| Show c j tj Bombs and Those Who Make Them 0 t J nc i Modern Chemical Discovery Has Worked Great Changes In the Manufacture of These Favorite Arguments of the Terrorists r r E most feature of recent bomb development Is b TUB TilE not the Increasing frequency of the employment of nf bombs I but the continual Improvement that li II lib I being b made In their contraction construction Fre Fra In tn the use of the murderous ncy Instrument may ma Indicate that the ranks c et ef the tho lawless s are being ro enforced i 1 It H I Is even Cen more disquieting to torY tv fry ry civilized d government on earth to that the bomb Is la rapidly become brom Irs In more morr destructive In It Its Ita power and andre re certain In It Its action I 1 is not long since the bomb used by byr byI I f r to In their public i t i against law and order was Wall an anti ti tx f r Inartistic and uncertain at af att t fl often flen ten put together with lIh a 1 r f w i which betrayed the tho Ignorance of oft t maker and with a disregard for ford d reaction that was as aa lIS absurd t was hazardous A dozen years yean tars U s when and his band of roar nir na hist attempted to blow up build irp i in various arlous parts of the city of ofF ran r F I keeping the community In a are an ar re n r e of If terror for several months the theu theer u j er t I damage they the seemed able to ac acl l push n h was to wreck a small t n built for a n temporary cafe Irn tr n now no the scientific bomb maker H I ot 1111 In the majority Although the theRan Ran nian Insurrectionists have hae among I t r number several Heral persons ons who whon j n shown hown great skill In the manu manti fure U te ure of bombs It Is a fact that th Ih the nos from the accidental accident III discharge or firing of these thelle engines engine of detraction destruction dr have hoe recently been quite AS r morons ns as have han assassinations At v r time of the th Industrial riots In tn War Var Warr Warf r f ts for tor Instance a 1 roomful of the re ren reo reins n tins ins of ot bomb maker makere was found after II a In an unfrequented nor mer of the city clI Recently In Paris h r Russians were passing pas ln through the Fris de do Vincennes with n bomb which they PIC Intended to 10 bury burr for future u uv use usen v II n hen It suddenly sudden went off ott killing one oner r the bearers and Injuring the other beyond t repair Probably the most mo t dramatic example r of If f a n bomb maker becoming the victim f t his hi own on contrivance occurred In a London bank some years yean ago ogo In some ome someway someway way never neer explained the man had man managed managed aged alM to reach one of or the vaults aults and to start Karl the movement of a time Infernal machine which he hr had hAIl with him Then to his great horror he made the dt db cover ott covery that he was locked In the vault ault Th great steel lit eel door had closed noise noUe nol e lessly Ir I after him and was IM caught on the outside by a powerful spring lie He knew that the mechanism of the bomb b mb was already alread working and that he hI could not Interfere with It without precipitating an explosion He lie real realized lied that the only chance between him ant eternity wax was that Ihal through some Imperfection of the machinery the I works might ml ht stop He lie sickened as 81 he heI I re allt the Infinite caro care and nicety with wilch tho those e works work were werA adjusted In Yn the awful and darkness he hecard earn card hi hl his doom being bring marked off by b the I i taking king nf of his Ingenious In bit of deviltry I 1 AT P TAE LOO TOR t r 1 C r Sic iceN f ii r 1 I it pfd r I IJ 1 I e a J tl l fl f 1 t tn V liL r j Y q f t IN n I P II f o l t i f i He Ht struck match after match In a fu futile futile fuTile tile attempt to find some way WI tn to open the door of his hili prison on The last ono onn on burned down to hit his hi very er finger finKer tips lips and blackened them The ticking went scent on In i I with maddening regularity He thing flung himself In a Irene frenz frenzy of terror against the metal slab of hi his hili tomb and clawed Impotently at lit It II until the end Charred stumps slumps of matches finger nails worn to the quick and bloody blood scratches on the door told the tory story stor of his agony agon The vault ault won was practically uninjured Many an years year ago ngo Kenan Benan argued argut that the time line would come when hen a comparatively com para small body bod of ot fanatics In possession of overwhelming mentis means of destruction might compel the world to bow bo to their will Although that time still seem seems far oft off there are signs IGns that It Is li fast fallt becoming more of a alIos pos pas possibility The number of persons that may ma be destroyed dr ly by b a n single bomb Is Isnow isnow now no much greater than It was wag when these explosive agents sere first t used No 0 less leas than persons person were killed by the expiation of the bomb aimed at the young king and his ils bride In the streets street of Madrid and about eighty more were Injured more or less lem Ie seriously For Kor real reRI Ingenuity the thc bomb makers maker of Paris excel all till others So o expert are arr they that thAI n a deadly dud I bomb may reach It its 1111 Intended victim through the most unexpected channels channell and In a Form torm that cannot excite suspicion Tons of them so small that thai they the might 2 1 l r y I j easily cully be mistaken f fr r ranges angee when hen wrapped In tissue t ue paper er have hate been intercepted In Intercepted In transit to during the past part few months Many Ion retee were found recently rP In St Petersburg burg which contained these explosives pulsed a as af fruit In Poland Polan the police pollee have discovered eighty bombs hombs h In tn a tomb In a cemetery Only recently a hated army Arm was as dining at a n Polish restaurant and when hen the cover corr wa was all removed moved r from u Ii soup coup tavern the i dish dl h exploded 1 i iQ So Q expert arc are the bomb b makers maker nowa noa nowadays I Ida days day da that an apparently harmless let letter j jIU ter IU conning coming In ih the mall may kill MU or maIm malm any an person who tries trie to open It II ItA itt A t piece of cardboard II Is cut ul to 10 a ii sue e which when folded over oer will all fit Into nto an ordinary envelope pe The four corners corner of this are slit silt Into narrow strips some Home something thing like n a miniature window Indo shutter Fulminate of ot memory 0 It Is spread over three thre ot of the Ih slits allta tied UM UM Ute she sheet Is 1 folded fold told folded ed Id and sad fastened together Projecting from each h tide side of ot the folded sheet I Ia is II IIa isa a little metal trip strip or detonator glued lluto to the cardboard In iii such nth a II manner that the envelope cannot be opened with without without out striking one lINt of ot them Upon meeting meet meeting meetIng ing this Ihl slight alight all ht resistance refinance the tb hand mor moving log ing I the th paper cutter roller knife or scissors Instinctively pushes harder and the re reo I s suit li is I an explosion that either cither kills or maims malm The easiest Iet bomb to and d therefore the th one moat most employed by terror la ii I set net letIn In operation by simply limply aim pi turning It upside down It U usually is II male made of ot a good sized sited tin biscuit box or something similar U JI Is la lined U d and padded Id with paper and then rattier rather more than halt half filial filed with lIh a mixture of chlorate of potassium ail ami ordinary sug Mag sugar Magr ar r Into I lito this a tiny battle Ie of a Cor certain Cortan tan tale powerful acid add It is Introduced The Tb remainder of the Ibe space In tn the Ibe box I le II Oiled with scraps scrap of metal or even eren nail nails Then the th lid ltd li ii I soldered on sad and the bomb I is II ready for use All Alt that is i necessary for fir the mis mla miscreant miscreant who I la II to use Ule the machine to 10 do doI doIs I Is to place the box bolt upside down Iown at the pot spot In which he wishes to explode It II and take to hl hI his heels The acid eats eata quickly through the Ihl rork cork of the Ihl bottle and comes Omel In contact l with 11 h the Ihl chlorate of A All As a result mull nf ot the Ihl he mi mica ca eel It 1 I combination n which lake lak t hiss place lAce there Is a terrine terrific explosion and anci any I person who happens happen l to 10 be In tn the Im Immediate immediate mediate vicinity runs runt a fearful tearful risk of ot being MIlle blown Into fragment fragments Chemistry has ha produced a n groat roat ar array arra array ray ra of ot explosives and the modern bomb maker ha bu made mad himself familiar with most of them Percussion bombs bomb and bombs bomb with fuses fuse fu are ure never ner used u l I nowadays by those tho who ho make any an pre pretension pretensions tensions tension to 10 scientific knowledge Many Jany llIn II of 01 the bombs bomb used In Russia during the j past peal few t years yeah have shown such a It deep drep i Insight Into chemical processes process on the tho I part of their makers that the govern government j ment mart official declare that they must have he been constructed In the labora laboratories tortes tories lort of ot the universities that the fa La facilities duties for producing them could b be found nowhere else 1 Ise In the empire A missile thrown at t a goy goV 11 ernar emor recently tI was wu u found on examina examination lion tion to be nickel plated platH The official caught the bomb In tn his hla hand and It did not nit explode exploit Some time afterward another bomb of tiC a similar smilar make mke was IV thrown thron Into hi his hIli carriage and It exploded ex Ix exploded sad and Injured him seriously Not ot long ago go a supply of If bombs made of ot polished hed steel teel was U unearthed by br the Ih Russian police pollee The Th latest Improve Improvement improvement ment mIll I on nn the bomb of the cracker box boxe type e I is III to II coy coyer cover r It II with a thick coating I of cement The Th extra resistance adds I to 10 the force of the explosion Today there are bombe l made mI of nitrates ni nitrate chlorate permanganate rennan nal peroxide Iris ide nitroglycerin run Nn ration cotton fulminate and many IMn other explosives explosive Those Thol with a II basis basl of chlorates chlorate ar arthe are i 1 the most destructive In their action Scientist Scientists that in n the near fu tu future lure ture liquid air will be utilised In the manufacture of ot bombs bomb Liquid ace aee acetyl acetylene tyl tylene tlene ne may Ina be used for a similar pur purpose pose POH Ole a as soon a as 1111 become familiar with It its properties It U is I even predicted that wireless telegraphy will wll I tie be I one of et the most active agents agent of the terrorists In support of the th assertion It II la Sa pointed out that there Is II a recent Invention which enables enable an operator to tollet set off a bomb of liquid air by h means mean of the wireless current at any an time lime he hemr may mr b be so 10 o inclined The most mo t terri terrifying tying feature of ot this discovery If In Indeed Inc deed decd ud It be a fact I that the perpetrator tor ter nf of the crime would be absolutely tree free fr from detection Perhaps ll the tho most mOlt famous Parisian bomb ever fer manufactured was wan the Orel nl iii in missile milie I wile thrown thron at the carriage of Napoleon III Ill who with the tho Empress s Eugenie gu wa was a on the way W to the opera In the conspiracy that Ihal hatched this plot riot and even en In III the IIII manufacture of the tn bomb itself lUelf I f aft afterward errard erward Italy Ital most famous prime min leter Ister wa was concerned In the long lon t struggle against the Bourbons In Sicily I 1 made bomb bombs with lIh hi his own hands to In be bf used against again the Sicilian rulers ruler He lie would have lIan been n executed for far hi his f share hue In II the th Orsini bomb tomb throwing business If the government of ot Great reat Britain had hll not Dot declined to permit his hll i extradition j That bomb was A n Jo Jor to the memory of Napoleon apoleon who shortly afterward be he benan hegan pan nan the Ihl war Ar with Austria that resulted In the unification nf ot Italy H IL PI RD ii f j i fi |
