AMERICAN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A MONSTER GUN. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 9. Dr Hutchison, formerly Edison’s chief engineer, gave a demonstration of a new gun able to burl a five-ton projectile two hundred to three hundred miles, the discharge being noiseless, smokeless and without recoil. Smokeloss powder is utilized and the gun can develop a muzzle velocity of five miles a second. Its extraordinary powers are due. to the fact that the powder is bum ed, all of it being consumed before the projectile is discharged. A miniature specimen gun was used, only eight inches long, but the principle for the greater gun will be the same. Hudson Maxim declared it is wonderful. Another armament expert said: “It will do more eventually to bring peace than * *C. the peace conference, it will make war too terrible.” The gun is the invention of John Temple, a Britisher. SWIMMING RECORD. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 9. Misses Boyle, Bleibtrey and Wainwright, set* n new world’s record for two hundred yards relay swimming race, do* hv; it in V 23 Ki seconds,
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1921, Page 2
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191AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1921, Page 2
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