KILLS AT A TOUCH.
ELECTRIC BAYONET.
AUSTRIAN'S INVENTION.
TO BE MARKETED IN LONDON
(Special.—By Air Mall.)
LONDON", January 7.
An electric bayonet, which kills at a touch, has been invented by an Austrian, and a private company has been formed in London to market this and other armament inventions which have
been submitted to the War Office. The inventor is Herr Victor Stohanzl, the company is Victor Stohanzl, Ltd., with a nominal capital of £100, and Mr. Anthony Joseph Huston, a Londoner, is a British dii - ector.
Victor Stohanzl, 37-year-old former Austrian armaments engineer, said this week: "I have great hopes of my electric bayonet. It will enable the untrained or tired-out soldier to put his opponent out of action in hand-to-hand combat."
On a drawing board he sketched a tin-hatted soldier going into action and said: "Here is hie. ordinary bayonet so. It is attached to an ordinary rifle. Mark the porcelain insulation between rifle and bayonet. A cable runs from the bayonet to a portable battery apparatus at the soldier's belt. The voltage from this battery can be stepped up to 50,000. It's touch is death."*
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 23, 28 January 1939, Page 11
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