Show A GREAT GUN KRAGJORGEASEX VCAFOJf IX THE SHADE Latest Invention of Mercer the Cole hratcd German Maker of Firearms I Eclipses Everything Baltimore JId April Captain Mors lager of the steamship La Camplne now in port visited Fort McHenry today ana exhibited to the soldiers a new Gecmaia rifle with which he did remarkable shoot rIfe The rifle is one of the first made by the German government from brand new inventions of Mercer the great German firearm inventor In appearance i Is something like the KragJorgensen mili tary rifle now being adopted by ethc United States army but for shooting I eclipsed anything yet made I Is of 3 calibre and the barrel is i made of three tubes one Inside the other on the sam < plan as the Krupp gun The inner tube Is rifled and of hard tempered steel Th powder used Is smokeless Fired along at tho height of the efcoulder the bullet will go nearly two miles before its force Is spent and at 2000 yards i would pierce the bodies of seven men placing one behind be-hind the other The powder Is nitroglycerine nitrogly-cerine explosive which makes little report re-port and no smoke |