MACHINE GUN PRACTICE
22NDS AT PAPAWAI. The Twenty-second Specialists and Machine-gun Section, under Lieut. Laws, engaged in a battle practice at Papawai yesterday. Major Fraser was in charge, of the operations, -which were held on the west bank of the Ruamahanga River, and were witnessed by the Chief of Staff, Colonel C. M. Gibbon, 1.G.5., and other officers. Twenty machine-guns were used, and the action represented what would take place under actual battle conditions. It was more elaborate than anj- previous practice of its kind, and when, as the engagement developed, the whole of the guns came into play, the din was deafening. Vickers, Vick'ers-Maxim, and Lewis guns were used, some being in emplacements on tho river bank, and others on tho higher ground behind and firing over the foremost gunners at the targets, a line of trenches across tho river. Good work was considered to have been done when the guns finally became silent. The Divisional Signallers maintained communication between tho guns and brigade headquarters and with the camp.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2988, 27 January 1917, Page 10
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170MACHINE GUN PRACTICE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2988, 27 January 1917, Page 10
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