Battles of the nineteenth century . , it should havebeen blasted into a mere rubbish heap. Butat the end of the long bombardment it was still. 102 THE WAR. standinj4, with d big hole in one side of it anda smaller opening in the other. Those whohave handkd lyddite say that sometimes not oneshell in lour explodes properly. Many of themmerely fizzle, pouring out smoke, but producingnothing like a heavy explosion. Even whendetonation is elTected, the damage done is ofteninteitsely local. It is true that men are killedby the mere shock without a wound, but theymust be close to the bursting s
Battles of the nineteenth century . , it should havebeen blasted into a mere rubbish heap. Butat the end of the long bombardment it was still. 102 THE WAR. standinj4, with d big hole in one side of it anda smaller opening in the other. Those whohave handkd lyddite say that sometimes not oneshell in lour explodes properly. Many of themmerely fizzle, pouring out smoke, but producingnothing like a heavy explosion. Even whendetonation is elTected, the damage done is ofteninteitsely local. It is true that men are killedby the mere shock without a wound, but theymust be close to the bursting shell. And evenfor those who are close to it its action seemserratic. Some are killed, some stunned, some?hardly affected at all. It has the same doubtfulcharacter as the old-fashioned gunpowder-ladenshells, which often burst so as to kill one man ina group and leave all his comrades uninjured. But Lord Methuen seems to have had no doubtabout the efficiency of his heavy artillery andlyddite shells when on the afternoon of Sunday,December loth (the same day that Gatacre failedat Stcrmberg), he began a heavy bombardmentof the Magersfonte
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