Show ARMIES OF F THE WORLD An important Work Just Issued From the Military Information Information Information tion Division Washington Oct 15 Stored with wih complete and interesting Information concerning every crery branch of ot every ever army In the world and replete with wih fine il ii illustrations and maps mp Notes of Mill Mili Military MIl tary tar Interest for 1901 made public today toay by Lieutenant Colonel William WilliamM M Simpson chief of or the military In Information information formation division is one on of ot the best bet volumes othe o the kind ever Issued In the world The matter mate was compiled comple and arranged arrange by Captain Captin W E E Edwards infantry Captain J S SHeron SHeron SHeron Heron Second cavalry First Firt Lieuten Lieutenant ant H B Ferguson engineers and Second Lieutenant Clark of o time the Ninth infantry with the assistance of ot our military attaches at the tIme various foreign capitals The first pages of pt the volume volume are ar devoted to the military budgets of ot the various countries for 1902 with wih in interesting comments and comparisons The organization of a military Is then taken up and the changes in the makeup of the Brit British Bri BritIsh ish Russian Swedish Servian Bra Brazilian Bra and Argentine armies are ar dealt deal with wih at length Of or especial interest In view of or the efforts of ot the United States army ary to settle sette upon a type of offield o offield field feld gun is the th chapter upon field feld artillery artiery It I is pointed out that there ther are only two general types of ot mod modern modern modera ern era field feld guns namely guns on rigid carriages and guns with wih recoil de do devices devIces vices on the carriages and it i Is stated state that neither of o there types has his yet obtained unanimous preference The greatest possible rapidity of or fire fre freIs is not obtained with wih the guns on rigid carriages but they possess marked ad advantages advantages advantages vantages In simplicity strength and lightness of or material and their faults fauls are stated to be the failure of the tho carriage to maintain the exact first ec frt firing frIng position and ad the uncertain ac nc action Lion tion ton of o the spade In hard ground un With the recoil carriage guns gns with wih mech mechanism which returns the gun to the th original firing frIng position great rapidity of it fire is obtained but the weapon has hasIs Is its disadvantages in the way of ot com corn complexity of or mechanism Increased weight and md liability to fatal injury in action acton |