Steel Guns ¹

Abstract

THE whole of this part of the Proceedings of the Naval Institute is occupied by detailed accounts of the steps taken to prepare the way for the establishment of Steel Gun Factories for the United States. We are informed that, while the rest of the world has advanced with the progress of the age, the artillery of the United States has made no step forward. Artillerists and advocates for providing adequate means of defence have laboured under many difficulties during the last twenty years, while regret is expressed that personal interests have entered so largely into the discussion of a question of such magnitude. In the House of Representatives it was declared that the fortifications of that country were in an absolutely worthless condition for all purposes of warfare.