Late News
BRITISH GUNS MAKE REPLY Shells Over Channel A FEW ROUNDS FIRED AT GERMANS
Two Killed In Dover
LONDON, August 24
It is learned that British longrange guns have fired some shells into German-occupied France. Details are withheld and the shelling is described as a few rounds only.
The Dover correspondent of the “Daily Mail” states that the German guns which fired on Dover last night are probably of 12-inch calL bre and apparently are positioned close to Calais. Though at one time the shells were dropping at the rate of one a minute the population oi Dover took the bombardment quietly and there was no panic. At least two persons were killed and nine injured.
A 8.8. C. observer who toured Dover to inspect the effects of film shelling said that the craters caused by the shells were not large, and as most ot them fell on roadways not much damage was done. Nazi Partj’ officials in Berlin, who describe yesterday’s shelling of a convoy in the English Channel as “targetpractice,” declare that Germany has a new weapon to control the Channel, whose force will soon make itself felt. The Berlin news agency stated that British long-range guns yesterday evening shelled the region of Calais. The agency claimed no damage was done.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 283, 24 August 1940, Page 12
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214Late News Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 283, 24 August 1940, Page 12
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