GERMANS PREPARING SURPRISES

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13997, 29 January 1916, Page 5

GERMANS PREPARING SURPRISES

NEW AIRSHIP TORPEDO

AIR RAID AND NAVAL BATTLE

FENDING

(Received Jan. 28, 11.15 p.m.) New York, Jan. 27

Mr. Millan, president of the American Aeronautic Society, in an interview, stated that Krupp's were perfecting a pneumatic tube capable of launching an eight-inch torpedo from an airship. The torpedo will strike with an impact of 'fourteen tons, and will be able to accurately overcome cross currents of air at v height 0f'15,000 feet. ' Mr. Millan predicted that tlie Ger-

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man fleet would soon come out and give battle to the British Navy with new 17-inch .guns; He based his predictions upon information received from satisfactory sources. He said the air torpedo had been successfully tried under practical conditions. An air raid could be looked for in tA>o or three weeks, and upon the result of the venture would depend- the dash of the fleet frem the Kiel Canal.