Église Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais, ca 1918

Identifier: literarydigesthi05hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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PHOTO BY BROWN BROS.. N. Y. THE PARIS CHURCH OF ST. GERVAIS Scene of the Good Friday attack on Paris by one of the long-distance guns. Some 75 people while at the service were killed and 90 injured, owing to a blow from a shell which caused a part of the roof to fall. The church stands near the Hotel de Ville the La Fere road, an outlying spur of the massif of St.Gobain. The three gun-pits were arranged approximatelyin the form of an equilateral triangle, the apex of whichpointed toward Paris. They were all well under the crestline. Each consisted of a concrete pit in the shape of a 17 ON THE WESTERN FRONT long and deep trench, to which a railway ran back from theLaon-La Fere line. At the front end of each a concreteplatform was constructed on which the gun-carriage rested,carefully covered by branches of trees which, combined withthe neighboring wood, served to protect the position fromview. When a big gun was fired a number of 17-cm. gunsin its neighborhood were simultaneously disch