SUPERIORITY OF LEWIS GUN.
; (Australian and N.2. Cable Association.! LONDON, June 19. In the House of Commons, Mr Macpherson siiid that as the i'esult/ 1 of trials and 1 mnchine-gim testing, the Committee had: placed the Lewis gun first, the Hght Hotchkisß' second, and the Miuisen thircL RELIEF IN SYI^IA AND PALESTINE (Australian and. N. 7.-.' Cable Association,)' , (Eeuter's .Telegram.) ■:. i . ■> • • LONDON. June 19. . Tbe Press Bureau states :—The Syria find Palestine reMo^f fund requires £5100,---000 more in 1918 to carry on the woi'fc «if , reriiodyinjc conditions due to the i'uihiesßiiess of the Turks, and coping with the terrible starvation and disease, especially in thp district of Lebanon, ,wl\ere ' there have been over .100,000 deaths.- The - work of the fund consists of the distri- ' button of food and clothing to I hou.*ands of refugees and those unuble to earn a . livelihood ; also giving medical relief, providing employmeiit > and caring for children, including thousands of orphans.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14637, 21 June 1918, Page 5
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155SUPERIORITY OF LEWIS GUN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14637, 21 June 1918, Page 5
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