THE DISADVANTAGES OF BIG GUN PRACTICE.
It is of interest (says the the London Daily News) to notice the action of the War department upon the reiterated complaints of damage done to gasholders in the Plumstead Marsh district by the vibration of the firing of the 80 and 100 ton guns. It has been ascertained that by the firing of these guns the iron plates of the gasholders bulge in to the extent of half an inch, and this, of course, may be productive of disastrous consequences. Notice has also been taken of the effect of the firing of heavy ordnance on passing vessels, and it is stated that at the moment a 100ton gun is fired a steamer or other vessel passing up or down the river makes a leap. Such a thing has happened as a heavy gun wheeling round while being tested, and attention is called to the possibility of the 100-ton gun turning in the direction of London, and a shot weighing about a ton finding its way into the heart of the city. It is naturally thought by Londoners that the time has arrived when it is necessary to remove the Government proof butts out of the metropolitan area to some site remote from human dwellings.
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Kumara Times, Issue 997, 10 December 1879, Page 2
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