INVISIBLE DEATH RAY
RUSSIAN CLAIM.
[BY CABLE —PEESS ASSN. —COPYEIGHT.]
(Recd. January 19, 10 a.m.) MOSCOW, January 18.
It is officially stated that the Defence Commissariat, has successfully tested a new invisible death-ray.
NEW ZEALANDER’S CLAIM
AUCKLAND, January 19
There is at Kaitangata a young man, a radio mechanic by trade, who claims that he has invented .a machine of tho elusive death-ray type, which will kill insects-at a distance of one yard. By telephone, this evening, he said that by concentrating his raj’- on an insect bj” means of an arc focus he can cause it to explode, disintegrating completely. Beyond the fact that the ray of his invention, which he states is being financed bj r an Auckland firm, is a light ray, but does not rely on heat to cause death to insect life, the young man would give no details of the machine. He was, he added, still working on it, and was confident that further experiments would make the ray effective at distances greater than one yard, and that other living things besides insects would also be disintegrated when the ray was turned on them. He anticipates that in about a month he will have been successful in that respect.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 January 1939, Page 7
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