Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

ENEMY'S LONG-RANGE GUNS.

CARRY SHELLS 17 MILES. A •panorama of our principal battlefields such as you may hate or enjoy from the Yimy Ridge, or in greater breadth from a balloon or aeroplane, suggests that spring has Wight new warfare and new fighting (writes Mr. W. Thomas in the course Of ft message sent to the Daily Mail). Migrants of "war ltave arrived with migrant birds. The horizon at all points bursts into new buds and flowers of war. Away to the south vast red fires have again bloomed and burst, and above them, like a visible aroma, rises a peculiar yellow smoke new to experience. These come from the now thin interval that separates our advanced trenches from the Hindenburg line north of St. Quentin, but. thev differ in color and form from ill earlier ifrros wo saw in this debatable land. Though the enemy's "iniß are withdraw behind this line he tries to atone for the withdrawal by the use of higher velocity and long-range shells. At a point of observation sufficiently far behind our lines the shrill cry of migrant shells is heard high in the air, and they cover another five or six' miles before they pitch and settle in some quiet field or village seeking some random victim. These guns, which are multiplving everywhere, have a range of 17 to IS miles, and shells fall in places that heard no shell burst til' three weeks after the enemy was driven back. The Germans train their men to shoot under the handicap of masks and have a scientific end a medical branch dealing solely with vapor poisons; yet even so they suffer more than they inflict. When gas shells are fired gas' shells are returned.

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19170720.2.50

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1917, Page 7

Word count
Tapeke kupu
289

ENEMY'S LONG-RANGE GUNS. Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1917, Page 7

ENEMY'S LONG-RANGE GUNS. Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1917, Page 7

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert