BRITISH ARMY RIFLE.
ITS MERITS DISPUTED. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. August 27, 1.10 a.m.) Melbourne, August 20. In commenting on tho stricture of Major Richardson, the English expert, on tho British service rifle, which has been copied by Australia, as being inferior to the rifles of other nations, and having lost British, marksmen at tho Olympia Games an avorago of ten points each in their matches, Senator Pearco, Minister for Defence, has stated that tho Imperial authorities Tegard tho riflo asequal to any. Tho only thing was that tho rifles of other nations had a lower trajectory and greater velocity. Tests wero being made in England with rifles having a, lower trajectory, and several had. been sent to Australia,' and the defence authorities wero now experimenting with them.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1529, 27 August 1912, Page 5
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