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DISCUSSION ON ARTILLERY. 
that the Egyptians had with their Maxim-Nordenfeldt batteries the 
German fuze. Well, that subject I may say has been for some time 
past very much engaging the attention of the Ordnance Committee, 
who took it up some time ago, as to the necessity of having a quicker 
setting fuze, and I hope in course of time we shall obtain it. We 
have called for designs from our own factories of different methods of 
a simpler setting fuze, a more rapid setting fuze, and they have also 
been called for from people outside, and we are going to try, I believe 
almost immediately, these very German fuzes or these very German 
fuzes with a slight improvement. How they will answer in other 
respects, besides the mere one of quick setting remains to be seen, 
because after all, although quick setting is an important thing, we 
found in our experiments with quick-firing guns that you could always 
set the fuzes faster than you could fire the guns. So that quick 
setting is one of the adjuncts of quick-firing, but I do not think you 
need attach enormous importance to it, although of course it is a good 
thing to have a quick setting fuze if we can get it. 
On the whole the report on the behaviour of our Field Artillery 
equipment seems to me very satisfactory (applause). 
Now perhaps Major Young will kindly tell us about the Horse 
Artillery of the Egyptian Army. 
Major N. E. Young: —First of all I should like Sir Henry Brackenbury 
to say that you are mistaken in thinking that I had a Maxim-Norden- 
feldt. The gun I had was a 7’75 centimetre Krupp, and it is a gun that I 
hope will never be used again. 
The Chairman :—I beg your pardon. I think the German fuze was 
used, was it not, with the Egyptian Field Battery; I mean the 12|- 
pounder. 
Major Young: —Yes Sir. I do not think there is anything to say 
about my gun, except in the matter of the recoil. 
The Chairman :—But I want you to tell us something more about 
your gun. You told us on the last occasion that it had a weight 
behind the team of only 20 cwt. 
Major Young : —Yes Sir. 
The Chairman :—Tell us something more about it. Our own 
Horse Artillery equipment is 30 cwt. How is the 10 cwt. taken off ? 
Major Young :—The limber was made of iron and there were only 
27 rounds carried per gun. In the field altogether I think they had 
50 rounds per gun on wheels. 
The Chairman :—What is the weight of your projectile ? 
Major Young :—It is about 9 lbs. Sir. 
The Chairman : —Shrapnel ? 
Major Young: —-Shrapnel, ring shell and case shot; the shrapnel 
had the time fuze only, no percussion fuze. 
The Chairman :—Do you know what fuze it was ? 
Major Young :—No Sir, I do not. It was simply a fuze for this 
gun and for no other I think. 
The Chairman :—A Krupp gun ? 
Major Young: —Yes Sir, a Krupp gun and a Krupp fuze. 
