Howitzers Make Good Practice at Woosung The Field Artillery Battery, tried out their new howitzers for the first time on Sun. day. Assembling at the Gunshed at 7.30 a.m. they hooked in their teams and proceeded to the S.N.R. North Station, where guns and horses were entrained for Woosung by the 9 o'clock train.
Detraining at the Forts Station, the Battery proceeded to a fung point near the breakwater, the direction of fire being due north. The target, which, with the advance signal section, was under the command of Capt. A. J. Stewart, consisted of a smal] sampan carrying a flag, anchored about 2,000 yards out in the Yangtsze.
'A short ranging series was fired, the target soon being bracketed,
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