NEW ARMY RIFLE.
SAMPLES --FOR AUSTRALIA. ' / ' By Tclecraph—Press Association—Copyrielit (Roc. July 11, 11.15 p.m.) Melbourne, July it. Senator Pearce, Minister for Defence, has accepted the War Office offer of samples of the new pattern Army rifle. Senate? Pgot.co states that. if Ihe proposed now ammunition; emlwdying tho pointed bullet, is adop.ted it will entail a complete change of rifles throughout the. Empire. : '
'Speaking,..in. the House o& Lords recently, Lord Haldane, then Seoretary of 'Stuto for War, rcfcxrcd to tlio now rifle, and said 'tho War Office wero proceeding to manufacture a considerable number of these weapons, and proposed to i-.-:ue them to selected bodies-of troops. If it fulfilled its'promise the-new nflo would be the finest in tho world, and the authorities would proceed at onco with its manufacture. • It was not an automatic rifle, but could be readily adapted to the automatic . mechanism should that be thought desirable hereafter.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1491, 13 July 1912, Page 5
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149NEW ARMY RIFLE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1491, 13 July 1912, Page 5
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