Something I Seem To Recall About The C96 Pistol

[Sunray]

"...Police outgunned by better weapons..." Hard not to be outgunned when you don't have a firearm to start with. That'd be a story in England, but wouldn't even make the papers in North America. There would be no records of such an event, Stateside.
Winston carried a C96 at Omdurman in 1898, so a gun fight in 1911 London(lots of semi-auto pistols around by then) wouldn't have been one of the first engagements.

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[Mk VII]

The two weapons dug out of the ruins of No.100 Sidney Street after the fire, which I examined some years ago, now in the City Police's ownership and currently in the Metropolitan Police's black museum are a .32 FN Browning 1900 and a short-barreled C96. Both have been damaged by fire. The Browning's magazine is bulged by an internal explosion and partially jammed in place.

The police borrowed shotguns from a gunsmith in Houndsditch, and Morris Tube rifles from a shooting gallery. Eventually a party of Scots Guards from the garrison at the Tower were summoned - and finally, much too late to be of any use, two 13-pndrs of the Royal Horse Artillery.



The affair is also notable for being one of the first developing news events to be covered by newsreel movie cameras, who arrived in the later stages of the siege and got the film edited and into the picture palaces by the end of the week.







The movie version with Peter Wyngarde used P38's.