CAPTURED GUNS.
Sixty field guns and heavy guns, caplured from- the Germans on, the Westeni Front by the New Zealand Division, are aboard the Waimana, at present in Wellington. These guns are to be distri J bnted to the regimental headquarters throughout New Zealand, but they are to fce exhibited first in Wellington. The distribution of these captured 'guns is a matter of some difficulty. Regiments naturally have a, special interest in the guns they captured themselves, and they wish these trophies to go to regimental headquarters. Some of the guns liave histories attached to .them, hot others have presented some difficulty in the matter ot identification. The senior officers of lift division will assist in securing a fair distribution. The captured guns have no yalue except as trophies. They are of many ages .and patterns, but even the most modem of them have -ceased to have military value, as they would have to -have ammunition of the German calitaes and fittings and accessories not wed in the New Zealand Army. Ifetsaat«aied«ven-: trolly to attach {bates to many of (these guns giving in brief £b> circumstances of .their captors and
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1919, Page 5
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190CAPTURED GUNS. Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1919, Page 5
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