The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-29
kkUPPS PETS.


The style of Ordnance The Great Prussian
Armorer is Preparing to "Knock out'
the lron-CIad Navies of the World-Inyul-
nerability Almost impossible.
WAsnGNGToN, ID. C. March %.
Tho preparations by Congress for the
construction of a navy which will enable
this country to stand on a footing with
others In fighting qualities gives especial
interest to Information Just received her
concerning the manufacture abroad of
great guns-So great Us to be able to de-
stroy the most perfect ship possible to
be made and floated Several trials have
been recently made with Krupp's. sixty
inch guns, of thirty-llve caliber length. A
target representing the sides of an IRON
clad man .of-war was constructed of ten
inch hardwood timber, with iron plates
seven inches thick, securely fastened on
each side of the timber wall, making four
teen inches of solid iron and ten inches of
timber-total thickness of target twenty
four inches. The range was $50 meters,
and the projectile passed entirely through
the target and buried itself i'm the sand
hill far beyond. The projectile, which
was only six inches in diameter, would
have passed through the armor of the Eng
fish iron-clad steamship Alexandria, which,
next to the Inflexible, was the strongest
iron-clad at the bombardment of
Alexandria, in Egypt in 1882. At an ele-
walton of twenty-eight degrees this gun
would have an effective range of IL 900
meters, or something over seven English
miles. Much more effective, it is stated,
is the Krupp twelve-inch gun. The
armor of the Infexible, the strongest
ship in the English navy, consists of iron
plates twelve inches thick; then teak
wood timber eleven inches thick; then
another course of iron plates twelve
inches thick; then another course OF
teak timber six inches thick, and an in
side iron lining two inches thick, max
ing twenty-slX inches of iron plates and
seventeen inches of teak timber,
thus making her sides and armor
three feet and seven inches thick
The tested power of Krupp's thirty and q
half centimeters (twelve-inch) gun shows
that it would send projectile weighing
nearly half ton entirely through this
urlnOr Ut Il range OF ABOUT three EngllSl
| miles. Neither would the newest OF th,
French iron-clads and the well-knowI
| Italian turret men-of-war, Dullo and Dan
dolo, with their twenty-five inches o
steel armor, find any protection agains
this gun at short range. Only the cele
! bratcd men-of-war Italia and Leponto
with their two and a half feet of sIee
armor, resist a shot from Krupp's twelve
inch gun.
Mr.. Krupp is now engaged in construct
upon the same principles as the gun abov
mentioned, forty centimeter (sixteen-inch
guns of thirty-five calibers length
weight l2l tons, for the Italian Govern
ment. 1t is ascertained that they will
send projectile weighing considerable
more than a ton, through any armo
which ship can carry and float in an Oh
binary sea-
The total number of persons employee
in Krupp's works at this time is abou
10000. The number comprising the fam
lies of those employed In the establish
ment, including $4,000 school children,
is 1916, making a total of G5,3Gl de
pendent upon the works for living; We
with ali this force, period of over tw
years is required to complete some of tn
| largest of these punS