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Show H GUM SCATTERS B . WHjTEH0T MIXTURE BBt Invention of John Hays Hammond, BV Jr., May Be Used Soon In Bfli European War H BB Oloucoster, .Mass., Dec. 21 A now B typo of projectile which would scat BE tcr a white hot mixture of molten By tteel over the object of attack and at BV thu same tlmu permeate the atmo H, iphere with a deadly gas which would Bff make It Impossible- for flro lighters to BB' approach has been Invented by John BB Hays Hammond, Jr., according to a BB statement made by the Inventor to- Bb night. Tho new missile may soon Bj appear In the European war, as some Bv of the belligerent nations nro now no- BB' i gotlating tor its purchase, he said. BB The United States government at BB present Is conducting oxporiments BB with tho now projectile at Sandy BB Hook, he added. BB I Tho mlsallo is designed for use in BB I slego guns as an uid in destroying BB towns and dlrlglblo balloons. BB 1 Air. Hammond explained that the BB.- I projectile carries an aliimlnothermlc BB 1 mixture which, five seconds after tho BB I projectile Is discharged, turns the r.'eol Insldo a whlto hot mlxturo at n temperature of 5100 degrees Pah renhelt. . When tho projectile hits the targot the Inventor snld, it oxplodes. its white hot contents setting fire to whntover Inflammable inate'lnt It strikes. To avoid tho possibility of anyono in the locality quenching the flames, Mr. Hammond Bnid, ho had cqulppe 1 tho projectile with a chamber filled with hjdrocnnlc acid, tho tumos of whli h are dendly. |