Milford News | 1931-08-06 | Page 6 | Boomerang Long in use as Weapon of Warfare

Boomerang Long in Use as Weapon of Warfare An article In the Encyclopedia Brl-tannica Brl-tannica on the boomerang of the Australian Aus-tralian aborigines mentions various peoples that have used similar instruments. instru-ments. Both the return and nonreturn nonre-turn boomerang are found In most parts of Australia. The return form was, according to General Pitt-Rivers, used In ancient Egypt. A weapon closely resembling the boomerang survives sur-vives to the present day In northeast Africa, with allied forms made of metal, met-al, or throwing knives. In south India is found a boomerang-shaped instrument instru-ment which can be made to return. The Hopis of Arizona use a nonreturn form. The Indian Cyclopedia gives details of the chakra or steel disk, formerly carried by Sikh soldiers. Thes were 6 to 9 inches in diameter and about an inch of breadth of rim, and had sharply ground edges. They were rotated on the forefinger, then projected with considerable force 150 feet or more. They are called expensive expen-sive and almost useless weapons. Another An-other form of boomerang used in India is made of wood and Iron at Gujerat and of wood and Ivory at Trichinopoly.