THE DOHET RIFLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3030, 16 October 1888, Page 3

THE DOHET RIFLE.

Details have been jiuhlislicil of tinnow magazine lifle invented l.y Lieutenant i)uhet, ot lliP Hill raiment ot (lit l line, of the Belgian army. Save in lpngih, it has much in common with the" Colt" tcvuhir, tln-ro a revolving drum at tho base of the. bntrell; the mechanism for lending, throwing out tho empty M\ mill recharging Mug, however, quite different, Tho drum contains eight. Cartridges, according to L'Av.'iiir ' Militnire, and the action of recuckiiii! tliif WN out the empty slic'il, •■UTiSrlie drum, as is tlm cuse with tile ordinary revolver. But 110 noon, r has the empty nc ptor clicked home in its new position, w Inn. ftoin a magazine in the small of the stuck, a frehli cartridge in autjimiticnlly in, ailll till Ot' I lid IVUMIH. ing Hi'Wr fcirtriilijPH Imv bewi duplicate!!, This as will lll'm en Uiakes the gnu's total liie uillii.ut reloading sixteen shirt*, a vititiild.. pepper-box indeed; ami when up retuemlier thm every man in a lint! oi liattlo where Mich arms were used could Ore sixteen shots in t|tiick sue Mien and then lull Imok to reload, only to make way for a second linn siinilail} armed, the formidable character of il.e arm is apparent In m> gun thus far devised with 11 pocket tmignzine tinder the liieaih has tlm maximum be>n mote than six olio's, und unless tin average soldier ia alilu to detach the empty magazine, and clap on another in very quick time, it would seem that (Lis new Belgian piecti has ut palpitfifc advantage, Ind-ied, should it prove as efficient im is promised, a dash through Belgium territory by or Germans may come toupon as quite impracticable.