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Show Myriads of Shells Used. BERNE. April '21 (Correspondence of the Associated Press). German batteries bat-teries before the great, assault on the British front on March 21 fired almost al-most three times as many shells in thfee hours as the Hermans fired in the entire Franco-Prussian war. A German staff officer has informed a Swiss newspaper that the German ar-tillerv ar-tillerv used more than 1,500,000 shells during the three hours' bombardment preceding the attack. This is over 8:100 a minute, or, estimated on a front of fifty miles, about J60 per minute per mile. The total number of shells used by Germav in the war of 1870 was about 650,000." |