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Show BRITISH DESTROY ENORMOUS GUN I Aviator Notes Position of Ger- fl mans and Heavy Artillery H Promptly Demolishes H Great War Machine. EB St Omer, France. Jan. 23, via Paris IBS Jan. 26, 4:45 a. m. The heavy ar BKS tillery of the British has destroyed Ha an enormous gun which the Germans HH were placing on a hill about a mile Wm behind their flr3t line of trenches, nHj and about two miles from Festubert, HB with the object of silencing the Eng- lish howitzers and bombarding ffejH Bethune. jjSH The position of the big gun was MB marked by a British aviator and tho SW fourth shell from the British guns HH demolished it. BH The British gunners then directed HfE their fire on a group of German artll- fflK lerymen engaged in placing a similar Wat gun a mile further behind, scattering gxp them with a few well timed shells. $g They also smashed three pumps bS brought up by the Germans to empty iaR water out of their trenches. tj&g |