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("BY KLECTUIO TKLKaUArU.— COPyttIOHT.] + THE PEACE CONFERENCE. ♦ A GERMAN MISREPRESENTATION. [ritUSS ABBOOIATION.] (Received Juno 16, 9.30 a.m.) London, 15th Juno. The newspapers aro exposing tlie intrigues which have been practised boforo tho Peace Conference Committee with a view to discredit the British use of tho Dum-Dmn bullet. A German doctor who gave evidonce falsely represented tbe bullet as being an explosive. l_The actual difference between the DumDmn and other kinds of Lee-Metford bullet is that the point of the missile is softer than its body or base, tho result being Hint on striking a body it expands, making a wound of some Bizo, and giving a stopping shock to the man hit. Prior to this change in construction it war found in tho Indian frontier campaigns that the email bullets used for Lee-Metford rifles did not break bones, but simply bored a hole through them, and that men shot through the body did not feel their wound or drop iv a charge unless the heart or a main artery were struok.
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Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 141, 16 June 1899, Page 6
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173SECOND EDITION. Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 141, 16 June 1899, Page 6
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