BLOWING UP PARLIAMENT.
The effect of high- explosives is enormously exaggerated not only in the popular mind but almost universally. The idea that Buoh publio buildings aa the Houses of Parliament can be destroyed by the explosive carried on the person cf an anarohist can hardly gain the credence of an intelligent man, though such is the belief of many newspaper writers. Bat the equally un-
founded idea that a battle-ship can be destroyed Dy a high- explosive shell meets with common acceptance. The faot is, that while high explosives produce very great , effects upon material in olose contaot with them, these effects are comparatively local. , The reason given for this by * Oaasier Magazine' Ib that the greatest foroe of high explosives is wasted in tearing and shattering the shell itself.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 3217, 20 November 1900, Page 7
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131BLOWING UP PARLIAMENT. Bruce Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 3217, 20 November 1900, Page 7
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