IMPROVED TORPEDO
PROPELLED BY ELECTRICITY GERMAN EXPERTS' IDEA LONDON, March 20. (Received March 21, at 8.30 p.m.)
The Daily Telegraph's naval correspondent says: "German experts have greatly improved the torpedo by propelling it by electricity instead of compressed air, thus eliminating the track of air bubbles which is visible to the enemy. The electric torpedo is slower than the latest compressed air torpedo, but it can exceed 30 miles an hour, which is very dangerous to slow-moving merchantmen. German naval men have also devised a method of invisible firing by hiding the rush of air from the tube. Hitherto an upheaval on the surface betrayed the firing."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22527, 22 March 1935, Page 9
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