WHO ARE THE HUNS?

314 American "Neutrality."
invented an improvement in Mushroom Bullets. This invention
applies to all fully covered and jacketted bullets in which the
cover of the lead core and that of the point may be manufactured
separately. This invention enables one to produce
a bullet which, while retaining all the peculiarities of an ordinary
jacketted bullet, assumes a mushroom form upon striking, that
is to say, it spreads itself, and flattens out.... Apart from the
grooves, the bullet retains all the appearance of an ordinary
jacketted bullet. ..."
This patent was applied for on February 24, 1914, but
granted only on October 20th, that is to say at a time when
the European war was already in full progress and the first
German complaints regarding Dum-Dum bullets had been
presented to the President through the telegram of Kaiser
Wilhelm!
After the attention of the Department of State had been
called to this patent, and after it might have been assumed
in all reliability that England had expressed itself as having no
intention of making use of such an invention, one might have
expected that Mr. Bryan, the expectant candidate for the
Nobel Prize, would have given some consideration to the
decisive representations made by the German Ambassador.
But what did Mr. Bryan do? He sent an announcement to
the press which is supposed to be an answer to Count Bernstorff,
and in which he flatly rejects the idea of taking up the German
charges, since—"this government in its endeavors to preserve
a strict neutrality is obliged to forego any examination of the
credibility of these complaints and declarations or any expression
of opinion regarding them." (!) {retranslation)
(See Kôlnische Zeitung, February, 1915.)
It would have been an easy matter, had Mr. Bryan displayed
the slightest willingness, for him to have examined the
projectiles in question. The shell of the cartridge is impressed
with two letters which indicate that it is meant for use in the
English military rifle.
The"NieuweRotterdamscheCourant" writes: '"The armies
of the Allies, fed upon American meat, protected by American
barbed-wire, are bombarding the Germans with American
shells,' as an American recently remarked, and everybody