Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 93
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varigated foliage of stage scenery.
It is impossible to review the destruction done to these ponderous pieces of artillery without a thought of the gunners who may have manned them at the moments of disaster. In most cases annihilation must have been their fate.
It is also impossible to look upon them and believe that they can be repaired and rendered fit for further service. However that this can be done there is ample proof close at hand for here one of the wharf sheds has been commandeered by the military and is converted into a workshop replete with lathes, steam hammers and all the complicated machinery and tools and power necessary for such work. Trained Engineers with experienced mechanics and fitters directed by Military Experts are here attending to the shattered cannon very much in the