Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1919 — Yank Artillery Made Record. [ARTICLE]

Yank Artillery Made Record.

The French take more pride in their artillery than in almost any other feature of their military service, writes C. W. Barron in the Wall Street Journal. In this war they made world records in effective gunnery. The American boys Watched the french move 13%-inch guns into position in 45 minutes with horses and motors. Then the Frenchmen saw the American boys do if in 12% minutes, and they did not use either horses or motors. Fifty American officers and men put the gun into place and they were the talk of the toiwn at that French camp. Afterward the French called upon their officers for themselves and all their man power to do this work when the tractor was not about. When the Germans met -the American gunners they thought a new kind of rapid-fire three-inch gun had come into the war because it shot so much more rapidly. ~