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Shells Fell On Paris

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SECRET OF BIG

BERTHA"

FIRST SHELL KILLED 75, WOUNDED A HUNDRED

By Peter C. Rhodes United Press Staff Corres-

...pondent.

to a height of forty, kilometres into the atmosphere.

the gun in action the concrete base

Plans completed, it was decided that the various parts of the new gun constructed should be

In various foundries throughout Germany 10 Paris, Apr. 1.

maintain the secrecy of lia use. In With shells and bombs finished. It was decided to practice

the spring of 1017 the first gun

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into dropping daily

the off the sea near Helgoland and the North Sea town of Cuxhaven was streets of Madrid, Parisians

chosen for the gun emplacement. To to-day remember more prevent possible spies from seeing sharply than ever the day in was construeled deep in the ground 1918 when the first "Big and only the ugly snout of the glant gun could be seen. In May all was Bertha" shell fell into the ready and a line of destroyers and airplanes took up their positions along streets of Paris, striking the line of Dre to observe the shots.

and the the stoutest The earth trembled terror into

thundered when the gun was fired, hearts and creating a mys- but when the column of water arose tery which has just been re-at the point of landing, it was found to be only 80 kilometres distant. The vealed in all its details, nine-rst gun was a failure. In two days

all signs of the experiment had dia teen years after the first appeared and the specialists were massive shell dropped mys. back in their laboratories busy again,

RESULTS PERFECT teriously out of the sky.

nir

„Thaelmann's Four.

Years In Gaol

Berlin, Mar. 15. Four years ago - March 3. 1933- after the burning of

tha Reichstag. Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Garman Communist Party, was thrown into prison.

He is likely to remain there as long as the Nazis so desire. Although world-wide pub- licity has been given to the case of Thaclmann →→ Im prisoned for no offence and not brought to public trial -- the Nazi. Covernment has steadily refused to bring him from his cell into open court)

Indian

Divorces

English Wife

Ex-Stage Dancer

Calcutta, Apr. 1.

The district Judge at Khulna, Ben- gal, to-day dissolved the marriage between Indian Jawyer J. P. Mitter and his English wife, Mrs. Marion Elizabeth Miller, formerly Miss-

The Marlon Fuller, a stage dancer. decree has to be confirmed by the High Court.

In October 1917 signs of unusual To-day Parisians will observe the anniversary of one of the activity were apparent again at Cux- haven, the new gun was ready. This blackest days of the war, and time the results were perfect, the gun The suit was brought by Mr., Mit ceremonies will centre in the fired at all ranges up to 120 kilo- ter, citing Mr. Gajanand Birlu, a Saint Gervais church, where one metres, with an aberration of less wealthy Indian business man, as co- than 200 yards from the calculatel of the first "Big Bertha" shells target. On the fourth day of practice, respondent.—Reuter, fell, killing, 76 women and chil- dren and wounding 90 on the afternoon of Good Friday 1918.

GREAT MILITARY FEAT

gun was

the gun sank the old ship which served as a target. The scrapped, for its capacity of shots was limited to about 100, and the foun- deries were busy again hammering out dupilcale tubes.

The sult was brought after an un- successful annulment petillon by Mrs. Miller on the grounds that

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swiftly.

The firing of the Big Bertha on It was decided to place the giant when she married her husband in Purls from a distance of 130 kilo-gun in the Crepy forest near Laon, 1025 at Marylebone register office he ESSEEB metres was one of the greatest mill-130 kilometres north of Paris and at was already married, according to

ats of the war, and puzzled the Christmas time 1917 work on the em- Hindu rites, to an Indian girl. tary feats Allied general staff to the end of the placement was begun. By the begin war. Afterward it was definitely ning of February the concrete base learned that the shells which dropped was finished. Two great problems

How

could the gun be

ed. The epics worked on Paris ut 15 minute intervals on remained. March 23 and for weeks after, had fired without the Allies finding its Hardly had the pollee arrived on the been fired

shot be forest near the position? How could the town of Lon in Northern France. recorded. in Paris and the target for scene than another tremendous explo

sion' shock Paris, destroying several But the full details of bringing the the big gun changed?

apartment houses on the. Boulevard dant in to perfection and of pre-

Henry IV twenty minutes later on- work have" "JUNT paring its terrible

other landed before the Gare de HEST, been revealed by Germans acquaint-.

in the midst of departing soldiers ed with the work.

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To solve the Orsi a massive system of camouflage was constructed in the forest, completely hiding the big gun. In addition, it was decided that every fered these tremendous shocks,

First conceived in November 1916 time the great gun fired 32 batteries Cansternation, but not terror reigned by the German General Staff who composed of 128 field pieces would in the French capitol. Airplanes sought for some method of dramatle-roar forth with it. That would con- rushed into the sky, but there wasn't ally demoralizing the French rear found the devil himself, not to speak any trace of a plane. Finally, although

strong

of the sound detectors behind the

the it seemed unbelievable, the French the guard and thus weakening

would be so army decided that there must be a front lines for a great battle. The Allied lines. There work of perfecting the gun took more much confusion in sound location that gun somewhere near the front. But than a year to carry through. In the big gun would remain unfound. firing almost 130 kilometers on Paris? greater shock than 1910 the General Staff called into An intricate system of telephones was The Ides was consultation Professor Rausenberger,

Installed from the giant pit to co-the shells falling on Paris. gineering expert at the mas-ordinate all the guns by its activities.

SCOURGE OF PARIS works at Essen and asked him if their plan-were-practicablo,

-It-was rapidly-proved that the shot.

chicf

sive

The astute German general staff

Eight secret agents were installed in

After a hasty calculation the Profes.sulved the secolid problem 100. came from the Crepy forest, but it

sor answered. Bicult."

ed, "Yes, possible but dif- Paris with the sole duty of reporting was impossible to locate the gun i

on the hits of the Big Bertha. News the massive cannonade that occurred

He was granted full facilities in his from this unit was to be passed by with nerve-wracking regularity. The work, all of which was shrouded in way of Switzerland, and would arrive Alles rushed a mast of batteries to the deepest mystery. The problem, A little practice assured the Germans shell actually innded so close that it at the big gun within three hours, blindly into the Crepy forest, and one the front, hundreds of cannon fired that of finding a gun capable of firing that they could rely on the speed and hair buried Big Bertha in dirt. But at least 130 kilometres, was dimeult

VANISHED IN AIR

to say the least. A new fact, just accuracy of their eight spies, discovered on the German heavy artillery testing grounds at Nleppen, alded him. During tests a new Ger- man cannon which it was calculated should fire twenty kilometres, actually went almost forty. How was this curious result achieved?

THROUGH STRATOSPHERE

throughout the remaining months of the war, Big Bertha, the scourge of Paris, was never discovered.

HER JOINTS SQUEAKED LIKE NEW SHOES

Swollen With Rheumatism At Thirty

She had begun to feel like an old woman-yet she was only thirty. Her Joints sounded like squeaking shoes; her hands und ankles Were badly swollen. Then she started taking Kruschen Salts. Read what she says after six months:

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