The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-17
BRITONS FEAR A
NEW INVENTION

if'tNi''.Nf h'I' "Nt NIthl britain
eager to catch up every story as 4,
Germany's naval program, again ma.
its eyes turned across the North Sea
For he latest report has It that two
Christopher wlrth, an elec
uical engineer and Christopher Beck
a manufacturer-have invented a
"crewless warship whose engine car
be started or stopped and whose helm
can be controlled by electrical waves
communicated without wires to a re.
ceiying ship apparatus aboard the
mysterious vessel, by sending appara-
tus from shore similar to that utilized
in wireless telegraphy.
Further so the report has it, by
means Of these electrical waves. guns
on the crewless vessel can be controll-
ed and fired, while signals can be
transmitted either by bells or fash
light, and all these wonders are pos
sible within a radius of eighteen miles
from the wireless station which trans
mits the controlling force.
Tests Near Nuremberg.
An eyewitness who has observed ex-
haustive experiments conducted with a
motor boat model on the Dutzendteich.
a large eXpanse of water near Nurem-
berg, has affirmed the stories of this
wonderful method of control.
81 have seen the interesting trial
trips of large unnamed motor boat"
said this observer in a statement
which has been published in London,
(which was controlled and steered
from the bank of the lake by means
Of wireless telegraphy. l also saw
guns being fired on board the unman-
ned vessel, and a bell being rung on
the deck, and also fashlight signals
being given in the same way with the
help of electrical waves. When l first
arrived the motor boat Prinz Ludwig
was lying motionless in the middle of
the lake. No one was on board. Sud
denly a gun was fired on the deck, and
I saw the screw begin to revolve and
drive the boat forward.
Then l saw the boat follow zig
gag course, steered by some unseen
power. There were ordinary rowing
boats on the lake, and when the un-
manned vessel approached them she
gave the signal by means of a bell to
indicate whether she intended to go to
port or starboard, and the indicated
course was carried out with absolute
accuracy
Signals by FlashIight.
II watched the maneuvers of the un-
manned boat for a whole hour during
the daytime and again in the evening,
when the signals were not given by
means OF bells, but by flashlights. At
the end of these tests the unnamed
vessel was brought to her anchorage
by the same unseen forces. These
forces We're emitted from a sending
station on shore to a receiving appara-
tus on the boat. The will of the man
who controls the electrical waves on
shore thus exercises absolute COM
mand over the unnamed vessel"
"Our invention is intended to be of
service in naval and military opera
tions," runs the statement issued by
the inventors of the craft, which the
peasantry in the neighborhood refer to
as the phantom ship" with its help
it would be possible, without risking
human lives, to block the entrance to
harbor, to lay mines, to direct an
unnamed submarine into the midst
of a hostile fleet An unnamed air
ship could be steered upon hostile po-
sitions where automatic photographs
could be taken, or explosives dropped,
after which the airship could be
brought back to it's starting point The
manifold uses of the invention at sea
an | leneath the surf - c. the sea and
In tho q IN will no avidant