Deseret Evening News | 1899-12-07 | Page 4 | A Deadly Weapon

I I I A mAI A contributor to the Chicago o explains the nature of time the howitzer n a weapon in the South AfrIcan war 1 with The howitzer I In Is n ft short gln gun that On can 0 be Cleate elevated to any desired degree I It a elicIt over the object fr fired on and havo havoc on the rear ar Bile sile The gunner ne need not even I sea the object he Is liming at le lie gets his hll In a pi pit and make hi his preparations Ir lie fre lire I a shot hot and no notices tices where rhe I It tal falla II lie the then makes n a afew few ol arid and lelles decides whre to drop another shell Wih With their 1 lees powder the they gIve ho the enemy no clew to their lolon location The carried b by the siege end and hl n a range ot of 8 yards yards They frs fire el weighing 18 pounds having a bursting ot of 0 pounds or of When the tho shell fall fails to the ground and explodes I it Is thought no human being on eon escape unharmed a radius otO of yards lre are sold hJ to hae bae been stunned within haIr 1 mie mile from the tho vince place whore here the shell hll burl burst A siege liege battery carries tour four of these dealing machInes besIdes two or thit guns I If the object ot of war I is to destroy as 01 On many ns as POSsible or of the enem enemy the tho obI oh Jet Jeet should be gained by these weapons The It is obtained by the fusion of lcd anti and the h havoc 0 I 11 works i UI due to Ute the terrific concussion of the theair air It Is Ii RB the most deadly Jt bt ie destruction yet et used In Wi I far It I Is One of the tho to fore forerunners runners or of the tho end ond ot of wr war to too For when hn ar becomes f so destructive that no act human being cn can exist within hilt hilta R a mi mile ot of I fin exploding shell It Is I dial cult to le see hoW how here cn can b be anybody Ift loft to Or fire the he Civilized war nir fare Care does 0 ol use exploding bulet bullets but shells or are not a as yet nt pro m