IMPROVED TORPEDO.
GERMAN NAVAL WEAPON. NO TRACK TO WARN VICTIM. (United Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 21. The naval correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that German experts have greatly improved the torpedo by propelling it by electricity instead of by compressed aid and thus eliminating the track of air bubbles, which is visible to an enemy. The electric torpedo is slower than the latest compressed-air torpedo but can exceed 30 m.p.h. at which speed it is very dangerous to slow-moving merchantmen. German naval men have also devised a method of invisible firing by hiding the rush of air from the tube. Hitherto the upheaval on the surface has betrayed firing.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 137, 22 March 1935, Page 5
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110IMPROVED TORPEDO. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 137, 22 March 1935, Page 5
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