THE BISLEY MEETING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1376, 29 February 1912, Page 7

THE BISLEY MEETING.

CANADA AND THE KOSS RIFLE,. Br Teleeraiih-Presj Aesojiallon-OopT'tKhl Ottawa, February 3". Mr. Hughes, Canadian Minister for Militia, announces that m.o Canadian team will go'to Bisley in 1912 unless the National liiflo Association" changes its rules regarding the Eoss ride. Canadian riflemen have, he says, been subjected to various nnnoynnccs in the Old Country since the Hoss rifle, attained to its present high state of efficiency.

The Bisley regulations lay down that the service rifle is "any .303 rifle as issued by the British Government or the Government, of any British Colony or Dependency for the, arming of the troops." As it is a widely-known fact that the Jioss viilc is the weapon that.hns been adopted by the Government' of Canada for the arming of its troops, it is perfectly obvious (hat it is qualified under the regulations for use at Bisley. In eonse(j'ience, however, of complaints by individual competitors, the council decided that "no Service ritle of any pattern, other than the official pattern in use by the British Army, be admitted in Service rifle competitions unless an officially certified specimen of such rifle be deposited witli the National Rifle Association at least three months.before the commencement of tho Bisley meeting and approved for use at tho.Bisley meeting. The regulation has lieen denounced as a 'deliberate insult to the Dominion, ami as an attempt to forco Canadians to use the Lee-Enfield. How these remarkable deductions are obtainc-,1 (says "The Times") is not obvious.