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Show SHELLS MIXED IN ACTUAL FIGHT PARIS, June 30. (Correspondence o the Associated Press.) That tho bursting-charge of shells from the German Ger-man long range guns is mixed while the projectiles are in actual flight is the belief of French Scientists, according accord-ing to a technical journal published here. When the, shelling of Paris began it was noticed that the explosion of a shell produced a cloud of black smoke mixed with a little that was white and accompanied by a strong smell of ether. eth-er. Recently the smoke has been entirely en-tirely while and very light, tho other odor persisting. No shell that failed to explode has been found, nor oven an entiro fuse, Indicating how delicate and reliable tho &cplosivo is. This fact leads experts ex-perts to suppose that the shell is charged with two liquid explosives, separated by the perforated partition which is known to exist in tho center of the projectile. When the shell is fired at a high angle an-gle the liquid in the upper end combines com-bines with that in the lower chamber, and churned by tho violent rotation, produces at tho moment of impact, three minutes later, a perfect mixture. This would explain, it is said, the ability abil-ity of the charge to resist the enromsu shock when fired and the remarkable uniformity of the explosions. |