| Show implements OF WAR THE latest report of the fire arm experiments peri ments tit itt sandy hook describes a gun which with a charge of pounds of powder will throw a 2000 pound projectile twelve miles this is a formidable weapon but it is not the greatest although what need any nation could have of an instrument of destruction more terrible it to is hard bard to imagine we feel safe in saying that no vessel will ever be bd madel made to withstand a shot from such a gun but these long distance guns as agents of destruction do not compare with other destroyers that are being invented for the arts of war for instance a new explosive has just been made in austria which as a propelling agent Is almost twice as powerful as dynamite it to Is moreover serviceable foncannon for cannon bannon as well as cartridges a quality not possessed by dynamite according to reports of experiments already made by means of this explosive one bombshell can be made to practically demolish a line of men with such an agency in force the boston journal suggests that the red bed cross society will haye have to greatly improve its hospital accommodations in order that its branch of the war trade may be up with the other departments i the english have I 1 invented a gun said to be superior in all respects to any other in use the explosive used in it to is said to be perfectly smokeless end and the discharge attended with no report or recoil which makes ordinary explosives so difficult of management in long distance guns it was long ago asserted by men of wisdom in the arts of war that the engines of human destruction were becoming so terrible that civilized nations would not again dare to declare war lest eat both the belligerents should become utterly prostrated by the awful havoc that would follow for all this the nations are pushing ahead with their war preparations and inventions vent ions the nations of europe were never before as active as now in this respect there has been a vast amount of war predictions which have been generally received by intelligent people as the mere hocus of sensationalism but the war preparations have becq real enough nobody has had any doubt about that at least two of the great powers have halve gone adne bankrupt in the business and are still engaging the greater part of their energies in the same line |
