CLAIMS MADE FOR REJECTED INVENTION
Received Sunday, 8.40 p.m. SYDNEY, March 24. j The inventors of a weapon rejected ! by the Army during the war claim that I it would have saved many Australian ! ives in New Guinea. The invention, which has just been removed from the secret list, is an attachment whereby a 20-m.m. high-expiosive shell can be fired from a standard Lee Enfield Mark ill Service Rifle. Designed by Sergeant John Wright and Corporal L. J. Campbell, both of Sydney, the wtapon j was ready for use in August, 1943. It i was rejected by the army in February, 1 1945, and placed on the secret list. | When he saw it dejnonstrated, Major General C. E. M. Lloyd said its use would have reduced the operations in New Guinea by one-third a-nd the casualties to two-fifths. At a test yesterday two shots were fired. One shattered a man-sized threeplay target at 200 yards and the other, aimed about 300 yards away from ancther target, riddled it with 42 shrapnel holes. The attachment would cost about ten shillings.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 March 1946, Page 5
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