Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-07-22

intervals 81 battalion deploy by
empacements fer a battery of field
artillery
Railroad Track Provided.
immediately back of the emhank-
meut and ten feet below the level of
the outside is am asphalt roadway
sixty &C. eighty feet wide uoWu which
runs railroad track Nh this manner
every thing from troops 20 heavy guns
can De hrought 20 amy desired spot
with the least delay and troops in
particular can DE maueUNered as on
a parade ground
The entire fort IS planted with
trees preferably of the pine variety.
as these DO not lose their leaves in
winter
Concealed among these trees are a
great number of gun positions FOR
guns ot various kinds and cauhers
from six inches in diameter up to the
iarsest which modern artillery SEE
cnce affords
More Emplacemcnts Than Gums.
The fort must have many guns. but
feur or five times as many empl8ce-
ments consisting of "a concrete plat
~ sul' oo''0eu' eN.epI ~ lhe POM ON
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ar i'm no absenr,' ~ sut,, XIII San.
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orc nlsntc3 nn INK sila'. KIN tD,,' -
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enen,v teloscnn.s and .no,,,,, acro.
/ planes.
only on its inner face and con-
cealcd i'm the trees are the easements
/ perpendicular with windows for ven
tilation.
During the bombardmcnt these Win
doWs are closed with steel doors
much like those used ON office vaults
but heavier, to keep out shell splln-
ters and the CuncusslOn of exploding
shells
1t appears that the easements of the
Belgiuns We're not heavy enough to
stop the shells Of the great German
hOWitzers They We're built when six
inch howtzers We're the heaviest
known
In the same way the easements OF
a better fort Port Arthur-Were pen
etrated by the Japanese eleven-ineh
shells
The modern Russian forts were
built with the lesson of Port Arthur as
a model, and ] have seen dents where
the big German shells struck and
failed to penetrate.
When tales of the effect Of German
bombardment on Belgian forts first
reached America it was popularity sup
posed thar nothing could be built
strong enough to withstand them
Sheer nonsense, The penetrativt
power of any gun and any projectilC
has its specific limit. and this estab-
lished it is no difficult matter to bulld
a defense sufficiently strong to with
stand it.
Personally | believe that siX-lnth
steel plate ON top of the brick OF
Brialmont's forts would have kept out
even the Observation-Disclosures shells
When the fort is under lombard
menti and the windows of the case