CONVOY SHELLED
LONG-RANGE GUNS ACTIVE.
BRITISH BATTERIES REPLY.
SHIPS PROCEED IN SAFETY
(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, November 26.
British and German long-range guns resumed their cross-Channel duel this morning. A singlo shell landed at 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 coast of Kent. They continued with unabated fury for an hour, in which the British long-range guns plastered the emplacements with a heavy curtain of shells and screened the passage of the convoy. Tho Germans fired 150 shells in 120 minutes. The firing then slowed down and tho convoy safely steamed out of range. Observers repqrt that not a single enemy shell scoi-ed a direct hit.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 40, 27 November 1940, Page 5
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