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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 398, 7 August 1877, Page 4

An ingenious plan, by -which a large army may be destroyed by one person -without danger to himself, has bten devised, the Pall Mall Gazette states, by a French chemist, -who intends proceeding to Constantinople with the object of obtaining the Sultan's permission to try the effects of his scheme, in the first instance, 011 the Hussions in Eoiunania. He proposes to effect his purpose by a system of land torpedoes concealed beneath the ground over which the invaders must march as they advance towards Turkish territory. These torpedoes will all be connected together by wires, and will be ex£jloded simultaneously at the proper moment by means of an underground wire carried to a convenient distance. If successful he will make no charge as regards the destruction of the Russians in Ron mania, but he will require a large sum to be paid in advance for performing a similar service as regards the Russian hosts in Asia Minor.

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