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Show NAVY'S NEW POWDER. Is Regarded as Superior to Any Uned by Foreign Powers. Washing-ton, March 20. The navy department is ready to take the neces. sary steps in carrying out the provision of the naval bill for the purchase of smokeless powder during the coming ysar. The navy has now a powder known to the profession as pyrocellu-lose, pyrocellu-lose, which is equal to, if not better than any smokeless powder used by foreign powers. Contrary to reports the new powder, which has been tested test-ed by the navy under service conditions, con-ditions, is not only not injurious to the g-uns now in use, but has been so nicely adjusted to their requirement that it has increased their efficiency on an average of 500 second feet. |