BARBAROUS BULLETS.
WORSE THAN ' 'BUM-DUMB." THE GENTLE GERMAN MUSHROOM (Received October 19, 0.15 a.m.) LONDON, October 18. The chief British surgeon of the field hospital in Belgium states that the ordinary German bullet may make a wound even worse than the "dumdum '' makes. It is so constructed that as it strikes, it turns ''head over heels" and the base, which is of soft metal, "mushrooms" and inflicts an enormous wound. He adds that a remarkable thing about ■ modern surgery is that amputation is hardly ever necessary. It: is possible, with steel plates and screws, to repair almost anything. He gives striking instances of 'this.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 218, 19 October 1914, Page 7
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104BARBAROUS BULLETS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 218, 19 October 1914, Page 7
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