Show KAISER H 0 E OF VICTORY italian invents canne canned lightning capable of destroying trenches of enemy TERRIBLE ENGINE OF DEATH claimed invention could end war in thirty days and allies could march Un unchallenged challe i aged into berlin tests prove its value rome the kaisers keisers kai sers dream adreani of at victory and world supremacy may bo be blasted out by Ic tinne d lightning a terrible death engine invented by tin nn italian scientist tir t drizzling dazzling swords of lire fire more e deadly than are highest explosives plo followed by annihilating explosions plo lons tire aro capable of destroying enemy trenches with ith one blin blinding dirig lash flash according to ills his claims mine sweep era equi equipped dipped with alth tills this device could ire fire mines thousands of yards distant dist tint on oil tile the land canned lightning could be used to form it n most successful bur bar rage and could wipe out exit the defenders of german trenches with unerring certainty the scientist Is credited with having discovered n means iverin q of concentrating I 1 and nil reflecting electric rays ras in such a manner ns af to produce the results described describe bed it Is reported that this ln in lias has proved to representatives of ills his government that electric current can call be concentrated and directed in rays tests held on banks of tiber in ili describing the results of these debts held on the banks of the historic tiber r F 11 IL 11 andall writing in ili tile the illustrated world rays bays that tile the scientist was asked to burn through gh it three inch plank of hardwood in nil an instant tho the writer says tile the plank wits soared seared and broken as if it had been broken by lightning officials then asked the scientist to explode two bombs one hidden along ha file bank of tile river and tile the other in the lie tied bed of tile stream within ten minutes tile the bomb along the hank bank exploded it required a much longer tittle time to explode the other bomb but this to too was finally accomplished the entire it coed sed by the inventor was ns placed on oil a single small barge an lipp rosti idea of the power of the he arcing electricity may be obtained fly by wr itching nn an electric furnar furnaro 0 nt at work vork it will cut tho the hardest steel like putty to flash such a ihme through nn an nero submarine battleship or a trench would leave a total wreck mines placed in the north sen sea by the germans could ile ho eliminated anti and mine sweepers could destroy destray tilt all of thee hidden terrors of the 4 ea 7 located docil ted within thousands of yards of tile the ship in a graphic description mr rand iland nil fill points a picture of what would I 1 bippen with tills this machine in notion fiction iery every enemy airplane oy 0 tiny fleet of 0 thorn them would gukl falato earth it crumpled wreck at tit the touch ouch ot of rt button it bolt of electricity would suddenly shoot forward with incredible shoed A few scarred parts would be nil tat wits left of what had been 11 soaring airplane a few minutes before A scout could lurk luric wi nith ills bondly weapons connected with tho the goner natora and concentrators behl behind n d the lines in shell holes or craters in no innas land when the enemy charged lie ho could sweep tho the whole line as it ench each successive wave of advancing Gern germans ians mr air randall says that lie ho cant say that this his hns has been done or will ix ill lone done but ile ho dont dare to suggest th thit that at it cannot be accomplished light I 1 heat tin and rays of other kind can be reflected ile ho conduces by saying once tills this problem Is solved there 1 will l be no war it if the lie allies were possessed of that would permit the arcing tit nt n distance of powerful tul electric currents the war vat would be won von in 80 30 days and allied troops would be marching arching in unchallenged into derlin berlin |