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Show AMERICAN IDEA APPROPRIATED H NEW YORK, May 30. Ideas embod- H led In Rear Admiral Bradley A. Flsko's H invention of a torpedo launching sea- H plane have been "appropriated" by the H Germans and wore used by them in H torpedoing tho 3,000 ton British steam- H ship Gena off Aldcburgh on May 1, ac- H cording to a statement given out hero H tonight by the Aero Club of America. H Two seaplanes participated in tho at- H tack and one was brought down by M tho British. Hj Tho charge of theft against the Gcr- H mans is based on a sketch of tho Ger- Hj man seaplane, which shows that tho H arrangement for holding the torpedo is H exactly like that in Admiral Flskc's in- HL vention. HT The British admiralty, in reporting Hl the torpedoing of the Gena, claimed M that this method of attack was prac- H ticcd successfully for tho first time in IH August, 1915, by royal navy air ser- MmM vice pilots, who sank several ships in H the Dardanelles. |