SNUB TO THE WAR OFFICE
RED .TAPEISM CONDEMNED IN CANADA. / By Telegraph—Press Assoolatlon—{JoDTrlelt (Rec. February 8, 5.5 p.m.) Ottawa, February 7.Colonel Sam'Hughes, Canadian Minister for Defence, has announced that if the British War. Office adheres to its re- { fusal '.to allow the Canadian . shooting .team at : Bisley to use the Ross rifle■with; aperture. sight attachment,.' the Canadians will refuse altogether to compete. : ,< 1 When the question was raised in the Dominion House of Commons, both sides congratulated Colonel Hughes .on his stand. '. • . . . Mr. Mac Donald criticised Coloney Seeley. (British War Minister) .for treating tho, Canadians as if they were inferior people, and commented Upon "War Office, red-tapoism,''i which; refused to adopt'a weapon infinitely superior to the Lee-Enfield rifle. ■ ,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1979, 9 February 1914, Page 7
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118SNUB TO THE WAR OFFICE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1979, 9 February 1914, Page 7
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