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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 89, 26 January 1892, Page 2

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Members of the Manchester Bifles are reminded of the capitation parade, and annual meeting to be held on Thursday next. ..:'■;• ' All manner of things have been invented to facilitate the slaughter of opposing armies. Now the Germans have come to the fore with a combined rifle and lance. The Emperor has seen the article, but as yet has not ''given-4 an opinion on the matter. The utility of this weapon is that it enables cavalry soldiers to fire upon the enemy previous to charging with the lance/ Should however, the addition of the rifle make the lance heavier, than we are^ afraid that the combined article will not find favour with the War Office authorities. V The photographic rifle about which news has come to hand from Vienna will attract attention. This remarkable firearm, it seems, in the course of beingfired, takes a photo of the objects ainted. at. The whole thing is worked, by a miniature apparatus fixed to the rifle, and closes; itself immediately a shot is sent on its journey. If this invention icomes to anything, there will be no need for' markers at the ranges, and^ less need for a marksman to pay a stipulated' sum for challenging shots which he thinks have gone closet to the bull's eye than the mail at the target has given him credit for, for the rifle itself will photograph his shot.