MILITARY MATTERS.
- Vest Australian Rifle Meeting. PERTH; l>ec. 81. ' At iho llifle Association meeting GrunxufiU (Victoria), and Lake (South Australia) tied in the King's "* _ match, 200 yards, which was won | } by Lake in the shoot off- J rho Or anil Champion Aggrvgilt / «'» also won by Lake, with S9O f* out ot a possible 410. / Hew Army Gnns. r LONDON, DeO&O. The muzzle velocity of the new British guns is 1000 feet |>er wcood, , and the rate of Are twenty-five rounds 2 per ulnufe. The range is ton thouand yards. ' British Soldiers' Defectke Shooting. LONl)ON. Doc. 30. Lorfl Roberts, alter visiting the South African battlefields, writing in the Nineteenth Century, says he is uiorc th a n ever convinced that the reverses were chiefly attribute able to the Inability of the BriUsfci jto shoot. Ho advocates universal compuisory military servlqe<
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7701, 2 January 1905, Page 2
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139MILITARY MATTERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7701, 2 January 1905, Page 2
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