FLYING BOMB INVENTION
CLAIMED BY SYDNEY MAN
O.C. SYDNEY, Feb. 7. Harley Matthews, of Tngleburn, near Sydney, who was interned in August, 1942, as an alleged member of the Australia First Movement, claimed before Mr. Justice Clyne, at the inquiry into the internment of AR.M. members, that he had invented the flying bomb. Matthews said that he had offered the invention to the Commonwealth Government, but it was refused. "The drawings were at my house, and were swept up by my mother," Matthews said. She said she would have no more rubbish about the house. Matthews said he had neyer been a member of the Australia First Movement. "The police tried to make out that the Japs had built my house -with a big bathroom, to hold meetings there/' he said. "They thought that the Japs were going to pay off my overdraft. They found a letter from my bank on the kitchen table. It was a very nasty letter."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 38, 14 February 1945, Page 4
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