1938-12-24 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 24, 1988

DEATH RAY IS REALLY A BRINGER OF RAIN-IT IS HOPED

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News-Getting sends a man on some! I rang the ship's bell. It clang- curious quests. This time it wased desolately, but there was no a death ray which, said my infor-answer. I climbed over the second mant, "tests have proved would de-gate and went on. stroy an entire continent in a few At last I found the inventor.

We went up into a room, hours," writes a correspordent.

with bench and vice and carpenter's tools and a pleasant wood fire: no test tubes, no retorts, no coils. The inventor told me, the story.

The report, which came from Maidenhead, went on that the ray "would make the iron bulwark of a battleship so hot that nobody could survive on board. Its terrific heat would boil the sea around it. If an aeroplane flew into its range it would burn up, likė. a fly in candle."

Now, one can't ignore a thing

· like that without, at any rate, go- ing to have a look, To Maidenhead I went.

It was not so much a death- ray, in his opinion, though it was that too, but a rain. maker. He was rather angry because news- papers had been overworking its military aspect. He had been working on it for seven years or more, and had tried it out and had caused cloud-bursts, he said. What followed was in the right). His idea is that if you get a hot tradition of such things. The inven-air-pocket high up in the atmosp- tor and invention were to be found here, you get a storm-centre. on a secluded estate buried in the

He is a charming inventor, Mr. country some miles away.

Arthur E. Coxhead, a wood-carver, I reached the village of White a skilled man with his hands, very Waltham. I found the lodge gates learned about wood and furniture of the secluded estate." The place he had been a successful dealer is up for sale. Out for the time in antiques. When he retired, for being its owner, who is a friend he is white-haired and 70 now, he of the Inventor, allows it to be used sat down to wrest the secrets from as the site of the experiment. nature, starting from the begin- ning, without books or mathematics

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little farther as I had been told.

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