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London, Jan, 8.
It was revealed of to-day's sitting Jof the Royal' Commission' on the private manufacture of arms that} Messrs. Vickers, Lid, had invented fa_new anti-aircraft gun which was claimed to be the finest in the world.
Sir Charles Craven, managing director of Messrs. Vickers, Ltd., me formed the Royal Commission "that his" firm had contracts worth hundreds of thousands of pounds for this gun from foreign countries.
Sir H._ A. Lawrence, chairman of Messrs. Vickers, Lid, who also sppeared before the Commission, stated that Great Britain had a good antiaircraft gun in 1916, but it was not fas efficient as the new weapon, none fof which had as yet been ordered by the British authorities—Reuter.
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