BOGUS ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE "AMERICAN MACHINIST" By TeWEranh—Press Aseoeiation—Oopyright London, July 16. The Press Bureau, states: Tho Government calls attention to an advertisement ill the journal "Tho American Machinist," of May 6,. relating to a new shell in which two explosive acids aro used to explode the shell..' The combination causes a terrific explosion, and the fragments .of th© shell, coated with acids, cause-death with terrible agony in four liours unless the wounds, aro immediately cauterised or the limbs amputated, as no antidote will counteract the poison. Hie Government states that the advertisement is not genuine, and is designed to create a false impression. No order has been given for sncli an explosive in America or elsewhere, nor does the Government contemplate using such an invention.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2517, 19 July 1915, Page 6
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126BOGUS ADVERTISEMENT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2517, 19 July 1915, Page 6
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