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r — II V4- T biUUg ***is not yet as safe as one could wish.THE TERRIBLE DUM-DUM*The Tables Neatly Turned onEngland's Critics*No end of obloquy has fallen upon England. of late owing to the discussion which arose at the Peace Conference on the dumdum bullet, and our foreign critics have thundered their hardest against the ,r barbarity” of Great Britain in making use of this implement of warfare againstthe • ,c defence-DUM-DUM.savagesFig. 3-Figure 5 lq the German dumdum before use. After peue-tration the bullet expands as shown In iigure 4c. ■with whom we have had to fight.The Brussels “ Petit Bleu says:—“Mr. W.T. Stead is charged with the defence of the dum-dum, and he maintains thatthe stories of the horrible wounds produced by this bullet are absolutely false, as is proved by the otatements of English officers; but he denounces ■ • ••as hideous a German imitation, the existence of which has been unkndwn up till now. The story of this imitation is interesting. '. u Mr. Stead states ”—our contemporary goes on to explain—“ that one day the Butch Government asked the English Government for some specimens of the dum-dum, in order that they might supply their troops in the Butch Indies with a similar bullet for use in their campaign against the Malay rebels. The English authorities replied that the dum-dum bullet was not used by them. Holland then applied to a German finn at Tubingen, and requested them to make some bullets according to the erroneous description which had been given then! of the English dum-dum. This was done', and Mr. Stead maintains that it is the German bullet which merits the detestable reputation generally accorded to the English missile.“It must be admitted—concludes the “ Petit Bleu ” of Brussels— that the story is very edifying, especially when it is remembered that among the Powers that are seek; ing to prevent England from using the dumdum there is one that makes a much more terrible bullet, and another which uses it in its colonial wars.. Which is the more terrible bullet of the two—the English one or che:German—will be seen on referring to the diagrams in..the next column above.Fig. 4.ANCIENT SAWS.Discoveries have been recently made which-prove that the ancient Egyptians used saws. One was found in a tomb at Thebes alongwith other implements. -Tho blade is of brass, a little over lOin.The teeth are irregular,_ A « AV Abeen formed by striking-against the edge of theTHE “D.M.” IN TROUBLE.
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London Daily Mail
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Jun 23, 1899
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