The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-07-09
SIDELIGnTS
ON The WAR
Italy May Have New Pow
erful Invention.
Superiority Of Austrian Artillery
Over the Russian at
Przemysl Described.

their eyes upon Italy Just now. Ter
many and Austria are watching with
anxiety. while the French, English.
Russians and Belgians are waiting
with eagerness for Italy to spring
what may be the greatest surprise
of the present war. if not of warfare
for all time.
What they are looking for is the
advent II the terrible Fray expert
ments which just on the eve OF the
great conflict startled the entire
world
In two events of the last three
weeks some observers claim that the
ray already has made itself apparent.
One was the sudden and terrific eX-
plosion Of the arsenal at Trieste the
day after war was declared, and the
second was the destruction by ex-
plosion June IL of one of the strong
est fortifications in connection with
the defense of Trent.
For the Fray, stripped of its mys-
terry, is the infra-red ray OF the
spectrum projected by wireless. hurl-
ed through the air with the speed of
lightning. contact with which instant
" fires all of the explosives within
range.
Its inventor, or rather, the man
who has first applied this ray to mill
tary purposes, is Sig. Guilio Ulivi. an
Italian scientist and engineer. Just
before war was declared, in demon
straticn witnessed by the King of
Italy and members of the Italian
General Staff, he exploded five
bombs in the Tiber from a distance
of five niles.
In these experiments, which were
witnessed by thousands of Italians
from a distance, the bombs were es-
pecially prepared with a firing charge.
that the wireless spark would ignite.
At that time Sig. Ulivi declared that
he was working upon a device that
would make it possible to explode
ammunition magazines at any dis
tance without the necessity of pre-
pairing charges for that purpose.
The great difficulty in the way of
the use Of the ray at that time as an
engine OF warfare lay in the fact that
the wireless rays could not be con-
trolled, and were just as liable to ex-
plode the magazines of its employers
as those of the enemy.
Sig. Ulivi declared that he could
overcome this handicap and would be
able to focus the rays directly upon
the Object to be attacked. When the
arsenal ~ Trieste blew up the news
dispatches declared that it probably
was done by Italians in Trieste. The
Austriacs must have believed this to
have been the case. because they ex-
ecuted about fifty Italians on the
charge OF conspiracy.
In the explosion of the fort near
Trent, Jvne 10. the reports declared
that ths Austrians had blown it up.
These -sports came from Italian
sources.
Italians in this country discount
the reports. They merely nod their
heads aad shrug their shoulders.
You cannot convince them but what
the Fray did the work.
OF course Italy wouldn't admit
that the ray was responsible. Ger
man scientists. who pooh-poohed the
ray in the beginning. might get busy
and find a way of defeating its eff
fectivensss.
There is a hint from the British,
too, that Germany herself already is |
using the wireless for similar pur-
pose as witness the blowing up of the |
BulwarE and an ammunition ship in |
approximately the same spot in the |
British docks. There was an interval |
of months between the two disasters. |
but il is now believed that fixed ex-
PiOolfN ~.-di bNo piotNu III NAhN !
magazine of the Bulwark and among
the cargo OF the ammunition ship.
The charges were fired by wireless.
the superstition being by a German
spy.
But If Italy really has harnessed
the Fray and begins to use it freely
YOU can gamble that the war is go
ing TO be short.
The superiority of the Austrian ar
tillery over that of the Russians ac-
counted for the retaking of Przemysl.
according TO Karl Won Weigand, staff
correspondent OF the New York
World. who entered the fortress with
the Austro-German forces. He writes:
Reaching the girdle of forts.
which was adjoined by redoubts aud
trenches, we saw a repetition of the
terrible effect of German and Aus