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Show Most Powerful ! Guns in World Used by Yanks t By Aaetatd Pra. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. Announcmnt f r m r Franc that Amancan 11-ineh naval guna. manned by ! naval gun crawa, hava cam int action with tha American army f at th frM, aliaclaa that 1 though tha affrt th rtf- flnc mf tp navy Gm.- I eral Parahing' frc r nw 1 quipetrf with th mat ful and hardest hitting weapon yat uaed in th areaent war. her r aflat, a far a known. Th It-inch rifle are aimilar te theae deaigned for ua aboard the newest American dread-naught. dread-naught. Thy are 60-cahber, more than aixty-aia; feet in length and weigh approximately 100 tona without their carriag. With 6 ufe)uattn th art in lengt range guna in u xopt th Gorman auparguna, which are regarded merely a f mechanical me-chanical freak. Tha projectile weigha cleea to a ten and ita bursting charge of the meat powerful1 explosive known is measured in hundred of pound against the few peunda in the German aupergun ehail. The destructive ffct ia anr mous. Plana fr using big riff for the army are understood to have been worked out entirely by naval efficer. Those ere not th only great naval guna employed by the American army. American naval gun ere we have played an important im-portant part on several sectors of the b'attlefront for month, handling han-dling wapon of 12-inch bore. |