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These questions were the following: The rights and duties of neutrals; the limitation of the armed forces on land and sea, and of military budgets; the use of new types and calibres of military and naval guns; the inviolability of private property at sea in times of war; the bombardment of ports, cities, and villages by naval forces.
His description of his visit to Sitka is entertaining, and of it he says: "In the fort we met nothing so unusual or costly as to be worthy of special remark; the fort consisted of solid log towers, and high strong palisades, with apertures or embrasures, in which were set guns and carronades of different calibres.
Eighty thousand prisoners, between five and six hundred guns of different calibres, and more than a thousand machine guns, had fallen to the Allies in four months and a half. Many square miles of French territory had been recovered. Verdun glorious Verdun had been relieved. Italy and Russia had been helped by the concentration of the bulk of the German forces on the Western front.
Further, the average rate of poison gas production within the I.G. was at least three thousand tons per month, sufficient to fill more than two million shell of Treaty calibres.
The proportion of men so armed was one-eighth of the battalion. The use of these two different calibres of fire-arms had some drawbacks, but they were counterbalanced by some curious advantages.
Else if we happened to run out of ammunition we could not borrow from anybody. He thought it most unfortunate that the British and French guns and rifles were of different calibres." Brighton, England, April 28, 1917. DEAR ARTHUR: ... Well, the British have given us a very good welcome into the war. They are not very skillful at such a task: they do not know how to say "Welcome" very vociferously.
As early as the 2d of March Porter assembled at the mouth of the Red River a great fleet of nineteen ironclads, including fifteen of the heavier class and four of the lighter. The fleet carried 162 guns, of which 62 were of the higher calibres, from 80-pounder rifles up to 11-inch Dahlgrens, and the combined weight of projectiles was but little less than five tons.
Ammunition was distributed in all haste; two flints, a gill of powder, and fifteen balls to each man. The balls had to be suited to the different calibres of the guns; the powder to be carried in powder-horns, or loose in the pocket, for there were no cartridges prepared. It was the rude turn out of yeoman soldiery destitute of regular accoutrements.
As the train went on, he caught sight from the window of immense stores of war German waggons with their military destinations still marked in chalk, painted guns of all calibres, drums of barbed wire, higgledy-piggledy truck-loads of scrap, all sorts of flotsam and jetsam of the great conflict.
The enemy machine guns were soon turned round and got into action against the Germans by those of the men who understood their use. Towards 5-30 p.m. in the evening the enemy opened fire with a heavy barrage of all calibres.
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