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Show Colored Naval Shells Specially prepared dyes in containers contain-ers fitted to the nose of shells fired from naval guns and scattered by means of a small detonating fuse have been adopted by ordinance experts ex-perts to color the water the missiles throw up and thus enable the marksmen marks-men on differed! diips to determine which shots register. The coloring ts distinguishable a( from 14 to 20 miles, and dyes the entire mass of water. Different colors ure given to the participating par-ticipating ships. fopular Mechanics Magazine. |