Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1915 — AUSTRALIAN FIRING A TRENCH MORTAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AUSTRALIAN FIRING A TRENCH MORTAR

This remarkable looking weapon* which is beings used With telling Offetft against the Turks in the Dardanelles campaign, is-a trench mortar, one of the . nqw : engines of war which has been brought into play-during the present Jiurppean war. It is mounted on boxes, and judging' from the way it its handled when .fired tb 676 - I s 'Considerable risk to-the pointer-or-operator of ihe weapon, fw while one snn directs the -five Of the mortar* the other arm pulls the slug which sets it oft. , „