Show PROJECTILE AIR Pli > tJeolunsln f South Africa says a I proas reporf How have another theory for explaining away the charges made by lioth Urllon and Boer that the other I Is I muting explosive bulleiH The extensive exten-sive laceration often found In bullet wqundB is now Mid to be due to the air I I which the bullet drive before It Into t h7i wtlmd Tin ftxistcme of this l I ptlcdmumcnOrL ian b prove1 casny lr a J round bullot be dropped Into a glass of water from the height of a few feet It will be seen that when the bullet touches the bottom n large bubble of air w III become detached and rise to time surface In I this I case the bubble will usually be from ton to twenty tlrncB the size of the bullot Now a Mauser bullet bul-let tlf cling at high speed ls I said to carry before It a bubble of compressed air of Ifircc dimensions Experiments made by a surgeon who fired a pistol ball Into a glajjs of water showed the t bubble to he one hundred times the slae I of the ball From the appearance of time I wounds and l from these experiments It I IB concluded that the mass of air driven I by a Mauaor bullet explodes In the body i of the wounded man with sufliclenl force to cause extensive laceration This I i destructive airbubble Is well known to surgeons under the name of projectile I I I air |