Show STILL ANOTHER WEAPON A NEW repeating rifle described as a marvel of ingenuity hag bag been submitted to the belgian government by a soldier with an inventive turn of mind known as lieutenant marva he seems to have devoted considerable time and attention and has doubtless lost much sleep in his efforts to perfect a destroyer that would kill faster than anything else yet presented for public favor and the chances are that he has succeeded the gun is ald aid to be a wonder in its way being among other things very simple it weighs only seven and a fourth pounds and can be discharged accurately as often as forty times in sixty seconds and we suppose at random it could be turned loose at the rate of at least one per second by one who knows how to handle such weapons each of the cartridges carries thirty two and a half grains of powder and is so constructed Acted ted that it cannot explode during the process of loading the anjou announcement comes like so much surplusage that doubtless the belgian government will adopt the new weapon for the army of course it will that is what the gun was made betit but it does not appear that belgium will be made a first class power or even recognized as a power at all because of this addition to its munitions of war no doubt the marg marga 4 is all that is claimed it but that will only cause ers ere to adopt it especially if ff in n v competitive examination it its superiority but that will nsf cause the other nations to take of it the quicker sesel gium we all at once be reduced to practical the same footing that she now P pies ies she will have to learn if does not already know that eve evenar there were international rights war would dissipate thab l with as slight compunction as it doc human life 1 |