FRENCH USING RIVER MONITORS.
; With the French.- ..Armies 'in the- ■ X Champagne,'. Ma jn 23,, Sfceel-flad canal aVid '-river monitor's aye; effectively aiding < the! French advance, m the ftWnt-- CoyniHeij.- sector: ■ The little , vessels -have participated in ■• the bom*bavdm^nt. with; as vmuch- success {is they Kid m the .battle -of the Somme last fall. In the sector where they are used, the monitors , can. disappear into bomb proofs : built alongside the-, waterways they utilise, thus giving them the advantage of veritable yiver submarines. •
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14340, 3 July 1917, Page 5
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83FRENCH USING RIVER MONITORS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14340, 3 July 1917, Page 5
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