Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-23
A NEW SAFETY
DECORATING FUSE
Maxim, Inventor Of High Expc-
sives, Finds One After Ten
Years of Experimenting.
CONTROLS THE EXPLOSION.
Ias Also Invented n View SmokFlcss
Powder on Which He Is EXPERIMENT.
ing, calling It stablisc-

New York, March 22---tIudson Max
I'm, inventor Of high explosives, made
the dinner rendered Sir Percy Sander
son, retiring British consul by tie
Canadian club tonight. the occasion
OF the first announcement concerning
IA rev safety decorating fuse which he
has invented AFTER ~ years OF expert
menting, and which he declares, has
bosn sate aim OF inventors Tor years.
l3y It, BE said. Ii is possible 70 send
an ar1nor piercing shell through armor
sind cause 1t to explode at exactly the
distance behind the armoE desired by
Az gunner 1t will not matter whether
the armor rs one inch or 10 inches In
thickness the inventor said
Nj. Maxim recalled that several
years ago he made the Canadian soele-
ty dinner the vehicle ~ carry 10 the
world the news Of his invention OF the
high explosive now known as Maximfte
1'onights announcement, he said,
marks another step forward in the art
OF war mechanics and meant the tnat
victory over armor as nj present hard
ened by armor piercing shells,
Mr. Maxim said he could tell the dim
ers about n new smokeless powder,
Stabilize, which he had Just begun to
manufacture, but which Ia still In the
process of experimentation.
This new wea pom OF modern warfare
Alr. Maxim declared, would wipe out he
was convinced. many elements of the
dunser attaching 10 the use of smoke
ltRS powder
The speaker prefaced his talk about
high explosives by talk on the com.
peratlVely undefended seaboards on the
Atlantic and Pacific coast of the United
States
The tremendous expense Of modern
warfare. he said, makes the umpire.
pared nation the only inviting bait.
Iaoor old China Is a good sample OF
what may happen to a nation unpre-
pared TO maintain its own peace by be-
ing prepared for war, We are relative-
~ as defenseless as China, Suppose
some other nation should attempt to
force our hand and call our bluff.
Thanks TO England, she does not call
the bluff.
when the Venezuelan trouble came
we put our backs UP and showed our
teeth And do you know what the real
truth was?
Our capacity. our national capacity,
FOR the manufacture OF smokeless pow
Ger at lhaI time was one charge for one
lo-inch gun each day.
Now, as matter of fact, ON our
Pacific coast we are absolutely defense
less The Japanese have 1b0 600 trained
veterans and we have $4,000 veterans
who spend their time III shoyelImg and
in waiting on the officers.
1t Is true that We have got behind us
the great American genius. hut while
that Is getting 10 work the Japa nese
might capture the Pacific slope, land a
quarter of q million troops and occupy
California And California is rich
enough In her own right TO support the
whole Japanese nation,
In experiments at rndlanheae on
Tuesday aid Wednesday of last week a
new oetonation fuse just completed
was used IN shells shot through 1--WE.
six and eisht-inch Krnpp process armor
and exploded the shell behind the mr.
NOR at the distance that would be most
effective
1T viii not matter whether the Mate
" one inch or u inches in thickness.
have been working on the fuse for
10 years. II is possible to so adjust the
fuse that II viii be utterly irnpAsslble
for the shell to explode until after n
has been fired from the gun. This ia
highly important In the use OF high ex-
plosives
'The new powder Is not affected bv
the Impurities II will not Gecom.
pose Ike the ordinary powder. II can
be made and used r the same day +
think 1t Will save from 100000 to $3.50.
"O0 IN interest money to the government
annually"