MECHANISM OF WAR
, BOMBS. GRENADES, AND TELESCOPIC SIGHTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 29. | Router's Agency states that a Headquarters dispatch regarding the recent operations litis revealed tlio enormous j importance of bombs and hand grenades' which are needed in unlimited quantities for closo fighting in the narrow trendies, intersected by innumerable traverses and formidable barricades, with which the Gorman defence works abound. A beautifully-made unexploded bomb was recently found in our trenches._ It was capable of being thrown sixty yards, and the mechanism was so contrived that the bomb was bound to explode whatever way it fell. Tho German snipers uso rifles with special telescopic sights, making a miss almost impossible.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 31 July 1915, Page 6
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112MECHANISM OF WAR Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 31 July 1915, Page 6
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