"LITTLE BERTHA."
A, CKACKED T»a-p~Bf!T. (Eeceired jurg liONDOH, August 27. Mr Gordon SDinonr, correspondent at, Australian headquarters, writing yesterday, says: "The 15in German gun among the Australians' spoils is a costly weapon witb an immense steel emplacement on the top of a concrete pit. It had its own electric power plant in the vicinity, but the gun barrel cracked along its entire length, apparently by a premature bnratIt had not been used for some time."— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 205, 28 August 1918, Page 5
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