Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1915 — FIND NEW USES FOR OLD GUNS [ARTICLE]

FIND NEW USES FOR OLD GUNS

Washington. D. C.—The Navy Department has found It possible, by making some changes in the carriage, to turn the discarded one-pounder guns of the mark VL type into effective antiaeroplane guns. About sixty of these guns made in 1899, and which long ago gave place to a more modern weapon, have been recalled by the Navy Department Tram various Grand. Army posts and other aemt rfvje-oraagiWtioMS to which they were loaned and are now being converted at the Washington saw yard fete *^ky-eaaxobeßS l *< yg- .--A—.,