THE WATCHERS ALOFT
DIRECTING THE WARSHIP ARTILLERY ("Times" and Sydnoj "Sun" Scrvices.l London, October 27. , A "Times" correspondent, describing the recent fighting' near the const, says: "Somewhere near the inferno is parched ■ : a watcher, marking where tho shells from tho warships are falling. With him' sits a telephonist, and each time i a shell, bursts ho gives a message to tho : telophonist to transmit to headquarters, ' whence it is transmitted to a wirejesj operator, who flashes it to tho ships. Fifteen minutes after firing a shot the gunner at sea receives intimation whora : tho shell lies fallen, regulates his aiip and fires again at tho invisible foe."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2293, 29 October 1914, Page 5
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107THE WATCHERS ALOFT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2293, 29 October 1914, Page 5
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