British Re-Armament

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1212, 31 December 1904, Page 2

British Re-Armament

Press Association.—Copyright.

London, Dec. 30

The War Office anticipats that twenty months will be occupied in tho re-arum moiit scb cme. Orders have been distributed at Woolwich, and wiib Cammcll and others already cabled.

London, December 30

The Woolwich arsenal is oxctiting India's order for IS2 oight-and-a-hali pounders for field artillery, and GO twelve-nnirn-lmlf pounders for horse artillery quick firers The muzzle velocity of tho now British gmis is 1000 feet per second, and the rato of lire twenty-five .omitis a minuto, Tho range is ten thousand yards.