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Show fl Rather Impractical A SEARCHLIGHT with a range of from eleven hundred to sixteen hundred yards, has been H perfected for army use. It can be divided H into four parts for packing on rour m,ules, and H quickly put together when required, and alto- H gether weighs only six hundred pounds. It is H thought that it will be of great service to either H' an attacking force or an army waiting attack. H It may be, but we doubt its efficiency, for the H reason that at sixteen hundred yards an expert H gunner would fill it full of holes at that distance H in three minutes. H It might be good in night marches, it might H for an instant expose an attacking force, but it H reminds us of -what a woman did one night in H the old days, when a cry arose that an attacking H force of Indians was near. She sprang out of H bed, lighted a lamp and in her n'ght dress seized Hj the lamp and ran outside the house. Had there H been an Indian near, he could have shot her by H ' her own light. |
