NEW AERIAL TORPEDO.

Otago Witness, Issue 3352, 12 June 1918, Page 55

NEW AERIAL TORPEDO.

A Philadelphia inventor has manufactured an aerial torpedo which, ho asserts, can destroy B<?r"n and win the war in 30 days. H<> is Letter P. Barlow, who has already invented an anti-submarine depth bomb that has proved itself to be of the highest value in destroying the Kaiser's undersea craft. According to an account of his invention appearing in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Mr Barlow says his aerial torpedo is even more effective than his anti-submarine bomb, and is, in fact, " the most terribly destructive engine of warfare that the world has ever seen." According to Mr Barlow, it would be possible to send the torpedoes to Berlin from behind the Allied lines in France. _ The construction of the torpedo is said to be very simple. " There" is danger that it will strike the German inventor's mind soon, and I live in constant fear that Germany may grasp the principle of this deadly torpedo before we can use it," the Public Ledger quotes Mr Steinmitz as saying. " It carries more than half a ton of the highest explosive that can be manufactured," the article quotes the inventor. "It has a range of 500 miles, and is positive in going to its target. "I offered the torpedo as a gift to the Government. ' The authorities at Washington admitted when they were shown the plans that Berlin could be blown off the map and the German nation could be whipped in 30 days. "They" also admitted that thousands of these devices should be on hand before their use was commenced, because so simple is the principle on which they are operated that the German inventors more than likely would discover it after a few thousand of them had levelled some of their cities."