BIG GUNS FACING AUSTRALASIANS.
MINE WARFARE AT QUINN'S POST. NEW ZEALANDEBS THROW 570 BOMBS IN ONE DAY. SYDNEY. July 30. Cabling liom Uaba Teyo on July U\ Mr. I. E. \Y. Roan, the Australian ofdeial c/om-cpondenl. Mate.-: "We arc laced by 40 to r>o guns. Aliout half of them art- fourteen and fiftocii-pnundcrs: the itsl arc four. six. and eight-inch guns, with nn occasional ton or elevni-inch ;>uii. There is a sprinkling of lighter guns. the position? of ivhich <:\n lie rapidly changed, and which cm ho placed within a few hundred yanlt of <mr trenches and quickly removed. There is also an nncient mortnr lHititli-. "Tlie amount of ilonc Ity the Au&traliaus and New Zeal-aiders can lv judged by the f;i-,l tliHI ti»v |i»\v alrendy blown u;i 17 mine? opposite Quiun's Po?t. in almost every va-w a Turkish tiiiinel. 'Die Nov. Zeal;indoi> in one ilny threw .">7O from ("vat. which the engineers recently altered on! of, .ill scroti! it ion."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 181, 31 July 1915, Page 5
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