The palace of the archbishop was gutted, the chapel and the robing-room of the kings were cellars filled with rubbish.

Of them only crumbling walls remain.
And on the south and west the facades of the cathedral and flying buttresses and statues of kings, angels, and saints were mangled and shapeless.
I walked over the district that had been destroyed by these accidental shots, and it stretched from the northeastern outskirts of Rheims in a straight line to the cathedral.

Shells that fell short of the cathedral for a quarter of a mile destroyed entirely three city blocks.

The heart of this district is the Place Godinot.

In every direction at a distance of a mile from the Place Godinot I passed houses wrecked by shells -- south at the Paris gate, north at the railroad station.
There is no part of Rheims that these shells the Germans claim were aimed at French batteries did not hit.