ELECTRIC TORPEDO
, GERMAN INVENTION. LONDON, Thursday. The “Daily Telegraph’s” naval correspondent says that German experts have greatly improved the torpedo by propelling it by electricity instead of compressed air, thus eliminating the track of air bubbles which was Visible to the: enemy. The electric, torpedo is slower than the latest compressed air torpedo, but can cxceei 30 miles an hour, which is very dangerous to slowmoving merchantmen.' German naval men have also devised a method of invisible firing by hiding the rush of air from the tube. Hitherton an upheaval on the surface had betrayed the firing.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 March 1935, Page 5
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