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RIFLE FIRE,
CAUSES WHICH MILETATE AGAINST ACCURACY.
There is an old and much-quoted proverb The Prize Court at Alexandria, after which runs, "Every bullot has its billet" several days hearing, delivered its first Bo far as the rifle is concerned this is a mis- judgment on January 8th.
These leading proverb, for it is estimated that not toncerned the German steamer, Cutéri ela one per cent of the rounds of small arras and the judgment is important, as it ammunition fired in warfare ever hit the substantially applies to many my mack for which they are intended. vassela hald as prizes at Alexandria and I has been frequently remarked that the captured in similar circumstances great majority of bullet wounds canger in | The Gutenfels, which was bastward the present war are due to shrapuol bullets bound, arrived at Port Said from Comparatively rarely do we hear of a soldier Antwerp, and the master alleged that he being incapacitated by rifle bullet wo
wounds.. was unaware of the outbreak of war The reasons for this are not far to seek. It until his arrival there. The agout the case of the shrapnel shells, which are him he could not prooved. As used with field guns firing may be conducted antoro Army Offloor boarded the vessel, at a range of anything up to, say, 5,000 or Egyptian followed by the captain of the port and as hail of bullets to spread ever a large yards, nud well-placed round will
British Army officer, accompanied by cause a native soldiers, and the master was in area, the bullets being so concentrated as to formed that the Egyptian Government be certain of registering many hits With hed taba charge of the vessel. The the rifle the utmost range that can be Gutenfels was ordered to get up steam, obtained is about 3,500 yards, at which the and, a new captain and grow being een probability of an individual round hitting on board, was taken out of the harbour. Its mark is decidedly small. About four miles outside she met the Warrior, which seized her as a prize and took her to Aloxandria?!
MANY DIFFICULTIES.
It is interesting to consider some of the The owners contended that the circum reasons which tend to inaccuracy of fire with stancos of the expulsion from Fort Said the rifle. To begin with, at a range of 500 yards it is considered good slidoting and the capture by the Warrior word if a ballet strikes within circle of
equivalent to a constructive capture at Port Said, which was a breach of the about lift. dinmeter. This is the exiterion of good target practice, given the best of Spes Capal Convention. Alternatively conditions. Under war conditions it is easy to understand that a target of even this small dimension is not often visible. The very
was argued that, as the Gutenjels arrived at Port Said without any know ledge of the outbreak of hostilities, she Vas lieble only to detention till the cessation of the war, and not to cou- fiscation
enemy seeks cover at all times, and rarely affords a really good target.
Before firing can be commenced it is neces
is onsy to understand that unless a range accurately known, firing is not of much avail. Sir George Farbes, who was called in as an expert by Lord Kitchenor during the South African War, has said that errors in distance judging on the South African veldt wore very frequent. This wast
which made distant objects. atmosphere. dae to the extreme clearness of the African appear quite distinet, and, to the unac customed British eye, therefore near Ballots frequently fell short of the target. Although. this is an extreme instance of the difficulties of distance judging, yet it affords some idea of the extent to which errors may accrue in this direction alone.
The explosive bullets which the Au prions have been accused of using are nothing more than range estimators." They are not, as has been frequently asserted, intended for They contain a small killing purposes.
The Crown disputed the claimantssary to estimate the range of the enemy. right, being alien enemies, to be heard and contended that the Gatenfele should be condemned because she was captured on the high seas, and alternatively because she was detained by the Egyptian Govern ment, which was friendly to the British Dovernment,
and because being fitted with wireless, she must have been swaar of the outbreak of hostilities before her arrival at Port Said, Judge Cator decided that throughout the present proceedings he would allow an enemy to raise any defence founded ca The Hague Conventiona, as had bot done by the English Prize Court, and would extend indulgenes to any enemy who bases his claim upon the terms of any Conventions relating to the Suer Canal or upon the special relations in which Egypt stands to Great Britain. He held that the Gulenfels hud in fact taken Grefuge at Port Said and thus was not protected from capture there by the Suez B
Canal Convention, which was framed to secure free transit and did not girem munity in such cases. He found that the ship was a prize properly seized, and ordered her to be detained pending fun thor hearing, as he was not satisfied whether she had knowledge of hostilities before her arrival. Consequently further Even when the range has been accurately evidence would be required before he determined there are numerous other eriors could decide what final order he should affecting good shooting. To these may be Wind make Similarly, the relationship in given a more or less, cursory glance, which the Egyptian Government stood to is a source of frequent error, and is consider the British Government when the steamer ed as the principal cause of trouble in the was expelled required, more evidence case of individual firing. Without on anemo-
Judge Grain concurred, and a similar order has now been made In the case of three other onemy shingamann.
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charge of explosivo which, on detonating, causes a volume of smoke to rise, and thus indicate the position of fall of the bullet.. The elevation of the rifle oan then be cor- recled by the infantrymon to obtain the desired range. Range-finding is often as risted by the use of the Maxim gun This gun can send a stream of bullets, the drop- ping of which may be better observed, than the individual rounds fired from u rife.
meter (wind gouging instrument, whioll is. certainly not the kind of thing that con be carrier on the battlefield, it is extremely difficult to estimate the strength of wind. Only practical experience can be of any use
in allowing for it. Wind effect is urged practically by observing the movements of trees, grass, etc.. also by watching the rate of movement of the radiation of heat from the earth. Again, the angle at which From the beginning mining has bon a wind is blowing across the line of fire has to continuous battle between man and the be noticed. To counteract wind effect the forces and physical conditions of nature, soldier must either adjust his wind-gauge or and although man has scored repeated in off the turget, victories and often converted those very EFFECT OF THE BAYONET. forces and conditions to his own advan-
The fixing of the bayonet to a rife con- tage, yet the casualties have been heavy siderably affects its shooting. Without the At the outset, the deposits of ores and bayonet the rifle is very subject to a movement minerals were attacked at the surface of the muzzle known as 'Sump,"
," which amounts. merely nibbled at the outcrops, but as the in the British Lee-Enfield rifle, firing the point- miner penetrated deeper into the earth'sed ballet, to between four and five minutes crust te was opposed by difficulties of of angle. When fired the ne muzzle falling roof and sides lighting, ventila" jumps downward by this amount. With tion, inundation by water, and the bayonet in position the amount of Jump bringing the product to the fur is lessened, and the soldier has batmake Face The first dificulty has been the necessary allowance
only partially overcome even at tho For instance, at a range of 400 yards, it present day, for the deaths and injuries the sighting of the rifle were not altered From this source in the mince of the United after the bayonot is fixed, the point Kingdom still account for about as per which the bullet would strike would be free cont of the total. The remaining fest higher than without the bayonet. This dificulties have been nearly conquered by would mean an increase in the range of the safety lamp, the steam engine, and about 200 yards. Aiming at moving targets. development of the use of electricity; and is, of course, frequent. To hit a soldier mince are now worked in America et a walking across the line of fire at a distance depth of 5,388ft, below the surface while of 600 yards it is ncessary to aim at a point mining engineers have seriously discussed about five feet in front of him. At the same working at depths down to 8,000ft. These range, against a horseman trotting, it would great depths refer to metalliferous be necessary to fire at a distance five yards. mining. In the case of coal, where the in front for 6 possible bit. When galloping most serious difficulty to be apprehended this distance is still further increased, and t is due to crushing by the weight of the is necessary to fire at a spot no less than 20 superincumbent strata, the working has feet in front of a cavalry man proceeding at The prices of provisions imported from not yet reached 4,000ft. In metalliferous the gallop.
mines, where crushing cannot damage the countries other than China (excepting those ore, it was believed that the deposits abova suumerated) may not be raised more could be worked downwards almost inde- than 15% above the retail prices prevailing, finitely, and as the dogma the deeper in the Colony on the 25th July, 1914 the richer was popularly accepted, the Note In consideration of the loss sustained mining engineer appeared to have scored
by discount on subsidiary winage payment a final victory over nature. According for all articles of food not exceeding in however, to Mr. T. A. Rickards, who vila (exerpting the articles enumerated has made a special study of the subject, in Clauze 5) shell if wade in subsidiary nature has by no means reached the end engineers and the single passenger (a coin be subject to an additional charge of of het resourcee, and has reserved her German) of the Christian Bors, the Nor most crashing blow It appears now wegian steamer recently captured at Kobe, "that continuity of ore is exceptional, were examined at the Basch Prize Court. orsa for limited depths, that the idea flour, maize and other foodstuffs on board According to a Mainichi dispatch, coal, of unlimited continuity is untenablo in the face of the brutal facts. The are suspected of being intended for the German warships, still at large on the engineer may by his skill overcome phy sical obstacles tho attainment of an object, Pacific The alleged passenger, saya the but if the object is withdrawn, his labour Alainichi, is suspected to be & cecret cervico agent who travelled from Mexico to China is fruitless.
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PRIZE COURT PROCEEDINGS.
On the 12th inst. the officers an
An dahi dispatch from tasohio states, that at first the passenger on the Chri- described himself as's Swiss to the ser tian Bora gave an assumed name and
11.30 am-Chios Provident Lean & Mort sage (o., Ltd., Meeting of Bhareholders, 2.30 p.m.-Auction of a Very Valuable Collec-vice of a certain firm at Shanghai. Upon tion of Old Chinese Porcelaide, Brenses, inquiries the Swiss of that name was Ee Bronz B and Carved Ironice, &c, at Sales found to have died four years ago..
now gives a fresh name and etates that Rocms, by Messrs, Hughes & Hough.
ho has been practising as a doctor in Shanghai He had been an uriny surgeon, 9.15 pm-Italiar Grand Upers Co, at the in Germany, but says he is no longer con
Thenus Rojal,—" Barbiero de Seviglia. nested with the military service. The HARPTOMOBROW
same dispatch states that the steamer had 2n-Hongkong Race Meeting. ~Of Day about 70 bills of lading for cargo shipped a
at Shanghai, but, there is said to be some doubt as to whether they correctly de 9.16 p.m. Henry Daths at the Theatre Royal scribe the goods they refer to-Japan
The Quaints."
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