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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13650, 18 July 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)

A Boulogne correspondent of a Horn* paner reports an extraordinary occurrence which took plac<» there on May 15th. Two liners came- within the zone of the heavy grins -whilst they were firing-, anil some of the shells fell in dangerous proximity to the ships, causing a good deal of terror among the passengers. The vessels wire the Cap Blanco, of the Hamburg S. America Line, homeward hound from Buenos Ayres with a call at Boulogne, and the Leonore Woermann, of the Woermann line, hound from Hamburg to the West Coast of Africa. The liners arrived in the roadstead at the same time, and by some error tiring was continued. Several shells fell within a yard or two of the liners, which were in great danger of being struck by the projectiles, and had to hastily steam out of the danger (ties.