Show 1 BRITISH SHELLS POUND CALAIS i iBy By DREW MIDDLETON WITH THE BRITISH HOME FORCES IN THE FIELD Somewhere Somewhere Somewhere Some Some- where in England Feb 7 fP British range long-range guns are pounding the held German-held French Frenchport port of Calais from several positions positions positions positions' in the the- girdle of steel and concrete that encompasses Britain For more than a month the crouching monsters have talked across the channel tossing tons of high explosive and steel into that invasion port and surviving surviving surviving ing of nazi railway batteries in that vicinity Everywhere I went in a two- two day tour of the area the soldiery from brigadiers to buck privates had the same desire It was best expressed by one trooper who said I hope old Jerry will have havea a go at it we it-we we will brown his hide for him I I counted many field guns guns guns- light medium and heavy heavy in in a stretch Farther along heavy and light machine guns plus mortars and grenadier points commanded the beach Barbed wire and concrete I blocks dot every available landing landing landing land land- ing place and the heights above can be swept with concentrated artillery fire Weve got so much stuff coming coming coming com com- ing through now it embarrasses us a colonel of artillery de de- We dont don't know where whereto to put it it Heres Here's what one stretch of beach in beach in happier times the playground playground playground play play- ground for wealthy Londoners Londoners- Looks like Flimsy beach bungalows stand forlorn and empty Windows are broken and shutters flap in the fierce wind Walking between them and the wire on the beach you glance into the dining room of a once- once fashionable hotel and encounter the cold gray muzzle of a V Vickers machine machi e gun A childrens children's sandbox sandbox sandbox sand sand- sandI I box holds thousands of rounds of Bren ammunition A soldier lies flat on the floor of a a. sandbagged sun porch sweeping the restless sea with field glasses |