THE BOER ARMAMENTS.
The National Zeitung, of Berlin, publishes, on what it describes as trustworthy authority, a list of the guns in the possession of the Boers. According to this table, of modern guns they have eight 7.5 cm Krupp guns, 16 ; 7.5 cm, Greusot guns, eight or nine MaximNordehfeldt field guns, 34- 3.7 cm,. automatic Maxim guns, 8 12cm field howitzers (four from Krupp and four from Creusot) 4 3.7 cm , Krupp mountain guns, 4- 15.5 cm Creusot guns. In all, with old gun?, the Boers possess some 80 or 90 pieces of artillery. During recent years they have bought 40,000 Mauser rifles and 25.000,000 cartridges, »s well' as a large number of Martini-Henry
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Otago Witness, Issue 2401, 8 March 1900, Page 38
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115THE BOER ARMAMENTS. Otago Witness, Issue 2401, 8 March 1900, Page 38
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