SHOT-GUNS AS WEAPONS.
USE BY AMERICAN TROOPS. PROTEST FROM GERMANY. Australian and N.Z. Oivble Aaeoeiatlon. (Rocd. 8.16 cm.) . NEW YORK, Sept. 80. The Washington correspondent of tha New York Timss states tUt Germany has sent an ultimatum to the United States objecting to the use of sawn-off shotguns by American Boldiers. United States officials say that the Hague Convention does not forbid their use. Ii Germany starts reprisals, two caa play at the same gcroe. Germany threatens to shoot any Ameri-i-an soldiers captured with such weapons or the ammunition for them, if a satisfactory answer i* not received by Ootober, 1. •'■'- ■• ■" i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16969, 1 October 1918, Page 6
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102SHOT-GUNS AS WEAPONS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16969, 1 October 1918, Page 6
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