CAPTURED GUNS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 237, 1 July 1919, Page 6

CAPTURED GUNS

TO BE DISPLAYED IN WEL-

LINGTON.

■■ Sixty field guns and heavy guns, captured from the Germans on the Western front by the New Zealand Division, are 'aboard tlie'Waimajia, at present in port. These guns are to be distributed to tho regimental Jieadqyarters throughout New Zealand, hut they are to be 'exhibited first in Wellington. The. Minister of Defence asked' the Mayor if a display could bo ■ arranged, and the Mayor has suggested in reply that the guns should be placed temporarily in front of the To - vn Hall, on either side of the portico. The Defence Department will move the guns to 1 this position when they are taken off the Waimana. i The distribution of these captured guns is a matter of some difficulty. Regiments naturally lmve a special interest in the guns that they captured themselves, and they wish these trophies to go to regimental headquarters, home of the guns have histories attached to them, but others have presented some difficulty iii the matter ot identification. Tho senior - officers of the division will assist in securing a fair distribution. The captured guns have 110 valuo. except as trophies. They are cu many ages and patterns, but even the most modern of them have ceased to military value, since they won < "'I" 11 ® ammunition 1 of the German Mhbies an fitting and accessories not used in aio NwZealand Army. It is intended eventually to, aftacli plates -tol uiaiij, of these, guns-giving 111 brief the cnuim stances 1 of''their capture and the name of the units that took them Later 011 tl"= Cit -V Co,mcll P l ' o !' ° mount H-ome of tho enemy guns a the Soldiers' ■•Memorial Cemetery at Ivaion.