NOVEL WEAPON
FLASHES FROM PISTOL.
BLINDING OF VICTIMS.
Paris, .Sept. 3.
A pistol “capable o( projecting flashes of 1,000,000 candle-power and blinding anyone within its radius,” has been offered to the French Government by a German inventor named Keilhaus, according to the newspaper Midi. The pistol, it is asserted, is capable of disabling navigators, airmen, gunners, tank-drivers and infantry completely. Experiments have been effective on animals at a distance of half a mile.
A powder of 15,000 candle-power, detonated in the firing chamber, provides the flash. The weapon is operated like a revolver.
The Midi does not explain why Keilhaus should leave Germany and offer his invention to France.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1934, Page 7
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