SCOTT’S “STROKE”

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 July 1925, Page 5

SCOTT’S “STROKE”

COMPREHENSIVE CLAIMS. : (Reuter.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 50. Doctor Edwin Scott, the sell-styled inventor of what he has termed the “Death Stroke,” in the form of “canned lightning,” which he claims will revolutionise existing war tactics, states that he will formally ask the Navy Department's assistance in testing his invention oil the Californian coast in September. lie plans, to make the test with the aid of an old battleship, or a pilotless aeroplane, oi with both- . ’

He said that he wished to convince the officials of the truth of his contentions, respecting the efficacy of the invention as a death-dealing agency. He ’said that it is capable of the de-struction-of. all life, on land, on sea, and in the air, within a radius of twenty miles, and of disabling all radios within similar radius. It is capable of the destruction of the superstructures of battleships- ten miles away, and of bringing down airplanes at any height, and will effect the destruction or the disabling of land fortifications at long dist cilices. ■ In ■ a- test conducted by Scott, he claims that, “holes were burned in two-inch steel plates at a distance oi one mile. Dead trees were set on fire at the same distance, and animal life was :snuffed out at a distance of from three to seven miles. Dummy ’planes were also destroyed in air tests.”