NEW CARTRIDGES.
ADOPTED BY THE WAR OFFICE. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, Feb. 20. The Times states that the War Ofic; has adopted new “Mark Seven” cartridges, with a tubular, cordite pointed bullet. At eight hundred yards, it states, the new cartridge has a maximum trajectory (curve) of eight hundred inches, as compared with the German “Spitze” bullet’s trajectory of eight-two inches, arid the English “Mark Six” cartridge’s trajectory of one hundred and sixty inches. The Times condemns what it terms the weak bolt action of the British rifle, and demands a design capable of withstanding a high velocity cartridge without waiting for the automatic rifle which it states is now under consideration.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 February 1911, Page 6
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