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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 13 December 1915, Page 3

The French Government has allowed a party of journalists to view in the cathedral town of Bourges some of the big cannon which the French ordnance department have constructed since the war broke out a reply to the monster Krupps. The new Gallic monsters, which are to reduce Met?, and the Rhine strongholds are, according to the description given of them in the French press, not howitzers or mortars, hut long guns of abo’T inch calibre —“375’5” as cur Allies classify them. The visitors to Bourges were delighted with these “powerful) vet elegant,” pieces. Hitherto the heaviest pieces had been naval ‘34o’ 13.4-inch), mounted on the latest Frehch Dreadnoughts, and the “270” (10.8-inch) siege mortars, a somewhat obsolete pattern, dating back to the nineties.

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