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Only day before yesterday a’Taube* hurled bomba at Yotre T)pme in Paris. 
All the hospitals and ambulance Quarters, marked with RSd Cross broom's, 
failed to be saved, from the hostile bombs. ‘That horrort But-let 
me be silent on these unspeakable atrocitiesTj 
"You desire news about me personally, my dear friend. T, with my 
wife, stayed in Charleville till August nsth. But, in th« night of 
August 25th -?"th yhe Pronee military authorities— for strategic rea¬ 
sons— were comnfc&led to reauire the entire civil population of Charie- 
vilie, Mezieres and 'Johor? to evaculate-— to flee fro" their ho^es, in 
the night ! I These three cities form, ns it r,, ere, one continuous city, 
with a total population of 40', (MO sould. m e wers compelled to pihan^on 
immediately out homes, because a battle ns thre"till,4: at this point, 
and the orders were to defend the passage «t this narrow defile to the 
last extremity. It was thought that the three cities would he razed 
to the ground completely. He therefore departed with only a for erre 
raents, and with a small sum of money re had at home, abandoning all Ihe 
rest. I fled to this place, (Dinard), where one of my friends has a, 
little house 'which he has obligingly put n t my diappeal. T am here 
with ay wife and daughter-inelaw. 'Jy fou is at the front. Dinard 
Is a small se&oort on the coast of Brittany, (far southwest from the 
war zone), a much frequented summer resort during the oren season. At 
present, however, it is a vast hospital. All the grand hotels ere 
requisitioned for hospital wards. 
" I think I shall come out of this mar almost ruined. For almost 
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all my property consisted in some houses situated at Chari evil To. 
tfhat remains to us now? Barely the life of myself end my -fife. ,tp 
for my collections, my library, my manuscripts, all th D t is now certainly 
destroyed. The fruit of all my labor- my life of scientific effort_- 
is completely wiped out. You, my de^r friend, can understand better 
than anyone, what a bitter grief this loss is to mo. 
