LOSS OF A TORPEDO.
A JAPANESE SECRET. (Received 8 a.m.) [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. ' i i.] London, August 12. The Japanese are displaying the greatest anxiety Over the lose of a torpedo from the battleship Kongo in Belfast Lough. It embodied most important secrets. The engines were worked with hot air generated by a spirit composition which is a secret, and gave the torpedo a much longer range than the British. The Government are offering a sum of forty times greater than is usually paid for the recovery of a torpedo.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 84, 13 August 1913, Page 5
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94LOSS OF A TORPEDO. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 84, 13 August 1913, Page 5
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