LONG-RANGE GUNS.
BRITISH CONVOY SHELLED. (Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, 'Oct. 4. German long-range guns in France shelled a British convoy in the Straits of Dover at dawn to-day. The 6alvoes of three shells each were fired from near Cape Gris Nez, as the convoy, which carried its own balloon barrage, ploughed through rough seas swept by a south-westerly gale. Great columns of water shot up and the gunfire shook houses and wakened people living on the Kentish coast.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 264, 5 October 1940, Page 7
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