Thursday was an exciting day in the Peace Conference, for
a division was taken on the use of the dum-dum bullet. In spite of the explanation of Sir John Ardagh, who showed that the effect of the bullet was not as represented, and that the Tiibingen experiments were entirely misleading, as they were not made with the dum-dum bullet, but with one totally different in construction, the whole of the non-Anglo- Saxon delegates condemned the British ballet, and left Sir John Ardagh and his American colleague in a minority of two. Colonel Crozier, who firmly supported the British contention, proposed a very sensible general amendment, but this also was rejected. We need not say that Colonel Crozier, in acting with the British delegate, was simply obeying the considerations of justice and common-sense, and was in no way backing up the British case because it was the British case.
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