j In a tetter from Anmentiores a Newi' ) Zealand artillery driver makes interest- ; 5 jug reference to the big guns now being ' need by tha French. He ears:—"Hero is art tiife point a battery of big French grrne which are the vendor and admira-1 tion of «il beholden. They ere toed by the «m of » long njpo attached to the firing pin, (tad the recoil is m> txemca-l dons that a ma eoold •orreery lm in! the vicinity at the time of firing. The German artillery, thonch veil directed by aircraft, is not nearly w> eccjrrmte as it to ia ti(» ,
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 172, 20 July 1916, Page 2
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