AMERICA'S NEW WEAPON
The United States Ordnance Department, in the presence of high army OHI- -- -i Uki ii;.i:;V.tx of the British, i'l-eiitih, Italian, and Belgian Missions, :u'd a number of congressmen and senators recently made a series of test, oi the new Browning automatic, ride am! luaclimc-giiii, wiiich the Americans will noon be using in Europe.. The cartridges in the rifle cm b; fiml almost instantaneously, without removing from the snoulder, and single shorts can be lirei. at will. There is no recoil, llio targe! v..-: lorn lo pieces by what seemed to lie a gust of bullets. The observers were dccplv imprewnl bv tho machine-gun and by the rapid dismantling and reassembling of the weapon, wliicih was carried out in a few seconds. British ma-chine-gun experts were greatly interested. The manufacture of the rillos uns already begun, and within r few woeks they will bo delivered in thousands weekly.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 199, 11 May 1918, Page 10
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150AMERICA'S NEW WEAPON Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 199, 11 May 1918, Page 10
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