HEAVY DETONATIONS
GUNFIRE AND BOMBING WATERS NEAR CALAIS (Reed. 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, April 13 The Exchange Telegraph Company says that after a series of nerve-wrack-ing explosions from the French side of the English Channel yesterday, residents of English coastal towns were awakened early to-day by further heavy detonations. The roar of incessant gunfire and bursting bombs lasted for half an hour. Brilliant flashes lit the Channel waters on the French coast in the vicinity of Calais. Heavy gun salvoes suggested that a naval action might be progressing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24868, 14 April 1944, Page 3
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87HEAVY DETONATIONS New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24868, 14 April 1944, Page 3
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