Show builds Murriil bjr tkclrlclly curious phenomenon was reported by the commlltco thus Swiss rllle meeting It wits found that nearly all she shots fired from the right side of Ihe range had hit the target lo Ibo right of the lullseye while those fired from the loft side bad with an equally singular ponlleDoy bit the lei ball of file target The great number of men who took Fait In Ibo ahootlnir teoLJed Ibo Idea tl at this singular result uotild have boon duo lo the personal peculiarities II became necesiary Ilieroore to explain too remarkable uniformity with which tho bullets appeared to havo Leon titillated The wind could not have prudueod the effect noted luce In the DUI place allowaure had doubtlets been made by tue rllleiten for tie flection by aerial currents aDd ou Ihu other hand If the wind had diverted the missiles the deflection would have been In the same dlieittlou on both Bides of Ilio rouse Au examination ex-amination of the steel clad bullets extracted front the target disclosed the act Ibut they ban become magnetic mag-netic and this lot the commlllcelu enltrlalu the theory that Ihe phenomenon phenom-enon might have been duo to electric i Influence exerted by the large numbtr of telegraph nod telephone wires run I along bum tides of the range Fur that experiment Ibo ranged at other places proved this theory to be correct and this remarkable discovery tiny effect a complete change In military tactic At Thou I Iho authorities established parallel with Ibo rllle range at a distance dis-tance of a little more than forty yard an electric current of 8000 volts carried along four steel cable With a view ol tracing Ibo whole eQjcl paper clrclela were placed At Intervals In-tervals len yards along the line of fire The IIt oxf erlwoolo were mode with the Swiss model rifle ol 1559 With this the Influence of Ibo electric Icurruul was at once pparoDt ID a distance of 260 yards the bullet took a lateral deviation twentyfour yards nod alter that the curve of the trajectory trajec-tory was atlll more marked The second experiments were foods with Ibo Japanese 33aim rlllo of Count Vamagata and they were still more decisive tbo bullet being rapidly attracted at-tracted to tun electric wires and following fol-lowing their course with absolute servility Further attempts were modo wIth tbu arllllory Therange selected was one of 30uo yards Two hundred yards In front of the targets but forty yards to the side was placed Ibo electric battery livery shot was diverted by Influence far to the side of the targelIo be exact the deviation devia-tion was one of 14 degrees From the results of these experiments experi-ments several interesting conclusions may be drawn A dynamo or accumulator ac-cumulator of the requisite power placed on the U ink of a cimpany of Infantry would insure the men complete Immunity Im-munity treat the fire of small arma within a rauco 01 5110 yard and upward up-ward for all tbo bulleta would bo diverted toward the magnetic Held created by the electric current from the dynamo or accumulator Similarly Similar-ly artillery fire could bo rendered harmlosa at a tango of 1000 yards dover d-over It would perhaps bo premature lo assert that the consequence of Ibis dloeonry will bo Ibo doom or The modern smallbore military rlllr with Its Bleellackeled bullet for It might be practicable to enclose the leaden Olio silo In hard breeze or some olber metal not affected by magnetism Artillery would probably remain destructive enough on the battlefield by the Uo of explosive shelf It la In naval warfare that the discovery may have the most important consequences |