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Show Big Guns Cause Shakeup Los Angeles Residents of the beach towns near here were jarred into a realization of the effectiveness of the dreadnoughts of the navy when (lie great war craft entered the stage of direct fire in the gunnery exercises off Catalina Island. Direct fire is a discharge dis-charge of the guns by a control officer in the director towers oT the dreadnoughts. dread-noughts. The test for accuracy re- quires ail guns of the dreadnoughts to be fired simultaneously from the director di-rector control. Falling window-panes, plaster and broken glassware and china in homes twenty miles away testified tes-tified that the big guns had some kick. |