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Show SHIELD TURNS BULLETS ASIDE German Invention Said to Iicndcr Infantry Invulnerable Against Hail of Lead. BERLIN, Xov. J5. A lishl metal shield, claimed to be capable of rendering infantry infan-try practically invulnerable against rifle bullets, is said to have been invented by a German engineer named Schaumann. Volleys fired nt a distance of elghly-Ilvc elghly-Ilvc yards by the men of a guard rcsl-mcnt rcsl-mcnt during experiments of the Dnhlem rifle range only slightly dented one or tho newly invented plates, equivalent in weight to a plate of nickel steel of sl:c inlllimelora thickness fjust under a n mirier mir-ier "of an inch). On the other hand, bullets bul-lets fired by the same men fiom a similar dletanco at a plato of nickel steel seven millimeters thick (over a quarter of an inch- tmoothly penetrated the inula 1. The composition plate, which, accord-in" accord-in" to Die Poet, has proved far suporlor to nickel steel. Ib much less costly -tJian 1 nickel Htecl, while its weight is lc3s than One-third. t . . . . . , . Tho Prussian war minister Is taking a Hvrlv Interest in the matter, but it is said'thc United States, Russian and Austria Aus-tria were represented at the experiments and arc malting active efforts to nccurc the Invention. |