FREAK ARTILLERY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 March 1918, Page 5

FREAK ARTILLERY

ITS VALUE DOUBTED

LARGE-CALIBRE AUSTRIAN GUNS.

BROUGHT WEST FROM RUSSIAN

FRONT

(Received March 28, 9.5 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 27. Hudson Maxim says he would be able to build a gun to shoot from London to at*ii 3 doubts the value of freak

The editor of the Scientific American says that long-range could b e obtained by lengthening a gun to 150 feet, and using slow-burning powder. Such a gun could not fire more than 25 accurate shots.

iT7Sei mi~official advices received at Washington-state that the Austrians are transferring large-calibre artillery from the Russian front to the W Test tront.