The Germans for many months were superior in machine guns. But the British have now a gun which can beat theirs, and is. beating it every day, says the “Daily Sketch.” Invented by an American officer, Colonel Lewis, and made in Belgium almost up to the moment when the German scouts entered the city of its manufacture, the new invention narrowly escaped capture by the Huns. Its killing power may be gauged from the fact that in one trench recentlv one of these guns, manned by a crow of two men, accounted for 330 Germans in half an hour.’ It is working now in France and Flanders night and day, sending a steady sweep of lead across the far-flung German line. It is as if a comb of bullets were carding out the Huns from their trenches.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 166, 27 June 1916, Page 2
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