Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-07-06
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Italian lnvents Canned Lightning
Capable Of Destroying
TrenChesioI Enemy.
TERRIBLE ENGINE OF DEATH
Claimed inventlonj Could End War In
Thirty Days sndjAnIes eouid March
Il UnehsIIena-d into Berlin. Il
A Tests Prove its Value.

Y Rome. The ,kalscr's dream OF vie
tory and world supremacy may be
blasted out by "cnnned lightning" q
terrible death engine invented by an
Italian scientist. Dazzling swords Of
fire. more deadly than are highest ex-
plosives. followed by annihilating ex-
ploslons. are capable Of destroying en-
envy trenches with one binding fash.
according 10 his claims. Mine sweep
crs equipped with this device GOULD
ERE mines thousands OF yards distant.
on tho land. Scanned lightning" could
be used 60 form a mos. successful bar
rage and could wipelout the defenders
Of German trenches with unerring GER
talnty.
The scientist In credited with hav-
lng dlscoversi means Of concentrate
Ing and rejecting electric rays In such
n manner as'tolproduce the results de-
scribed. II Is reported that this In
ventor has proved 60 rcpresentatives
OF his government that electrc cur
rent can be concentrated and directed
In rays
Tests Held on Banks OF I!ber.
In describing the results 81 these
tests. held on the banks Of the
historic Tibcr. Y. II. Randall, writink
IN the Illustrated World. says that the
scientist was asked 20 burn through
a three-inch plank Of hardwood. In
an Instant the writer says the plank
was seared and broken as II II had
been broken By lightning.
Qfneials taep ssked the scientist to
explode - RQpips. Qne. hidden along
DE bepk qf Che river ana TIC pther 10
thf bed 6f the stream. within ten
minutes the bomb along the bank cx-
pioded. n required a much longer
time 70 explode the other bomb. hut
this. too. was finally accomplished.
The entire OUTFIT used BY the inventor
was placed On 4 sipgls small barge.
An approximate idea Of De power
q re EeinE QeetrHt me be OBJ
TSS lss sb ), hIs hstissi steel
IKE putty, 10 flash such p fame
uebllp OF trtucu Woutu tcoNt to-
tai wreck Mines placed In the North
SEQ. hY The GeFpenS could be elm
iqstfd EAd mine sEetpers could de-
sgpS tbsss h,d8sp sgrcrs Of the
ss6 10 within thodsands Of yards
,pasth "a AIrPlanea
In n granhic dsscriniion. Mr.. Rand
NJ .bQnts 4 pletwesgt yhat would
RpPsR Iie 4s machine u action:
Eyer spesaS airplane 90 any feet Of
them wonl6 ran TO earth. a crumpIed
SSs'ss $s,s sss'1 M G sSsss.,,
s6QQf tbrTerp With insysdibls speed
A fT 1 esyn6 paris void be all that
qatftSm yhht hpd heep . soaring
aipHpea few minutes before
A eeout could iurk with his deadly
weapons. connected with the gener-
groyn and eoncentrators behind the
iipsA In shep holes or eraters in mo
many lapds When the enemy
ch6tSed ne could sweep the whole line
ss II passed. ennihileting each success
sive wave Of advancing Germans.
Mfr. Randall says that he can't say
that this has been done or win be
done. but he don't dare ~ suggest that
L cannot be accomplished. Light.
beat and rays o. other kind can be
reflected. He concludes by saying:
''once this problem Is solved there
win be no war n the allies were pos
sessed Of equipment that would permit
the arcing al q distance Of powerful
electric currents, the war would be
won In 80 days and allied troops would
BE- marching unchhllenged into Ber-
lin"