LONG-RANGE SHELLING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 219, 14 August 1940, Page 7

LONG-RANGE SHELLING

BARRAGE BEHIND DOVER BUILDINGS DESTROYED (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.) Received August 14, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 13. The Associated Press of America’s Berne correspondent says reports are current that mile guns around Calais and Dunkirk have already opened fire, laying a barrage behind Dover. A report has also been received from New York that the Germans are shelling Britain from France. A mysterious incident for winch. there is no official confirmation occurred on tlie South-East Coast yesterday, when after an explosion damaging several houses, a piece of metal resembling part of the nosecap of a shell was picked up. The authorities are now examining heavy fragments of grooved steel picked up in the south-east area. Two were killed and a number injured in one explosion. People attributed'the explosion to gunfire in the district, and, alternatively, to .shelling - from long-range German battenes across the Channel. It is learned some damage was done in other parts. HOUSES WRECKED. One explosion tore through the upper storey of two houses, levelling the rooftops. Another house had its front exposed as though cut with a knife. Residents think the damage was caused by shellfire, because no aeroplanes were overhead when the four explosions occurred. At midnight, according to a Daventry broadcast, an examination of the grooved pieces of metal found in the South of England had not confirmed the suggestion that they were portions of shells fired from German long-range guns.