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Updated: May 15, 2025
Near Maidstone they came on a string of eleven motor-guns of peculiar construction halted by the roadside, with a number of businesslike engineers grouped about them watching through field-glasses some sort of entrenchment that was going on near the crest of the downs. It signified nothing to Bert. "What's up?" said Edna. "Oh! manoeuvres," said Bert. "Oh!
But as the repeller had not fired a single shot at the fleet, and as the battle had been fought entirely by the crabs, there was every reason to believe that if there were such things as motor-guns, their range was very short, not as great as that of the ordinary dynamite cannon. The great risk run by one of the crabs in order to disable a dynamite gun-boat seemed an additional proof of this.
There was the infantry arm to which Barnet belonged and which was supposed to fight on foot with a rifle and be the main portion of the army. There was also artillery, and for some unexplained reason much of this was still drawn by horses; though there were also in all the European armies a small number of motor-guns with wheels so constructed that they could go over broken ground.
Such forces and such vessels as might be demanded for the future operations of the War Syndicate were retained. A few field batteries of motor-guns were all that would be needed on land, and a comparatively small number of armoured ships would suffice to carry the motor-guns that would be required at sea. Now there would be no more mere exhibitions of the powers of the instantaneous motor-bomb.
But there were also men, still living, who deprecated the abolition of the old wooden seventy-four gun ship. A British artillery officer conversing with a member of the American Syndicate at a London club, said to him: "Do you know that you made a great mistake in the beginning of your operations with the motor-guns?
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