employ some more modern guns, and the 9.2 inch at gun was pero - -posed a gun
whied was thought
а
to be sufficiently ponerful to heat off any ironclads likely to be met with in those seas
More recent events in China have however demonstrated the possibility of the attack of stong
Mong by reccels of war carrying guns and Armour with erhiel which even the 9:2 inch gun would be hardly able to cope, and it has row been determined to employ a certain rumber of 10 inch Rt. quens of 24 tons - This gun is capable of penetrating nearly 18 inches of bion at 3000 yards and although still more powerful guns gunsweet that are now being constructed, it is considered that guns of this rature, which are
the
Cau
can
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be worked by hand, are amply sufficient for the defence of ottong Mong, aided as that defence would be by nines, and also by Torpedo Prato
guns
Mere heavier
than the 10 inch of 27 tous exeployed,
it must be borne in duend that hand forer would no longer suf- fice for working them, and the difficulty of maintaining in working order at all times, at a foreign station the machinery.
needed for the heaviest grens. which if out of order would, render the guns useless and this Completely cripple the defences. has decided the tour Government not to attempt to mount heavier
than these at tong long- guns It will seem from the above sketch of the history of the designs for the defence Strong Rong, that circumstances
of
have
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