WAS IT WIRELESS?

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8653, 11 February 1914, Page 7

WAS IT WIRELESS?

THE VOLTURNO FIRE FRENCH ELECTRICIAN’S STARTLING THEORY. B/ Telegraph—Press Association— Copy r;gb' (Received February 10, 10.5 p.m.) PARIS, February 10. M. Buroquier, a well-known electrician, lias advanced a startling theory Ho declares that be has reason to believe that wireless waves were responsible for several recent catastrophes, notably that of tho Volturno and the explosion on the battleship Liberto. Ho explains that experiments in a laboratory situated midway between tho Eiffel Tower and tho Rochefort Tower wireless stations show that whenever two places are sending messages simultaneously, inexplicable phenomenon a are produced by the intersection of the waves. Two glass globes, filled with inflammable gas, exploded by tho disturbance thus set up. Ho points out that tho Volturno was in exactly the same zone at the time of the disaster, and tho Liberto, when she was destroyed, was between two other wireless stations. [The French battleship Liberte was blown up in Toulon harbour on September 26th, 1911. The vessel was totally destroyed and 226 men were killed and about 184 injured. The cause of tho disaster was attributed both to an outbreak of fire and to tho spontaneous combustion of “B” powder.]