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Show on AEROPLANES CAN BE DESTROYED Provincetown, Mass. July 27 The modern battleship is not likely to nave much trouble In disposing of such enemies ene-mies as come by aeroplane, if the aerial aer-ial marksmanship of tho gunners aboard the battleship New Hampshire is anv indication. The tests were made more difficult by being held at night Huge box-kites pulled through the air by a fast torpedo-boat were the targets. Under the eye of the warships search lights, the flying marks supposed sup-posed to be hostile biplanes, were riddled rid-dled wijh bullets from the rifles of sharpshooters and an automatic olt field-gun of eight calibre, which pumped pump-ed 400 steel pellets a minute. The kites were easily hit at 300 and 500 yards. nn |