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show that human resistance du, to] tuts possible centigensies, which are as) (most dangerous). The same thing can! say, unlimited.
follow: If the hell falls directly on the bo'said about the 12mm. long gun and I told you beforno that it was impossi. man it is finished with him, beecum the Rimailho gun, which azo bring shells bla to see anything. This is an ab. | ho is smashed into piacea, which it is weighing respectively 25 and 40 kilo solute necessity of modern war. Evory not always possible to put together. Tigrammes, whilst the 30mm gun shell thing that shows is immediately own the ball drepe ut a few yards distance burilly waights" & "kilogrammes. Lieutenant's Graphic Story. down. It is only possible to progress only, you must keep fat a few seconds: only thing we regret, is not having enough;
slowly by using Indian stratagems, that Then you can get up again, being gea of these heavy guns, at leant with us.
Would you like to have an idea of the Lieut. Piard, of the, 3th Regiment of, by taking ivantage of every funerally unscathed, because the spinters ARTICULARS and Conditions of the PA
fetting by Public Auction Sals, to be Artillery, attached to the 3rd French venness of ground, erats, screen of and steues ar firing over you. In the intensity of the firing at certain mos As you know, I am the chief haid on MONDAY, the 28th day of Decemy Corps, writing under date Octobertrere, and so forth, wow to avoid being the instance, when the shell drops incut«?" ber, 1914, at 3 r.1, at the Offices of the IN, by Mr. George A. Mower, managing hide oneself from aeropiates. We are you have to use the same fint tactics, of the soup, Consequently my figures won by the enemy? besides, one most about twenty-five to thirty pands distant. 1 of ammonition supply for the twelvo guas Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of the right to reel the Sturtwirt Engineering Quarry Stour on the following Lots of Company (Limited), Queen Victoria. always trying to place our battery, under but there is a risk of light wounds or rate. In Vaubecourt, between 2 in the New Territories, and elsewhere in partielars of the splended French guns which we place over the guns and am CROWN LAND around Koulous Bay, treet, gives some highly interesting trees, and when they do not exist we contusions, because you are in the our fand 5 pun., we have been using 3,500
detch from very long distances branches of the returning «plinters. the Colony of Hongkong for a period ex-
We have had against us the army of tending from the 1st day of January up to and including the 31st day of Dec., dhe Kronprinz, very superior in numbers, inition so as to give them the ap-
pearance of hedges. 1915.
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projetiles. This is about the maximum consumption that, I could stato during Personally, I had at least a dozumenients the maximum consumptions
such a long period, bet dining a dow shells bursting a distanes, if less than till sperior, as a 76mm. gun can easily. The Germans are sending us shrapnele, five metres; I never got the slightest are twelve shots within twenty-fire sh 77mm. diameter, of which I will not scratch. The shell that was the most ode. Luckily we are only firing when speak, because we consider them with uncomfortable to me burst at a distance
and very well equipped as regards heavy artillery and aviation. This will explain" to you why, having met this army on the forth of Languyan, wo had to re-f trent down to Vavineourt, a little to the threatest contempt; these of a before I could lie down Imething worth it, and we are north of Ear-le-Duc. During this, amics. They are also presenting dead for the whole day, and totally tired aunt, coquently, to stop the tre
From time to time t treat, which was very well conducted us with some explosive shells 105m out. It on the following day I was, nguiz | (in.), 150mm. (6 in.), and 210mm.
Chiers, paninge of the Metso near Vuk artillerymen. The 210mm. shell weighs í 790 125i od this, id put teen horses)
at Varcubes,
at Clermonten-Argonne,
about 100 kilos, and is loaded with about
indicted on the eremy "enormous 44 2,000 ones. Our 75mm (3 in.) gun has been in diameter. This last size is the alright..
quite a marvel, and has worked wonder. In terrible, and they have been nick. The effects of the hoasy shells are fully, chiefly on the passage of the River named flower pots" by the four solful when they are dropping on a train diers and pomidge pots by the. Ono killed four mice.
out of service. 4.85 1,470 and also at Vaubecourt, where pro 15 kg of breaking powder, similar to rom. are much superior to the German *! Dar projectiles, speaking only of the our explosive shells dropped on a housu quito close to the one where the Kronur melinito, but not nearly so good. It
is probably chradit. The 10uma. shell on We are shooting with a bullak prinz was talding his luncheon. Our lowest position to the south was at contains about 800 grammes of the same shaped hell with a distance-limit rocket, al an exploding shell with melinite. The first in fost efficient against the at the open country. We have been mosing, full verticos, which "were
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As a rule the German cysen are Séy
they must perish.
higher than ours, sad therefore
THE CHILIAN COAST BATTLE.
A German Yersion. ·
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 14.
A Berlin oficial telegram states that i wireless report from the chief cruiser quadra regaling the naval battic off Corcal has been received from orth
tributed, by holding considerable every curved fruiters, so that fly by success shes. As America A of the Kronprinz. When we put up strike the ground with an angle saying the pround under a very sharp angle, the cruisers Scharnhorst, Greisenau, ale the shell with melinite, it reaches On Nov. 1 off Coronel," it says, 1314 buttery in this last position we nesved
from the general the order to its to 70 deg. to se deg. They poses
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that it rebounds and bursts and mows Laiptin, and Invaden mot the Iitish
the last extremity and you know what into the ground, where they ask down everything in the vicinity. The cruises Good Hope Monmouth, and this means in military language Iconical hole, the dimensions of which fact, we did resist very well, withoud vary according to the hardness of the
prisoners all say that our litus
too much loss, and on September 13 the ground. The result of this is that the bar xon, Tomas, is seh- gefahrlich retreat of the Germans on the Marnierentest part of the expansive force Li nced for lifting the earth into the shape involved the retreat of the Kronprinz's army, so that we could again take the a conical mound, pinces of which are offensive and march forward dropped without great fores at a distantz You ask me to report about interesting paint. Another lucky thing for un is of 25 to 30 metres from, the bursting
"pleons, I should very much like to do
that these projectiles, whilst they are , but you don't seen to rendise what modern war is. It has been said by flying in the air, make a very typical painter that a modern battlefield a simrenhing noise, No you can guns per- fectly well beforehand whether, the shail
ply an ordinary landscape where nothing will or will not drop in your vicinity. special is to be soen but cluals of If you think that it will fall it & certain moks. It is quite true. but still toistance from you, you don't cars atout vague. First, there is properly spook-
If you think that it will all near you,
ing, no battlefield, because we are fight. ing from the Northern Seat Mulhouse liepides, it is not one battle, but series you have to lie, fiot and to await the
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