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QUICK FIRING FIELD EQUIPMENTS ON THE 
CONTINENT. 
- BY — 
CAPTAIN L. R. KENYON, R.A. 
The following information as to Field Artillery Equipments on the Continent has been collected 
from various publications which have appeared during the last two years or so, the larger part of 
the information has been obtained from the Revue d' Artillerie which has published lengthy 
extracts from German official books, from other German publications, from the Memorial de 
Artilleria and from Swiss official or semi-official papers. 
Assistance has also been obtained from the Revue Militare Suisse, Journal of the United States 
Artillery, Journal of the Military Service Institution, U.S.A., Revue de VArmee Beige and 
Revue du Cercle Militaire. 
GERMANY. 
CCORDING to reports in the newspapers, the German army had 
at the end of 1898, been completely re-armed with the new so- 
called Q.F. gun, model 1896. The following details of this equipment 
Gun ,—The 
breech mech¬ 
anism consists 
of a horizontal 
wedge, which 
opens to the 
right and con¬ 
tains the strik¬ 
er which is 
cocked auto¬ 
matically; in 
case of missfire 
it can be re¬ 
cocked with¬ 
out opening 
the breech. 
For firing, a 
lanyard with 
a handle or 
toggle attach¬ 
ed to its other 
* These books are the official drill book, published January, 1898 and Changes in the Handbook 
for Practice for Field Artillery for the Materiel Model, 1896”. Some details of the equipment are 
given in these books, others can be deduced. Translations of considerable portions of them have 
appeared in the Revue d' Artillerie, April-June, 1898 ; these portions include the system of fire dis¬ 
cipline in force. Further information has also been collated from the Revue J Artillerie, Revue 
Militaire Suisse, Revue du Cercle Militaire, &c. The former of these publications has at inter¬ 
vals since 1896 given particulars with drawings, of the Q.F. Fie'd Equipments which have been 
designed by private firms. The sketches of the German Equipment are from a pamphlet on 
“ i ield Artillery Materiel, model 1896,” by Captain Zuelnger; published Berlin, 1899. They are 
reproduced in Revue J Artillerie, January, 1899. 
3. VOL. XXVI. 
are taken mainly from the published official books. 
FXG. X. Bx>eech of German £§i».ml 9 ssla.O'iHri.M.gf 
Tangent socket. Model 1896. 
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