Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-07
All warships Now Useless.

| All Warships Now Useless.
| The strongest argument for the set
| Element Of international affairs by ar
/ bitration, that has come to us, is the
| recent demonstration in France of the
| explosion of submarine mines by
| wireless The marvels of these I'M
| seen waves in the application are al
most beyond belief. 1t is, at last, our
| awakening, in the world OF visible
| things, to Relation of the POSSIBLE
| tiles of the unseen world. One after
| another of these mines were exploded
by the operator with precision, ana
the waves which exploded one lett the
others untouched.
But. this wonderful discovery. which
may assist world commercialism 10
see the futility Of continued con-
| struetion of great fighting machines,
| is pest described by w. II. Alien III
an exchange. He writes:
A sensation has been created IN All
The military, naval and mining circles
of the world by the success OF a series
of experiments recently conducted III
uavre harbor. France, with an appa-
rat,,s for ,iischarging submerged
mines or any high explosive by WIRE
less current.
The apparatus and radiobailseie eA-
plosion are the invention OF Souhs
Italian by the name of NJ. ulVi' WIZ
resides i'm Paris. The first experiments
were made on July goth OF TINS year.
Different kinds of powder were placeo
{, Theoretically sealed cans OF iron
and submerged in the harbor waters
| =, intervals of one thousand lee.
anart They formed. when all SUD-
merged. a line nearly twenty thousahu
feet i'll length.
When everything was in readiness
the inventor, stationed OH posaa
Yacht. touched button ana one ai'ei
another all the mines were eApioueu'
There was perfect accord between uie
a;.oharpirp station and the noatlns
n,arkers nuon the mines. On seeohu
ovnari,nent a mine was placed Tour
-, ,,o;les away from the yacht anu
was exploded by wireless eurreh. VII"
great success -. ny cuff
A friend of mine. Mr.. Frank - III
ford. who witnessed some Oh Tue eepe &
riments, said to me:
aAlthough the mines were supiiiei
ad far from shore the detoha'ioi "
avnioeive noise from them was heaV-
~ ,ban from the firing of the largest
st defense guns planted on the
a,ier. hahind my hotel and the Vioia-
49,, nade the hotel building quiVei'
T., .everal instances where ! saw ing
n,,,ae discharged, columns OF wase.
rnse in the air to helght Oh n.y.
feet or more. affairs
Apparently the inVenuoh xuitn
fro,, ANYTHING hitherto known ~"
,bis invention of Ulivi the oniy relu.s
ito for an explosion is actua' eo".d o.,
tha nowders with some metal. by
~. discovery of special radiations III
~ order of the infra-red raoia.ion'
,,,.ovr as F. rays, and by the eo'-
,".,on of powerful and ingenious
ratrs JJly is able to ignite ny
resonance explosives iheioseu die
ta,,ic containers and piaceo
lance. n,ication Of
II is. in fact, new app,ioa .iua,.ss
,ba wonderful invention .. ,.s.o,s
ta,epraphy. The engineer wno .id
nc annaratus first seeks, Win 'n. T,c
80 snecial protector, the metaiho
" as which are to be founo III
tas, radius of land or water ~
-, ,v,reless waves reveal 10 ma.
~. on,v the distance to the mine "
W. axnjoded. but also accnra'e'y @
,;a,oapnetic activity or capaci.s
,rha engineer then SENDS the 49, =.
,v;ra,ess wave which Will prouu. 60
"a ~ the iron can the spark tha' 10
70 cause the explosion ,.s ,,o+os
r,,ora IRE no two metainc P,a.
,,ade that are identlcaiiy "''N
- sueh were not the case ,iis ,,;th
- Irlivi would be fraught wiz.
20 a.rger For example. any oi
| an mines placed for war oe,e,, ~,
| nosos or for excavatins itiisn' n,,,o-a-
| avractealy exploded at ohee for
| fore It is important to Hno" t'" 80
| aooh mine a separate wireiess
| must be sent out. of the
| nj terrible. potential power oi sae
antion from one point OF VIC"
.his-;f nations intend To go W W." Va,
-, and 10 keep up war, thes W."
ISL 40 abandon their navies anu Wv
~ .nair fiqhtipe on land or III the a.,
49,, r,,n chances. Two men WIN
~" .,,. can place sufficient OF enes
a,;nes H. an hours time 10 p,o"
.ha hest hattleships OF the WI ~, ,o
~, onerators can be from '.,.s,
e " miles away when the wi,etss :,
ioui .eei the explosion. No battieship
| ean 80 ,nder any circumstance
with such an invention M Who wit.
The French minister III va Wa that the
messed the experiments sa'' n aces
apparatus would make make at :, it's tactics
sar humanity to change an , ~
- sahfing if war was TO co'i''''"N'