BLAZE OF FIRE
POWER OF MODERN WEAPONS DEMONSTRATED TO DOMINION DELEGATES. AT BRITISH TRAINING CENTRE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 8. The Dominion delegates visited a famous Army training centre, where they were shown the latest mechanised units and given a demonstration of the immense power of infantry. They watched a mock battle staged on a stretch of heatherland, .where Highlanders advanced. Bren guns smothered targets five hundred yards away. In the middle of the demonstration, a mock gas alarm was given and within a few seconds the men. now equipped with gas masks, resumed their blaze of deadly fire.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1939, Page 5
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106BLAZE OF FIRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1939, Page 5
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