TERRIBLE TORPEDOES.
NEW METHOD OF PROPULSION. LARGE ORDER BY UNITED STATES. LONDON, Aug. 23. The Japanese cruiser Kongo is conveying forty-eight Whitehead torpedoes, which are propelled by a new motive power, and travel 12,000 yards at the rate of 48 miles an hour, to the United States, -which has placed a large order for the torpedoes.
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Northern Advocate, 25 August 1913, Page 5
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56TERRIBLE TORPEDOES. Northern Advocate, 25 August 1913, Page 5
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