Show GANNON CANION FIRE DOES GOES NOT OT PRODUCE RAIN Correspondence Press Pres I ONDON Dec 27 1 English scientists have c again lIn been compelled to assure e the nubile that neither the smell of powder nor the concussion o of ot gun sun fire tire has the slightest connection with l th rainfall From e cral It had been u asserted that i h ho hh heavy and persistent rains rc recently experienced ed In southern England an and n Jl France we were attributed to al- al ric di disturbances produced by artillery ar nr- tI tillery 11 en fire at ct the scat sent of warLike war Like the tho supposed Influence of oC the oon r upon weather ther the popular r belief that powder brings rain Is fadeless writes a scientist In tho the Times Abor Abar fours Cour years ago the first lord of ot tho the ad admiralty was srn gravely I asked lu Ju of ot Commons whether he would the tho fleet Cleet to carr carry out Its hea heavy gun sun prat pr rz c tire at some other period of ot the yea ea eathan than In tho the middle of ot harvest banest time lime the resultant hea heavy mina ma may cause causa R s It rious loss to tho the farming community The Tho idea Idel Is Jg absolutely without founds I tion Experiments made In America an au anon on the thc continent show how that in tn dr dry wea ther no amount of oC concussion has han th slightest effect In the pro production of or rah rala At Al At the present time there Is la one fac fae which should at once dispose of or tho fished theory There Is no reason fo to thinking that gun tun firing at nt the front I Imore Imore Imore more violent than it was In the thc carlic Stag stages 8 of or the war Tho rain therefore should hn have commenced shortly shortt after th outbreak of ot tho the war As a matter o u fact Cac nothing of ot the kind took place 1 I August 4 and September the rainfall wa wn much below belo the avern average e At At where big gun guar ar an being tested almost dally daily year In and ami yea j out the tho average n annual rainfall I 1 smaller than In any other I part of or th United d Kingdom dom |