SYDNEY’S MONSTER WAR TROPHY

Evening Star, Issue 17323, 10 April 1920, Page 2

SYDNEY’S MONSTER WAR TROPHY

A monument that for all time will in the eyes of Australians mark the heroic effort of our troops before Amiens, thatended in the smashing of the llindcnburg line arid the crushing of the German arms, was unveiled in sight of the Central Hallway Station, Sydney, at the end of March. D was the great gun—the “Baby Bertha”—captured at liarbor.nieres on August 3, 1918, by Australian troops after their brilliant attack that began at Fillers Bretonneux.

The enormous weapon on its carriages indeed a trophy ofNvar. At a range of 15 miles it destroyed Amiens Railway Station on Allies’ chief line, of com'rminication between Paris and the Channel ports. Alio it had smashed to some extent the famous Amiens Cathedral. Today it rests for all time on an embankment where Sydney’s hundreds of thousands can sco it dailv.

Speeches appreciative of the valor shown by the men who effected ibis coup were made by Major-general Lee, Sir Charles Rosenthal, Brigadier-general Cox, Mr Ball, and Mr Fraser.

Major-general Rosanthal declared that it was, in fact, a decisive blow which caused Ludendorff to refer to August 8 ac the blackest day in Germany’s history.