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They'll be low-velocity, but we can use big-calibre balls for shock effect, and with long barrels they ought to serve for a hundred yards or better. Smooth bore, of course." Denham stirred. His lips were pinched. "I'll design a gas mask," he said restlessly, "and Smithers and I, between us, will do what we can."
This was the first intimate indication I had of how the offensive exposing the whole bodies of men in a charge against the low-velocity shrapnel bullets and high-velocity bullets from rifles and machine guns must result in the old ratio of only one mortal wound for every five men hit. There was consolation in that fact.
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