Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-21

Of from five to eight miles. The first shell, landing in the city at the time 1t was occupied as Russian head quarters, caused the Russian general and his staff to abandon their comfort able quarters in Tarnow, the largest city in the radius of many miles, and decamp to a, spot ten miles to the rear. Thereafter the Austrians fired only five shots more from their big nor tars into the city, for it is, after all, an Austrian town and they had no desire to damage unnecessarily their own property.
 As the advancing Austro- -Hunga army slowly pushed forward against Tarnow-the spot to which the Rus sians clung longest during the big May battle In an attempt to save the enor- nous quantity of supplies stored in this vicinity and to give other parts of undisturbed, the big 16 1-2 inch-twins were twice moved forward to spots from which they could drop shells into the supply trains and on the men at- tempting to save the stores.
 The correspondent of The Associated Press, now visiting the battlef1elds in Western and Middle Galicia on which the great victory of the allied German and Austro- Hungarian armies was won has not been permitted to see the new guns. but he has seen the cities from which they were fired and the destruction caused by the shells. At one place the guns were concealed be- hind village, where the glazier is now replacing window panes destroyed by the concuSSion of the discharge. At another place the guns were en- placed near a railroad station thts spot having been chosen for converi- fence in erecting the guns in their foundation of cement and in the third Site they were located in a valley.
 In Tarnow one shot struck, appar- ently by error, a peasants house of brick. It is now a mere mass of bricks curiously level with the ground, house and all having apparently been swal- lowed up in the crater made by the bursting she'll Three persons were killed in this house. A block away is one Of the city schools, which the Aus trians believed rightly was being used as quarters for Russian soldiers. A gaping cltft, thirty feet wide and ex- tending from cellar to roof of the four story building, shows with what pre- c1slon the gunners found their mark. A second school building, a half mile away, was hit squarely on the roof The wall on the side toward the court yard is torn out bodily. On the side facing the street a hole twenty-feet In diameter was carved out neatly in the thick. brick and concreate wall, the aperture being as nicely rounded as if the circle had been laid out with pair of compaSseS. The brick work circle came out with such accuracy and force that it has left it's imprint, again as a carefully rounded semi circle in the high fence of grated iron before the school building. The roof is, of course, gone and from various windows the interior woodwork pro- jects in angled masses.
 Another shell struck the cavalry barracks in the great courtyard of which Russian soldiers at the moment were busily loading supplies for the retreat. Horses and men were blown to pieces by the air pressure from the explosion or killed by the shower of bricks, roof-tiles and fragments of shell. In the low one-story building surrounding the barrack square, is at one point a great gap which the cor Respondent paced out as A yards wide the measure of the force of the ex- plOsiOn.
 The new 42-eentimeter shells weigh over 2,500 pOunds-more than those of the Krupp gun. and each shell costs over $500.