Show A MYSTERIOUS PROJECTILE Ata Recent Test In Kussla It Produced Amazement Among the Experts The so called magnetic shell which has been used at the trials of English armor plates at Okhta near St Petersburg Peters-burg has mado an extraordinary record The shell was fired at soft St Chamond plato at right angles and tho penetration was 10K inches Another shell penetrated penetrat-ed 10 inches One shell was discharged nt a 0 inch Hrvoyized plate at an anglo an-glo of 20 degrees The projectile passed ihrwjli the plate and backing anti fell abct 400 yards beyond ft 1 performance which filled the scientific experts present pres-ent with amazement Further trials will be made but for the present no plates of tho requisite strength i arc forthcoming those already used which were manufactured specially J special-ly for the purpobes of tho trial being so shattered as to bo useless for future tests The general impression among military experts is that tho magnetic shell is not a new shell at all but simply sim-ply a new invention adaptable to any modern projectile One of tho shells that had undergone tho secret process was exhibited Although Al-though it had passed through one of the armor plates it was in an undamaged condition and as it showed no traces of fastening whereby the now invention could be attached to it the spectators I concluded that tho improvement must be a cap of softer metal held on to the top qf the shell by magnetism This nurses tho hard point of tho shell at the impact and so helps it to penetrate tho surface of tho plato until it reaches tho softer metal behind This at all events is one of tho guesses at the principle prin-ciple of the novel projectile Pittsburg JjsnJtnh |