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Show Trlnlurilin .llllll. ToilT IloVAI, H. C, Jim, 31. (initial trials of the pneumatic guns of thudyiiamlto cruiser Vesuvius began this morning. Ill nil twelve shots were tired, sis at a range of !!UOJ and six at 1SIKJ j dr. With tbu t xc epllou of tbu first two shots bred from the starboard gun, no thot foil more than twenty yardt distant from the required rmge, and every thnt II rod would have struck n man ol war at tho distance designated by thu board, 'lluru was nodllllnilly lu working tho air gum nor the supply of air to thu reservoirs nor controlling the shell by wind vanei. |