Flashless va'der, Bong Soung, Devised ,at
Precious Secrets-«New Extreme Range ___ , , _ 1-, _ ,
Fact, ’Whilé Automotive carriages fer. 'All‘ Types of; .W’eappns and _
Transport Have Been Developed " Tremendously-"Anti-Aircraft Mas:
chine Gun and 4,000 Pound Aerial Bomb Other Surprises * -
Iiastaua , _
fo'r.._ Navy’s _1.6-_Ineh'= Rifle! a
v
Olden Army s}
Here is one of the first photographs of the navy’s 16 inclirifie which has. anrextreme range of 35
miles when the new high angle barbette turret is used. _
The shell rweighs awn-pounds;
By DONALD MaeGREC-OR.
[Firfz’l'h’ Forrcspondence.)
Copyright, 1921, by Tm: New You}: Henna.
Antennas. Md.; Oct. 20.
HF: famous army mule that used to
T wiggle his ears and then balk dur-
ing the most critical moment of a
battle is now a thing of the past. He is
cooling his heels in some stable outside a
Government reservation, his job having
3 been taken over by something far less
obstinate—the tractor.
In future wars every ounce of fighting
material will be transported by machinery
V but for the
vehicles
.v—fiirfidflés to some extent.
most part b' .
capable of negotia
rain at lug:
laud
Hg
or this that the
building.
.. a .._. ~ . to viewing some
or the new and marvellous developments in
r-rdzianc
standard equipment for
There are kinds without
flKDlZ‘E‘S—lal‘i’e and small. for every pos-
sible rurpose. Most at them have been
devised since the War. completed from
ideas 2 at suggested tyneruselves while‘the
world tcnfli was ateits height. They
bassed inf.refiew in a. long. linefia’nd then, ‘
wit“. their. funny ambllug gaits.'proceeded
witl‘. . more practical demonstration. of
what they would be able to do in the face
of 29:11-3‘ fire.
Tank I/Vas the First Idea _ .
On Which All Are Buzlt
It is not such a far cry iron] the develop
men: the tank. This unique fighting
marl-line. which made appearance two
years after the world War began. was the
forerunner of the present day equipment.
. The tank. as the British officer who dc»
velorsed it told me at the tin; . was the
(sterowth of the ordinary. everyday.
American
r:= 2’
its
farm tractor. So that
..nmel:: instrument of cultivation can
regarded as the grandfather of
now a deadly tool of war.
The most remarkable of all the develop
7 the tractor artillery. which in-
cludes the heaviest of the types of mobile
field pieces. Set low to the ground. with
belts running around the wheels. these
powerful weapons, well protected with
armor plate, are able to travel at speeds
around twenty miles an hour, which means
much in the advance of an army. Some
'~ 0! the heaviest cf the guns are assisted by
’ tractor trucks that go a few feet ahead,
carrying the personnel that will man them,
at. the same time generating electrical
power which istransmitted by cable to the
gun tractor. ’ , . ,
’On ordinary occasions these tractors will
”travel alongiiroads..but it is not essential
that they do so. They are able to negotiate
any kind. of land. cut across fields, get in
and out ,obmud holes and go over country
. that is under cultivation. Theabelts around
the wheels prevent the heavy loads from
sinking into the~ground. -
It would be impossible to attempt to de-
scribe the varioustypes of mounts that
have been provided by the ordnance oflicers
tor'theraaillery of’to—day. They vary a1-
.» most as—“much- as the types of guns vary"—
and it is well known that there is a piece
’ atelieavy ordnance for almost every pos.
_ . gable operational“ may benec’es’sary on
7 . theehattiefield.’
5?}:9 tractor plan has‘ been applied also
to every auxiliary vehicle that is required
in warfare. There are tractors tor carry-
inggsmmnnitiou, tractors for-scarrying bag-
r
‘.
., ”pix—actors for. carrying .men, and 0:,
course various mds chunks.
Red Land Battleships . ‘
fHave' Been Perfected Now
The heavily armored tanks that areas...
We» gunshavebéen supnlemented by
mallet-tanks to carry twoor three. These
tiny; machines. swarms]: like great bugs
asiheydnselahmga‘t high speed. :They'
'are visually land battleships 7
' manomemndefiurin'thefi aechanism
are thetremmdous guns<;thHm; his
hat .hullt;ferth meantime”. These
7 rate L'shet'tiierhecvensiand the earth
‘egmtorock. 'I'hoatwhor’s’tand near by
7:: kind of ter-"
\ palate of healing. at some: men operating,
are forced to place their fingers in their
ears to save their ear drums.
There is a; belch of flame thirty feet long.
a deafening report and heavy black smoke
that settles down around the great piece at
ordnance. One of these guns, on a dis-
appearing” carriage,
fortifications of New York. Another.
which is to be used‘ elsewhere.- ls on a
, stationary carriage: The shell is hurled a
distance of thirty-five miles, tar. exceeding
any effective range of any other gun.
The heaviest guns that are mobile—aunt
is, that may be sent from place to place as,
operations require~are mounted on rail-
road carriages. These are 12-inch guns
of various models. Many railroad cars are
on the sidings at Aberdeen ready to move
up and down‘the coast in caseo: necessity.
Great Crater 40 Feet Deep
From. 4,000 Pound Air Bomb
Across from the administration building
about a mile is a great crater in the
ground, lookingrmuch like the excavation
for a ten story building. It is forty feet
deep and measures a hundred feet across.
It was caused by the dropping of a 4.090
pound bomb. by all weight and measure
ment the deadliest piece of ammunition
ever constructed. ‘ - _ ,
This bomb was dropped " hy Capt. N. R:
Carolin oi the air'servicé, whosejoo it :is
to test out from an airplane the deadly
bombs that are devised by the ordnance
officers. lle carried it up in a Ilundley
Page airplane, a feat in itself that involved
the greatest risk. f
Had the machine performed badly at the
taking on" a crash might have resulted
which would have destroyed not only the
occupants of the airplane but also many
of the buildings of the proving grounds
and with them a large number of the per-
sonnel. 7
Capt. Carolin dropped the bomb from an
altitude ($5.000 feet. and it was possible.
a mile anda hallaway. to follow its course
to the til-mind. It hit long before any evi>
dence of the fact could be observed. Then
there rushed llp‘-t0 a height of 500 feet a
flight? sheet of flame and earth and smoke.
, '1 there came across the field a tremen-
1 us. but muffled, roar.
In observing the crater afterward I found
that the force of the explosion was so great
that the bomb. 50 per cent. of Which was
TNT. had completely destroyed itself.
There were one or two tiny pieces of the
casing, but that was all. ’ ,
A hundred men digging for a w’ee‘x could
not have caused such a hole in the ground.
For 500 feet around there was pulverized
earth. The leaves were torn off all the
nearby trees and the branches twisted.
. The practical purpose of such a bomb as.
~
is intended for the ’
Kb
211‘. t1 1" 1- h, ;
.a
:Instiecting enamel-plate of the lime: type after three 16 inch
shells had hit it in the r
e . .
"Else ar'mfs‘tzé inch gun onits”
as ordinary r'heavy artillery? Plans
Of these
rail‘fo‘ad mount is almost as mobile
great gunsin'coasadefence. VA: right is the. 2.4.00 pound. pro-
jectile that can be hurled 35 miles'hy the new types of 161inch guns“
have'beén'perfected to use may
at~'3&bérdeen,”Md. At notable gathering of engineers studied the r
this would be in time of war to destroy the
heavy fortifications of the enemy. Only
two'of these bomhs‘ever have heen built.
Only one has been dropped. The other is
still in the hands or the army, for use in
emergency.
The rapid development of. aerial warfare
in recent months has led the Ordnance ex-‘i'
ports of the army to devotermuch thought
to defence. against them. and it has brought
about the completion of a new type of ma.
chine gun. This is known as the Thong».
son gun,.which may be tired from any
elevation up to 8.5 degrees. "“
New Anti-Aircraft Gun, > ,
Sends, Stream of. Big;BuHets
To demonstratethe ‘emcieneyot this gun
the ordnance officers sent out a dozenrtoy
balloons to serve as targets. Two of the
machine guns were put into action against
the balloons. half the'uumher being pierced
by the cartridges that were fired. Standing
beside the gun'it. was possible to follow the
rain of steel directed: at :tlie flying objects-
The line was much the same as. the stream
of water sent out bra hose. The bullets
\were threetenths of aneinch in diameter.
The question of defence against aircraft
is receiving. by the way, the utmost study
lrnm ordnance experts. and they regard the
machine gun just developed as the first
Step. '
in this connection a‘macliine, gun firing
Slur-slime cartridges. or rartridées half an
.nch in diameter- has._been built- It is
the largest of the kind in the world. This
murmur: gun was demonstrated today with
(artridsrs aired at an old tank 3.0th yards
3. field.
std each other'out of the muzzle
ai‘l‘fiSS
as they trim
of the gun.
"it was possible also to follow these with
the naked eye across the field to the target.
which was hit With- remarkable accuracy;
The demonstration in this instance. as in
the others. was not one of marksmanshio
one of material. Just the same it
over! that such, a gun is in a. sense an
i. .-
t3 tzr'ug. ,
it is coz,.monly recognized that what in
(la-a smiwill be the most practical, way of
tin: enemy aircraft will .he with air-
:‘t itself. and for this purpose rapid fire
( we
a";
. noted in_these planes. The army. and
By WILLIS .STEELL‘.
(C' OW is ybur sou, Sir Arthur?"
H “In fine health. You knew that
he had advanced, what the world
calls dead?"
“I'm. so sorry.
heard." '
"Why sorrow? If you wish to get in touch
with him his control is so and so and the
best medium is So-aud-So."
Thus—put into dialogue form—is the way
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle speaks of, his dead
sonsin his latest book. “The Wanderings of a
Spiritualist," just out in England and soon
to appear in America. _ '
In the'r‘nost matter of fact way this popu-
lar story teller. creator or 'Sheriock Holmes.
whose mind, to judge by his fiction, never
left the solid confines of this earth, disposes
of death and the future life over which poets
and philosophers and preachers. have . mulled
before ” and. since the Christian era without
finding a clue to either. ' .
D'r. Doyle believes that he has a message
the mast important the mind or mane can-
conoeive; implying the practical: abolition of
death and the reenforcement ’0: .our present .
religiouevievrs by the actual experience 'of.
those who’lxave made theohange from the
natural to the spiritual body:
“Speakingot— our own experiences.” writes .
Sir Arthur; “my wife and, I haveactually-
spoken. face to face beyond all question are
doubt with-eleven- friends or relatives.» who
have passed over, their direct voices being in:
each case audible and their conversation .
characteristin‘Lmnal." I '
please excuse me, I hadn’t
The bullets were redliot _
rise guns are being worked on to- be
the navy too. have had such wean-iris 55%?
a longtime. but they have not been wii .
satisfactory. The clifiiculties arc, however.
being overcome. The trouble is to get a
gun that will not overheat. ,
These are mounted in the rear cockpit
of the airplanes and may be fired in all
directions. eren through the swiftly
moving propellers. this arrangement being
automatic. It is interesting to note that
the “kick" of such a gun is scarcely notice- 7 .
able to the occupants of the . irpiane.
Flashless Powder Permits
Concealed Night Firing:
One of the newest dorelomnents of the
ordnance section or the army. and sor e-
thing achieved since the end of thr- War. is
This is a thing‘that
”a
cashless" ponder.
the scientists who devote themseires to
the art of making War hare been ciillg
for many years; The need for it has been
obvious since the-time of the invention of
q
" go upowder;
The trouble has come in night firing. In
esults of the tests.
-
e.t
ti“. 0 got I};
charge is u.
from the
lair-1E
opposing
the directs
tance and
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t'lUO“ m“
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fiashles: -
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which is
xiv.
. This}, for .
it would be oxzre _ .. .
enemy to locate a gun tr «
glow. it is I". , '
may he over-co
Just What
the uowder to
that is careful},
, of the army.
alir:an«~emi i2:
.. too. to.
tirade:- ‘31;<
kale raw-“er is i:
cremation from ‘ 12:3,.
ofi'tfié one?" "‘if is
one that .
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s 11".“ ' '
front.
2
It was to deliver his message to the. sor-
rowing parents and relatives of sons. and
brother-sand husbands lost in the world”
war that soon after'its close Sh- \Arthur
ade his voyage'round the world. Hevfelt
especially that he wanted to deliver it in
Australia. with .whose sous he had become
ndmirlngiy acquainted during the war His
latest book, therefore. isra garnering 70f
psychic experience from spiritualism every»
where with a mixture ott‘ne ordinary events
or travel fringing these in what makes=a~
strange and frequently a ridiculous combines.
ion. ' ,
But Dr. Doyle had no 6th about..the'
emcacy or spiritualism as asreliigtou to bath
the. wounds of the worlénychen2h6 statement.»
I
1
"Do not letthat be misunderstood. There
one :9” intrusion of the ‘ighlest flippnncy.
For Arthur the, whole time exhibited that
ye tremendous: Nothing anvroaohmg.
E‘feztriPal presentations? the-{use for spirit-
ualism marred the discourse. It was for the
most part» a plain statement."'
Sir Ari. 'r has said that he is conti‘fixaily
aware 011’ out spirisirgtervention in 1‘35 own
life. Evidences commence himSelf he has.
put ours-cord in “the:News.Revelazit-m‘¥‘and»
he therefore (immune-more .Lpaoeetn this—bro
tn therexperienoes of othm:~.: '. , -
In« Melbouruevhewmetria Mr. W. head E
4% ‘ :rgentleuan: tolerance. When asked if. he hadwseen the
oi: the local spiritualism-
vzzitode of reverence and Ziumiiity demanded.
-r’ one traversing a domain on the=hor3er or
a.
YIC’S. World. “Trip to investigate Spiri
Kings or
accept, the {act that thou arefspirzts. that
‘their condition is their own. 'meking, and
that by aspiration and repentance they can
Win their way to thelizht." r
,. As a rule these errant souls are unknown
to fame. Often. says'rDr; Doyle, they are
clergyman whose bigotry has hindered deu
\elopment. He quotes from a written lament
from no lees» a DEW'Yhan_ the “Bloody“
Duke of Alrafirvho desoribmitherhellfrtrm‘
which he was “rescue-dhy what earns to me
a great mercififl‘disuensation or Almighty'
God.” ' “
"I mrptesent." writes Dr. Doyle, "at the
return of one alleged "Angiieerr Bis-339:: of ‘the
eighteenth century. who spoke with great in-
h' l on t . — rum'arescue circte‘for‘the m“ anon". \otahe _Cl1mt'r he answered. that he had not and
is g up and he has less that”! lowerspirits Whorarersoii‘uatermlrrhgr they: that he: could. not understand why not
can be reachedmoremsflyhy’humanity-than: When asked. n'he soucmisldered the Christ
has conferred with
over. for he skis:
"I consider a genuine professionalfimim
is the most useful mexnbevHG! museums
community.‘ Alas! how few theyaner~ ~
"But there are-amateurmemums ‘ ‘ .:o£.:.vm-
ous deer-cesium the'snnmmnmlwgm
crease. Perhaps there- will 3% lat; Means?
angel to every 7
I see-dimly the timewhentwas'cm
the living-Fund those who hmlfiésifi'bm
shall! mouertogethep with..the.lmei§um angek
as the bridge betweenathemf.’ , 3 . .
A description of Dr? myle'snvleetuwfi
appearance while deltvenng madam: ‘
he said” ts’include‘d in n earlychétit '01
the book. but'aflen her-ha ' " ' "
destination. Australia. . It
“It is not! altogether a. sémbce 55W t»
he makes-among theshadows,-Eu1 amfly
one of happy. aswellas tender. experiences,
so that laughter is not ' '
tram the exposition.
spiritualists the was
church asdnfihefidmotelohne .
schaelsfor the - instructibn-oivspifits' :1me
are
the-sp_irit deem-mg
“1329's.
new The meéigxnr’:;g9e52.intafl.as-jraneea
. ‘ control then explains .whatlfids.
, liessmri" t is; who
intent, the.
mafimmunsioae held down swinging _,
mm; _. Thiscon'ries from the vlm~
{spiribk‘whe hat-amok. forn‘jd— :thlsmun;
theymder all aléhdmd’ér conditions they"
' cold not understand inaa'cloud‘ozé‘daxkness 5 Arthur
, “Then comes, the; workiorzixesmmu
necessarily amides macs mmaemtnmmem.
' . ” Wfim 7 igentleéimmey .“Be'chattedrssaysgfir.mthurr "about'the-
3:? ‘t‘he‘ehlgher angels~"1‘he‘ :.,detail&" 0 ;.i$$is:ste be God ~, he thee-went: his 2m 5 and
shouted: violently; Stop! That is blas-
phiemgi' , g" , .. .
fines-waxzsueoeedeé by‘a’rvery noisy and
Mode-Presbyterian ~ divine -.who declared '
timing zone but devil‘s“ @1115“er to a":
Seance: Queueing asked ' whether that unset”
that :he. gas ,liimseka. a ._ devil : he. became
£§§§¥e;,. ’ »
'“I quote all: this as a curiousrsidélight into
,Lsomrdevelepmnsof the subsect whichiarey
'umfliaeteamughi to the:student. but not to
or lemmas: At remastimesuvne» theme-at mmlic.”
languagesnntwiotmt astonisnmmchety‘.
thathfii§§m§93$ and emcee 1511511»th travels into thewhaek’
wens the authorfm that his psychic
grouumflhegcannnt refrain from giving some
conversation . held with». 0138'. Bailey, an..-
cmf‘rnedimn. Through this .zmedium- Sir
beards long address from Dr.» Whit-
cemhegthe learned control; on Assyrian ands
.Riunanaanfiqiuties and pSYChioeoic-nee.
’caiiz. r: Belthazar King as: in
L?
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Pistol-on :.
alt. remarked that
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Prince. and rat in man; ..
On my asking: if. .
facilities for study in the next V:
there certainly Wrro. $1121 :‘3:
studying books they usually
(tr-mat objects ‘tlaemselvesf’
Before leasing An. ratio Sir
able-“tn {also thwsf-‘ye View .
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re
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audits rcsniis. He had in that .
dressers}: tirentsmfzve meetings.
Zfifiif‘mle in F'Ef'h. 0r 50.9336 t-e ..
In his vie * the. tour was a ((912213;th
He Writes:
“The enemies of our cause wry»-
for my failure. and had. indeed, in .
most unsorunulously announced it.
necessary that} should {I Protre Av?
as to this great success and 32“ £7
Which it afforded that the pom-s miniv-
open to the new revelation.
“The end of‘ my journey was ‘
but my’ioyiatbeing reunited with n
rwas Clouded by the news or the den.
mother; . She was *83 Mrs old. :‘ 5 313‘? "
some years been almosriotaliy 2*
her change was altogether
was sad' to think We‘shonzo
111113712103“ and gracious presence again in
old *materlat- iormfi'
Sir " Arthur: reanarks significantly
Gaseousandnwhat {essays roar filly
conclude thae brie: quorations from
peculiar travel book: _ V
"For my own psychic work she mu“ 1
fear. neither sympathy nor zmrrstazmius.
but she had an innate faith and spsrima ‘
which were so natural to her that she in
not conceive the needs 0! othrrs in 452‘;
direction. She understandsnow’."
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he
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