Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-19 | Page 10 | Artillery Train Will Fire on Moving Targets

ARTILLERY TRAIN WILL FIRE ON MOVING TARGETS . ROCKPORT. Mass, Sept. 1 7 The j bombardment of moving targets at se.t from an artillery train on th.- Rock-port Rock-port branch Of the Boston and Maine railroad furnished th- summer colony! of the Massachusetts North Shore With. la no'.el spectacle and plent-- of noise during the first clays of this month Military experts were especially interested in-terested in the demonstration as II wai designed to sho.v the feasibility of re-, re-, pclllng an attack of war vessels o means of railroad artillery. At a ells-tunce ells-tunce of thirteen miles from shore, t ir. gets towed by a tug wrro a mark for the heavy guns of the Forty-second (United States 'ea.st Artillery The line towing the target was a mile or mon In length and the batterie.v . onslsted "I eifrni-incn guns. rour t0 a battery mounted on specially construct, i railroad rail-road cars. The guns which welgn eighty-seven tons each carried projectiles project-iles weighing con pounds, j The entire artillery trains consisted of thirty-tour cars. It was moved from Camp Devens in two sections and Included In-cluded cars for tools and ammunitions, a machine shop, a hospital, fire con-jtrol, con-jtrol, a kitchen, an office, mess, wire-Iless wire-Iless and cars for the personnel. I The forty-second regiment, which Is ipart of the Thirtieth artillery brigade (railroad i has had a long and honor-able honor-able record, dating back to revolutlon-ar revolutlon-ar times and the Kiorhla and Mexican wn rs oo TEACH CORRECT ACCENT, BERKELEY, Cal., Sept 17. Courses In enunciation to aid newcomers newcom-ers Irom foreign hinds in ridding themselves of peculiarities of accent In spe-aklng English ure being offered by the extension division of the University Uni-versity of California this year.