Bullets in Trees.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XIV, Issue 64, 21 October 1911, Page 1

Bullets in Trees.

CUT FROM A BATTLEFIELD.

A motor-body builder was working in a factory in Melbourne a few days ago when bis chisel suddenly stopped and snapped. The keen edge had cut into a bullet which had been fired during a Russo-Japanese skirmish in a Manchurian forest. The explanation is simple enough, says the Argus. The firm by which the body-builder is employed imported a large consignment of Manchurian ash for car building. Since the discovery of the first bullet several others have been found. With the bark on, nothing unusual was noticed in the logs, but when they were being sawn into planks the teoth of the saw frequently struck something harder, than a knot, while some of the planks were found to be scarred in many places. Upon closer investigation numbers of bullets were found embedded in the wood. In two instances portions of shells were discovered. The body-builder had cut into an isolated bullet in a large plank.' The logs in which the bullet? and shells were discovered by the saw had evidently been in a much fiercer engagement. Inquiries were made from the captain of the ship which brought the timber, and it 1 was ascertained that the logs were cut in a forest not far from Port Arthur where , battles raged daring the Russo-Japanese war.