THE INCENDIARY BOMB
The possible origin of the incendiary bomb was described by the Rev. A. H. Voyce in a talk to the Christchurch Optimists' Club, states the "Star-Sun." Mr. Voyce has had over 20 years' experience in missionary work in the Solomon Islands and other Pacific areas, and his talk concerned St. Elizabeth Island, usually known as Santa Ysabel. Discovered by the Spaniards, Santa Ysabel had a population of possibly 40,000 souls, now reduced to 5000 as the result of epidemics and head-hunting raids from neighbouring islands. To escape the marauders the natives constructed houses 80 to 90 feet up in the trees, and were safe until the raiders attached burning twigs to their arrows, setting alight the inflammable houses and forcing their occupants to descend to the ground, where they -were massacred. "That,'1 said the speaker, "was the forerunner of the incendiary bomb."
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 9
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145THE INCENDIARY BOMB Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 9
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