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Italian field artillery is curious in being both lighter and heavier than that of most other armies. Instead of the 75-mm. gun common to France, Britain and the U. S., a 65-mm. howitzer is the standard battery weapon, yet each infantry battalion also has nine big 81-mm. mortars. Their antitank and anti-aircraft guns are only 20-mm. (the French 253 proved too light against German tanks), but their machine guns are .50 calibre. Each battalion has 27 automatic rifles (very...
...takes from them he will have to fight. To their scorn for Italy's passive game, Marshal Badoglio has a pat answer: they also serve who only stand and wait. The Allies thought it splendid of Italy to stay neutral last time until 1915, and then join them instead of the Kaiser. That released several French divisions for the first Battle of the Marne. Waiting again, Italy has again picked a winner, but this time not the Allies...
This week Peking celebrated the fortieth anniversary of that gruesome outbreak. With intent no less barbaric because it was more subtle, the Japanese marked the occasion by going full-out for the skins of all the foreigners in China except themselves. Instead of using long-swords and rifles, the Japanese advanced on foreign citizens and interests with high-explosive accusations, brickbats of propaganda, bolts of protocol. The campaign was far less spectacular but far more important than the local Boxer Uprising. By last week the three burning unknowns in the truly World War were Russia, Japan, the U. S. Japan...
...ultraviolet rays on the blood of dogs. In a local veterinary hospital he infected dogs with streptococci and staphylococci, withdrew a large amount of blood from their veins, irradiated it under an ultraviolet lamp, and put it back in circulation. Theoretically, the rays should have killed the germs. Instead, they killed the dogs...
...labor (40% of shipyard cost). Ingalls welds complete stern assemblies, bow sections, etc. up to 75 tons on platforms in the yard, swings them into place with big gantry cranes. It reverses old-line shipbuilding techniques by laying decks on shored-up timbers, then attaching framework (ribs, etc.), instead of building from the keel up. It estimates a 16% saving in steel over a riveted ship of the Exchequer's capacity, which would have needed 1,250,000 rivets as well as overlapping plates. And it claims a maintenance triumph because welded ships can be repaired by welding...