BRITISH NAVAL GUNNERY.
DESTROYS GERMAN BRIDGE,
Received Friday, 10.40 p m. Paris, Friday
The Germans have been long constructing a bridge at Dixmuda for the large forces assembled there. When the task was nearing completion on Monday the British naval armoured train daahed within three-quarteis of a mile and opened fire with'-four guns and six mitraleuses. In less than five minutes a hundred engineers were killed and fifty woun ded, and the work blown to splinters, despite the German battery which derailed a truck..
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 725, 28 November 1914, Page 5
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84BRITISH NAVAL GUNNERY. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 725, 28 November 1914, Page 5
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