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WONDERFUL NEW FRENCH HOWITZERS.
FORT DOUAUHpJfi' SMASHED WITH FOUR SHOTS SUCCESSFUL END TO A YEAR'S WORK. ~" wmwxmsemm . ••£. *x.,A us Sf&ffliWl N - z - Ca ™e Association. (Received'kovcmher 13, 12.10 p.m.) PARIS, November 12. The 16-inch howitzers which set fire to Fort, Douaumont did it with four shells, representing a hundredweight of melinite. They also drove out? the' Germans from Fort Vaux. These guns a year in construction.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 861, 13 November 1916, Page 11
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66WONDERFUL NEW FRENCH HOWITZERS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 861, 13 November 1916, Page 11
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