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Show Novel Twin Cannon. Military experts speak in high praise of the twin cannon which has just been constructed in Germany. The two pieces can be fired from a single carriage, and thus they occupy far less space than two separate pieces: would occupy. Moreover, they can be fired with extreme rapidity, and either singly or at the same time, ' as may be desired. Lieut.-Colonel Delaiiney, a French authority on modern, guns, thinks very highly of the new weapon. "It combines," he says, "great effi-' clency as regards firing with notable economy as regards weight, and though the present model is not of very large caliber, it is to be presumed pre-sumed that the fame principle will very soon be applied to the largest guns." i I |