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Show oo GUNS TO BE MADE TO SHELL ENGLAND Professor Fritz Rausenberger in an interview printed in the Berliner Tage-hlatt Tage-hlatt in February'. 1816, declared that artillery so large and powerful that it would be possible to hoinbard England from the continent would be the certain cer-tain product of the near future. The cannon of the future, he believed, be-lieved, would he able to penetrate the strongest fortified shelters and nullify nulli-fy "England's shimmering ocean armament," arma-ment," the old proud wall which for centuries has protected it Irom the continent." AMSTERDAM April S Emperor William on Marrh 23 Inspected the gun with which the Germans are bombarding bombard-ing Paris, says Karl Rosner, war correspondent cor-respondent of the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin. It looks more like an' enormous enor-mous gray crane than a real gun, according ac-cording to the corro pendent, and can throw a shell for a distance of 130 kilometers (80. G miles). Firing a shorter distance than that on March 23. he adds, it required exactly 183 seconds for a shell to reach Paris. oo |