Show THROUGH STEEL FOOT THICK geat gat power of the th fifteen I inch n ch guns now in use in the european war I 1 we hear bear much and have read more about the power of 0 big guns and havoc they create yet very few people really understand the immense power behind bellan one ot of these modern engines of destruction st writes rites a war correspondent what for instance do iou understand by the lie power of a 15 inch gun driven seven miles away froni from the wall 12 inches thic kand made bande of the hardest steel then tako take an automobile and drive seven miles away from the wall nall arrived at that point you mill find a big gun aimed at the wall you have left seven miles behind and which you cannot see go over to the gun and pull the lany lanyard aril the steel that yon release by pulling this lanyard val v 11 ll travel through the air the lie entire distance you have come colne by automobile and v will ill go right through the 12 inch steel wall the most powerful land gun ever made are the german howitzers howit or inch guns the most formidable steel and concrete forts aru are cracked open by these huge guns as though they were milide made of paper naval guns cannot be developed to the same saine size as land guns because it Is more difficult to handle one of these aboard a ship for that hat reason the greatest effective range hinge with a mival gun gnu Is from froin eight to ten miles the largest naval gun Is the 15 inch gun on oil the famous british queen nil ill zabeth while the german 42 4 er howitzer which reduced antwerp and other fortresses believed impregnable is the mort inot powerful gun the great guns aboul the queen ellzabeth elizabeth fire projectile weigh a n ton the united states stales however now has guns defending the flit panama canal find and new york which hurl through the air a mass of metal weighing almost pounds more than the british su sn guns gnus |