WONDERFUL ARTILLERY
FRENCH ACCURACY OF FKRE ■■'.• .4 TREAT TO SEE . [ (Reo. October 10, 3 p.m.) London, October 9. "The Times" Paris correspondent, lays the , wonderful qualities of the' French artillery are likoly to become the. outstanding feature .'of.- the struggle, -.. A British soldier declared that the French big guns are just the last word. The quick, "cute"- way they are handled is a treat to see, and their shooting beats anything he had ever seen.. They score a bull's-eye every time. ■•■'-. ' '.-'■;■• The French soldiers speak with affection of ..their, seventy-five centimetre camion,' and the' skilfulness of the gunners in hiding; the whereabouts of their batteries, for modern war is developing as a game of hide-and-seek.. When an airman ..signals the positoin of the enemy's guns the. battery places , a smoker as ; a pilot shot, and the rest speedily get homo, and or tlio battery are decimated within sis minutes. ■ '■:'. 'A German officer wrote- that of a hundred French shells observed by him, only three went wide of the mark. — ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2278, 12 October 1914, Page 6
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174WONDERFUL ARTILLERY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2278, 12 October 1914, Page 6
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