The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-31
MYR|ADS OF DEADLY
ROAD 10 IRE RHINE
Uncle Sam Will Use Fieldpieces
In France Similar to French
rs, British 3.3 and the
"Field Fritz"
4 TEN and women OF America, meet
lVl the Yankee "three!'

AV1 hhS iuuhtt luItt1
lie Is blood brother to the
French seventy near relative
OF the British 33 and twin of the
German three"
Sounds like higher mathematics or
Alice In Wonderland" or mere non
sense, doesn't it? Well, it's nothing OF
the Kind. 1t Is force that Is to blast
the way to victory If the expectations
OF the war department are to be re.
allied, writes a Washington CORE
spondcnt Of the Philadelphia Press.
The Yankee three" Is the standard
lzed Held gun of the United States ar
tillery. 1t is being turned out In thou
sand lots for the biggest artillery drive
that the world has known.
Unjust walk warily and speak guard
edly In telling how the Yankee three"
and the things that 90 with 1t figure
IN the new artillery plans OF the war
department. There Is so much that is
dramatic that there is temptation to
overstep the bounds Of prudence. A re-
porter has been urged to tell any one
OF dozen things which are big news,
but which cannot be told without Civ.
ing information to the enemy.
l have therefore carefully and con-
scientiously deleted everything that
should remain untold, and | find enough
remains Of news that Is interesting,
exclusive and timely to warrant this
article.
First | will tell the story of the Yam
kee three" 1t is a beautiful and a
| terrible weapon, racy In its slim lines
even more effective than the French
"seventy-fve' in the efficiency of its
execution.
1t was horn in 1904 and was concsiy.
ed wholly In the United States. The
bureau Of ordnance Of the war depart
ment after labored studies devised its
essential mechanism. the spring de-
vices that take up the recoil and keep
the gun constantly "on the target"
'.'' "75" German Discard.
The French "seventy-flve," as almost
every one knows. is German discard.
/ The French ordnance bureau took it
and after long study perfected 1t. The
| French have turned out enormous
/ quantities of the seventy five" and
\ Have made it their most effective war
arm. ! The caliber Of the Seventy
! five' is 2.05 inches. The Yankee three
is three inches, exactly. The British
stand dard field gun is 49, The field
! Fritz" as the German gun has been
styled, Is, like. the Yankee gun, three
inches exactly.
While our allies look to us to furnish
food by the shipload for their peoples
| ahd their armies, airplanes by the thou
! sand and other aids in the great war,
the greatest Of all their demands is for
artillery and for the munitions that 60
with 1t.
Artillery In its broadest sense means
the Yankee three" and the three
are the high explosive, the shrapnel,
and the gas shell. OF these three pref
erence is being given TO the high ex-
plosive shell.
American productive genius Is being
called upon to send as many of the
"threes'' to tie battle line as the out
put Of all the Teutonic allies combined.
This huge output is already within
sight, and 1t will soon be exceeded
When the time for the great spring
drive to the Rhine has arrived, say the
middle of next March, the United
States will have enough "threes" at
the front to smother any artillery re,
sietanca that tho GprrnnnS NAV opDOSe
and to wipe out any system of trenches
that may stand In their path.
Output Is Enormous.
am not permitted even to estimate
that enormous output. 1t Is sufficient
! 10 l.nn1r mill ho tho 1rroo tort arI,I Ia,.1,