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Show LESSONS LEARNED BY RECENT TARGET PRACTICE Washington, Sept 27 -As a result of lessons learned from recent target practice at long ranges and the firing fir-ing at tho old San Marcos, by the battleship bat-tleship Delaware, It Is said that tho navy department is considering changes chang-es of the utmost imporLince and probably prob-ably will put them Into offocl In tho construction of the next two Dreadnoughts. Dread-noughts. The changes on the now sea fighters may provide for an im-proved im-proved system of fire control and one military skeleton mast Instead of two. Ordnance experts have long contended con-tended that these skeleton masts, 120 feet high and 30 to 40 feet diameter at the base, offer too large a targcL Should thoy be shot away during a battle, It is said the tangled wreckage wreck-age would be so strewn about the vessel that the turrets and other necessary apparatus might be badly handicapped or put out of commission. Consequently they are in favor of tne ono mast Tho new plans, also contemplate two heavily-armored fire-control stations, sta-tions, placed low down fore and aft, and fashionod after the Into models scon In the British navy Theso would bo rosortod to after tho skeleton skel-eton mast had been disabled. |