TUNISIAN TEST

Grey River Argus, 7 June 1943, Page 5

TUNISIAN TEST

Proves British Equipment (Rec. 6.30.) LONDON, June 6. During the last six weeks of the Tunisian campaign, an average of over 500,000 rounds of ammunition was fired each day, yet reports of defects or failures in equipment have been exceedingly few and far between, stated the Parliamentary Secretary for th e Ministry of Supply (Mr. Sandys) at Wewarks to-day. There is still better to come, Mr. Sandys went on. Further new' and improved types of guns, ammunition tanks, and other military equipment are under development or already in production. Over one-third of the present output of many of the principal classes of army equipment are made up of tvpes not. in production a year ago. A Washington message gives an interesting example' of new arms being developed by the Allies. The United States War Department announced that a new sub-machine-gun, small enough to carry in an ordinary brief case, is now in mass production. It is known as the M 3 machine-gun. It weighs less than nine pounds and costs less than twenty dollars. It is constructed of all metal and can fire at the rate of 450 rounds per minute. It is reported to be more accurate than the standard machine-gun.