GERMAN SIEGE GUNS.
London 'Times' and Sydney 'Sun.' Services. LONDON, February 28. A German war correspondent at the front describes the fort of "Douaumont as entirely destroyed. Tho concentrated fire of 17in guns blew the steel and concrete cupolas to fragments. French prisoners were ir_ a dazed state from the terrific fire, wiuch quickly mado the fort untenable. ■-"•*■
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Evening Star, Issue 16051, 1 March 1916, Page 3
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