TORPEDO HOAX
ARREST OF ENGINEER
investors inform: poilce.
ZURICH, April 3. The Swiss police have arrested•Probet, described as an engineer, who about four years -ago (laimc-d t 0 have invented air aerial torpedo capable ol attaining a speed of 300 mile-s an hour ter-d annihilating all th C v world’s navies in a trice without difficulty. The Technical press all the world over took the thing seriously, because he exhibited papers purporting to prove that the British Admiralty had adopted has invention. The whole thing has turned out to be a hoax, and people who had lent him up' to a total of 40,000,000 -Swiss francs (±11,600,000 -at par) set the police on hi s track.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1933, Page 8
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