ENGINES OF WAR
DESTRUCTIVE POWER INCREASES. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, August 10. (Received August 11, at 8.50 a.m.) General Herr, Inspector of Artillery, in* gists that Prance, by the use of guns like Big Bertha, could secure fire control of the English Channel and bombard English inland towns. Britain could simultaneously bombard Lille, Arras, and Amiens 'with a Bertha having tv range of eighty-two miles. The range may be increased to 125 miles, meaning that the Allies could bombard Westphalia, Hesse, Baden, Wuxtcmburg, and some parts of Bavaria. —A. and N.Z. Gable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18044, 11 August 1922, Page 4
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93ENGINES OF WAR Evening Star, Issue 18044, 11 August 1922, Page 4
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