NOVEL WEAPON
FLASHES FROM PISTOL BLINDING OF VICTIMS PARIS, September 3. A pistol ” capable of projecting flashes of 1,000,000 candle power and blinding anyone within its radius,” lias been offered to the French Government by a German inventor mimed Keilhnus, according to the newspaper Midi. The pistol, it is asserted, is capable of disabling navigators, airmen, gunners, tank drivers and infantry completely. .Experiments have been effective on animals at. a distance of half a mile. A powder of 15,000 candle power, detonated in the firing chamber, provides the flash. The weapon is operated like a revolver. The Midi does not explain why Keilhaus should leave Germany and offer his invention to France.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22373, 21 September 1934, Page 10
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