INVENT A NEW GUNPOWDER.
o> — • »\VO AMERICAN SOLDIERS CREDITED WITH AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
Army officials in Washington are interested in reports lrom .Manila of tho «iifc.\-sfiil tn'al of a new and powerful kind of gunpowcler invented hy two treojiers of the X'nth Cavalry. According to this information the new sri'npowdcr, which was invented hy Will Peters and Kyle Arnell, can he mad? :>t half the cost of th.* powder now use ; l'-r rifle cartridges. It is smokeless.
The i owder is said to hnv-> hoen tested in a regulatior army r'fle at For? »\->.mj) Stohcnhurg. near Manila, and s.-nt a st c' hullet half way through an iv. h of solid steel. It is said that at iliil) yards it is on!v ne o--ary to i;-e tlic i ; eL'uhtio!i 100 yard's elevation ■ ! (he "tin Tf this is true it ; s more iwwerful than the powder now used hy th > armv.
Kyle Arnell is from Cincinnati and Pet en from Louisville.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 223, 3 November 1916, Page 8 (Supplement)
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160INVENT A NEW GUNPOWDER. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 223, 3 November 1916, Page 8 (Supplement)
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