A New Invention.
A German chemist has invented a nankind of bullet which, be 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; produce ing instantaneously complete insensibility, lasting for twelve hours, which, except that the action of the heart continues, is not to ba distinguised from death. A battlefield, where these bullets are used will io a short time be apparently covered with dead bodies, but in reality merely with the prostrate forms of soldiers reV duced 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 strougly recommended to the burglar .and to the householder, no risk of hanging being involved by its use. ,
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4336, 23 November 1882, Page 2
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185A New Invention. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4336, 23 November 1882, Page 2
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