Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-13
NEW AUSTRIAN GUN IS LATEST TERROR
 IN ARTILLERY GAME
1t Is Beinu Closely Guarded Against Inspection But De- StruCtiOn Caused By Its Shells Is Tremendous.


 TARNOW, Austrian Galicia, June 12.
 The German forty-two centimeter mortars. with which Liege was batter ed into submission. are declared not to have been so effective as the Aus tro-Hungarian weapons of the same calibre-two of which were used against the Russian troops in Tarnow
 fired at range of from five to eight miles The first shell landing in the city at the time it was occupied as @ Russian headquarters, caused the Rus sian general and his staff lo abandon their comfortable headquarters in TaI- now. tho largest city in the radius of many miles and decamp to a spot ten miles to the rear. Thereafter the Aus trians fired only five shots more from their big mortars into the city, for it
 is. after an, an Austrian town and they
 had no desire to damage unnecessari- ly their own property.
 As the advancing Austro-Hungarian army slowly pushed forward against lTaruow. the spot to which the Rus Islans clung longest during the big 1 May battle in an attempt to save the
 enormous quantity of supplies stored in this vicinity and to give other parts or their army a better chance to re- . treat undisturbed the big 16 12 inch twins were twice moved forward to spots from which they could drop shells into the supply trains and or
 the men attempting to save the stores. The correspondent of the Associated ] Press, now visiting the battlehelds
 in Western and Middle Galicia. on which the great victory of the allied l German and Austro-Hungarian armies was won has not been permitted to see the new guns, but he has seen the
 sites from which they were fired and | the destruction caused by the shells. l Al one place the suns were concealed behind a village where the glazier Is Inow replacing window panes destroy cd by the concussion Of the discharge. At another place the guns were em-
 placed near a railroad station, this
 spot having been chosen for conveu- Hence iu erecting the guns in their foundation of cement and in the third
 site they were located in a valley.
 In Tarnow one shot struck appar.
 ently by error. a peasants house of
 brick It is now mere mass of bricks. curiously level with the ground
 house and an having apparently been swallowed up in the crater made by the bursting shell Three persons were killed in the house. block away is one of the city schools. which the Austrians believed rightly was be ing used as quarters for Russian sol diers. A gaping clift thirty feet wide and extending from cellar to roof of . the tourstory building shows with . what precision the gunners found tht . mark. A second school buildins half mile away was hit squarely or Ithe roof. The wall on the side toward the court yard is torn out bodily Or
 the side facing the street hole twen
 ty feet in diameter was carved ou neatly in the thick brick and concret' , wall the aperture being as nicel! p rounded as if the circle had been lai' 2 out with a pair Of compasses. Th' ? brick work circle came out with sucl B accuracy and force that it has lei - its imprint again as carefully round
 ed scmicircle, in the high fence 0