§ MR. COURTHOPETo ask the Secretary of State for War whether experiments have recently been made to test the action of various explosives, giving high muzzle velocities, on the rifling of the Lee-Enfield rifle; and whether he is able to announce the results of such experiments.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) Trials with ammunition to give high 819 velocities from various manufacturers are now in progress, and the effects of the explosives on the rifling of the Lee-Enfield rifle will in due course be ascertained. No results of experiments can at present be announced.