DESTRUCTIVE WEAPONS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1898

DESTRUCTIVE WEAPONS.

“It is scarcely possible to conceive the destructive power pent up in one of the great cannon of to-day.

“The highest military authority states that ‘the impetus of a modern projectile weighing one thousand pounds, as it leaves the mouth of a twelve-inch gun, is equal to that of a sixty-ton locomotive with a train of eight cars, moving at the rate of fifty miles an hour.’ Is it any wonder, then, that a two-thousand-pound missile hurled from the big sixteen-and-one-fourth-inch gun with all the explosive force of half a ton of powder, should crash through nearly forty feet of steel, iron, and solid masonry, as shown in the illustration on page 12?”

The above is taken from our new tract, “The Alarm of War.”