Show Uncle Sam Develops New Antiaircraft Gun All Ships and Coast Stations to Be Equipped European W War ar Found the 1 United States Unprepared Against Attacks From the Sky Nearly Ready Now to Meet Any Possible Emergency W WASHINGTON D. D C. C Nov Noy 18 Un Un Uncle ole cle Sam Sara Is nearly ready to deal with any possible air raids aids should the turn of the wheel of fate plunge this country into war Every in the navy Is either equipped with antiaircraft guns or is ready to to- have them installer installed declares Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D D. Roosevelt We are building as rapidly as possible possible ble the new type of antiaircraft gu gun which has been een developed by the navY and all many man of If f the larger alger vessels are nir ni- ni r rady ady fully equipped with this tills type Eventually not only all vessels of of oC the navy but every navy yard and shore station will be equipped with aircraft guns The navy was caught at the outbreak outbreak outbreak out out- break of the European war with no protection against air raiders The J aeroplane and dirigible had not been S iii S Ii 5 S Sa a S i I j s 's rio a OW S 'S L. t S 5 S v C S. S 2 S S Ss o 44 1 1 I. I y w x lv I S S. l Ic If 2 1 Uncle e Sam's Sams new antiaircraft gun wh ich discharges thirty rounds a minute can be aimed in any direction and requires a crew of five men regarded as instruments of offensive I 5 warf warfare re As an emergency measure said Secretary Roosevelt we equipped and I mounted a lot lotof of f small mall guns that had become obsolete so far as their use on I ships was concerned I In the meantime we set to work to develop a special type of gun for this work worl worland and the present gun now mounted on most of the is the result I Ve We are experimenting g with other types and large guns also with different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent types of shells The new six-inch six gun is built bunt to fire tire two types of ammunition a shell that carries a heavy bursting charge of ot high explosive for the purpose of smashing th the wings and body of an I aeroplane or the envelope of of- ofa a dirigible ble and another type that carries a heavy charge of shrapnel small shrapnel small round I bullets which bullets which has a time fuse and andi andis andis i is designed for use in the same manner man man- I j ner ncr that a hunter shoots a shotgun ch charge uge into a flock of birds I The g gun n will discharge boat about bo t thirty rounds a minute It requires a crew I of five tive men men a gun pointer a trainer and three loaders i iThe The e bureau of the army is Is' equipping all aU coast fortifications depots and military works with antiaircraft antiaircraft anti anU aircraft guns puns |