ANTI-WIRE GLOVES.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 89, 16 May 1916, Page 8

ANTI-WIRE GLOVES.

♦ .» ENGLISHMAN'S IN.VENTJON. Among the inventions now brin" tested by tho War Office officials is one credited to Mr George l,yn:h, a wellknown traveller, of a metlnd of d<stroying wire entanglements. Tho 'Westminster Gazette,' describing the invention, says the method consists j of the use of a pair of gauntlets made I of ordinary khaki eloth lightly padded with cotton wool treated with a uceuliar powder, rendering the material practically impervious to the slnrpest metal ; points. Thus, a so'dier is enabled to grasp or pull the tno-t formidable type of German liarbrd wire without the slightest fear of the spikes penetrating the material and scratching his hands. The fabric is waterproof and the gloves can be insulat d for the purpor-e of gripping electrically charged wire<. : The claim i s even made that when msid.into vests and leggings the material is strong enough to turn shrapn >\ splinters. A company has been formed to de- ' velop the invention. The War Office al- ' ready has ordered some supplies and tho substance has been successfully tested in the Russian Army. ' .