REMARKABLE ACCURACY AND RAPIDITY.
(Received September 23, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, September 22.
Mr Phillip Gibbs, the war correspondent, states that the aocuracy and rapidity of the German gunners is particularly remarkable. At Soissons they aro assisted by aviators, who drop scraps of papers and bombs acting as smoke signals. In one case on Friday, an 11-inch gun dropped a shell close to the British headquarters. Several of the staff had a narrow escape. Tho headquarters was immediately shifted, and within half an hour fifty shells dropped on the same spot.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13493, 23 September 1914, Page 3
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