BOOMERANG BULLETS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2763, 29 March 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

BOOMERANG BULLETS.

There seems to be no end to the inventions for the destruction of human life in war. Every year brings its crop of destructive weapons, and the nations are always ready and eager to seize upon any new invention which promises to add to the list of destructive agencies. The newest of these is a bullet, the trajectory of which will resemble a boomerang. The boomerang, as our readers are aware, is a missile used by the Australian natives in hunting and war. When thrown it slowly ascends into the air, " whirling round and round, and describing a curved line of progress till it reaches a considerable height, when it begins to retrogade, and finally, if thrown with sufficient force, falls eight or ten yards behind the thrower." How a race of such a low type of civilisation as the Australian aboriginal has been able to invent such a contrivance has been the subject of much debate, but no satisfactory solution of the problem has been offered. Some contend that the boomerang is an evidence of high culture in the dim past, while others, with more reason, argue that it is really an ordinary war club developed by the present race inhabiting the continent. Be that as it may, according to a Paris journal a French officer is indebted to the Australian savage for a new invention. He has constructed a bullet which can be made to act after tho manner of the boomerang. Instead of a parabola, the bullet describes a curved tragenital to a vertical line beyond the object aimed at,returning to the latter at the end of its course." If there is anything in the report, the game of war will become even more deadly than ever. Forts and ramparts will fnrnish no protection to an enemy. There will no longer be any occasion for dangerous movements in order to take an enemy in the rear. The boomerang bullet will do the work without that necessity.

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