Howitzer and Light Gun Batter ies Good Shooting After a lapse of two years, during which no gun practice has been possible, the 4.5-in, Field Artillery Battery and the Light Gun Battery, SV.C., went to Woosung by rail on Sunday and carried out a series of practices at floating targets in the Yangtszekiang. Recent negotiations with the Bureau of Foreign Affairs for Kiangsu made it possible, through the courtesy of the Chinese authorities, to carry on a practice of many years' standing which the trouble of the past two years has interrupted, The gunners were on parade Headquarters at an early hour. The Field Artillery Battery hooked-in their teams and proceeded to Shanghai North Station, where guns and teams were entrained without incident; the Light Gun Battery, whose gins are man-handled, earrying out the same manoeuvre sine taneously. The assistance of LIS. Hawkins "was availed of in con. structing two suitable targets, which had been towed out to their anchor-
Devuaiixe Gexs ar Woosuxa Fowrs Grx, Wanonor, Mason Davis, Cote Onrex-PatatEn ages at the mouth of the Whangpoo soon after daybreak.
Detraining at Woosung, the Bat-tories proceeded to their firing positions on land recently reclaimed by the Whangpoo Conservancy Board alongside the forts, the targets being in a northerly direction from the gun positions, The B. C, reported "ready to fire" at about 10
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