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THE BATTLE OF THE GUNS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1914.
very moment when General De lope threw off the mask and pre- sented all the batteries with, the new field gan the Germans com. plated at an expenditure of scme
The Reported Advantages of £12,000,000 the rearmament of
France,
thair artillery with an imitation of the discarded Dacros model.
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SHANGHAI ..................
MOJI, KOBE Nellore AND YOKO-Capt. J. Gannt HAMA Man,
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The sams
as No. 1.
Modern battles have ceased to The sensation was immense. be bodily combats and have be. For a time the Germans tried to · 2. Skips' Officeraars strictly forbidden
The anticyclone is now central over come artillery duels. The French belittle the Deport gun and to to receive on board their vessels any Kwongsong. Br. a.a. 1,424, Bichard, 27th Mid-Japan, were the first to perceive it as extol their own, but gradually correspondence from the Publis.
na smokeless powder and the idle talk died away, and in 3. Shipmasters are not allowed to place or expose on board their vessels letter repetition rifles made their ap 1905; the chief armaments makers boxes for the purpose of collecting corres pearance, says the Manchester having pat their heads together,pondence; all such boxes fourd exposed Guardian. It was obvious to a conversion was effected of the board their vessels will be removed and them that these inventions were German gan so ca to approach it bound to "empty" the battle-to a quick firer. That in view of fields and do away with close the enormous expenditure just formatione. Henceforth the at-incurred was, indeed, the only tacks were to be delivered by thing possible, and thus at the loosely formed lines, now leaping present moment the Germane, their notifications to the Post Office the like grasshoppers and then seek too, possess a modern gun, which, exact hour of departure of their vessels Shanel, Br. s. 1,228, Simons, 27th Sept ing shelter or throwing them however, is in every respect in- in order that the public may have every selves down on the ground antil ferior to the French. It is heavier, its for posting at the General Post they advanced" sufficiently to less mubila, requires more atten make a bayonet assault. This dante, has a lower initial velccity.cers must send to the Foat Office ALL 6. Shipping Companies and Ships' Om. necesitated a change also in The derman Counterstroke. correspondence except bona fide consi- "artillery taotics: The target
Had this been the comparative having practically disappeared, state of the artillery of both all artillery could do now was to armies throughout, the plight of sweep the battlefield with fire the Germane in the present war and shower upon its various would indeed be very great. zones a whirlwind of shrapnel ce But the Germans are not à ss to make it untenable. For people to allow themselves to be this a quickfiring artillery gun easily antclassed and in order to was required, and to the invention retrieve the balance in the field of it the French turned their gun they have adopted two other attention.
types in which they surpass the The result of the long labours French. The ficat is the heavy was the famous gun of 1897, the gun, the application of which so-called 75. millimetre crin modern battle was first show simple 75 gun, the prite by ourselves during the Boer .of the French army. Its War when we brought to bear
War zisks are not covered by postal inventor was Major Deport, stuɔɔn the enemy our navy gune.registration, or Insurance. that time director of the construc- The German heavy guna, cf which tion works at Palesuz and now nó fewer than 112 batteries al- † The Parcel Fort service to Egypt and director of a private armaments ready existed two years ago, have our beyond is for the presens mus
pended. firm, and it remains to this day a much longer range and fire a the most superb field gun in much heavier ebell than any of the existence, with the exception of existing field gone and are in- the improved Deport model now tended for the special purpose of adopted by the Italian army. destroying the enemy's field
The French Stratagem,
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A late mall for Swatow, Amoy & Foo-Don of Airilo, Br. a. 3,735, Thomson, 26th chow will in future be closed for all
Sopt-Manila, 23rd Sept, Gen.
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the G. P: O. in the lane off Des Voeux
The service to Telaxton is suspended.
The Korea, with the American Mail, eaves Manila on Sunday afternoon and
artillery at the commencement of is due to arrive here to morrow. The Germans came considerab-an engagement. This is express- ly later in the field, and then ly laid down as a guide in the they fell the victim of a clever Gorman military text books.
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rase on the part of the French Another type of gun is the Korea, American, 29th inst. military authorities. They had mortar, whose proj.otiles describe naturally been watching very curve. A field gun is only closely what the French were useful on a plain aninterrupted doing and were trying to imitate by hill or other cover, yet in one them. This misplaced curiosity case at least out of three either the battle field is not a plain or the French deftly turned to account. Before Daport soother the firing battery has to hide officer at the Fateaux worke, itself behind a cover. It is in Captain Daoros, had been ex- there cases that a mortar firing perimenting with a new gun in atrn angle Lecomes highly useful which the French Minishy of The Germans have of late baen War took an interest. Though introducing it at the rate of 52 an advance upon the old breech pieces to a corps...
loaders, it nevertheless did not
I
solve the desired problem. It could fire some four or five Opium Smuggling. projectiles a minute, but it was The Governor-General of Anhui heavy, with a nasty recoil, and its has wired to the Central Govern initial velocity was too great. The ment reporting that upon inves gun was ultimately discarded in tigation it has been discovered favour of the Deport model, but in that some of the employees of the or ler to confound the German Tientsin-Pukow Railway trains enemy General Deloge, who was are in the habit of smuggling. the head of the artillery workshop opium. The Ministry of Com- at Pateaux, pretended to have munications has been ordered to adopted the Ducros gun, sur-warn the employees against the rounded it by transparent scorrcy, practice.
and so well carried out the game! that not only the German authori-j
ties bat oven the greater part of| the French artillery officers were convinced that it was the Dacro gun with which the French army was going to be equipped.
The reéult was that the Ger-
mone who had really been the discoverereof the initial principle en which the Deport construction was based discarded them and so to work to construct a German Ducros gun. Their efforte wer orowned with success, and at the
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