FRENCH BID FOR ENGLISH DISCOVERY.
br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, May 19 The •‘Daily Chronicle” interviewea Mr G. Matthews, who said that he had practically Receipted the offer of n French firm to exploit his death-rajs. The British Government, the inventor said, wa.s interested, but no more, and this princely offer could not bo refused. Chuntiers du Rhone, a wellknown firm, had place! big laboratories at his disposal for experiments, and had also offered 'him a partnership. . Last month a cable message from 1/ondon stated that Ylr Grindell Matthews, the inventor of a method of destroying Zeppelins, had succeeded i:i producing an electric ray which was capable of vrnnsmittvng power sufficient to kill man or animal, or to stop an aeroplane- motor engine. .It was stated that the. discovery had aroused much interest in France, where some inventors haa claimed similar diseov-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17354, 20 May 1924, Page 3
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