ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEVICES.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1923, Page 3

ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEVICES.

WASH 1 N'GTOX, November 23. Tlic Department of 'War announces the perfection of a Jill y ciililn'o anti-air-craft gun, firing five hundred shots par minute. with a perpendicular range of nine to twelve thousand feet: also a thirtv-soven millimetre anti-aircraft machine gun firing 120 shots per minute with a perpendicular lamg.e of fourteen thousand feet. This weapon fires a shell with such delicately adjusted fuses flint they explode upon contact with halioou cloth. The Department is now testing another anticraft gun with a perpendicular range of thirty thousand feet. This weapon is considered the newest and most powerful protection against aircraft, yet; devised. THE .IAL’S AXI) AMERICA. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) TOKIO, November 22. comment on the I nited States Supreme Court’s decision regarding the land laws is generally dig.iiih.cd. The "Clmgai shugyo Shimpo” regrots evidence of the racial discrimination. which is iiicou-'.stcnt with humanity, justice ami beuevrlenee, to wliieh the American people and the. Government are traditij'.ir.lly pkilgcd. The “Kokumin SI imhuu ’ advise-: tie Government to red mlile its effort.-- to settle the immigration (ptestion. because the Jnpatieg Ai e t n iiii-ndship would never he eemone I | cntu.t f n;iy until the spiel < [ dtsir- u i ■ i n vr.s eliminated.