EXPLOSIVE BULLETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 148, 25 June 1898, Page 2

EXPLOSIVE BULLETS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—To cause a gaping w°w*Ji hideous mutilation of flesh, '**** arteries and bone it is not uecess* j to employ explosive bullets, Manj" low headed leaden projecge" from a small bore rifle will ett&ct i ; purpose. Twenty-five years ffiTgU after big game in the jungle J* r Perak in "the Malayan Pemus^ J found that the hollow bullet■ MW : .450 express rifle created a™^ i; id severe a wound as the same . make when filled with «» »gf rf copper tube containing. tuimiw ~_ mercury. In warfare between <- nations such bullets are new and indeed putting aside V» dbe I inanity of such procedure it• »v« ! nguinst reason to employ s»on ~ ■ couriers of death. A single » ! solid bullet, as used fot'tn*' . ser vice ford rifle, with the ordinal} of charge of powder is _W.*i^ijsti wounding and placing hors ac nnv three men who may ■£ it _ m fortunate as to come witwu ftefl of flight. Injured men »"?f, a . m y o*' * an advancing and victorious w h retreating and uefeate a i e(Ci| dead lie where they '*"£-* Capt. late 80th Beg*** Grafton Koad. '.'