THE LONG-RANGE GUN.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16281, 3 August 1918, Page 10

THE LONG-RANGE GUN.

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT'S DESCRIPTION. (By Cable.—tress Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z.. Cablo Association.) NEW YORK, August 1. Mr Edwin James, the "New York Kmes" correspondent on the American front, describes a visit to the German super-cannon emplacement in the Bois Je Chatelet. He says: It is haru to tell just what it looks like. It reminded me af a Pittsburg steel mill. The emplacement is connected by, three switches running from the railway south of Fer©-sn-Tardenois, one of which runs into a ait fifteen feet deep by forty feet across, tn the pit is a steel cylinder, of com- < plicated construction, thirty-one feet across by twenty feet deep, on top of ivhich is a huge gun-carriage. This was ■ moved by massive machinery, ball-bearing, each ball being ten inches in diameter. . The cylinder is constructed of armour-plate an inch and a half in thickness. It is in sections, to each af which is attached big hooks for the Jerrick to lift. An artillery expert said that the cylinder weighs 1100 tons, md the carriage weighs more than 200 tons. The Germans had not left the barrel. The emplacement dwarfed She biggest Dreadnought gun emplacement.