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Show 1 Balloon Shooting. Sex oral Interesting experiments j have been carried out by the Austrian Aus-trian army to ascertain the possibility of disabling a balloon when Moating In tlio air by either rifle or gun tire. A balloon was anchoicd nt the helcht I of r.jout 7 000 feet, and the gunneis i kept in Ignorance of the range, were j then commanded to disable the balloon bal-loon The difficulty of hitting the balloon bal-loon when In mld-nli can he icalired from the fact that the e inner h tli'Ptl twent.x-two shots hofoie hu approximate approxi-mate lange was found, and that It . as not till the slxty-tourth round that I he balloon was hit, then only slight' |