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Ballets Point To Point

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
April
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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A oorrespondent relates the following rernarkable personal reminiscence of an incident which occurred dnring the Frauco-Germau war: "A perfect stranger (au Englishman), " said he, "oalled upon uie and hauded to me a chassepot rifle, which he related he had picked up on the field of battle after Gravelotte, which had a ballet or two stock iu about the xuiddle of the barrel and which he requested roe to get removed. This was done, and upon exarnination two bullets were found to have rnet point to point. A Germán bullet must have entered the muzzle of the French rifle barrel just as tbe French rifle had been fired, and the two bullets had met together without bursting the barrel. I iuclose ia y card. "-

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News