HUMAN MACHINE-GUN.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13980, 10 January 1916, Page 6

HUMAN MACHINE-GUN.

CAPTAIN J. A WALLINGjFQRJ>

Auckland, Tlxnpday. Ainon-T the invalidod soldiers* who ro-y-ned or. the Jluahino yesterday was dn>ta.iu J. A. Wallitij^ord, known .as .an -^ipftrfc aifle shot, and known cm ttaUipolfas "The te« «to^ (~,v> a special message to the,"'l*°^ .)• •fefore tein- sent to England .with a str^ircd heart, Captain UaSlingtord U.sui charge of the New Zealw*d niuc"WlntSweJ. OpUun- Waiinßjord sai'i ihat too much -stress could not be Md on the ' value oi ■machino gti"?. Jtifioaicn wbfe now coming into, their ; >M aaain; -th.?> must be crack shots. Trie order of utility was cra«k. shots, TMachme giuis, cluot, and b aW ,eWs. -RetoiTiug'to members his brigade, Captain A\ai!.nsfo«i co-<-ln-c>d with ontha'3MKta----.tHa± •■nothing. (^ld beat iilran. "Tliey»-cwiß;<«™; Ix-.rs whom I trained in UeiV.-Zesviamt,-JW'sukl; t:aud I could liii.vo r.ott^ iietter,, I lifu-'o '-came tv .the-.condusiow .tjiiit our ] 3-1(4 *:vre '^occl as 'compared wiia tho': ■Irtish soldier. 'Both have fee same Ww.l, and are equally brave, -but we ]-ivn nu advantUK. in a^ «-he^ thav accept beys down i-o the age 0£ 13

3-oars, w.o do not take them at Jos?; tban 20. Accordingly, ours ca%i stand tJie rough -work of tampaigriing better Uinn Ihe average' Itul oi' tho".K' Army. ■We hadfour -machine i^uns to-ijacli reKimen^, :inrl I consider "-myself the huckIcst man that over took the field, not only because I had the best of the New iieaiajid boys, but also because I had the best guns. "We wore -bettor than anyone in this riespect. Our losses were very heavy, thiring four days on (Jlivnuk liair I lost G4 per cent, of isiy officers and men. No troops coxild have stood op better. -In the early dawn of 11th Aup'iist, when the apex we had'held was about to give way, the machine gun lads fixed bayonets, * an.l, gathering round in a-circlo, said : 'We'll stick t<> you, Captain.' They did, and the position was held. I know of nothing liner than that." Cr.pt am WaJlingford added that he had been through some "of the big factories in England, and he was satisfied that they were .now turning out acleouatp- quantities of field equipment-. Ho therefore thought that it would not be necessary to consider the question of manufacturing machine guns in New Zealand. At the same time, he reit'arked that t^iere. were sonic highclass workshops in the Dominion.