Arizona republican., 1913-02-02
BRITAIN STILL
 ADDING ID NAVY
Will Have at Least Twenty Two Battelships and Cruisers Under COnstrrlc- tion in Shipyards the Present Year
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

d bullet through the heart the head or an important artery is sure to bring death in the wars of today Abdominal wounds, involving even manifold percentage of recovery, and little is to be feared from thoracic l wounds that do not molest big art cries or the heart. What used to be known as gangrene has virtually dis appeared, and only in rare instances does puS form at all When it does it is primarily due to neglect or to unskillful handling by surgeons.
 These conclusions are set forth in an article by Professor Frank Col mers of Coburg who took charge of the hospitals in Sofia at the request of King Ferdinand upon the breaking out of the war in the Balkans. Two things have brought about the i'm provement over the days when any | wound of the limbs meant amputatiOn and pentratiOn of the abdomen was nearly always fatal. One is, of course the great advance of aseptic surgery The other is the form, constitution and velocity of the modern prOjectie | Except at extremely close range | within 100 yards where the bullet of the armies of today tears a hole big ger than mans hand at the point of eXit-the projectile ordinarily bores a neat hole through it's victim. Fur thermore it is rendered aseptic by the heat generated by it's high vel ocity. and it carries no particles of clothing into the canal of the Wou. The wound is therefore ats
 germ-free. and if properly bandaged with sterlized bandages it develops
 
 the Japanese hospitals during the Russo-Japanese war, warns against tamponing wounds to check hem orrhage. Wherever this course was followed-and a great many Bulgar- ian surgeons followed it-infection resulted
 It is interesting to note that the | proper treatment for gunshot wounds puncturing the intestines appears to be no treatment at all The most favorable recoveries, says pr, Col mers, were recorded in the cases of men who shot through the abdomen, had been missed and allowed to lie on the field for two or three days with nothing to eat and without be- ing moved. He recommends that ar engagements should be made hereafter to care for these men where they lie and leave them there until the pune tured intestnes have had a chance to start healing naturally.
 point of especial interest for Germany lies in the fact that the war in the Balkans is the first time the projectiles now used in the German army rifle have been used in actual | combat. The Turks are employing these bullets. They consist of a steel jacket loaded with lead. They vary however, from those used in most other armies in that, instead of hay ing an oval nose, they are decidedly pointed The center of gravity of the round -nosed prOjectile is nearly in the middle, but that of the pointed pointed bullet is nearer the base As a result it has a tendency, only over come by -the twist imparted by the rifling and by it's great velocity, to change ends in flight to "keyhole,' as it is expressed. The instant the nose meets resistance this pOtentiality l is converted into effective action, the | bullet turns in the wounds channel, and the result is both a more eXten- sive implication of tissues and the frequent lodging of the bullet in the body, making later operative inter ference necessary. Another note worthy effect is that the bullet, in thus turning, very regularly is strip ped the jacket separating explosive ly from the core and minute particles of both jacket and lead invading the entire region of the wound. This naturally leads to infection and sep sis. The pointed bullet appears also to penetrate arteries more often than the round -nosed projectile, which often pushes them aside with little damage In all these respects, there fore, it may be considered a less humane projectile than the other.
 Shrapnel wounds remain the most dangerous, although fortunately the least frequent. The projectiles rarely have enough velocity to penetrate the body, and therefore generally re- main in the wound. Moreover they regularly convey pieces of clothing or hair into the body, and the re- suit is frequently tetanus and death.
 The appointment of Herr von JagoW as secretary of foreign af- fairs was received with considerable surprise by the German press in view of his comparatively brief dip
  first-class diplomatic appointment other than that of German ambassa- dor at Rome, and he has occupied that position only about four years Previous to that appointment he had held the comparatively unim- portant post of German minister to the little prncipality of Luxemburg; and still earlier he had been secre tary of legation at Rome and The Hague, besides serving a year in the foreign office in Berlin.
 It is understood that Prince Bulow, who appointed Herr VOn Jagow to the Rome ambassadorship. regarded him as the most efficient of Ger many's younger diplomats. His pres ent appointment was made, it is said, { directly by the emperor. He at first begged to be excused from accepting it, owing to his uncertain health, and also because he doubted whether he had the gift of public speaking