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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1928.
GUNS REPULSE "TANKS"
CONCENTRATED FIRE ON
2-MILES FRONT.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
DREDGING AND SURVEYING
OFF KOWLOON,
The following Notico to Mariners Tanks will not have things all
(No. 67) has been issued by the local their own way in war. The guns authorities undor date, May 1 relative recently showed that tanks will o to dredging operations and obstruc- casionally meet their Bellecourt tions to navigation caused thereby, and Fiesquiars.
Under authority conferred by Sec- There has been some interesting tion B2 (5) of Ordinance No. 10 of fighting between the "ironclads" of 1800-it is hereby notified that on and land warfare and the guns on the after Monday, January 9, 1028 (and tank ranges. Although it was a until further notice) dredging and ono-sided affair-for the tanks had surveying operations will be carried no crows, and, therefore, no hitting out off Talm-sha-tsui, Kowloon Point power, and the gunners were giving in an area bounded as follows:
North Boundary, Lat. 22° 17′ 47′′ high explosive shells, some valuable N. lessons were learned by the large company of officers for whose in struction the School of Artillery E. had arranged the demonstration.
The demonstrations showed the E. various methods by which tanks Masters of all vessels aro pro. can be engaged by artillery fire. ceed at a speed not greater than five There was also a practical illustra- knots when approaching and in the tion of the possibilities of "predict-vicinity of this area and are not to ed" fire. This is fire put down, pass between the dredger and her an- based on calculations only, and chor boys.
Warning is hereby given that.sor- without any previous shooting.
South Boundary, Lat. 22° 17′ 81′′ 8. East Boundary. Long.. 114" 10′ 21′′
West Boundary. Long 114' D′ 45′′
Masters of vessels, are warned to
The tank targets were represented yey operations will be carried out by canvas screens on wheels, and from time to time in connexion with the machinery employed enabled the dredging of the area. the targets to advance towards the keep clear of all sampans, motor bonts, and buoys used on this work. The last of to-day's demonstra-which shall each carry a red flag and tion, in which tanks attacked to keep a good lookout for all craft so artillery, was brought to an abrupt employed,
guns.
end through the cable being badly Government Gazette Notice No. 300 cut by shell fire. This brought the of 9th December, 1927, in hereby can- advancing tanks to a standstill in colled.
the midst of their baptism of fire. One battery carried out an attack on tanks with Its observation post in the air.
There was only one "Tank," but it represented a company covering an area of ground which the gun- ners plastered with shell,
There were, in all, 28-guns-ex tended into a tine covering appro- ximately two miles, and all trained on a defile of about 400 yards long ard 200 yards wide.
LAW'S DELAYS.
the
MR. JUSTICE ROWLATT BLAMES THE SOLICITORS.
When-an-application-was-mado. to Mr. Justice Rowlatt in King's Bench Division to postpone the hearing of an action on the ground that one of the parties was When the bursts took place the indisposed, the Judge said it was initiated could easily identify the extraordinary how people In cases fall of the 60-pounder. The con-which were to come before the centration lasted for 90 seconds. Court were taken ill just as the The fire was "predicted." The hearing was about to begin. line, range, &c., were calculated by Mr. Cartwright Sharp, who made the gunners without previous re-the application, said that in this gistration. It is, I think, safe to particular case it was the plaintiff say that few, if any, tanks would who was. ill.
have survived. At a closer range, Mr. Justice Rowlatt-Well, per- about 1,500 yards, and in open haps he has a rotten санс. country where the gunners had the | (Laughter.) advantage of firing "over their Later five applications to post- sights," some of the tanks were pone cases until next term were quickly made "cold iron."
made to his lordship, who said that For this success the cavalry, gun-he wished that the people in tho ner, and other officers who were legal profession would help the spectators could not withhold a business of the Courts, cheer.
"It is not the Bar; it is the solici- The staff at the School of tors," declared Mr. Justice Row- Artillery set themselves the task of latt. We hear, enough about showing what could be done by gun-complaints of delay in trying ners in the way of engaging tanks
eases, but at the Inst moment with the material with which the people come up by dozens and say Royal Regiment is now equipped, that it is not convenient to have The spectator officers went away certain cases tried. It's too bad. satisfied with the eminent-
Why can't they carry on the busl- ly practical instruction they had reness of the Courts in a proper ceived.
manner?"
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