§ MR. CARBUTTasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether it is true that the Maxim Company have offered to send six guns to Egypt capable of firing 500 shots per minute automatically by utilizing the recoil, so that the gunner has only to direct the gun, and not to work it, as machine guns have hitherto been?
§ MR. BRANDI have not received the offer referred to. Moreover, I am informed that the first service gun on this system has not yet been made.