CONVOY SHELLED
BY GERMAN LONG-RANGE GUNS NOT ONE DIRECT HIT SCORED. BRITISH BATTERIES PLASTER ENEMY EMPLACEMENTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, November 26. English and German long-range guns resumed the cross-Channel duel this morning when a single shell landed at Dover, after which the British bombarded enemy positions. The German shelling of a convoy last night consisted of two-gun salvos, from Cape Gris Nez, at intervals of three minutes. Several batteries joined in the bombardment, shaking the Kent coast. This was continued with unabated fury for an hour. The British long-range guns plastered the enemy emplacements' with a heavy curtain of shells and screened the passage of the convoy. The Germans fired 150 shells in 120. minutes. The firing then slowed down and the convoy safely steamed out of range. Observers report that not a single enemy shell scored a direct hit.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1940, Page 6
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146CONVOY SHELLED Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1940, Page 6
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