TRUNCHEONS OR REVOLVERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3485, 13 May 1920, Page 7

TRUNCHEONS OR REVOLVERS.

The suggestion that the London police may be armeci with a more

lethal weapon than the truncheon shows an inCl'lnatioll to follow the me'E'hods of the Continental forces; members of which have for long been supplied with revolvers when on their more dnng‘erous boats, says the Daily Ch.l'onicle. -

Slight as the - trutfizheon appears; however, in the himds of an expert thelight boxwood stuff can bé ~tLil'ned into; :1. fornlidtlblo w(':a'poll.’ V

In America the police are trained in» {L useful trick to stop :1 running mam‘ with :1 twist" of the w'rist the trunch-‘j eon is sent sl'>i.nning along the ground,f and if woll*ilimcd it b‘ecome's entangled 9n the logs the fugitive, tripping him 11or«.vi1j:.. and thus enabling his ;._ull“:':z':2‘ : ~ :?.:i‘(:‘vx up and come to grips.