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Show And Saw Shells Bursting Burst-ing and a Ship Being pipped to Pieces Washington, June 24. Possibly on the theory that they "would not be able to take advantage of the valuable valu-able technical information to be derived de-rived from witnessing an attack by one battleship upon the armor of another,, an-other,, the navy department recently embarked the Cincinnati commercial club on two torpedobo&ts and carried them to Tangier sound, in Chesapeake bay, where the Michigan, was blazing away with her big twelve-inch guns at what remains above water of tho San Marcos; erstwhile the Texas Tho opportunity was a rare one, for the navy department does not. as a rule, permit outs ders to wftness such experiments ex-periments and it Is particularly care ful to prevent any information regarding regard-ing the tests to reach1 the naval -attaches .of- thcETeat marltlmo powers. TheWtahlgnn",was trying out some problemsAhi'hlgh angle -faring atthe wreck, using reduccdchargeif at long ranges to determine the effect Of plunging shot upon the decks and superstructures sup-erstructures The results were highly high-ly saLsfactory from a technical point of view But all the visitors saw was an Impressive artillery play on a scale greater than they had ever known. Tho roar of the big guns the sailing of the shells high in air and the ripping rip-ping up nnd the smashing of decks and armor as the projectiles found their mark caused novel sensations among the sightseers and thoy expressed ex-pressed their gratitude In a telegram to the secrelarj of the navv as thoy departed for their home city. |