THE ZEPPELIN BULLET.

Otago Witness, Issue 3333, 30 January 1918, Page 17

THE ZEPPELIN BULLET.

INVENTION OF INVERCARGILL RESIDENT. Further particulars about the bullet which has been used with such success against Zeppelins are "given in Melbourne Table Talk, aa follows:—So the secret of the famous bullet that brought the Zeppelin terror to an end is out. Do you remember I told you mouths ago that when the secret came to be revealed.it would be discovered that it was an Anzac who would reap the honour won by the invention? Then I could not reveal the name, as the British authorities would not allow it to be whispered, in case some German syanpathiser or spy should make any attempt to send the clever inventor soaring upwards and out of the world. I employed.the term .■Anzac advisedly, although Mr John Pomeroy is not a soldier, because it included New Zealanders as well as Australians. Ho . hails from that canny little city of Invcrcargill, New Zealand, but his father (Mr J. H. Pomeroy) now lives at Kealesvillo, where ho and his daughter are well known. i They are immensely proud that it was tho ! brains of one of their family' that was I greatly instrumental in relieving England I from the Zeppelin attacks. Had the War | Office only received him and accepted his ; bullet when he first went to England to I offer it, this happy state of affairs would have come about much sooner. But red I tape kept him waiting and tangled up for I about six /months before he could get a hearing for his idea, and then Zeppelinettes were being built upon which to test the bullets, instead of testing them upon the invading horrors themselves.