BRITISH INFANTRY ARMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 February 1911, Page 3

BRITISH INFANTRY ARMS

A NEW BULLET ADOPTED. THE TIMES CONDEMNS PRESENT RIFLE. r BT ETECTRTC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, February 20. The Times states that the War Office, lias adopted a new Mark V JT. cartridge, with a tubular cordite charge and a pointed bullet. At 800 yards it .lias a. maximum trajectory of 80fj. indies, compared with the eighty-two inches of the German Spritze bullet and the 160 inches of the English Mark VI. Tlie Times condemns the weak •bolt action of the British- rifle, and demands a design capable of withstanding a. .liigli velocity cartridge without waiting for the automatic rifle -now under consideration.