NEW BRITISH WEAPON.
AN AUTOMATIC RIFLE.
LONDON. June The House of Lords has discussed the Madsen gun and automatic rifle, which weighs 151b and fires 1000 cartridges before it becomes hot. A new barrel would be adaptable in 15 seconds.
Lord Beresford said that it won id increase the gun power of aeroplmes ICO per cent. Lord Crawford said that the War Office intends to try it in France.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16881, 20 June 1918, Page 5
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