The Archive · 1914

DUM-DUM BULLETS

A MISLEADING GERMAN PHOTOGRAPH

The following letter has been received by M. Kahn, Consul-General for France, from the French Legation at Peking Peking, Sept. 21.

In its issue of September 10 the newspaper "Zag" of Berlin reproduced @ photograph of packages of cartridges with so-called "dumdum" bullets, which have been found at Longwy.

N ply by looking at this it can be seen that the picture is one of cartridges without force of penetration, prepared for short range practice and absolutely:

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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