DEALER OF DEATH.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 31 July 1925, Page 5

DEALER OF DEATH.

CAPABLE OF WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION.

CLAIMS BY INVENTOR

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPI EIGHT, SANT FRANCISCO, July 30. Dr. Edwin Scott, the self-styled inventor of what he terms death stroke in the form of canned lightning, which he claims will revolutionise existing war tactics, states that he will formal, ly ask the Navy Department’s assistance in testing the invention off the Californian coast in September. * He plans to make the test with the aid of an old battleship or a pilotless airplane or both. Dr. Scott said he wished to convince the officials of the truth of his contentions respecting the efficacy of his invention as a death-dealing agency. He said it is capable of the destruction of all 'life on land and sea. and in the air within a radius of twenty miles, disabling ail radios within a similar radius, the destruction of the superstructure of battleships at ten miles, bringing down airplanes at any height, and the destruction and disabling of land fortifications at long distances. In a test conducted by Dr. Scott he claims: “Holes were burned in twoinch steel plates at a distance of one mile, dead trees were set on fire at the same distance, and animal life was snuffed out at a distance of three to seven miles. Dummy planes were destroyed in air tests.”