TERRITORIAL FORCES.
MACHINE-GUN TRAINING. [Pita Press Association.} WELLINGTON, July 8. A section of the Territorial Forces are to he trained in the rise, of the Lewis gun as well as, the standard machine -'gun. In the later stages of th© operations in France there were thirty-two Lewis guns to every battalion. Sufficient machine-gun equipment is to come from the United Kingdom and France to New_ Zealand to equip two divisions of infantry and one mounted! division.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12687, 8 July 1919, Page 5
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