Show Whose Is a Bullet Cut Cut- CutOut Out by a Surgeon AGE a 11 R RM Ri lIA A N surgeon Burgeon recently I j J. J AGE raised a lovel legal question by i asking whose property is a bullet after aCter I its itu extra extraction on from rom a soldiers soldier's b body dY W When en a roan man has such an object re lC re- re his Interior in a hospital ho he generally Insists upon keeping it asa as asa asa a souvenir souvenir- To 10 a layman this would seem to be his right But a rew few yea yeats s st t f ago a Bavarian court decided that foreign foreign for for- eign olga bodies as well as tumors and calculi the aro property of the surgeon surgeon surgeon sur sur- them geon who removes In times of peace ace that may very well be good law b but t in war times everything everything everything every every- thing is changed International law does not recognize the right of booty that is to say Eay it does not p permit a soldIer soldier sol sal dier to appropriate to himself any of the spoils oC ot war il A bullet bullot or a frag trag- ment of a shrapnel that that has p pierced a aman's amans amans aman's amans aman's mans man's body re remains ins just as much spoils spells of war Iwar as an unexploded pr projectile pro pro- falling on the tho battlefield The Theman Theman man it has wounded is merely morely its custodian custodian custodian cus cus- its trustee on behalf of the state of which ho is a citizen Therefore th the bullet belongs neither to the soldier r from freon whom It is extracted extract extract- ed nor 1101 to the surgeon who extracts it it but to the state |