The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-27

shell which II shoots is bigger than a
ushel basket
Not 50 much its size makes the
new German shell 50 fatal 10 French
fortresSes-when II gets within range
but the style OF its plungine fire.
Big Guns Complete Surprise
II Is a complete surprise in warfare.
resses are turtiebacfs. from which or
binary horizontal or diagonal fire
chances off without much damage
Such were the German shells which
they expected. What they receive
when all goes we'll with the unwield-
~ howitzers-is a bushel of cordite.
straight down from the zenith
Up zoe the giant shell from the
far-of obusier in a long. high
diagonal lineup to a point just above
the doomed fortress Then-it seems
miraculops-it dives IN a vertical
smash. as straight as an apple falling
from a tree. straight on the turret.
its a are ma be judged
from the photographs which the Ger
MAI emperor is sending sratuitousiy
to all the world. to prove the final
work OF German science on the forts
of Liege.
All of which is terrible. If the i'm
pregnable forts composing caps re-
branches" like Paris and Antwerp are
~ oio 800 ralA4 VIC
shells, which smash cement steel-cas-
ing, soft metal, dirt and sand like an
egEshell, n more barrier against the
antique slaughter at close quar-
tiers disappears.
There was one brighter side. The
Medical Sheet of Munich recalls The
wonderful results of Red Cross anG
military ambulance work. In tht
Crimean war 25 per cent of tht
French-English wounded finally dice
from their injuries. In the war O
Italy (Mageta, SolferinoD the per
centage Of deaths following on wound.
was only IS. The Prussians in thei
war Of the duchies. lowered it tt
Is IL per cent, and in the Franco
Prussian war to II per cent. her
were only s per cent Of deaths fol
lowing on wounds in the Spanish
American war, and in that Of Man
churia 6.6 per cent mong the ia
panese and 4 per cent among the Rus
slams.
The Rage n Fury.
Yes, but alas, again! a last "un
> known element" in the abominabl
problem is making itself only to
: well known and tragical. l refer t
what they cali the moral factor.
The moral factor is the rage an
: fury of the combatants. On it, a
much as on the perfection of arm
and antiseptic surgery, depends tn
percentage of deaths, and consequent
4 ly their c~ost-pTice per head.
Rage and fury. From Servia-Aus
n tria to Russia-Austria, from Austri;
e Italy to France-England- Belgium-Ge1
: many, rage and fury of the comba
n ants find no equal in modern histor,
unless it be in the crazed combatats
J. Manchuria.
e And with this a new element
r horror which the world imagine
st itself done with these three centuri'
# past-the sack Of cities. o unde
stand, George Washington and Geors
J. III of England would have bee
equally wounded and insulted at tt
suggestion that their men could sal
a city. For sack. pillage, loot, smasl
ing in private doors, arSOnS, rape
a killing of women, priests and childre
the last practitioners were the horde
N mercenaries in France Of the religion
wars-the sixteenth century. 1t
l. true that France and England ha'
not readopted sack Of cities. But the
- rage and fury are 40 less for that.
20 Rage and fury. 1t is a return to Il
~ antique carnage-which was SO chea
Perhaps they will get it down
= moderate as 81 600 per man killed. :
{ this was is costing $42,0O 600 per d;
!. cash, without extras, you can maj
> the calculation. Which would la
: 1o-oor+ tho ~nrou or tho noon0