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Graves typical of the otland Vikings of the 8th to 10th centur ies have recently been discovered in excavations at the West Prussian that an unnamed government – ha

perfected a method which high- town of Elbing. Atcording to an

frequency rays can be projected article by the Swedish professor,

sufficiently far into the air to stop Birger Nerman, these finds give evidence that there lay the ancient aeroplane engines and force the town of Truso, and that the Swed-machines to land, writes the "Daily

Herald" New York correspondent. ish Vikings had a colony at that

For ten years and more, place.

An old Anglo-Saxon chronicle of his secret. Five years ago scien- Government has been looking for about the 10th century speaks of 8tists on the shore of Lake Geneva journey by one Wulfstan in

Sept. 22|

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every

Baltic who reported a town named succeeded in projecting the rays a Truso situated in the land of the distance of 100 yards and stopping Prussians. Though his description

Since then close secrecy has been

a clock.

of the situation tallies with that of Elbing, the absence of remains had maintained in every world capital, while scientists have fought to dis- led archaeologists to suppose that

cover a method of projecting the Truso must have stood elsewhere.

rays 10,000 or 20,000 feet. Nothing Recently, however, a burial ground definite is known as to which coun- was found at Elbing by two German try has found the secret, but it is. archaeologists, which was typical of thought not to be Germany. the Swedes living on the Island of It is possible that the secret has Gotland, in the Baltic, of the 8th to been solved by scientists of the 10th centuries. In the graves were United States Government, working clasps, bracelets, pendants, etc., of independently of their colleagues. – bronze, easily recognised as Gotlan- Scientists have also been seeking dic, as well as objects originating methods of immunising aeroplane from other parts of Scandinavia.

engines from rays.

Prof. Nerman, who has studied This is held to be a much easier photographs of the finds, gives his task than that of perfecting the opinion that they certainly prove

rays, and more than one. ~ govern- that a Gotland colony with probably ment is thought to be satisfied that alsc people of Seva (Central Swed-its aeroplanes can fly through any en) dwelt on the spot. This and

barrage" that another nation cther archaeological discoveries, he says, indicate that the Swedes made journeys across the Baltic long be- fore what is known as the Viking period.

discovers.

Locates Warships United States experts, working on another type of ray, have proved remarkably successful în locating A description of the finds has been made in "Nachrichtenblatt fur battleships and aeroplanes, in dark- ness, at a distance of more than 30 Deutsche Vorzeit" by Dr. W. Neu-

miles: gebauer who, with Prof. B. Ehrlich, has made preliminary investigations of the Elbing finds.

While entering the Tyne the Swedish steamer Milos, 3,000 tons, struck the south pier and was damaged below the water line.

Beach huts were smashed when 300 tons of wet clay and sandy material crashed from cliffs at Bournemouth on the west promenade.

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This ray can be trained so accur- ately on a moving object that gun- fire can be directed by at. In recent tests 48 out of 51 warships off the United States coast were detected by the ray

Searchlights, instead of guns, were directed on the vessels with such accuracy that the United States Naval Staff feels satisfied that the nation's entire coastline: practically invulnérable.

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