MODERN WARFARE.
CABLE NEWS.
nited Proas Association-By Electric Teleginp Copyright.
MUFFLED RIFLE REPORTS,
HIRAM MAXIM'S DEVICE
Received August 27, 9 a.m. NEW YOKK, August 26. Hiram Maxim's device to muffle the reports of fie American service rifle were offiically tested at Springfield, Massachusetts. The report was barely audible at 1,500 yards.
What trie warfare of the future is going to be it is difficult to tell. It is only a abort time since Colonel Maude lent the great weight of his name tj the statements that an electric gun had been invented with whi:h it almost appeared possible that London might be bombarded from Berlin or Paris. A cablegram from Paris on June 20th lasc staged that the French Government had made tests with electric quick-firers the invention of an engineer at Dijon; named Putease. It was claimed that the guns -vere capable of discharging 1,200 projectiles a minute without the aid of explosives.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9177, 28 August 1908, Page 5
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154MODERN WARFARE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9177, 28 August 1908, Page 5
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