TORPEDO HOAX
SWINDLER ARRESTED ZURICH, April 3. Tho Swiss police have arrested Otto Probst, described as an engineer, who about tour years ago claimed to have invented an aerial torpedo capable of attaining a speed of 300 miles an. hour and annihilating all the world’s navies in a trice without difficulty. The technical press all the world over took the thing seriously, because be exhibited papers purporting to prove that the English Admiralty bad adopted his invention. The whole thing lias turned out. to be a hoax, and people who had lent him up to a total of 10,009.009 Swiss francs (£1,(100,000 at par) set the police on his track.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18066, 18 April 1933, Page 3
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