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Show SHARKS N TORPEDO WORK. Suggestion That tho Great Fish Da Utilized In the Naval Service. All sortt of queer devices are offered of-fered the army hoard ot ordnance and fortifications ns engines of destruction. destruc-tion. One ot the strangest suggestions sugges-tions ot this kind yet presented to the consideration of the board contemplates contem-plates the uso ot largo fish, preferably prefer-ably sharks, for the propulsion of ub-marine ub-marine torpedoes. According to tho plan proposed a shark Is to bo Imprisoned Im-prisoned In a tube at tho rear end ot tho projectile and Is to bo controlled In Its movements by tbo active application appli-cation ot wireless telegraphy. In caso tho shark became restless and attempted to swim away on his own nccount It wax to bo given an electric shock, and In that way kept on Its courso until tho torpodo had reached Its target. Another remarkably remark-ably Ingenious proposition emanated from tho samo fertile brain, and contemplated con-templated tho employment of war balloons In any desired direction. In this case also tho birds, harnessed to tho aerial vehicles, wro to bo controlled con-trolled In tbelr movements by a system sys-tem of wireless telegraphy. Theso balloons were to bo provided with torpedoes, or bombs, which could he dropped at any desired point by the uso of wireless telegraphy. |