DEADLY BOMB.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15978, 21 November 1919, Page 2

DEADLY BOMB.

When speaking of the immense possibilities of air defence in the care of future attacks from the sea. Sir Joseph Ward, in his speech at the Bluff let drop a remark about “a certain bomb that the public know little about,” which piqued the curiosity of his auditors Later he let them in a llbtle to the mystery, explaining that he had his information from oho of the highest military authorities in the Old Land. A few months before the end of the war one the ciiomy Powers diacovered a poison which had such a permeating effect that if half a dozen'2lb bombs were dropped o'er, say, Trafalgar Square, and there were 10,000 people sheltering in the tubes, they Would all bo dead in a very short piffle,, although Die bomba did not touch them. The British authorities had been advised of the discovery- fairly early, and at once set about getting a sample. But the Germans, before a bomb was secured, became possessed of the idea that the British had obtained their end. This, according to Sir Joseph- Ward’s informant, saved the position, for the Teutons were afraid of reprisals with their own medicine, over Berlin. As battleships, airships, and all manner of fighting machines in the future would probably be aimed with this deadly Weapon, stated the narrator, some idea cohid be gained of the intensified deadliness of another conflict.