Daily British Whig (1850), 5 Jan 1918, p. 16

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{LLUSTRATED SECTION. With our Italian Allies - A Captured "Pill-Box." | a The world's greatest siege gun. It is of more than 20-inch calibre, and is under construction in the Famous French Creusot munitions plant, supposedly for prospective use against fortesses. It is considered far too ponderous for ordinary field servies. Remarkable German concrete blockhouse or "Pill-box," as it is ealled by the British Tommies, erected on The Austrian battleship Wien, lying at her anchorage in the harbor of Trieste, where she was recently torpedoed and sunk by Italian sailors the St. Queutin salient, where it resisted bombardment after bombardment by the French, practically without under Lieut. Rizzo, of the Italian Navy, who cut they way to the ship through nets of steel cables strung over submarine mines. Alongside lies damage, and finally had to be taken by assault. The face of one of the French captors of the "Pill- box" can her sister ship, the Monarch, ° v al be seen peering through the peephole. ~ : * \ g A AEN oss asi v Ta Cambrai vattle: "Kamerad"--just in tine.

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