| Show BLASTS KAISERS KAISER'S HOPE ROPE OF VICTORY VICTOR Italian Invents Canned Lightning Capable of Destroying Trenches of Enemy TERRIBLE ENGINE OF DEATH Claimed Invention Could End War n n Thirty D Days ys and Allies Could March Unchallenged Into Berlin Tests Prove Its Value Home The The kaisers kaiser's dream of v vic victory cJ cand c- c J tor tory and world supremacy ma may be foe blasted out by canned lightning a t terrible death engine Invented In 1 by an n Italian scientist Dazzling swords of ot fire more deadly than are highest t f explosives ex ex- plosives followed by annihilating explosions explosions explosions ex ex- I are capable of ot destroying ene enemy en en- e envy emy l trenches with one blinding flash according to his claims Mine sw s e sweepers sweep sweep- Ti- Ti ers ere equipped with this device Ice could fire mines thousands of ot yards distant On the land canned lightning could be used med to form a most successful barrage barrage bar bar- rage and could wipe out the defenders defender of German trenches with unerring The scientist Is credited with having hav hav- having ing discovered a means menns of concentrating lag ing and reflecting electric rays ras In such sucha n a manner as to produce the results de de- scribed It is reported that this In Inventor Inventor Inventor In- In has proved to representatives s of his government that electric current current current cur cur- rent cats can alt be concentrated and directed In rays rasa Tests Test Held on Banks Bank of Tiber In describing the results of at these thes-e tests held on the banks of ot the historic Tiber F. F H. H Randall RandaU writing In the nl Illustrated World says that the scientist was asked to burn through h ha a three Inch plank of ot hardwood In Inan Inan an Instant nt the writer says Bays the plank was seared find and nd broken as if It It had beEn br broken ken by lightning Ot Officials then asked the scientist to explode two bombs one hidden bIdden along the bank of the river and the other In Inthe Inthe Inthe the bed hed of ot the stream Within ten minutes the bomb along the bank ex- ex ex x It required a mu much h longer time to explode the other bomb but this too was finally accomplished The entire outfit n used by the Inventor was placed on a n single small barge An approximate idea of the power of the arcing electricity may may- be obtained obtained obtained ob ob- by watching an electric furnace At Jt work It will cut the bard hardest est steel like putty To flash such fuch a flame through an aeroplane submarine bator batt bat- bat silK t or a trench would leave a total total to to- tal tai wreck Mines placed in the North sea by the Germans could be eliminated eliminated elim elim- and mine sweepers could destroy destroy de de- stroy all aU ot of these hidden terrors of the located within thousands of yards of the ship Death to Airplanes In a graphic description Mr Randall Randall Randan Rand Rand- all an paints a picture of at what would happen with this machine in action Every enemy airplane or any fleet of them would fall faU to earth a crumpled wreck At the touch of a button a abolt abolt abolt bolt of ot electricity would suddenly shoot hoot forward with incredible speed A few scarred parts would be all aU that was left of at what had bad been a soaring airplane a a few minutes before A scout could lurk with his deadly weapons connected with the generators generators gener gener- and concentrators behind the lines In shell SheU boles holes or craters In no Mian's Mians ans an's land When the enemy Charged ha he could sweep swee-p the whole line Une M a. It pa passed Pd annU annihilating each successive sive wave of at advancing Germans I Mr Randall says that he cant can't say gay that this has been done or will be bedone bedone bedone done but he be dont don't dare to su suggest gest that tt i tt cannot be ac accomplished Light hea heat and rays ran of other kind can nn be he reflected He concludes by sn saying Once this problem Is solved there will be no war If It th the allies were possessed possessed pos pos- of ot equipment that would permit the arcing at a distance of powerful el electric currents current the war would be bewon bewon bewon won in 30 days and allied troops would I be marching unchallenged Into Bee Ber BeIlin lin Un |
