Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — Grenades of Many Types. [ARTICLE]

Grenades of Many Types.

The grenade has become one of the leading weapons of the European war. Each belligerent uses several, types, Austria as many as six. Grenades are thrown by hand by means of a special “racket.” by catapults, shot from guns and from trench mortars. Hand grenades have a range of some twentyfive or thirty yards. The grenades fired from mortars may range up to five hundred yards. The most powerful grenade is a Danish invention. It is shot from a mortar, weighs about three pounds,, and In addition scattering the fragments of its case on explosion, it carries some 250 bullets.