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Show Army to Try Out New Powerful Explosive Washington. The region of Fort Humphrey, Va.t will echo to the explosions ex-plosions of radium atomlte, new explosive ex-plosive claimed to be more powerful than TNT, some time In August According Ac-cording to the office of the chief of engineers of the War department here, MnJ. William EI. Lanagan of the board of engineer equipment has requested re-quested such a demonstration. A preliminary test of the explosive Invented by Capt II. R. Zimmer of Los Angeles, former army officer, was made at Pasadena by Lieut Col. L. M. Adams of the California Institute of Technology. Lieutenant Colonel Adams reported to the chief of engineers, and the board, after examining his report, has decided that the new explosive "appears to have military value." |