DEADLIEST RIFLE YET.

Mt Benger Mail, 7 March 1934, Page 4

DEADLIEST RIFLE YET.

FIRES rKKAMJi) BULLETS. Mysterious tests of a uewly-iu vented rilic which is said to lire deadly pyramid-shaped bullets from a tapering barrel began recently behind closed doors at the Schultz and Larsen factory on Funcn Island, near Copenhagen. Behind these experiments widen are being closely followed by the secret agents of all the big arms concerns, and which, it is planned, will add a new horror to warfare, is the strange figure of Dr It. Gehrlich.

Accompanied by his agent, Herr Kern, the German inventor has recently gone to Denwark from Britain, “for recreation, owing to ill-health.” The authorities here, at the instruction of the Danish Miuishr of Justice, are making inquiries to determine whether the doctor and his agent shall be permitted to stay in Denmark. Both of them, in adition to the head of the arms factory, are growing very angry at any mention of the doctor's visit in the newspapers, and firmly refused to tell me anything about the invention. Apart from an admission by lice chief that the invention provki -s for more precise shooting, all that the trio will say is ihat they are not workng for Germany and that .they have concluded no contracts for the actual manufacture of the new rifle and bullet. The arms factory head saystha' the rifles are designed for “big-game shooting.” Dr Gehrlich, who created tin new “winged” bullet, originally lived in Kiel, but he has lately been staying in Britain, and Ims now bought an old castle at Olcrup, on the arms laetory island. Several times he had visited l!i“ Seliultz and Larsen factory, and his agent, Kerr Kern, who li is been living at Odense, the chiet town of the island, has paid daily visits durng the past six months In official and semi-otfiei .1 circles of Denmark there is speculation as to why these experauenis should be carried out in a remote Danish village rather than in some big German factory. Dr Gehrlich is said to have left red his invention to the Danish Army at a “relatively low price,*' but this is denied b\ tne Danidi Genera! Staff, who state that diev have no knowledge of Dr Gehrilch.

The secret bullet is stated to have a shape soumthing like two pyramids base to base, and to m compressible as it passes througn the narrowest barrel. This would give it a hitherto unapproaelu d velocity as it let* the ritle.