The Hotchkiss Model 1914 is a gas-operated, air-cooled machine gun that fires the 8mm Lebel cartridge. It was manufactured by the French company Hotchkiss et Cie, which was founded by an American industrialist. This was the standard machine gun of the French army during World War I, replacing the unreliable St. Etienne. It has a heavy barrel with external fins to dissipate heat, weighs 40 kilograms, feeds from a strip or a metal belt, and has a rate of fire of 450 to 600 rounds per minute. Following the Treaty of Versailles, Germany used these weapons to arm many of their allies throughout the world, or simply sold them to finance their occupation of Europe. Many of these Hotchkiss machineguns arrived at Oceanyka through German salesmen.