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SIEGE OF BARDIA
NAVAL AID TO THE
ARTILLERY
.--..'(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) " [(Received December 28, 1.50 p.m.)
LONDON, December 27,
'".'" The British guns are pounding the defences at Bardia in pre::paration for the final assault. Two ? 13-inch guns have been manned by naval gunners to support the field .artillery. A continuous stream of
heavy tanks and guns is moving up. - An Army officer told a correspondent of the Associated Press of Great
'Britain: "We could go in and take •> Bardia now, but that would probably
Vcost a good many lives, so we are -keeping on hammering at them. When -we get more tanks up we will get "'them out of their holes without much trouble."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 155, 28 December 1940, Page 8
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117CONTINUOUS STREAM Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 155, 28 December 1940, Page 8
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