Show How the German or ot e Fire Bombs Do Their Deadly Work HE Germans have haye ha for some time THE T been using file floe bombs of a ape I pac peculiar pe pa- c culiar liar form specially designed designed for destroying destroying de do- men who have taken refuge in deep shelters that they supposed to toLe tobe tota Le ta bombproof These they call Brand Brand- rohr La Nature says that some of these have recently been captured by French soldiers and taken to pieces It prints diagrams showing the ingenious way fRICTION PLUG CELLULOID DISK METAL TUP j tAD LEAD DISK j IRON DISK I I. I SECTION OF THE INCENDIARY TUBE in which they are constructed The are cylinders of ofin t stamped metal and are of two size one fifty centimetres tres long and ten centimetres In diameter the other thirty-nine thirty and one halt centimetres long and five and one halt centimetres in diameter In each case the metal Is II only one millimetre thick The bottom bot bat tom t of the tube tube is closed by a lead disk seven s ven millimetres thick and aa aJ aairon iron disk two millimetres thick The tube is filled with compressed HOLE FOR THE FRICTION PLU PLUG PLUG- 0 VET VENT VENTo o 0 0 0 DISC 2 UPPER CAP OF THE TUBE ar and d its upper upper end Is closed by a plate o of celluloid four millimetres thick with six sl holes boles the central one of which is plugged with a friction I match Th fh is an intricate mixture 0 ol of powdered aluminum and oxide of iron which when heated sets up a tremendous tremendous tre tre- chemical reaction The al aluminum aluminum al- al Is oxidized at the expense atthe of at the iron and this metal is set at liberty in tn a perfectly fluid and Intensely hot condition The pulling out of the friction friction fricton fric fric- tion ton plug from the end of the bomb acts on the as a fulminating cap acts upon gunpowder starting th tha chemical reaction that that causes the th frightful heat When this plug is pulled out the blazes furiously with a flame six feet long that shoots forth for for more than a minute the eel eel- TRENCH I. I oJ l C Ci r i t 3 GERMAN INCENDIARY TUBE FOR PENETRATING OUTS DUG DUG O 1 cap being In Instantly instantly in- in volatilized The heat It sets up UI is enough to melt Iron It is so Intense Intense intense in In- tense that the Boches Doches cannot hold the firebombs fire firebombs firebombs bombs in their hands handa but fasten them on the end of poles and pull the plugs with a cord They pull the tho plug and hurl the bomb Into a trench or dugout after they attach it in such a away away away way that It will squirt its flame into the very depths of a supposedly b bomb bombproof om b b- b proof dugout |