Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-20
BIC BERTHAS SCU1RT
FOR PARIS SLOWING
French VIII Try and Get Ling
Range Guns 5s War
Memcntoes.

Paris, Der 10 Correspondence ~ The
| Aasociated prta8l The French peDTds
wnnt ono ~ tho German Big Berthas ~
! eupercnunVn which hpmbarjed Paris ~
| display ln the Place dc la C0ncorde ~ p
souvenir If German frightfulneas that
| failed ~ is plrpysc W destroy French
muralp
| The arnisiiro docs MT efpuIa'e that
| une of these Instruments shall be- sun
| rendered but there Is movement to grgo
/ The government ~ demand a. There -
, no expectation that She Germans VII
/ include one ~ theec weapons among fhe
/ Z. 800 gums they ore required - giye up
| under The arTnis'ico
Facts obtained hy military exports
| show that tho first guns that fred ip9n
! Paris On March I2 las' numbered three
| They we're Installed near NWtIro. 70
| the forest ~ Saint t,obaiu TYR wrr- v'
! the same railroad spur lending pu' -
! Taon while ne third vas iItflo further
cast ~ The WeiuIty of Crepy
! According - the lntoet r'urra'ion.
| the guns were pointed ~ an auglr ~ more
! than g. degrees, rbargn ~ three 'uldr,d
| pounds ~ powder propelling Che r.rc'sla
j ~ height ~ me hundred thousand fret
/ 'ncary ~ rifles m ity f0urdrrWle mi7ri0u
! ~ Paris With every shot ten NJ twelve
/
| calibrr fred simultaneously upon targets
/ unknown IN order 10 conceal fhclrcatior II
| SUPERB aonon The she'll w1g II 2lO miili-
/ metre calibre abyIf eight nch~el r.
/ weighed three hundred ppunde b'if 30
/ charge of eEpi'@ve contained therein
! varicd br'woor thirty and fnrfy poTnfs
/ In the manufacture r. tho shrll rcriHef
/ an innovation NJ tho Germans n n aaii
/ 81 havo been made ~ srccial steel 'rraind
with tungsten ~ ~ ~ pffcr hr navlrrrrn
/ of rrsiefcnce for minimum ~ wright
/ I hr gun2 only protection was r rar0ori-
! AaVc ard i proved n r. m protection -
| all 8s allied avators NON located fnrr.
/ There II a rcryort fhat several RviRforz.
! Americans. French Britigh l0z' heir lives
I in boating the first three Perthag n Tho
forest of 1t Cobpin brt upon fha' r0ins
/ officials arc silent
! However. March n mr. ~ ihe Bsr'has
was blown up ~ an aerial torpedo vh,~h
/ tore hclc rs the ground rpore then fftv
/ ferf ID diameter photograph III whirh
I hae bern taken The sec0nd was Du' otIt
I 1f business iu ihe 'ast davs af iu-il.
/ while tne third m the original three vas
/ silnncod in Nav
IL II now asserted thar t-o of lhess
4 g7ins were ronndpind into 2 larger calihre
/ ninc .nch and that those rernodeled gins
were the 0nes winch resumed the ebellng
/ az Paris late ID May AT
subsequently the Germans su~reeded
I n uttiving larger cshtred guns fpr long
4 d,etancc firing fpr ~ August thew uzed =
marine gun from near ~oissons, firing
I Teye and 3 half inch she'll Ihev we're
preparing r. srlhjcct Paris ~ ~ Intensive
hnmbardmcut such ~ lbnNrk lad n
suffer when thev we're driven ont n thcIr
4 Soisson7-C Chateau-Thierrv line by tho
/ counter offensive of the Allies
/ Commandant Mlrhel, The military rT-
! per- who organized the Turkish artillery
/ before the Germans assumed charge III the
/ military affairs Jt that country told ] he
/ Associatrd Press that the Nhoie secret II
I the German long distance gin av tho
7 invention of q special high explosive pow
/ der which could only he used ia guns CON
( structed with q special steel ~ rxtraordi-
nary resisting power. The Germans La,i
I commenced the generalization ' NE
Il process and they were manufacturing sew
f erai guns similar ~ fhcir ~Qlssons onp rut
/ Marshal Foch s offensive derangcd their
/ plans