"FAIR PICNIC" FOR THE NAVAL GUNNERS
SNIPING THE SHORE ENEMY (Rec. October 28, 6 p.m.) London, October 27. Tho naval gunners had "a fair .picnic" 011 the Belgian coast. Tho monitors watched a German big gun taking up its position, and waited until the rango was fouud, when thoy smashed tho gun, and men to pieces with, tho first shot.
The 'destroyers, with 6-incE gans, wonfi ■ap the river to Nieyport and fired a broadside on the Germans, then turned round and let drive the other broadside, and fired the stern gun as a parting % salute. A thousand of the enemy were dead in one field. It is stated that one brigade inarching-on the sea coast between Nieuport and Middelkerke wag oompletely wiped out by the magnifi-oently-directed fire of the monitors and. the other vessels.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) . .
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2293, 29 October 1914, Page 5
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