BURNING OIL AS A MEANS -OF ATTACK
DEVILISH. FIRE-THROWER ; DESCRIBED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ("Times" and Sydney "Snn" Services,) (Rec. July 5, 8.30 p.m.) London, July 4. "Eye-Witness" states that during tho intervals in the major operations tho Germans were again using engines for throwing burning liquid against the French. Instructions which were issued to tho German army, dated October, show that the Germans contemplated, tho employment of these early in the' war. The apparatus, which was. carried on a man's back, was a steel cylinder containing oil and compressed air in separate chambers. Tho latter consists of a suitablo length of metal, pipe, fitted with universal joints, and a nozzle oapable of rotation iii any direction.' v Wlien the valves aro turned on the air'pressure forces the oil out of tho nozzle in a fine spray for twenty yards. The oil is ignited automatically at the mouth of the nozzle, and continues to issue in a. sheet of ilame ujitil exhausted. ■
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 6 July 1915, Page 5
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161BURNING OIL AS A MEANS -OF ATTACK Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 6 July 1915, Page 5
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