ARMS FOR THE AFGHANS
SMUGGLING IN SEISTAN. : COLONIAL.; GOVERNMENT RIFLES, (UITELBOBAPH—PBESS ASSOCIATION —COPT RIO JIT!) London, May 12. , A caravan of forty camels, ladon with contraband arms and ammunition for Afghanistan, is reported as, having traversed, the Seistun listrict (lying partly : in Persia and partly in Afghanistan). .... Melbourne, 'May, 13. With reference .to . the. smuggling into Afghanistan of arms bearing Australian and Now Zealand Government' marks, , the Minister for Defence. (Senator Pearce) states that, bofore selling- old-rifles, the . barrels aro bent and, otherwise treated so as to render them ineffective for shooting purposes; He felt sure, the, rifles referred to in the cablegram were not bought in Australia—at least, that they hpd not been bought since Federation., , " In military circles it, is held that the cnly {possible chance of'tho : Hflcs being, Australian ,is,that they' were so old as to have been put out of use long before the Federation era.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 507, 14 May 1909, Page 5
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150ARMS FOR THE AFGHANS Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 507, 14 May 1909, Page 5
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