New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

was living. He was wounded IN 1899. and Is Stilt
living lie is in full possession Of his mental fac
ulties and is ut the present time employed IN the
Postofice Department. Aside from occasional
pain the bullet which is still in his brain. causes
him no trouble. This is of course. an extreme
case but it shows what modern methods can do
with wound made by steel jacketed bullet.
General Mills, former commandant at West Point
was also shot through the head by Mauser bull
Iet and survived with the loss Of one eye.
ITO nut it briefly, the wounded men in Europ"
a. the present time getting the best treatment
that modern medical science can afford. and thai
means much"
The same officer then described the types OF
projectiles used by the various foreign weapons
and the wounds which they make. The standard
service rife of all the warning countries is, as
has been stated which discharges small
steel-coated bullet at tremendous velocity. The
clean, round hole, yielding readily to medical
treatment, which it usually produces is varied oy
ugly wounds under special conditions.
WHEN THE BULLET TUMBLES NEAR LIMIT
OF RANGE.
Occasionally bullet will tumble that is, whiri
end over end. This happens most frequently
near the limit of the guns range, but it may also
be caused by flaws in the riding, an imperfect
charge Of powder or a poor balance in the bull
let's The bullets adopted year ago by all Of
the nations now at war are so extremely pointed
that there is tendency for them to tumble IN
this manner quite frequently.
Colonel Louis A. Lagarde recently published a
statement in which he said: at requires
prophet to predict that wounds of the future
will be much more grave Colonel Lagarde's pc
Iiofu bus cd aynprimpntS which seemed
convincing In commenting on it, however, a
colleague of the officer, quoted regarding the Jap
anese, stated to the Tribune representative that
Colonel Lagarde had been mistaken
Little as have yet heard directly from the
battlehelds Of Europe, do know that Colonel
Lagarde's fears happily have not been realized"
There are always struck in such
way, however, and the wounds made are too ter
rble to describe. There is another condition
under which rife bullets are even more deadly
This is in short range fighting. At distance
Of two hundred or three hundred yards modern
rife bullet on striking man has precisely the
same effect small explosive shell.
MOTION ARRESTED Is TRANSLATED INTO
HEAT AND BULLET EXPLODES.
This phenomenon is due to the principle Of
physics that motion arrested is translated into
heat. The speed at which the bullet is travelling
when short a distance from the gun is 80 ter
rifle that even the slight resistance offered by
the 1eshy part of mans arm suddenly causes
dimnuton of its velocity In accordance with
the rule just stated the bullet instantly becomes
intensely hot and result both the steel
jacket and the lead core are shattered into many
fragments, which horrible wounds Fortu-
nateIy, troops subjected to such fire only on
rare occasions. 1t was this sort of thing which
the German troops met in storming the forts
around Lege.
Dum-dum bullets ones which have no steel
point, but leave the lead exposed at the front end
IEey prohibited by the comfy of nations
by rubbing the point of a regulation bullet on q
rock or filing it off it is easily converted into d
uum-dum. Where there is intense feeling be-
tween the men on either side this practice is often
resorted to in spite Of the best efforts of the Off
GERS Both armies have accused the other Of
using explosive bullets. Dr. Morris, as well a,
the two officers Of the army medical corps, ex-
pressed his emphatic belief that such charges
we're entirely false, but that short range fight
ing, with the consequent explosive effect and the
occasional mutilstion Of bullets by oyerzealous
soldiers, responsible for the stories The
vast majority Of wounds which have been and