Show Very Rapid Firing ANNAPOLIS May 11 Tho trial of the BriggsSchroeder rapid fire Gpound gun took place today at the naval ordnance roving > grounds near here uder Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Commander Dayton i Lieutenant Briggs the inventor and the naval at tachee of the German and Japanese legation l lega-tion at Washington The gun fires the same ammunition as the Hotchkiss 0pounder and the inventor V claims several points of superiority over that gun The test today was for rapidity of firing nonheating qualities security against nonheatng qualtes securIt premature pre-mature explosions and smoothness of machinery The gun was fired nineteen times in one minute and six f times in four minutes and twenty seconds everything working satisfactorily |