| Show 1 BY rm SCORE The special correspondent of the Lon London London don TImes who has attended the maneuvers nn an opportunity ot of seeing liMing the th em new ibm gun at work lie He sa says I gun besides lie limber has imas an wagon When hen In column ot of route the wagon ond nd time the gun move moe abreast abra t It If If that Is not nol time wagon waon the guti Time The for tor cm a wagon Is n a team ot of four or a 1 gun a team itom of six Each battery batter is accompanied by a reserve ammunition column of three wagons When the battery batur conies comes Into action the gun and wagon Agon unlimber of each other and the limbers or of both gel gal lop clear to cover JC It time the gun unUm benj fiction action front the wagon action rear and 1 versa No or G 0 6 0 and 7 immediately tilt the wagon UP tip the pole so that It doubles down to the round ground and the top shutt era which tall back Il a center t fastenIng end make n a shield behind which the three gunners kneel The fixed ammunItIon its h In xi n rack beCo before each wagon ngon holding eighty rounds An 9 time th lIn anti wagon nr art now wheel wheel abr abreast o S 6 hu has to hand eaCh enCh round to No 2 who vim Is kneeling b by the trail lepard to o load nl no n an to the gun Itself As far farin in 11 J I could judge whIle hll standing in III the 1 lottery alter the pneumatic buffer which abcs the iii recoil is part or of the gun Iun Car 1 hen rhen fired with blank time only I is I III time back ot of time tile fun Itself on a eliding underneath the The whole or of tit the breech end of Ih the gun steams seated In thir hea heavy socket A brake which It II lowered ott on coming Into action takes part of the recoil all as well as a sped to the end or of the trail tran time the gun Is III laid the trail is 19 rained to an n angle ot degrees anti brou brought ht sharply to the ground Thill might he be to In Insure ure the I settling of time the but from room the sound It makes anti time the tart fart that after the gun Iun team hu hee I been standing fast tul for some lome time the is III repented before coma Ing Into Inlo I tim nm inclined to thet It Is II n a mechanical b by some pneumatic buffer is Ie loaded This much I in certain thAt on once Ih time trail ball ima Men linen raised the brake adjusted and the spade the gun carriage never moves again though twenty rounds are fired In rapid succession The gun un on only run hack In this the mechanism Is far In of th time spade action nellon of the In which both gun un and run hack back on time the spada for lor several Inches The breech action or of the French gun un ut III a of 01 sImplicity The breech opens with II a single action time whole of at the 1 lock block revolving from left lert to right I The reverse action loads load time piece the lC cit opening extracts the Ihl case and ani throws throw It clear No o II 8 open pell and cleos the breech in III two to motIons while No 2 loads No 0 I 1 attends to tl the lay laying III of oC the t laid any alteration In rail range la Is made II by turning n a hanl Cre to which Is 18 fitted an indicator anti dial It would be possible to Ore fire R a minute with he utmost en core nut Hut hItherto th maneuvers no fire huts hAM been attempted The IlIn un is I with n a light bulletproof liB pa that when hen in III fictIon the our men amman the guns gUM nr under cover an Wan wall before time the Non NOA 1 j C and kneel behind their ammunition anti are also completely |
