Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-25 | Page 2 | Cost $4,000 to Fire Gun

Cost $4,000 to Fire Gun. PARIS, March 24. The newspaper news-paper Lc Journal, in its article regarding re-garding the gun, says the piece, of 240 millimeters caliber, is of Austrian nanufacture. It is a very delicate piece of machinery which must be handled by expert mathematicians and gunners, the newspaper adds, as tho loading and pointing is a difficutl task. It declares each shot costs about $4,000. "This is a new conception of our enemiesj" the newspaper comments. com-ments. The ordnance experts were not ready last night to commit themselves them-selves as to whether the shell was a sort of aerial torpedo driven by propcllors; whether an inner projectile pro-jectile contained in tho original shell is released by an explosion after the shell has traveled a certain cer-tain distance from the gun, or whether the original projectile itself it-self reaches its destination propelled pro-pelled perhaps by an explosive of a force hitherto unknown. In yesterday's bombardment twenty-four shots in all were fired from 7 :20 a. m. to 3 o 'clock p. m., a shell dropping every twenty minutes with monotonous regularity. regular-ity. The bombardment presented all the characteristics of a bombardment bom-bardment by heavy artillery, there being regular intervals between the shots and the shells falling within a restricted area. Enemy aviators flying high over the city during the early hours of the bombardment bom-bardment regulated, the firing.