#machine gunners

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“Unglücksstunden in Genf [Unlucky hours in Geneva],” Schweizer Illustrierte Zeitung. No. 47, November 16, 1932. --- Cover story about the Geneva shooting massacre.

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Training of machine gunners of the 442nd Kashinsky regiment | Обучение пулемётчиков 442-го Кашинского полка, 1916 by Olga

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Vimy Ridge, 1917. Canadian machine gunners dug in with their guns.

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U.S. Army Company A, Ninth Machine Gun Battalion. Three soldiers man a machine gun set up in railroad shop in Chateau Thierry, France, on June 7, 1918. #

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"Un pacha marocain essaie une mitrailleuse," Le Soleil. May 1, 1943. Page 1. --- Des pachas, des indigènes et des officiers français regardent Son Excellence le pacha ALI D'OUEZZANE, qui est en train de tirer avec une mitrailleuse, son arme favorite. Le pacha Ali, qui est âgé de 75 ans, est le chef de l'une des dernieres tribus a se soumettre à l'occupation du Maroc par les Français, au début du siècle présent.

(International News)

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“MACHINE GUNS SPIT FROM CHINESE TRENCHES,” Toronto Star. February 27, 1933. Page 1. --- The photo shows Chinese soldiers firing modern machine guns from a trench in one of the recent engagements with Japanese troops. just prior to their present battles in resisting the Manchukuoan forces of General Chang Hai-Peng which have entered Kailu, gateway to the Jehol province from the northeast, and are now marching on Jehol.

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“SUBMACHINE GUNS SUPPLIED TO PEN GUARDS,” Baltimore Sun. October 14, 1932. Page 26.  ---- Weapons Are For Use Of Sentries On Walls Of State Prison ---- RIOT CARTRIDGES TO BE EMPLOYED ---- Firing To Be Resorted To In Emergency Only, Donnell Says ---- Submachine guns, each capable of firing 300 shots per minute, will be carried by guards patrolling the walls of the Penitentiary, Harold E. Donnell. State Superintendent of Prisons, last night announced. There are three sentry boxes on the walls of the institution. Beginning today, each guard will carry one of the guns. 

For many years; guards stationed on the walls have carried sawed-off shotguns. The new armament yesterday was described by Mr. Donnell as "modernization of equipment in keeping with the action of other penal institutions throughout the country." 

To Use Riot Cartridges. Installation of the machine guns, which will be loaded with riot cartridges similar to buckshot, instead of the customary .45-caliber automatic ammunition, followed finding of five pistols and three rope ladders in the last five months inside the Penitentiary. 

At the time of the finding of the fifth weapon, about a month ago, Mr. Donnell said, prison officials had broken the back of what might have been a wholesale prison break attempt. Although no weapons which might be used in such a break have been found since that time, the State's Attorney's office, prison officials and detectives still are investigating. 

For Emergency Use. "The new weapons have not been placed on the walls at present because of any expected trouble within the Penitentiary," Mr. Donnell said, "but to assure more protection and to give less opportunity for inmates to attempt to scale 'the walls of the institution. 

"The men who are to handle the guns will be carefully instructed by a representative of the firm from which they were purchased, and the guns will be used only in cases of extreme emergency." 

Guards who do wall duty have been practicing with the weapons at the Fifth Regiment Armory. Given Federal Approval Mr. Donnell said the same type weapon was being used on the walls. of the New York State institutions, the new Federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa.,. and many other maximum security institutions throughout the country. The gun is approved by the Federal Government. 

"There are comparatively few men who plot most of the escapes within an institution," Mr. Donnell explained, "and it should be made as difficult for these few as it can be to attain their desire. It is our purpose to arm the outposts sufficiently to meet this need in order that more may be accomplished with the men who are desirous of complying with the rules and regulations of our institution."

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“Spoiled Hunt,” Border Cities Star. October 20, 1932. Page 8. ---- Just a easy as shooting rabbits, was the description of lion hunting by Walter White, a boatman of Commerce, Mo.,, and a deputy sheriff who machine-gunned two lions to death on an island in the Mississippi river and thereby broke up the big lion hunt of the midwest. The hunt was staged by Denver Wright. St. Louis man, who had purchased two lions from a defunct circus.