A French sergeant, fighting the other day at Cheviliv, had just discharged his piece, when he left a violent kick from it, an<J found that he could not load again. When the musket was examined, it discovered that a Prussian bullet had entered, clear and clean, at the muzzle, and had gone rigrt down the barrel. At the siege of Rome in 1849 a caimon ball from the ram parts went into the mouth of a French gim in the same manner ; but no previous case of a, rifle bullet playing such a freak is recorded.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 961, 8 March 1871, Page 2
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