.; renewed in afternoon, 1 wounded.
21   1 shell in afternoon.
22   Calm; French artillery at long intervals.
23   Calm.
24   Calm.
25   Christmas Day. Bombardment 2 to 3 P. M., 400 shells.
26   Reciprocal cannonade.
27   Heavy bombardment from 9 A. M., 2 killed, 14 wounded.
28   Artillery duel 9:30 A. M.
29   Cannonade 9 A. M.; 1 shell 11 A. M.; renewed in afternoon, again at 9 P. M.; again at 11 P. M.
30   Intense cannonade in Reims sector in afternoon.
31   Calm; Taube 2:30 P. M.

1916

January, 1916

1   Artillery duel at night.
2   Artillery duel in afternoon; artillery at night.
3   Nothing to note.
4   French artillery; some shells on outskirts.
5   Taube; some shells.
6   Day calm; French artillery at night; small response.
7   Calm; artillery to left, 4 P. M.
8   Calm; artillery at night.
9   Artillery duel in morning; Taubes in afternoon; violent artillery at night.
10   Calm.
11   Day calm; artillery at night.
12   Taube 2 P. M.; artillery at night.
13   A shell fell in a garden 10 A. M.; Taube 2 P. M.; night calm.
14   Some artillery 4 P. M.
15   Calm.
16   Calm.
17   Aerial battle 11 A. M.
18   Calm; artillery at end of afternoon and at night.
19   Bombardment 2 to 2:30 P. M., 200 shells, 1 killed.
20   Day calm; bombs in evening, 3 killed, 5 wounded.
21   Artillery in sector.
22   Calm; artillery on front.
23   Artillery morning and afternoon; aerial combat in afternoon.
24   Calm.
25   Day calm; short cannonade at midnight.
26   Calm; artillery chiefly to north of Reims.
27   Kaiser's birthday. Bombardment 11 A. M. to 2 P. M., 7 killed, 27 wounded.
28   Calm; Taube 12:30 P. M.; French artillery to west of Reims.
29   Bombardment 2 P. M., 50 shells; renewed 7 P. M.; Taube 3 P. M.
30   Calm.
31   Artillery on all Reims fronts; Taubes and aeros 10 A. M. to 2 P. M.

February, 1916

1   Taubes; artillery duel to right and left.
2   Bombardment from 2:30 P. M., 250 shells.
3   Aeros; French artillery 1 P. M.
4   Calm.
5   Bombardment 3 to 4:30 P. M., 20 shells.
6   3 shells on a faubourg 10 A. M.
7   French artillery; no response; artillery duel on front 9 P. M.
8   Bombardment 11 to 11:30 A. M., 4 shells on faubourg; renewed 2 to 2:30 P. M., 50 shells, 1 wounded.
9   Bombardment 5 P. M., 12 shells on faubourg; artillery duel 7 to 9 P. M.
10   French artillery on left 9 A. M.
11   Artillery in sector in morning.
12   Violent bombardment 9:30 to 11:30 A. M., 110 shells, 1 killed; renewed in afternoon; French artillery on left at night.
13   Bombardment in morning, 12 shells; renewed 12:15 P. M., 6 shells, 6 wounded.
14   Bombardment on left 3:30 to 10 A. M.; renewed 10:30 A. M. to 12:30 P. M., more than 100 shells.
15   Calm.
16   Some shells on faubourgs.
17   Cannonade 10 A. M.; some shells.
18   Artillery in sector.
19   Artillery in sector.
20   Bombardment 2 to 3 P. M., 20 shells.
21   Taube dropped 7 bombs 9:30 A. M., 2 killed, 5 wounded; 2 shells in afternoon; French artillery at night, no response.
22   French artillery from 4 P. M.
23   Day calm; 1 shell in evening.
24   Taube dropped bomb 11 A. M.; French artillery 4 to 5 P. M.
25   Violent cannonade and some bombs on extremities in afternoon.
26   Bombardment 9 to 11:30 A. M., 40 shells, 2 killed, 1 wounded; renewed 2 to 4 P. M., 6 shells.
27   Bombardment 11 A. M., 8 shells; renewed 3 to 5 P. M., 7 shells.
28   Bombardment 8 A. M., 12 shells; renewed 12:30 to 2:30 P. M., 32 shells; Taube 2 P. M.; renewed 4 to 5 P. M., 50 shells, 3 wounded.
29   10 shells on suburbs in morning; French artillery 6 P. M.
THE WEST PORTALS

From "La Cathédrale de Reims," Libraire Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

THE WEST PORTALS

March, 1916

1   Bombardment 9 A. M. to 2 P. M., 120 shells, 10 killed; renewed 8 to 9 P. M.
2   Bombardment 10 A. M. to 2 P. M., 5 killed, 4 wounded; renewed 7 to 9:30 P. M., 50 shells, 2 wounded.
3   French artillery 5 A. M.; bombardment 1:45 P. M.; renewed 6 to 8 P. M., 50 shells, 1 killed, 2 wounded.
4   Bombardment 5 A. M.; renewed on faubourgs 5:30 P. M.
5   Bombardment 11 A. M.; renewed 3 P. M.
6   Aerial bomb 9 A. M.; some shells 11 A. M.; French artillery in afternoon.
7   Aerial activity; no shells on Reims.
8   Aerial activity and bombs, 2 wounded.
9   Aerial activity and bombs; artillery on front in evening.
10   Aerial activity.
11   Aerial activity; French artillery 9 A. M., feeble response.
12   Taube 9 A. M.; bombardment 5 to 6 P. M., 50 shells, several wounded.
13   Aerial activity from 8 A. M.; bombardment 4 P. M.
14   Aerial combat 10 A. M.; no shells on Reims.
15   Calm; some shells on faubourgs.
16   Aerial shell 5:15 A. M.; bombardment in morning, 15 shells; French artillery in evening.
17   Bombardment 1:30 to 3:30 P. M.; renewed 4 to 6:30 P. M., 200 shells, some wounded.
18   Artillery 2:30 and 5 A. M.; Taube 7 A. M.; aerial activity in morning; artillery duel in afternoon; cannonade 11 P. M.
19   Artillery and aerial activity.
20   Calm.
21   Calm; short artillery action in morning.
22   Feeble cannonade in morning; no shells on Reims.
23   Calm; French artillery in sector 11 to 12 P. M.
24   Calm.
25   2 aerial bombs 4 P. M.
26   Calm.
27   Heavy bombardment 9 to 11 A. M., 300 shells, 25 killed and wounded; renewed 2 P. M.
28   Calm.
29   Artillery on front from 1 A. M. to daybreak; day calm in Reims.
30   Aeros; no shells.
31   Aeros; Taubes and some shells.

April, 1916

1   Some shells on faubourgs.
2   Violent bombardment 9 A. M. to 5:30 P. M., 1500 shells, 5 killed, 41 wounded.
3   Calm.
4   Bombardment 5 to 6 P. M., 150 shells.
5   Some shells; artillery at night.
6   Day calm; French artillery at night.
7   Day calm; artillery at night, 15 shells.
8   French artillery in morning; 1 shell 8 P. M.
9   French artillery; Taubes morning and afternoon; cannonade at night.
10   Taubes 9 A. M.; bombardment 11 A. M., 50 shells, 1 killed; renewed 4 to 4:30 P. M., 9 shells; again 10 to 11:30 P. M., 26 shells.
11   Taube 6 A. M.; artillery afternoon and night.
12   Bombardment 10 A. M., 2 victims; renewed 3 P. M.; artillery afternoon and night.
13   Some shells 3 to 4 P. M.; artillery at night.
14   Some shells 2 P. M.; artillery day and night.
15   Bombardment 10 to 11:40 A. M.; renewed 2 to 5:30 P. M.; again 8:30 P. M.
16   Taubes 6:30 and 9 A. M.; bombardment 11 to 11:30 A. M.; renewed 5:30 P. M.
17   Bombardment in afternoon.
18   No shells on Reims.
19   Calm.
20   Some shells 6:30 A. M.; aerial combat 5:30 P. M.
21   Bombardment 11 A. M., 12 shells.
22   Bombardment 3 P. M., 2 shells, 1 wounded; renewed 4:15 P. M., 4 shells; again 5 to 6 P. M.
23   Easter Day. No shells.
24   Taubes in morning; bombardment 2:30 to 7:30 P. M., 200 shells. 4 killed, 19 wounded.
25   Calm.
26   Bombardment 10:30 to 11:30 A. M., 30 shells.
27   Anti-aerial fire in afternoon; 5 or 6 shells in evening; French artillery at night.
28   Bombardment 7 to 11 A. M., 16 shells; renewed 1:30 to 3:30 P. M., 28 shells; again 5 to 6 P. M., 15 shells; again 9 P. M., 9 shells.
29   A few shells.
30   Bombardment 3 to 5 P. M., 8 shells; renewed 5:15 to 6 P. M., 11 shells; again 9:30 P. M., 7 shells, 2 victims.

May, 1916

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.

June, 1916

1   Taube at dawn; bombardment 6:30 to 9 A. M., 5 shells; renewed 10 to 11 A. M., 8 shells; again 3:30 to 4 P. M., 15 shells; again 10 P. M., 3 shells, 1 wounded.
2   Bombardment 6 to 7:30 A. M., 25 shells; renewed 11 A. M.; again 3 P. M.
3   Bombardment 6 to 7 P. M., 100 shells; renewed 9 to 10 P. M., 11 shells.
4   Bombardment 8:30 to 9 P. M.
5   Bombardment 9:30 A. M., 7 shells; renewed 3 P. M., 5 shells.
6   Bombardment 9 to 10 A. M., 20 shells; renewed 5 P. M., 3 shells.
7   Bombardment 9 to 10 A. M., 12 shells; renewed at noon, 3 shells; again 8 P. M., 4 shells on vacant land.
8   1 shell 9 A. M.; 1 shell 5 P. M.
9   Bombardment 8 to 9 A. M.; renewed in afternoon, 8 shells; again 10 P. M.
10   Bombardment 7:30 to 9 A. M., 6 shells.
11   Bombardment 9 to 10 A. M.
12   Calm.
13   1 shell; artillery on front.
14   Some shells in afternoon.
15   Calm.
16   Calm.
17   Taube 5 A. M.; bombardment 8:43 to 11 A. M., 7 shells; renewed 1 to 1:30 P. M., 3 shells; French artillery 4 P. M.
18   No shells.
19   Bombardment 9 to 11 A. M. on faubourgs; aerial combat in afternoon, 4 shells fell into Reims.
20   Aerial fire 6:30 P. M.; artillery on front at night.
21   Anti-aerial shell fell back 6:15 A. M.
22   Artillery on front; bombardment 3 to 4 P. M., 24 shells; aerial shell fell back 6:30 P. M.
23   Bombardment 9:30 to 10 P. M., 41 shells.
24   Bombardment 3:30 to 5 P. M., 50 shells.
25   French artillery 4 P. M., no response.
26   Calm.
27   French artillery, no response.
28   Bombardment 2 to 2:30 P. M., 5 shells; French artillery at night.
29   Bombardment 9:30 to 11:15 A. M., 45 shells; renewed 12 to 1:30 P. M., 18 shells, 1 killed; again 3:30 to 5 P. M., 34 shells.
30   Bombardment 9:30 to 10 A. M., 10 shells; renewed 2:20 to 2:45 P. M., 15 shells, 1 killed, 2 wounded; again 4 to 5 P. M., 6 shells, 3 killed, 2 wounded; French artillery at night.

July, 1916

1   Taubes in morning; bombardment 5 to 6 P. M., 12 shells; artillery at night.
2   Bombardment 5 to 8 P. M., 356 shells.
3   3 Taube bombs 4:30 A. M.; somewhat tranquil.
4   Nothing to note.
5   Some shells 4:30 P. M.; artillery on front.
6   Taube 6:30 A. M.
7   Complete calm.
8   Complete calm.
9   Complete calm.
10   Taube 10 A. M.; 1 bomb 2 P. M.; French artillery at night.
11   Bombardment 10 A. M., 4 shells; renewed 5:45 to 7 P. M., 96 shells; again 9 P. M., 50 shells, 5 killed, 6 wounded; French artillery at night.
12   Some German prisoners passed through Reims.
13   Calm.
14   Calm.
15   Calm.
16   Calm; French fire on German trenches in afternoon, no response.
17   Calm.
18   Calm; artillery duel at night.
19   2 Taube bombs on fields.
20   French aeros over German lines 3 A. M.
21   Artillery duel 4 P. M.
22   Taube 6 A. M.; French artillery 10 P. M.
23   Calm.
24   Taube 4:30 A. M.
25   Taube 6 P. M.; French artillery at night, no response.
26   Day calm; Taube 5 P. M.; French artillery and some shells at night.
27   Taube 6 A. M.; bombardment 3:30 P. M., 13 shells.
28   Bombardment 5 P. M., 3 shells; 20 shells later.
29   Some artillery in afternoon; French aeros over German lines.
30   Calm.
31   1 shell 6 A. M.; Taube 8 A. M.

August, 1916

1   Bombardment 5 to 6 A. M., 55 shells; renewed 6 to 7 P. M., 54 shells; French artillery 10 P. M. to 1 A. M.
2   French artillery to 1 A. M.; shells early morning; artillery on front 10 P. M. to 2 A. M.
3   Artillery on front to 2 A. M.; bombardment 4:30 to 5:15 P. M., 5 shells; 1 shell at night.
4   Bombardment 4:30 to 5:30 P. M., 3 shells; artillery at night.
5   Bombardment 1 to 2 P. M., 3 shells; renewed 5 to 6:30 P. M., 34 shells; again 10 P. M.
6   Taube early; intermittent bombardment; more serious 4:15 to 7 P. M.; French artillery 11:15 P. M., no response.
7   Day calm; bombardment 7:30 to 8 P. M., 3 shells; French artillery at night.
8   Some shells 6 P. M.
9   Taube early; bombardment 11 to 11:30 A. M., 5 shells; renewed 6 P. M.
10   Bombardment 5:30 P. M., 2 shells; renewed 6:15 P. M., 2 shells; again 8 to 9 P. M., 50 shells.
11   Day calm; French artillery at end of afternoon.
12   Bombardment 5:30 P. M., 14 shells, 1 killed, 2 wounded; renewed 7 to 8 P. M., 25 shells; French artillery at night, no response.
13   7 Taubes dropped 19 bombs, 7 P. M., 21 victims. Civil Hospital burned; St. Remi menaced; 21 shells from bombardment.
14   Calm; French artillery at night.
15   4 shells in evacuated zone; bombardment 10 to 11:30 P. M.
16   Calm.
17   Day calm; 8 shells at night.
18   Calm; Taube 9 P. M.
19   Calm.
20   Calm.
21   Calm.
22   Calm.
23   Bombardment 10:45 to 11:15 A. M., 20 shells.
24   Taube 8 A. M.; bombardment 12:15 P. M.; aerial combat 1 P. M., 2 bombs dropped.
25   Bombardment 11 to 11:15 A. M., shells on faubourgs.
26   Bombardment 5 to 5:15 P. M., 7 shells; again 9 P. M., 4 shells.
27   Bombardment 8:30 A. M., 12 shells; renewed 11:30 A. M. to 1:15 P. M., 26 shells.
28   Bombardment 10 to 10:15 A. M., 12 shells, 1 wounded; renewed 5 to 6:30 P. M., 28 shells.
29   Bombardment 8 to 9:30 A. M., 13 shells, 2 wounded.
30   Calm.
31   Bombardment 10 A. M. to noon, 36 shells.

September, 1916

1   Calm.
2   Calm; 2 Taubes 5 P. M.
3   Taube; bombardment 8:30 to 10:30 A. M., 13 shells; renewed 5 to 7 P. M.
4   Calm.
5   Bombardment 10:30 A. M., 3 shells.
6   No shells.
7   No shells.
8   No shells.
9   Some shells in morning, 1 wounded; Taube dropped 2 bombs 6 P. M., 1 killed, 1 wounded; artillery to south at night.
10   Calm.
11   French artillery in morning; no shells.
12   Calm.
13   Calm.
14   Calm.
15   20 Taube bombs 12:15 P. M., 2 killed, 1 wounded; intermittent French artillery at night.
16   Calm.
17   Taubes in morning; no shells; French artillery to south in afternoon; Taube 6 P. M.
18   Calm.
19   Anniversary of cathedral fire in 1914; calm; Taube in afternoon; French artillery at night.
20   Calm.
21   French artillery 11 A. M., no response.
22   Bombardment 9:30 A. M. to noon, 32 shells, 1 killed, 6 wounded.
23   Taube 8 A. M.; bombardment 9:30 to 11 A. M., 33 shells.
24   Taube 8 A. M.; bombardment 11 A. M., 32 shells; renewed 1:30 P. M., 10 shells on observation balloon in rear of Reims.
25   German fire on aeros; bombardment 1:30 to 4 P. M., 21 shells.
26   Bombardment 3:30 to 5 P. M.; renewed 5:30 to 6:30 P. M.; 19 shells in all.
27   Bombardment 1:30 to 3:30 P. M., 31 shells.
28   Bombardment 10:30 A. M.; no shells on Reims.
29   Very calm; no cannon sounds in sector.
30   Calm.

October, 1916

1   Bombardment 1 P. M., 3 shells; renewed 1:15 P. M., 13 shells.
2   Calm; some cannonade in morning.
3   Nothing to note.
4   Taube 6 A. M.; bombardment 10 to 11 A. M., 9 shells; renewed 4 to 5:45 P. M., 40 shells.
5   Bombardment 12 to 12:30 P. M., 7 shells; renewed 4 P. M., Taube shrapnel, 1 wounded.
6   Taube 10 A. M.
7   Nothing to note.
8   Calm.
9   Calm.
10   Taube in morning; bombardment 3:30 to 6 P. M., 28 shells.
11   4 Taubes 6 to 11 A. M., dropped 4 shells; artillery 5 P. M.
12   Calm.
13   Bombardment 8 A. M., 4 shells.
14   Distant bombardment 11 A. M.; some shells.
15   Calm.
16   Bombardment 2 P. M.
17   Bombardment 8 A. M., 10 shells.
18   No shells; French artillery 4 P. M.
19   Calm.
20   Bombardment 10 to 11 A. M., 18 shells; renewed 3 to 5 P. M., 13 shells.
21   Bombardment 9:30 to 11:30 A. M., 19 shells; 8 shells in afternoon.
22   Fire on Taubes.
23   Fire on Taubes 7 A. M.; some shells in the day.
24   Fire on Taubes.
25   Bombardment 10:30 A. M., 11 shells; renewed 1:30 to 5 P. M., 400 to 500 shells; French artillery from 9 P. M.
26   Relatively calm.
27   Heavy bombardment 6:45 A. M. to 5 P. M., about 1200 shells.
28   Bombardment 3 to 5 P. M., 13 shells.
29   Calm.
30   French artillery in morning, no response.
31   Some shells in morning.

November, 1916

1   Bombardment 2:45 to 3:45 P. M., 7 shells; renewed 4 to 5 P. M., 12 shells.
2   Calm.
3   Morning calm; anti-aerial fire in afternoon.
4   French artillery 8 A. M.; bombardment 9:45 to 11 A. M., 28 shells; violently renewed 2 to 4:30 P. M., 600 shells.
5   Artillery in sector.
6   Bombardment 3:10 to 5:30 P. M., 100 shells.
7   Bombardment 6:30 to 7:30 A. M., 36 shells; renewed 11 to 11:30 A. M., 67 shells.
8   Bombardment 7:30 P. M., 6 shells.
9   Nothing to note.
10   Aviation 10 A. M.; French artillery in afternoon.
11   Taube 11 A. M.; French artillery in afternoon.
12   Nothing to note.
13   Nothing to note.
14   Bombardment 11 to 11:30 A. M., 12 shells; renewed 12:30 to 1 P. M., 12 shells; French artillery 8:30 to 10 P. M.
15   Taube; bombardment 2 to 4 P. M., 14 shells; renewed 5 to 6:30 P. M., 12 shells; again 7 P. M.
16   Taube; light bombardment 11 A. M.; renewed 5 to 6:15 P. M., 12 shells.
17   Bombardment 3 P. M., 12 shells.
18   Calm.
19   Bombardment 3:30 to 4 P. M., 7 shells.
20   Nothing to note.
21   Nothing to note.
22   Nothing to note.
23   Nothing to note.
24   Aerial activity.
25   Nothing to note.
26   Nothing to note.
27   Nothing to note.
28   Nothing to note.
29   Bombardment of fields near Reims 10 A. M.
30   Short artillery duel in morning.

December, 1916

1   Calm.
2   4 shells in morning.
3   Nothing to note.
4   Nothing to note.
5   Nothing to note.
6   Calm.
7   Complete calm.
8   Complete calm.
9   Some shells morning and afternoon.
10   Bombardment 1 to 2 P. M., 15 shells.
11   Bombardment morning and afternoon.
12   Complete calm.
13   Bombardment 9 to 9:45 A. M.; renewed 1 to 2 P. M.; 9 shells.
14   Bombardment 1 to 4 P. M., 32 shells.
15   Bombardment 10 A. M. to 12:30 P. M., 36 shells.
16   Nothing to note.
17   Nothing to note.
18   Bombardment at intervals.
19   Bombardment in afternoon to 11:30 P. M., 39 shells.
20   Some shells in afternoon.
21   Calm.
22   Calm.
23   Calm.
24   Cannonade in afternoon.
25   Christmas Day; nothing to note.
26   Artillery in afternoon.
27   Bombardment 8:30 to 11:30 A. M., 50 shells; renewed 5:30 to 8 P. M., 6 shells.
28   Calm.
29   Calm.
30   Violent cannonade in sector all day and greater part of night; no shells on Reims.
31   No shells.

1917

January, 1917

1   Day calm; 1 shell at night.
2   Bombardment 1 to 3 P. M., 19 shells.
3   Bombardment 11 A. M., 2 shells; artillery at night.
4   Some shells.
5   Some shells.
6   Calm.
7   Calm.
8   Nothing to note.
9   Bombardment 5 to 5:30 P. M., 16 shells.
10   Almost complete silence.
11   Nothing to note.
12   Calm.
13   Calm.
14   Bombardment 12:15 to 1 P. M., 12 shells; heavy cannonade on front to next morning.
15   Intermittent artillery in day; more active at night.
16   Some artillery; continued in night.
17   Nothing to note.
18   Nothing to note.
19   Nothing to note.
20   Nothing to note.
21   Bombardment 12:30 to 3 P. M., 15 shells; renewed 3 to 4 P. M., 24 shells.
22   Bombardment 5:30 to 6 P. M., 8 shells.
23   Bombardment 7 A. M., 1 shell; renewed 10:30 to 11:45 A. M., 10 shells; again 4:30 P. M., 1 shell; again 5 to 6:30 P. M., 10 shells.
24   Bombardment 9 A. M. to noon, 26 shells; renewed 12:30 to 2 P. M., 19 shells; again 2 to 4:30 P. M., 13 shells; again 7 to 8 P. M., 14 shells.
25   Various bombardments in day; 10 shells, 5 to 6 P. M.
26   Relatively calm; some shells.
27   Kaiser's birthday. Bombardment 11 A. M. to 5 P. M., 77 shells; renewed 9 P. M.
28   Bombardment 12 to 5 P. M., 24 shells; renewed 9 to 9:45 P. M., 10 shells.
29   Bombardment 10:30 A. M. to 12:30 P. M., 4 shells; renewed 3 to 4 P. M., 4 shells; again 10 P. M. to 3 A. M.
30   Bombardment continued to 3 A. M.; intermittent bombardment in afternoon.
31   Bombardment 4 to 6 P. M., 82 shells.