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...military department received yesterday a British "75." This gun was being manufactured for the British in this country and was adapted to the use of the French. "75" ammunition. It differs from the French "75" mainly in that the recoil chamber is above instead of below the barrel. It also lacks the compensatory mechanism of the French weapon...
...type of rifle is known officially as the United States magazine rifle, Model 1903. It differs in many features from the Krag-Jorgensens, the model of 1898, which were supplied by the Government for the use of the Regiment last year, and which the Corps is now using. The barrel is considerably shorter, a fact which changes to a certain extent the balance of the piece. The same bolt action is used in both types, but instead of the side feeding magazine of the Krag-Jorgensen, the clip used in the Springfield are shoved in from the top. The calibre...
...cosmoline oil, now in the barrel of the rifle, will not be removed until instructions are issued by the Commandant for such removal...
James William Davenport Seymour '17.--"The Barrel Organ," by Alfred Noyes...
Machine guns were first used in the Franco-Prussian War, but the English first proved their value in the Egyptian and Indian campaigns, the gun at that time consisting simply of a circular collection of barrels, turned by hand. The automatic received its first try-out in the Russo-Japanese War, and such terror did it inspire that the Japanese likened its fire to a continuous rod of iron thrust from the barrel. In the German trenches today there is one machine gun to every six men, while in the United States a whole company has but four guns...