"BIG BERTHA'S" FATE
Dismembered, and with its war-worn ■parts already beginning to uist, the Big Bertha whioh startled the world by its long-range firo upon Paris in the early months of last year has been left to its fate in an old Gorman, artillery yard in West Prussia. According to information recently obtained, tho famous big gun is lying in tho open air, protected from the eyes of the curious only by a board fence. Other guns of largo calibre aro also innjihe yard, a few German soldiers acting" as a guard. Discharged German 'soldiers say that dismantled parts of the gun began arriving at the park soon after tho signing of the armistice. Parts of the gun still lie in tho cars that transported it from France, but the barrel has been laid on the ground. All tho range-finding and other delicate parts were removed before the piece was transported. The soldiers understood these were taken, to the quartoiß o.f Von Hindenburg.
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Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 11
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