CANADIANS AT BISLEY.
USE OF THE ROSS RIFLE. (Times-Syflney Sun Special Cable.) (Received S.lO a.m.) LONDON, February 8. Canadian riflemen are indignant at the National Rifle Association prohibiting the use of Canadian sights. Colonel Hughes offered the loan of sufficient Canadian rifles to accommodate every territorial and regular. Unless the Canadians were allowed to use their own rifle, probably no Canadian team would compete at Bisley. When the question was raised in the House of Commons both sides congratulated Colonel Hughes for the- attitude he had taken up. Sir John Macdonald criticised Colonel Seely (British War Minister) for treating the Canadians as if they were an inferior people, and commented on "War Office red tapism" in refusing to adopt a weapon infinitely superior to the Lee-Enfield rifle.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 34, 9 February 1914, Page 5
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