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THE CHINA MM-

JUNK INQUIRY COMPLETED

REPORT EXPECTED TO BE READY IN A FEW DAYS

STANDARD MIXTURE

If

do you say that?” “Can you express any opinion as have to be ignited by the propel- you want a tracer bullet it would to the probabilities of which of the lent of the cartridge, which could two kinds of combustion, which

not in this

The

The China Mail understands that the report might have been responsible for the tabe as it

present residue cannot say of the Commission appointed to investigate the

your opinion, the original the bes junk massacre off Cheelung Point, which concluded substance consisted of barium per- Bearing its public sittings this morning, will probably be oxide and magnesium? ready for presentation to Government on Monday or Tuesday of next week.

Expert witnesses this morning declare that the bullet extracted from the knee of a woman alleged to have been wounded when a sampan was chine-gunned by the Japanese submarine, peared to be of an incendiary type.

What is it used for

the

is a opiniai as

standard mixture for tracer bullets plosive

and incendiary bullets.”

"What is its primary function ?”

onez

e have reached the losed at the base." bullet has a hole in

"That is 80. mind the evidence of

press any whether it was an ex- or an incendiary in my opinion it was an

incendiary bullet

"What sort of wound would you expect an incendiary bullet would cause?”

Every severe ome,

"It is used to cause heat and flame." Can you express any opinion as ma-to the heat which might be generat

ap-ed by igniting this mixture very much more severe than

cannot say exactly, but I think it is standard type of bullet, a much used to ignite thermite which more mortal wound quires a high temperature to ignite! it, in round figures at least 1.0001

BALLISTIC Inspector AL: Hopkins,

OTHER WITNESSES ABSENT Mr. Whyatt uformed the Com- missioners that the remaining wit uesses could not be had found new ing junks

as they

had

3 It time

sses

View

After tendering photos of the of barium-peroxide and magne fragments of metal taken from the after being exposed to

air. body of one of the victims ~ Mr.

FAST COMBUSTION John Whyatt presented Mr. V. C. “Will you assume that the origin Branson,

· Government Analyst, who al mixture was inside that cop stated that he received a fragment tube which was part of a bullet and of arms and ammunition. the been made of bullet from Inspector Hopkins, that bullet was fired and that fring Police Force, stated he had held was with whose assistance he removed caused a certain type of interac that appointment since last year com the envelope around the bullet and tion, what type interaction would Prior to that 1 was musketry i could t found a whitish powder inside. you call that?” fast combus-structor to the Police for four years of the urgency of the report he did

Asked what the substance con-tion.”

and had considerable experience of not propose to ask for an adjourn sisted of witness replied that it "If on the other hand, that mix-fire arms, having studied for 201ment.

iness who were was barium hydrate and magnesium ture in its present state was inside years, both theoretically and prac available had been called and he

that copper tube in the same state tically. During the War he served trusted that i

lence which had "Can you express any opinion as in which it was found to be on the in an anti-submarine unit where he been adduced would be of assis- to how that substance, in its pre-analysis, before firing, what kind also gained a certain amount of ex-riving at their conclusions

tance to the Commissioners in ar- sent state, has been formed?”” "It of interaction would that be? perience. can be formed and would be the Slow combustion or deterioration."

carbonate

end product from the inter-action 1 So it comes to this, that that piece of metal taken out of a body for myself to thank you Mir, Whyatt

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The Chairman should like on Did you examine carefully this

behalf of my colleagues as well as of a man at the Kwang Wan Hos for the very gre assistance you

you express your opinion as tion of the case and marshalling

have given to us in the rigin of this piece of me the evidence”

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to the tal? "It is very dificult to be definite, but it is consistent with its being a shell splinter, but it could possibly be a part of a larger piece of metal other than a shell

In any event, it is consistent with being a shell splinter?"

Yes, that is about all I can tell you about this piece of metal

MACHINE GUN BULLET Handing the witness another ex- habit, (part of a bullet) Mr. Whyatt

"Can you as to whether

has been fired?

Way you say

cause there

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