CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE SHAKEN BY BOMBS.
An Atlantio Port, Sept. 19. "■'.*■ ; 'deop'atra'-s '•■Needle, presented to the British Government • and erected in 'Lorif don in .1878, ..narrowly escaped destrucr. tion during the German air raid over ..London .on . ; September; 4^-jacoording n .to Americans' who arrivedshere to-day from England. Otae who said he was near the scene at the time, asserted two bombs fell within less than a dozen feet of tho historic obelisk, the explosion shaking it to its foundationA
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14447, 6 November 1917, Page 3
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78CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE SHAKEN BY BOMBS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14447, 6 November 1917, Page 3
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