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HOW SCIENCE MAY END WAR POSSIBILITY OF CONSUMING ARMIES WITH HEAT RAYS. Guglielmo Marconi, the Inventor of Wireless Telegraphy, in the course of a interview, said
ADVENTURES OF A TANK. HELD UP BY MUD IN THE BATTLE
OF MESSINES
A interesting account of the doings of tank in the Battle of Messires is who given by Manchester man writes-SMA
What forces might be nilized, you ask, 14 would seen big guns and high-power our old 'bus beloved splendidly. We explosives and reached the limit of their took shell-holes and trenches and cratus. development. What force that is mos casily as you'd step over a gutter deadly than the colossal guns might be Fritz spotted us, and gave us a good deal found!
of attention. In fact we took a great deal of the barrage that would otherwise havo gone to the infantry. However, we got well over Frits first and second lines untouched, and began to ascend a ridge of the where had evidently been one chewy's strong points. It is useless i tempting to describe what that ground was like. There is just nothing on earth like gromil that has been pounded over every square foot with every size and weight of shell Masses of twisted wire and staples, craters full of water that were once dug-outs, and nowhere the faintest sign of a trench, -
Do you remember thoses battles written of in the Scriptures in which destructive fire descended from heaven and left the urmies of the foes a mass of incinerated bones upon the battlefield. That picture of an army shrivelled in one consuming torrid blast has presed the imagination 61 min for thousands of years. Yet the actual occurrence of such a "miracle" in the present war is not without the range of possibility. In the Biblical story it was produced by a supernatural agency. If such a "victory by annihilation is to happen now it will be through the agency
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Well, we started up this ridge. We How tight this be done i It is not hadn't expected the water, having had no impossible that some is way be this rain for so long, but the shells must have covered of focussing and intensifying, the swashed up their water supply or some rays of heat such as Aichimedes did in thing of the kind, and as we progressed ancient times. This to me steny the most we found every shell-hole and crater to insedinte” and effective possibility beneath the surface the whole area was Imagine a terrific concentration of sun little but mud of unknown depth. Any- rays proceted upon the Gernur trenches. way it was in this spot we met our Water And in that withering binst, passing along lon. The tractors wouldn't grip, and like & shifting searchlight, the bodies of simply revolved, while we began to sink, the Germans wither up an army turned We have a contrivance known as REAL FLESH BUILDER FIND AT to cintlers. A little smoke rising from die uitching gear," and this had to be adjust- Silence of the enemy fire under heavy shell fire. Even then she Victory by the infliction of silent death. wouldn move, so we collected remains No one can say this is impossible. Some of Boche dug-outs lying about sixfoot discovery in the use of powerful metal timbers, half-trunks of trees--in the find mirrera of high power lenses may make theing of which we jumped all shell-holes, projection of this heat-ray practicable disappeared altogether down large ones. Let its consider how it may be engilayed negotiated tangled masses of barbed wire, otherwise
and performed other considerable" nero batic feats- but they were simply pushed down in the und and disappeared. All This time Fritz was making things a bit lively, and it was during these operations we had our list casunity-a mere surface, wound and nothing of consequents. were extrinely lucky all through, and by all accounts we ought all to have been casualties several times over. ⠀
Our enemy depends upon his ability to transport troops and munitions to the from. Thrutiga chose “eyes of the enemy"
-the templane scoute we discover the location of transport lines and the move, From the projecting men of troops. station back of our lines a volume of heat rays will be Anshed, over the transport Times--and the trains carrying food, will go up in auf of smoke. Munitions will be destroyed in flame. Those reserve troops which are being conveyed or are nurbing toward the frontwill meet death in a furue-like list before they have an opportunity to fight. By this means, tou, we will wipe nus the enemy's stores of nitions, and the very armies in retreat will be followed as were the armies of the Biblical story by fire from heaven Which shall consume and destroy?
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"After many vain attempts to get her out we sat in a shell-hole and smoked while our officer decided on a course of action. Anyway we unished by making the best of our way back which we slid. without further damage, to find on ar riving that there had been others in the same plight, as ourselves. All the tanks: have since been got out and yesterday was spent in refiting and cleaning up.”
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And as we follow the for, we continue ta wage a silent burning death. Reach- ing his borders, we snil assail him in his fortifications.. Against that fire from heaven weither fortifications nor walls Mr. C. G. Alabaster. Mr. H. M. Bost HOW TO GAIN 15 TO 40 LBS. shall prevail. His cities will go up in wick, Mr. and Mre, II. P. Bragg, Mrs. smoke. And the end-victory. In auch Mary Cox, Bir. and Mrs. W. Dean, Mr. warfare the most scientific guns wohl F. A. Doty, Mrs. H. J. Dufy, Mr.
Chase away that long, lean, hungry Theteiracle of thus Mannel V. de Dies, Mr. Thos. A. Early, using fat rays would put an end to this Mr. E. A. Gabriel, Mr. and Mrs. H. look that makes folks think you're sick or that you're not getting three square war, and all war.
Hersey, Mr. H. G. Hart, Mrs. M. Henry. Aside from the employment of heat rays. Mr. L. O. Hibbard, Mr. J. C. Kyle, Mr moals a day....... there is a possibility of discovering mens B. W. Kunz, Mr. J. Lichanen Mr. G of utilizing electricity as a wireless agent Lichanco, Miss V. Lichunes, Mr. GB. of warfare and destruction. The sugges Layton, Mr. and Mrs. A. Martin, Miss tion has been made that electricity might M. Mangun Mrs. W. W. O'Hara
Begin to-day to put from 15 to 40 be employed to paralyze the focs. Or it Mr. A. M. Preston, Judge J. S. Powel may be projected to inflict death much as Mrs. Powell, Miss M. Powell, Miss L pounds of good, firm, healthy permanent stay there" fesh and tissue on those death is inflicted in an electric ghair. Powell, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Pond, Me
spare bones of yourke Thus, suddenly, a group in the enemy C. Slingin, Rev. E. E. Silliman,
For we say that the akinalest, Beraw trenches would
experience a deadly shock. Mr. W. R. Sether, Mr. A. J. de Souza, niest man or woman can quickly fall Their guns would fall from their hands Mr. A. W. Searcy, Mrs HP. Scott, and they would curl up in the grip of an Miss M3 Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. J Aout become plump-yes, with actual invisible death. Death would carry along Tiffany, Mr. J Tully, Mr. and Mrs. healthy fat, in sixty days and all by a new, simple, harmless home treatment down the lines
F G Webster, Mr. P. Williams. het
that can't possibly hurt you, that imposes New troops would be rushed forward to
no hardships, no disagreeable diets, no take the places of the dead in the trenches. undoubtedly heard how an alarm of fire- foolish rub ons" that can be taken bat as soon as they renichest an invisible perhaps baseless will cause a factory mob privately in your own home without the Lure they, too, would perish. No exploit a hallway or exit and trample knowledge of anyone; SARGOL tablets do sion of shells. Nothing visible.
Only vibrating death passing over the lines. In one another to death. Fear, like any con- the work, your chemist keeps them in Panie, terror those behind would flee. The tagion, spreads. So, if science could dis stock. news would carry to the reserve armies cover some ray which would peculiarly and they would turn. But the power that affect the brain and nerves, it might be carried a span of death through this possible to send an army scurrying pre- trenches might follow the retreating forces. cipitately away like a herd of
of frightened And they, in a convulsion would be Such a possibility is purely
sheep. destroyed. So far so means of employing We feel through our nerves. The brain electricity to such an extent has been dis- covered. But it cannot be said that such a registers impressions conveyed by the a thing won't be done, ja
nerves, of which the surface mind is not Electricity might be used in various conscious. The nerves of some people are so sensitive, that they are It may be possible to find someccredited with the power of mind-read- means whereby the guns of the enemy may ing. But this phenomenon is simply un How this might be done I do not of ability to sense the nerve vibrations that Course, know. But one of these days some come from another. investigator may and a method of tion of joy comes over you, again an employing the electrical ray to destroy inexplicable fear. It may be that without weapons of the foes. Thus, when they realizing it you have nervously mused joy
viaya..
be rendered ineffectivo.
so-acute.
ROYAL tempted to use their heavy gung the or anxiety in another.
THE
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so interfere with the mechanism that the
Sometimes a sens6¬
highly complicated mechanism would not life is vibration Mental vibration-or All physical life is vibration: all mental york. Mysteriously, strangely, the mon- atrous mortars would become inert. Thus thought and emotion is produced by STEAMt happen througe physical vibration conveyed through the electrolysis. Or the energy directed might the feeling of sorrow, of confidence, fear nerve senses. Now the feeling of joy or CO, guns would not operate. Un the same aro bat vibratory conditions. Confidence principle some means may be found of and repose may be explained as a tranquil waking the highly complicated shells as state of the nerves. Panic-fear is a highly harmless as a baby'a rattle. The enemy charged excited vibration of the nerves. would then be without means of fighting found in this vast storehouse, which is the It is quite probable certain raya may be What are the possiblities of employing
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rays which might disorganize our foes by universe, which, when projected, will st affecting their emotions? We know that UF such a vibration as will jar the merves ays of colours are employed in the treat and upset all mental noise of those ment of mental disorders. We know that affected
Therefore it is not fantastic to consider
some colour rays excite and others tranquilize the mind. Red is disturbing soldier in an enemy trench suddenly while blue and green are restful. Colour giving way to a panic-ray, and all others ray's cannot be employed at a distance, and up to the present electrical rays have not been found to affect the brain. But can we arbitrarily deny the possibility of dis covering a ray which will affect the brain way in a mad hysteric stampede
nur being suddenly plunged into n An army thus affected like a pack of shaky, trembling excess of sheer terror sheep frightened by lightning--would give
It has been suggested that it may be
at a distance? We can only say there is possible by the use of peculiar rays to put
no limit to scientific di every an army to sleep. For that army able to
victory
thing is possible.
project a sleep roy, victory Just as the X-ray was discovered and literal walk-over, employed, scientists may discover other
Taya
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At present we are gray bund 300
There may be rays that could be anding some means of combating sub- employed to affect the brain and produce marine warfare The most effective hysteria Togging the of a Tay of fear. An army apparently securely bombs. We all hope some vastly more method has been by the use of nots and entrenched, suddenly loses its morale effective agent may be discovered, and any There is no gunure. No troops emerg day we may hear of it. In the larger from the opposite first line treaches. Yet one day a soldier one single soldier aspects of warfare, however, and in what drons his gun He looks ground, with may be called the imaginative possibili- whit face with fear- nameless, ties, 1 am inclined to think the most hope explicable fear-in his ares, The soldier of powerful concentrated beat, rays. We' ful "miracle" would be the application. next to him pausea irganlutely, then, his ran drops from a nervelees hand. And may discover methods of utilizing electri.
cal force as a wireles agent of destruction. down the line. You have reruns & Or we may discover rays that are now crowd give way to hysteria. You have Continued at foot of neat column.)
unknown. What we cannot say is that anything dreamed of will not be done.
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