“BIG BERTHA” SECRETS
BOMBARDMENT UP PARIS A ■■lem.'rii.'tien '•£ tm- bombardment Pari; b'/ th.'' ipeeial long range naval ran “Big Berth..’.” M the end of March IMS, T riven by ths- I_okal A.nziegsr . It states that the E.<Kaifer a; r’Ttent to witness the firing of the fifsc shot. ar. Al 6 a.m. on Mandi 2T Tim mm was fluidly des-
troyed io prevent its falling into th hands of the French, but u ib hot known what became o die pMim-Rear-Admiral Ixogge, who y^ 331 cbni of the operations, m Mill auv-. Diinnr (he lirin." th- gun barrel v, as .-i-med to IM de->'<r.. mid ’he Midi, it r-.wiMd the. b-.i miles to three minute: In- all, 2.-3 ehslls M'cre fired at ths Ir&nch capital. The gun barrel was 111 ft. long, and i.-ho. strength of the charge wai calcu-
luted on reports received as todthc , temperature, strength of the wind,>iid moisture in the air. Sixty men iji&ifrrd the gun— and none of them, itMs asserted, has ever disclosed auyyiib formation about it. • - . . ■
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1933, Page 7
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