Show The Deadly Mannliche jclfle The chief surgeon of the Roumanian army has been making gruesome experiments ex-periments with the new Mannlicher rifle with which this forces are now being equipped He placed a number of human bodies in rows like soldiers on the field of battle At 600 meters five bodies were placed a half a yard behind each other A single bullet went through three bodies in succession succes-sion Upon the soft parts of the bodies the wounds web perhaps less serious than those inflicted by the oldfasnion ed rifles the hole made by the bullet being smaller and more even but on the whole the wounds are far more terrible ter-rible The range of the new rifles is about two and a half mils |