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Show HUDSON MAXIM u OU1! UlVILiL Famous American Inventor Has Perfected Apparatus to Protect All Ships. NEW YORK, May 22. Hudson Maxim announced today that he had Invented and perfected a device which will mako ships immune from tho dangers of tho submarine. He nald that torpedoes, even when fired at close range and striking their targots, would explode harmlessly against the hulls of their Intended victims. The inventor mado tho announcement announce-ment at a luncheon givon in Brooklyn. Brook-lyn. Ho asserted that tho invention soon will bo demonstrated by the government, gov-ernment, which already had been advised ad-vised of the details. "The invention is practical for every typo of vessel," ho said. "It can bo applied within a fow months at a comparatively com-paratively cheap price to the hulls of the hips already constructed. Tho only change nocessarv in vessels al-l ready built will be a slight enlarce-' mont of their beams. My device is of solid material and encircles the entire ship from the bow to tho stern. It in no sonso or manner resembles either n scroen or net." |