Show Great Bursting Power of German Shells Special to TUE HERALD Examiner Cable LONDON Dec 29A Munich correspondent correspond-ent telegraphs he learns from an officer of high rank that the new German artillery is possessed of an element of appalling ef < h L lecuveness in iue now uursuuy powuor In the war with France the best record made by shells then in use was to cover with splinters an area of forty or fifty paces There were seldom more than seven or eight persons wounded by the bursting of one shell Experiments with the new shell have proved that it will destroy everything ev-erything within a large area where it falls Its splinters will cover a circle of nearly 900 feet Some of the fragments will be large enough to kill a man others almost invisible and calculated to merely excoriate excori-ate the skin Tn an experiment an enormous target was riddled with thousands of hrles by the bursting of a single shell Four shells were sufficient to sink an ironclad used as a target at Keil The informant expresses the belief that one battery if the range were accurate could annihilate a whole division |