TO SUBDUE CROWDS
NEW GERMAN TANK. GUN TO SHOOT WATER. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). BERLIN, J une 24. * The Prussian police are experimentin'’' with it mobile tank armed with nothing but water. It resembles an armoured car, and is protected by bul-let-proof plates. There is a gun m a turret which discharges a irerce stream of water for a distance of 50 yards, damping the ardour of hostile crowds. As disorders must be suppressed it is better that water should How m the streets- than that there .should he bloodshed.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 June 1930, Page 8
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92TO SUBDUE CROWDS Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 June 1930, Page 8
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