FRENCH ARMY RIFLE.
EXPENSIVE CHANGE PROPOSED. Br Meeraph—Press Association-Copyright . • ' ParlSi August .25. In a communique just issued, the French War .Office admits that the Lebel rifle is out of date. It adds that a ndw rifle is ready,' but that the change from the Lebel would cost .forty million pounds . sterling, and that, therefore, it can only be undertaken under the stress Of absolute necessity. Critics allege that the cost of a change has been over-estimated.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 906, 27 August 1910, Page 5
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76FRENCH ARMY RIFLE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 906, 27 August 1910, Page 5
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