GENERAL WAR NEWS.
A QUESTION OF GUNNERY.
Rightly or wrongly, an officer back from the front attributes a good deal of the German success to his artillery superiority. His guns are not better than ours, but .his rangefinding is, whether the fact be due to the superiority of the gunners or the gun-sights. He pointed out Unit after a machine-gun emplacement has been located it takes some ten minutes for our guns to destroy it, whereas the Germans do the work in half the time. Obviously this would give him a tremendous advantage.
COURSE OF A LONG-RANGE SHELL.
During one day’s long-range bombardment of the Paris .listrict a certain amount of damage was done to a sixth-floor studio, which fortunately was empty at the lime, by a projectile, after entering the room, passing right through to the other side, tearing a hide through the partition wall, and crossing the courtyard, destroying the wall of the neighbouring house as far as (he fourth storey, and finally bursting in (he staircase.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1851, 11 July 1918, Page 4
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169GENERAL WAR NEWS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1851, 11 July 1918, Page 4
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