. The railroad and engineering journal . headvocates of the French system, to the fact that they wereguns of the model of 1S75. The recent failure of a nciu34 cm. early in its trial, by the giving away of the wholebreech, remains to be explained in some other way. In England, where the French fermature, with slight working capacity of the whole Trans-Caucasus Railroadhas been obliged to be measured by the transport ca-pacity of this short but exceptional section of the line. When the tunnel is completed the greatest grades en-countered when running west will be no more than i percent., with cu
. The railroad and engineering journal . headvocates of the French system, to the fact that they wereguns of the model of 1S75. The recent failure of a nciu34 cm. early in its trial, by the giving away of the wholebreech, remains to be explained in some other way. In England, where the French fermature, with slight working capacity of the whole Trans-Caucasus Railroadhas been obliged to be measured by the transport ca-pacity of this short but exceptional section of the line. When the tunnel is completed the greatest grades en-countered when running west will be no more than i percent., with curves of a minimum radius of 910 ft., and inrunning east per cent. As it is assumed that this linewill have more traffic from east to west, on account of theever-increasing petroleum, Persian, and middle Asianexport, it is considered that the still remaining grades of2^ per cent, gomg east will not prove a serious obstacle,as the import trade from the Black Sea side forms but afraction of the export trade. From the above it may safe-. SURAM TUNNtLrat>N5CAUQA5 RAILWAY ■ith prori/e of Approaches modifications, has been adopted, they have been only a littleless unfortunate than across the Channel. In English gunsthe breech-screw is seated in the jacket and not in the gun-tube, which does away with one source of weakness. AnEnglish military critic, writing in January last of the un-fortunate cruise of the Iinpcricuse, says: Two monthsago her captain, William May, the crack gunner of theEnglish Navy, was rash enough to have her 6-in. gunsfired. Several locks were promptly blown out of thebreech-pieces, a space having been left between them soas to allow the charge to have effect backward. The maindeck battery was thus as useless as the boilers. Anotherwriter, speaking of the same occurrence, says : Thecrew having been forced to lie down to escape this modernkind of raking fire, while merely firing at a mark, is botha novel experience and a somewhat unpleasant foretasteof wha
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