| Show LISa There Thero have been marked improve improvement ment In field and naval guns In the past five years and there have hae a also so been marked advances made in The shrapnel which the English and Boers are u using in South AfrIca Is re regarded as 14 ahead abend ot of any shrapnel whIch has been used In recent warfare Only Q a tow few years ago o 2000 yards Ards was deemed the maxImum range at which shrapnel was effective In South Africa and at the British shrapnel has haft been used effectively at ranges ot of yards The Tho shrapnel shell Is an projectile filled with a number ot of small balls The majority A GENERAL MILES AND THE NEW RAPID FIRE MACHINE GUNY GUN I Y i I x e I I ii iiI I e ew w y l 4 x R RI I I I f fn fy n J y 1 1 S SM Sp M p z y 3 x r II This now gun Is portable and can be carried with ease b by two men It Is not operated with lIh II a crank but by a trigger With this n new w death dealing machine whole hole regiments can be mowed down because its Ita lightness and port portability ability enables any number ot of the guns to bo be taken Into action General Illes thinks that the tho invention ot of thIs gun brIngs us one step nearer the for tor It adds to the Impossibility ot of making war successfully ONE OF GENERAL BULLERS HOWITZERS c k 4 b fi 10 j i 7 F t LI LIe e ot of guns or of use shrapnel containInG about ISO small ball balls In the tho cantor ot of the shell Is I n charge chargo ot of black powder and In the head ot of the shell holl Is a 11 limo fUse This time lime fU fuse re resembles In its lis workIng the tho combination mechanism ot of I a lock There Is a graduated arc cut to seconds und and fractions of seconds Now knowIng the distance away ot of the enemy Md and the tho time lime required for tor the shell to travel that distance the tho fuse fus IS cut I 1 e a puncture Is Isi i made do through the walls ot of the fuse tuse at atthe atthe the desired number ot of seconds Time discharge or of the gun Un ignites through the mC medium or of a percussIon arrange arrangement ment the fulminate and at the ration ot of th the elapsed limb the th flame duh dashes Into the powder chamber chambor and the discharge follows The effect ot of the burst Is to 10 release the Iho small entail balls with within In As the tho shell hell had n a downward trend It being near the end ot of Its night at tile the time ot of the burst the Ithe small balls nto ato carried onward and downwarD At Atthe Atthe the same time there thore Is II n a slightly suit effect In general the trend or of orthe the shrapnel balls following n a burst Is that ot of a cone inverted The artillerist endeavors ors to burst hIs shrapnel In the air At II a point about 30 20 yards short ot of th the position The effect Is very er much akin to that ot of ISO sharpshooters suddenly opening lire lira on one head not over ao 30 yards away In experiments made with the shrapnel for tor the tho United Slates SIales of 92 32 Inch caliber It Vas found that at Q a range or of 1000 yards time ot of diaper sion Blon is Ie about sixteen degrees which wilt will cover Q a cIrcle about twentythree feet teel In II diameter 0 at t a distance ot of t wen yards ards The Tho number ot of balls and fragments ot of the shrapnel con tamed within Its cone ot of dispersion Is about for tor the and for tor the pound shrapnel The shells us used d In the tho United States field guns are heavier as a 11 rule Ihan employed I In Europe The Tho AmerIcan shell contains small balls and the shell balls At Lord force torce opened on the Iho dervishes with nt at In excess or of l I yards The effect of the shrapnel bursts along the lines It Is reported to mow down tyro to thIrty men at each lach discharge The shell proper nil as employed In field guns Is ue d nowadays almost wholly in operations against buildings or against protected positions Against bodies of troops or forces ot of time the enem enemy lying behInd shrapnel Is brought Into play So Im V v M MI I is I shrapnel considered toda today that the supply for lor man many field batteries In Europe Euroll consist ot of per Iler p cent shrapnel and per percent percent cent shell and canIster The high velo velocities cities cilles obtainable by reason of the In or of powder and ond the fitting ot of recoil mechanism ha have 0 yield yielded I ed greater ranges for tor shrapnel While I Sro yards is IK recorded for tor field guns when using a I range longo ot of yards antt anttIs I Is deemed maximum for shrapnel from the general type ot of field gun Un The p net balls depend on that velocity ot of the shell proper remaInInG just before the burst buret tor their own and nd remaIning velocity must be great to afford Power to indict danger dangerous ous wounds upon horses The fhe least en enem erg em essential 8 is III pieced ed lit at 8 tool foot For time the overage oMage run ot of small balls employed say ny 42 to the pound an energy of 25 la Is from a remaining velocity ot of about SR feel fett per second This corresponds t t a muzzle velocity ot of foot and 11 affords an shrapnel effect at 1500 yards The French however In theIr ends endla vor or to Increase lowers base bae added to theIr artillery Q a number ot of howl of 10 millimeter dr dOo I signed almost exclusively for tor shrapnel r I work These Thue run tuns are employed wIth the field No Now that the French field artillery Is to IJo be reo re reduced to tour four gums per battery II is II surmised that the howitzers will bt be em employed In independent The have hae recently enU to fo I South Houth Africa three lull full howitzer b bat batteries t teries the only organization lit ef the kind in the British These howitzers are counted upon to do work Godfrey L I Carden In Col Weekly W |
