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Wheeling Sunday Register
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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War Department experiments at Sandy Hook on high explosives and light field guns conclude with board recommendations for advanced artillery to arm troops in the Philippines, featuring a three-inch gun firing 15 shots per minute and superior explosive.
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WASHINGTON, July 15.-The War Department has recently concluded an exhaustive series of experiments at Sandy Hook with high explosives and light field guns that promises to mark a material advance in the artillery branch of the service. The experiments were under the board of ordnance and fortifications, composed of both staff and line officers, and of which the major general commanding the army is chairman: The recommendations of the board are in shape to be presented to the Secretary of War and if adopted will result in arming the troops in the Philippines with the most advanced type of light field guns in the world. The board has decided on a type of field gun which can fire fifteen aimed shots per minute, which can be operated by one man and which its full crew can take to pieces in thirteen seconds for loading on mule back for transportation. It is three-inch calibre, can carry solid shot, shrapnel or a bursting charge of high explosive which will kill by concussion in a radius of 200 feet.
The high explosive has been tested for a year and is said to be superior to either lydite, the British, or melinite, the French, high explosive.
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the board has decided on a type of field gun which can fire fifteen aimed shots per minute, which can be operated by one man and which its full crew can take to pieces in thirteen seconds for loading on mule back for transportation. it is three-inch calibre, can carry solid shot, shrapnel or a bursting charge of high explosive which will kill by concussion in a radius of 200 feet. the high explosive has been tested for a year and is said to be superior to either lydite, the british, or melinite, the french, high explosive. the recommendations of the board are in shape to be presented to the secretary of war and if adopted will result in arming the troops in the philippines with the most advanced type of light field guns in the world.
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The War Department has recently concluded an exhaustive series of experiments at Sandy Hook with high explosives and light field guns that promises to mark a material advance in the artillery branch of the service. The experiments were under the board of ordnance and fortifications, composed of both staff and line officers, and of which the major general commanding the army is chairman.