always traveling on a system well connected in its whole and any error can always be made good as the passenger can always change trains at once. No danger no complicated signals. Little noise owing to the reduction of the weights moved and to the low rate at which they travel. THE NEW GUN OF THE GERMAN ARMY. Hardly has an apparatus been obtained that sur passes all the preceding ones than a new invention is brought out with improvements. That is evidently the law of progress but when it is a question of arms of war it will be readily conceived that this sort of have in hand the honor and
always traveling on a system well connected in its whole and any error can always be made good as the passenger can always change trains at once. No danger no complicated signals. Little noise owing to the reduction of the weights moved and to the low rate at which they travel. THE NEW GUN OF THE GERMAN ARMY. Hardly has an apparatus been obtained that sur passes all the preceding ones than a new invention is brought out with improvements. That is evidently the law of progress but when it is a question of arms of war it will be readily conceived that this sort of have in hand the honor and independence of nations. Not long ag France with the Lebel gun was in possession of the most improved and the surest wea pon that existed in Europe. When we speak of the Lebel gun we wish to speak at the same time of its ball and especially of the powder called smokeless the indispensable complements of the weapon. We The cartridge itself forms an innovation upon all others that now exist. Thus as may be seen from figures F G H I it has no projecting rim at the base but on the contrary it has a small groove in order to allow it to be grasped by the extractor that removes it after the gun has been fired. The cartridge is filled with smokeless powder which it appears gives results analogous to those obtained in France. The ball which is of hardened lead is incased in German silver. Our engraving also shows the blank cartridge carry ing a hollow wooden ball and the cartridge for prac tice the hollow ball of which is of brass. The equipment of the German infantryman consists of three cartridge boxes provided altogether with 150 cartridges which weigh lb. Moreover a supply of cartridges calculated at the rate of 100 per man is carried by wagons which constantly accompany the troops and go on to the field of battle during the fight. The gun when empty weighs 81 lb. say about 12 oz. less than the Lebel. The barrel of the gun is surrounded throughout its entire length by a steel plate jac
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