Show THE DUM BULLET German Military Expert Experts Favorable View of It Its Effects Dr Von Bruns professor of International international law at university recently recently recently re re- published a pamphlet In which he pleaded in the interests of humanity humanity hu hu- manity for an international interdiction Interdiction interdiction Inter inter- diction of the dum bullet says the he London Mail Mall The professor acknowledged acknowledged ac ac- that the use of the bullet was Justified in the colonial or Indian wars where the fight Is generally at close quarters and often between man and man and where it Is a question of European totally disabling his opponent opponent opponent nent or being at once struck down hImself In wars between Europeans however where the combatants are generally far apart the professor considers considers con con- siders that the bullets in question are not only unnecessarily Inhuman but butare butare butare are less effective than ordinary bul- bul lets ets Surgeon-General Surgeon Dr Korting surgeon-in-chief surgeon of the 1st German army army ar army ar- ar my corps who has been carefully studyIng studying study- study Ing ng the reports of the Italian hospital corps on its experiences In the late campaign against Abyssinia says our Berlin correspondent as fol- fol lows The Italian projectile soft Goft lead copper coppel mantle 65 mm calibre with great penetrating power produced small Inlet and outlet apertures bone fractures and altogether a smooth wound canal On the other hand the hard lead projectiles of the Abyssinians ans Gras and Remington eleven millimeters mil mU exploded in the soft parts and shattered the bones The effect was that Abyssinians even when shot In several places were able to continue continue con con- fighting Out of a hundred Abyssinians Abyssinians Abys- Abys who applied for relief to the captured Italian doctors 8 per cent presented themselves without any support suPport support sup suP- port In spite of the fact that some of them were were shot through the breast In reality only those men who had been seen wounded by artillery were brought on stretchers Within three weeks thousands of Abyssinians were healed In spite of the primitive band band- aging The results on the Italian side were infinitely less favorable The troops of the Negus had also soon discovered discovered dis dis- covered that the small caliber weapon used by the Italians was absolutely inadequate In in- In Inadequate adequate and when they were given the muskets and ammunition captured from the Italians they fil filed d through the end copper-end covering of the bullets In order to Increase their efficacy The English troops did exactly the same thing and for the same reason during the campaign whereupon a tremendous storm of Indignation arose which penetrated even to the congress hall of the Berlin surgeons I am of ot otan an another opinion The war experiences experiences referred to above show rather that the minimum caliber has been reached and that in a number of cases sufficient to Influence the result of the battle the mantled bullet of muskets under 89 millimetres does not suffice to put the enemy hors de combat The filing through the tle point of a mantled bullet is in my opinion an act of self help against an enemy i ion on whom the unimpaired bullet does I not Inflict sufficient injury |