THE NEW AUSTRIAN FIELD GUNS. 
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The shrapnel, we are told,, are intended for fire against troops under cover 
or in column formation. 
Fig. 12. 
(3) The carcass {vide Tig. 12, above) outwardly resembles common shell 
in shape and size, but it is cast with very thick single walls, and in the 
ogival head has three fire-holes covered with pitch-plaster. The interior is 
filled with a carcass composition, and a channel down the centre, as well 
as other channels leading to the fuze-holes, are filled with mealed powder, 
with quickmatch leaders. 
The fuze-hole is adapted for the same percussion fuze as used with 
common shell. 
(4) The case consists of a zinc cylinder filled with bullets, composed of 
lead and antimony, between which molten sulphur is run. The ends are 
closed by zinc plates, secured by turning down the ends of the case, as we 
do, and the base is strengthened by a second and thicker plate, also of zinc. 
To prevent the case being rammed too far in loading, there is a projecting 
ring round the exterior, at the same distance from the base as the foremost 
copper ring on the shell. The base is supplied with a handle made of 
galvanized iron wire, 
