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ARMOUR AND ITS ATTACK BY ORDNANCE. 
Rapid erec¬ 
tion of 
shielded 
mounting. 
afterwards taken out of it. This design is shown in Figs. 24 and 25 
Fig. 24. 
Fig. 25. 
The hood of this mounting is the one which, as mentioned above, had 
been fired at with an 8*2 cm gun at 15Q0 m range and struck three times, 
slight indents only being made. 
Saturday’s work (September 27th), began with an operation on 
which the value of the heavier shielded mountings greatly depends, 
namely, the erection of one of them in a pit made for it. The one 
selected was that for 12 cm (4*72-inch) howitzer of 13 calibres (see Fig. 
26). The simplest mechanical means were purposely employed, con- 
