A NEW INVENTION.
A German chemist 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 js of a brittle ajibstapci'. breaking directly it comes iu contact wiili the object at which it is aimed. It contains a powerful aiiiothetic, producing iustautanflously complete insensibility, lasting for twelvo hours, which, except (hat the action of. tho heart continues, is not to bo distinguished from death. A battlefield, were: these bullets are used will in a short time be apparently covered with dead bodies, but in reality jnerely with the prostrate forms of soldiers roduced for tbo timo being to a state of unconsciousness. While in this condition they may, the Germun chemist points out be carefully paclad in ambulance waggons ami carried off as prisoners. Whole cities may in like manner he reduced to helplessness by means of shells charged with the same compound. The aniestheiic bullet is also strongly recommended to ihu burglar and to the householder, no risk of hanging being involved by'its use.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1247, 7 December 1882, Page 3
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183A NEW INVENTION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1247, 7 December 1882, Page 3
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