LIVELY DUEL.
CROSS-CHANNEL GUNS. British Convoy Successfully Runs Gauntlet. (Reed, noon.) LONDON, Nov. 26. British and German long-range guns resumed a cross-Channel duel this morning. A single shell landed in Dover, after which the British bombarded enemy positions. The German shelling of a convoy last night consisted of two-gun salvoes from Cap Gris Nez at intervals of three minutes. Several batteries joined in the bombardment, shaking the Kent coast. The attack continued with unabated fury for an hour in which British longrange guns plastered emplacements with a heavy curtain of shells, which screened the passage of the convoy. The Germans fired 150 shells in 120 minutes, and firing then slowed down and the convoy safely steamed out of range. | Observers report that not a single enemy shell scored a direct hit.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 282, 27 November 1940, Page 7
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131LIVELY DUEL. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 282, 27 November 1940, Page 7
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