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INTIMATIONS

A HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE EIGHTH; ORDINARY

YEARLY MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS in the above Lompany, will

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, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the General Managers,, and

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VIEWS OF AN EXPERT ARTILLERIST.

The new German long-range goo, which is bombarded Paris, is in my opinion purely freuk weapon, built for purely political purposes, says a writer is a home paper.

A natural question to ask is whether such gun is worth the money. As far as I can use, it may have a slight moral effect on the people of Paris, but not even this gun will greatly disturb the French.

that

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less it was enormously strong. it would character, but not by say means impos. bend when elevated, and no gun beyond aible of manufacture. At the same time. 160 feet in length could be stiffened its dircation would have practically to up suficient to prevent this. Then he fixed, in to secure such range it mast ACHIN. I don't believe there is a single be practically buried in concrete. machine in Germany capable of wir only antidote to such weapons is to ing such a gun. The metal also has to discover their locality by aircraft, and burdened and tempered, and the then plaster them with giant bombs. process of tempering lowered into a trying to do.

the This, no doubt, our French friends are gan would have to be bath 250 feet deep! It may be interest. ing to state that within recent years a noted ordannes engineer is reputed to havo oxperimented with a small hora gun 100 calibres long, and the problem before us would be to re-duplicate this

Few people in Londen realise, writes gun in larger calibre. As, we have

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to the public, we shall undoubtedly yet which the new woman police ara doing be able to go one better than even wo in the streets. In the agglomeration of have dreamed. Any artilleriet can tell

now life or end what

of the high velocity obtained in firing broken humanity sucked under night after shella with a good weight and good night for want of guidance and restraint

gality of powder behind them, and

sre tauy who come eventually into in- B suitable projectile. And with even with such a gun as the Germans mary or hospital wards to be refitted, must obviously be using, you can deter if possible, for a mine the range with a real degree of has proved a tragic failure. To nurses secargey.,..

the truth regarding these waifs and strays of civilisation, often pitifully young, í clear enough. Had hall the money' and energy needed to repair disaster been

the

To people in the know" in this country the so-called German "surprise" is not so startling as it would appear at

SHELL WITHIN ▲ BEELL. first sight. Germany. is not the only

Now consider the theory of a shell country with long-runge guns. For within a shell. That, I think, is highly years the United States have had huge probable. here again scenmey spent on intervening to ward off danger

dificulty

Il we take on before it was too late a useful fatura 20-inch coast defence guns capable of is sending a projectile a great distance. ordinary 18 in. or 18 in. shell, cut and But in the case of the German gun, the hollowed in the middle, we could put might have been their lot, instead of surprise, if I can call it such, has been inside it a 9.8 in. shell behind which suffering and shame. The woman police not so much to find that such a thing would be an explosive charge fired by are an 'strong, calm defensive outpont could be done as that it has actually means of a time fuse. If the large shell for their sisters, often for their brethera were fired at as angle of 40 degrees, and Strictly speaking, it would be quite the explosion within it timed to fire stalo, entangled in dangers they neither con altogether ovoid. possible for a gun of ordinary con- the extreme savation of its trajectory, understand nor straction, with an ordinary projectile, it might easily take a different course. The cere arrival on the scene of a US CATTY KE far as the German weapon. This is a problem which would have to woman constable is often enough. Their ba overcome. But the dißculty would elevation of 45 degrees, such a gun might

been done.

With a huge length of barrel, and athe to make certain that the smaller shell trained discrimination between an ex-]

police cel.

not shoot accurately, but on a target as would continge on the same course hibition of restless vanity and that of big as Paris there would he no difficulty and instead of continning in a vice is seldom a faut, and the quiet straight line as the me trajectory, rest which they have at their dis in dropping ahella.

different coures. There is nothing impossible, there it might susily ttke a fore, in the German gun. In fact, all This is a problem which would have posal, in central situations have proved things considered. if engineers in this to be overcoms. Whether the Germans the tarning point in many careers des- the have one or more freak guna bombard tined to all appearance to end in the country were called upon by Bathorities to produce gun of a similar ing Paris, it is certain that their "life nature, it is quite within the bounds of sunat be a very long one. We know possibility and well within the knowledge that, from our own experience, and we also know that as we increase range we we already possess.

decrease at a vastly greater ratio the effectiveness of ruch weapons. Apotber problem for the Germans would be the mounting on which their guns is placed. It would have to be special in its

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