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Show Long Range Gun Hit. PARIS, May 4. News has just been received re-ceived from the front that a French gun made a direct hit yesterday on one of the long-range German cannon with which Paris is being bombarded and put it out of action. Deputy Charles Leboucq returned to Paris from the battle front last evening and confirmed the report that one of the German super-cannon had been destroyed. He said : I was with the batterv yesterday which fired the lucky shot. The fog which had interfered with observation observa-tion during the last few days had cleared, our fire could be rectified trt and! the target was hit. One of these guns exploded some three weeks ago. Another was hit ten days ago. It is impossible to say yet if the latter gun was the one destroyed de-stroyed yesterday. Photographs taken of the gun positions have not yet been developed. This success shows the great skill of our gunners, as the odds against a direct hit are enormous. It shows also the great courage and endurance of our men as they remain night and day beside their guns and suffer severe se-vere losses. I showed them letters from Parisians expressing tjieir gratitude grati-tude and asking how they could show it. The gunners replied: "No better way than to send us plnard." Pinard is army slang for wine. |