WHO ARE THE HUNS?

76 The Use of Dum-Dum Bullets.
At the same time it was also established that the Russians
as well as the Servians continually used Dum-Dum bullets.
On the 30th of August, at the examination of 62 captured
Russian officers and 6378 men on an exercise ground in Silesia,
large numbers of such bullets were found. ("Schlesische Zeitung.")
The bullets in their original French and English wrappings
were sent to Germany in great quantities, and are at present
to be seen (September) in the editorial offices of the leading
German papers, (for example, the "Miinchener Neueste Nachrichten,")
Hence there can be no doubt as to the existence of
these bullets, and as to their having actually been used. 1
Medical opinions substantiate the frightful barbaric effects of
the kind of warfare indulged in by the alleged "Civilized nations."
(see below)
The abuse gradually attained such dimensions that the
Kaiser felt himself obliged, on the 8th of September, to address
a protest to the United States in the form of a telegram to
President Wilson. This telegram, of the greatest interest from
the point of view of international law, was as follows:
"I consider it my duty, Mr. President, to acquaint you, as
the foremost representative of the principles of humanity, with
the fact that after the capture of the French fortress of Longwy,
my troops found thousands of Dum-Dum bullets hidden there,
in a certain factory belonging to the government. Bullets of
the same kind were found upon the dead and wounded, and
upon the prisoners, including the British troops. You are aware
that these projectiles cause terrible wounds and suffering and
that their use is strictly forbidden by the recognized principles
of international law. I therefore address to you a solemn protest
1 Furthermore, Privy Councillor Pays, a University professor, in a
speech delivered a short time ago to German army doctors in the field (in Northern
France) showed by means of X-ray photographs, the exact position of
the various parts of a burst projectile in the body; and demonstrated conclusively
that the wounds were caused by a special kind of Dum-Dum bullet,
which the English had used at Lille. They looked like ordinary cartridges.
The bullet had a jacket like others, under this an aluminium point, and then
a special kind of leaden core. This would spilt on coming in contact with
a bone, tearing the tissues and inflicting frightful wounds. (From the warcorrespondent
Dr. Oskar Bongard.)