The New Bullet.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1375, 3 September 1895, Page 3

The New Bullet.

It is said that the bullets fired from the new magazine rifle do no harm to the enemy, even when they hit him. They bore holes in him, but they bore ■them so small and so nice and even, that, like a clean cut wound from a razor, they are never felt uule ss a vital spot & hit. One of the Swatia vho was taken, prisoner at the Malaklfmd Pass is in hospital now with six LeeMetford bullet holes in him; pne through the ankle, one through the knee, three through the body, and pne extending from the back of the neck to the tip of the tongue, and the Swati is getting on all right, and is able to walk and talk. This sounds rather amusing, but ic has its serious side. It raises the probability that these pencil bullets, with extraordinary penetrative power, would not scop the rush of a numerous enemy determined to get to close quarters, however well-directed the fire. Anyone of these six woupds that the Swati received, if from a Snider or Martini bullet, would at least have stopped him, an d any one of those in the body' or neck would probably have killed him. It looks as if rifle-making had over-reached itself by producing weapons too powerful, the deadliness of a shot being reduced! by the effort to secure increased range and penetrative power. "