TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT.
LETTER FROM DUNKIRK.
An old friend at Dunkirk (France) writing to Mr Godfrey TayJor, of Pahiatua .recounts some interesting details of the damage done by the enemy’s heavy artillery in that town. Shells weighing from 450 to f)00 kilos, (about half a ton) were hurled from, the German lines at Dixmude in Belgium, 36 kilometres (24 miles distant). The principal bombardments were in February, March and May, that in the last-named month being especially severe; over 60 dwellings were destroyed, a whole side of the Cathedral cliureh of St. Eloi was shattered to fragments, and about 100 persons, civil and military, were killed. Since June there have been no further attacks of this kind. The writer’s son is a French officer, and was taken prisoner in the early part of the war at Manbeuge. He lias been over a year in prison camp at Argon in Saxony, and says he is well treated as a prisoner, and is allowed to write home every fortnight.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5359, 17 February 1916, Page 2
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166TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5359, 17 February 1916, Page 2
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