A NEW BULLET,.
A German Ghernist has invented a new kind of bullet, which, he urges, will, if brought into general use, greatly diminish, if not altogether remove the, horrors of war. The bullet is of a brittle substance, breaking directly it comes in contact with the object at which it is aimed. It contains a powerful anaesthetic, producing instantaneous complete insensibility lasting for 12 hours, which, except that the action of the heart continues, is not to be distinguished from death. A battlefield where these bullets aae used will in a short time be apparently covered with dead bodies, but in reality merely with the prostrate forms of soldiers reduced for the time being to a state of unconsciousness. While in this condition they may, the German chemist points out, be carefully packed in ambulance waggons and’carried off as prisoners. Whole cities may in like manner be reduced to helplessness by means of shells charged with the same compound. The anaesthetic bullet is also strongly recommended to the bmg'lar and to the householder, no risk of hanging bein g involved by its use.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1041, 9 December 1882, Page 3
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184A NEW BULLET,. Temuka Leader, Issue 1041, 9 December 1882, Page 3
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