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Show VICKERS TYPE GUN HAS BEEN SELECTED War Department Lets Contracts for 4000 Machine Guns and Accessories Ac-cessories to Cost $5,500,000. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. The war department de-partment today let contracts for 4000 Tickers machine guns and accessories a a cost of 55.5O0.liO0, and announced that j additional contracts soon would be let. which would bring the sum to be expended ex-pended on such weapons for the regular armv and the national guard up to about id, 500,000. The department's decision was construed con-strued as finally disposing of the suggestion sugges-tion that the Lewis machine gun should be adopted as the army standard. In announcing the award, the department let it be known that the machine gun board had been reconvened to consider the Lewis gun and, after holding extensive ex-tensive hearings, had adhered to its original origi-nal recommendation. , The board decided that all funds available for the purchase of machine guns, except about $1,500,000. shall be expended "Tor Vickers guns and accessories. acces-sories. The reserve sum will be held pending further tests of the various -types of guns. |