DUM-DUM BULLET

an expanding hollow-nosed mi ile. When it strikes person from a gun, a dum-dum bullet spreads on the, impact and imac, 8| bone and shattering it. By contrast the sharp-nosed bullet, steel coated, used by modern armies, penetrates without causing other than a clean wound. The dum-dum bullet is so called from its original manufacture at Dum-Dum, a} jtown and cantonment in Bengal, British India. It was adopted in early Indian frontier fighting against the headlong rushes of Afghan tribesmen, the usual types of bullets having failed to wrest their fanatical onset. Dum-dum bullets have been condemned as_ wrongful weapons of warfare and their use was prohibited by the second Hague Conference. The ordinary bullet has been so termed after the sharp point is filed down so that it expands on impact. Charges of using dum-dum bullets were made against the British in the Boer War, against the Spaniards in the Spanish-American war, and against the Germans in the World War. picturesque town, on Nith, S.W. border of Dumfrie hire, Scotland; capital of county; royal and parliamentary burgh, and practically the metropolis of a great part of southern Scotland; a ociated with Robert Burns. Pop. 1921, 15,778. 30’ W.), border county, Scotland, bounded on S. by Solway Firth; length, 21461% miles; breadth, 13-32 miles; area, 1103 sq. miles. Northern region constitutes part of Southern Highlands of Scotland. Southern region is divided into three large basins, through which run the Nith, Annan, and Esk. D. is an agricultural and pastoral county. Manufactures include hosiery (in Thorn hill and lLochmaben) and_ tweeds; Langholm manufactures coarse linen; woolen fabrics are made at Sanquhar and Moffat. Pop. 1921, 75,365.