GERMANY’S “LAST RESORT.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1732, 20 September 1917, Page 1

GERMANY’S “LAST RESORT.”

AN ANNIHILATING BOMB. A young business man of New York, who returned recently from Holland, and spent some time in Germany before the United States declared war, has informed the New York Herald that the German Government has a terrific explosive, which is being held in reserve to the last. The explosive was discovered by a Gorman professor of chemistry, he says, and for months has been experimented with in very small quantities. Its force is so tremendous and the damage it can inflict so frightful that even the Prussians have hesitated to make use of it thus far, it is declared. When the Government feels that it no longer can hold out against the Allies, and when the invasion of the Gorman Empire appears imminent, it is said bombs containing the explosive will be used as a last resort. The assertion that the German Government is in possession of the explosive is stated to have been disseminated quietly throughout the Empire. It is said that a bomb can annihilate everything within a radius of 2,000 ft. Prussian military experts are quoted as having figured that ten aeroplanes armed with the explosive could fly over a city and destroy it within a few minutes, surpassing in frightfulness anything that the world has yet seen. The reason, it is explained, the Gorman Government has not yet used the alleged explosive is “fear of a Niagara of criticism and indignation from the outside world.”-