A NEW GUN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 July 1921, Page 5

A NEW GUN

MAKES WAll TOO TERRIBLE.

BY CABLE—*ttESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT j v NEW YORK, July 9. | Dr Hutclunson, formerly Edis°n's chief engineer, gave a demonstration oi , a new gun able to hurl a five-ton projectile 200 to 300 miles, the aTsch a rge being noiseless and without i-ecoil. Smokeless powder is utilised. The gun can develop a muzzle velocity of five miles a second. The extraordinary powers are due to the fact that powder is burned, aft of it being j consumed before the projectile is discharged.' A miniature specimen of ttik gun was used—only eight inches long—' hut. the principle for £Ec greater gun would be the same.

Mr Hudson Maxim declared that it was wonderful, and another armament expert said: -'It will do more eventually to bring peace" than the peace conference; it will make war too terrible-'' The gun is the invention of Mr John Temple, a Britisher.