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Show Field Guns Marines Now Use in Their Contro Vera Cruz. C -f " j Battleships of the American fleet now at Vera Cruz have innumerable Held guns for use of marines on shore, and ma:iy of these have been landed and used by the force of which Major Smedley But'er is in charge. This photograph shows marines ma-rines using the guns in the open. They do not accomplish the destruction destruc-tion of heavy cannon, but they can be moved rapidly over poor roads, and they are sufficient it is considered, for all purposes in Mexico except bombardment of a city. If the troops of the United States or marines march on to Mexico City it is likely that scores of these guns will be taken tak-en along because they can be more easily handled on the high mountain roads. |