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Show G0.0 pc 'I 'Sfeii il..THDK it ia probable that this nHl be the last great war In l which -ne shall see gunpowder jjed said Lewis Nixon the noted ,Mpbuildr and designer ol -war (MP" t "The pose billty of using other foces infinitely more powerful has neeii shown in this confliot and there irlll be a great effort to secure the nost efficient employment of them jefore another struggle oocurs r Conspicuous among the novel weap ons that have been used In the prea ent war is the petrol bomb This has the effect not only of killing all pe sons within immediate range of lis explosion but of setting fire to t erythlng combustible which it touches It is thrown -with a, fuse and explodes with a Winding storm of flam jug gasoline It is much lighter than tabs of the same siia containing dyna n e and is therefore, Tery suitable for use lyaeroplanes Sir John jtench the British commander mentioned in an official report that one of his avia tore dropped a petrol bomb on a Ger man ammunit on train killing fifteen men and destroying the whole triin It has been stated that many Belgian and French towns have been set on lie and destroyed by petrol bombs E en London has been in fear of de s ruction from this cause The use of po sonous gases is" un Soubted y planned by military engi nee s. We have positive evidence that t gun designed to discharge such gases among the enemy has been paten pat-en ed by the Krupp firm of Essen and we may hear at any moment that it Is in action. t It Is a question whether such a weapon does not come under the clause of The Hague Con ention wh ch p oh b ts the use of poisons tip os ve bullets and other excessive j c uel weapons The events of the j esent war seem to Indicate how i er that not much attention will be paid to the humanitarian provis ons of The Hague Convention It may be argued that the use of poisons was (o bidden for the protection of civil ians and nentra s and that the pro ttara does not apply to a gun throw tag poisonous gases at the enemv a so d ers The poison gun has been patented In he United States by Karl Wieserj a German subject residing at Bre ienev Germany He states in his ap P cation that he has assigned his Jijhts to the Krupp company The shell co ta nlng the poisonous gases s a great globe which remains outside the muzzle of the gun V tlaft attached to the g obe enters the fn and separates from the globe then it Is fired The globe is said o lie capable of suffocat ng a thousand ten by the gases wh ch it emits Jlen it exp odes The technical d jf P Ion of the nventlon savs V The obje t is In the prcent In ent on reached by giving the part the 6haft whereon tl e we ght i des a sma ler dimension than that of tie bore of the gun and by supplying He shaft w th an abutment or stop it the rear of th s small diameter fbich stop w 11 conform with the di we er of the bore of the gun An 1 Sit smal er part of the shaft passe lirougn a hole of the same diamete I the weight so that with the as ance of centring faces on the ?6ght and on the gun the form II bp In such a position that its "a nil co ncide with that of the re of the gun " IToe Invention Is a three-piece de ' c the shaft which goes into the 8 of the gun the shell and a feght which is attached both to thp "aft and the gun and Joins them ilether When the shaft is fired the ght retards its progress an 1 B ough that means detaches itse t 4 the shaft from the shell whi h Mhtinues in its flight l One great object of the military in TV" rs is the direct use of the power the buu for purposes of destru "en They are planning to furnish 1 ships with lenses and mirrors by Jeans of which the suns rays mav concentrated on the opponent s ' ta magazines and encampments Imagine the effect of such a titanic 10 ce bu -nlng w therlng annihilating erjthing over which it passes No Nn can reach It, no defence is pos 1 6 e Fortresses explode, cities burn Jt ' and men Bbrivel into nothingness I Such a triumph of destruction is W ancient dream of mankind Just flying was According to tradt J, Archimedes the Greek inientor "troyed the ships of Marcellus JMca were attacking Syracuse in 214 C by turning the suns rays on gem by meang 0f conCentric mirrors pSgnor TJllvl an Italian Inventor R ms to have discovered a method controlling the infra red rays of fspectrum so tnnt thev wl 1 ignito SSI n o n o n b stlb e in a Mil " ' Airships will carry vast lenses tKaTtwill concentrate the rays of the sun The New Gun That D scharge Poisonous Gases Patented by the Krupps of Germany These bombs will spread poisonous gases over an area, of many square miles in whloh no human being can live " tlons before the British Admiralty and the Italian armv authorities. There is some doubt about the era oac of his Invention but there is no doubt that it Is based on a scientific ldUHvl is said to have exploded submarine nine under the Rlyer Amo from a d stance of five mile He k s o t tl e ravs fr m what ap 1Cd t bo a at tic eectri ma nine ' ) w t r 0 his ear which tells him when his rays have struck a distant metallic object He asserts that his inven tion will cause the exp sion of a 1 ammunition torpedoes bombs war ships gasometers etc It wi wreck all Iron steamships, railroad locomo tlves and cars iron bridges and all other metallic constructions SIrior Ultvl s Invention bears a re "semb ance to the methods used bv the Mar n n b" s ' Airships will carry vast lenses tnTCttwill concentrate the rays of the sun withering' and destroying everything beneath them ' earth as described by H. O Wells These the Martians would be counted outside monstrous octopus like creatures con the pale of humanity trolled heat rays with which they with TV ells has suggested another scientific ered and devastated everything that op weapon which would cause world wide posed them They were not stopped until devastation and so make war impossible an earthly inventor infected them with He assumes that we shall discover the o sease microbes which they had nevei secret of atomic energy a force which we known on Mars This use of microbes by can see at work in radium The atomic the way would be contrary to the rules bomb releases the energy of matter and of The Hague Convention but probably causes everything It touches to explode |