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Show I! BROWNING GUNS IN THE WAR. Early in the war it was evident the machine gun was to play an Important One of the first deficiencies noted by the generals of the allies dealt with machine guns. The enemy at the beginning be-ginning of the fighting must have had two machlneguns to every one possessed pos-sessed by the entente forces. Since then there has been a constant effort to overcome this enemy advantage. j In the retreat back from the Marne j and in Picardy, the Germans relied! almost entirely on machine gun nests, and tho constant reference to those weapons, made by the war correspondents correspond-ents with the allied troops, conveyed tho idea that the machine gun is an effective weapon of defense not to be overlooked by an army. At present the United States Is getting get-ting well started on its campaign of machine gun production. A report IirOHl tVUSUlUbtuu oa. a .y chine guns have been mado since we entered the war. Of this number, 30,-j 30,-j 226 are Brownings, with 11,187 of the j heavy model and-19,030 of the light. In the week ended August 10, 3.3S9 Browning guns were produced. This is at the rate of 17G.228 a year. From now on quantity production should be-; be-; gin to rapidly Increase the output of Brownings, so that by next spring an ample supply will be available in arming arm-ing our troops for the big drive. With over 19,000 light Brownings, we presume at least 10,000 Americans now in France are using this gun, ; though so far there has been no di-! di-! rect reference to the shoulder gun on the western front. I nn |