AN INVENTION.
THE TROUBLE OF GUARDING IT. United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—- Copyright. London, January 11. Mr Austin, the Victorian inventor, who submitted an invention to t/he War Office, informed interviewers that twice attempts were .made to saarch himself and his caibin aboard the Mongolia, but the efforts failed. He did not keep an appointment he ; niade to land at Marseilles, another man going in his stead, and he waa knocked on- the head and searched. , Germans and Japanese approached Austin in London, vaimly urgiughim •to disclose his secret, whereby he claims to be able to sight big gitos with absolute accuracy up to a range of twelve miles. (Phe invention, H is* said, enable* guns to be sighted in the roughest weather.)
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13371, 12 January 1907, Page 5
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124AN INVENTION. Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13371, 12 January 1907, Page 5
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