Lewis Machine Gun

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 November 1916, Page 3

Lewis Machine Gun

The Germans for many months were superior in machine guns. But the British have now a gun which can beat theirs, and beating it every day., says the "Daily Sketch.''

lnventedl by an American -officer, Colonel Lewis, and made in .Belgium, almost up to, the mcmet when the German scouts entered the city of its manufacture, the new invention narrowly escaped capture by the Teutons. Its killing power may be gauged from the fact that in one trench recently \one of these guns, manned by a crew 'cf two men, accounted for 330 Germans in half an hour. It has been described as a ''hose of death," and whether in advance or retirement it >,s going to be the supreme battle arbitei of the coming year. Suppose that instead of a riflo carried by one man. weighing ten pounds and firing fifteen bullets a minute, one had a rifle carried by two men, weighing twenty-five pounds and firing fifteen bullets a secohd. What would 'be the effect on an advance made by the enemy ? No one would have to raise hie rifle to h?s shoulder. The new arm gives the greatest volume of fire in the least time. It is working now -in I 1 ranee and Flanders nli'glit and day, sending a steadly sweep of lead across the farflung German line. It is as if a comb of bullets were carding out the Teutons from their trenches.