Show Allied Armament nt That Won Th TheW arThe ar The French 75 T hD 1 rI 1 i s. s 4 I a t A Ai I i 4 IZ 1 r c c 9 I French bringing their field batteries into action j I i r Or t J Rapid-fire Rapid Gun Produced by Gallic Genius After R RJ Riu i Japanese War Jf Faithfully Serves in Great War If and Ind j Wins Approval f 1 Battling Yanks f of the French i is tho the of d THE story Seventy fives s story prepared 1 When the came carao through Belgium France had a a. true rapid field piece tim tho tho seventy f c England had hail a sc enty even se en e I gun and the time American army armr possessed possessed-a a three inch rapid fire field that American army officers ls l's aver cr is the equal if not the thc superior o 0 oj French seventy But Hilt neither the thc United States nor England prepared to turn out their types of If firc rapid prim in the tIme quantities fl mantled France could She Shu not only lid did j so 80 o for her own wn armies armie for the American army as well And And the glory gory of the tile French sef sec sevc five fi is that it stood tho four years years' test t Amon Among all the allied armament th that t helped win the war this French field fieldpiece piece picco that hurls twenty shells hl high h explosive c or shrapnel straight ht to the mark In one minute was the tIme pride o of tho French arm army At the thc beginning of or ortho tho the war It was rca ready and at tho time end of or tho the war Its perfection had h won wn th the hearts of or the American artillery The Tho full Cull measure of ot tho tIme accomplishment accomplish accomplish- ment of at time the French seventy five can be Lie appreciated better when It Is realized realized real real- Izell that lint this is the first war var In which a perfect typo of at rapid tire gun has hag be been on used and that the number employed em eni- eyed was p proportionately proportionate rep ort I o n ii nearl nearly early three times as great S as tho number of offield offield field pieces in former war wars Eight Guns GUD to 1000 Men n Three guns uns to 1000 Infantry was as once considered ered tho the proper proportion of at artillery But nut In the great war there were Verco eight Guns gum In action to ev every cv- cv er ery 1000 doughboys and that not counting trench mortars And on tho allied t side side- the tho majority of oC them were wre the seventy es In tho the civil war onar firing the tue bronze muzzle loading Napoleons classed according to the weight In pounds of oC I round lound shot was a dangerous thing to thing to the th gun sun crew as asell well ell as to tho the enemy The Tho pow powder er wa was first rammed home in ina In Ina I a cloth bag followed by tho the round cannon ball bail At the moment o ol lug Jug which hick was done with a a. a Jon long lon yard ever every one stepped aside gun Sun did too for thoro was no mechanism m In those days An Ant And piece had hall to be brou brought ht up and a again after each shot as S welI wel well I sponged out to prevent prem tur when tho next charge w wa wi in of It was not flot until tho lie Jap war Wal that the time rifled barrel the b b bj load and the copper case In Inch IncI J charge c carge nn in one piece made the tIme firo 1 field CleM jj ble but oven on then thien it was not p p pa Perfect Rare ft Gun Tin ft t After ter the Russo Japanese w sv 0 powers all set about developing a Id fire field piece that t would b bill bin be bein in ill action and perfect In mech The Thc result was the French seventy Its recoil mechanism a a of or springs and oil in cylinders a a atho tho the barrel to slide In Its c radii brings it back to firing true aim automatically whir while and the locked wheel wheels the carriage rl rigid id Cutting Cutting- barbed wire blasting i rial objectives and mowing dow fantry the tho French seventy five s tho timo allied cause faithfully dark hours and to the tho glorious c em eri |