THE KAISEB AND THE MAXIM.
Sir Hidam Maxim, in his autobiography which was published recently, tells many good stores of his famous gun. He made the drawings for it in a room in Cannon Stret. Among the first to see the finished gun was the Duke of Cambridge. The late King Edward, then Price of Wales, fired the gun. It was through the Prince asking the Kaiser when on a visit to Germany if he had seen it, that Germany came to order vast numbers of Maxim guns. After exhaustive competitive trials of the gun before the Kaiser, the Emperor declared, "That is the gun —
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 209, 17 May 1915, Page 3
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105THE KAISEB AND THE MAXIM. Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 209, 17 May 1915, Page 3
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