SUGGESTED BURNING OF LONDON.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1100, 15 July 1882, Page 4

SUGGESTED BURNING OF LONDON.

A Russian chemist, called Professor Mezzerkoff, has been delivering a lecture at a meeting of Irishmen 0 in New York, on the iuterestiug subject of the “ Burning of Loudon,” and'the ease and trifling cost with which he could carry out his noble project, hav. lag made a study of war and of explosives used for destructive purposes. He said that nt a cost of 150 dollars he could annihilate on English war vessel that had cost 11,000,000 dollars, and was coated with iron armour 22 inches in thickness. He could go into London, Paris, Berlin, Constantinople, or St. Petersburg!! with 20 men, none of them burdened with anything more bulky than an ordinary satchel, and in 24 hours would destroy the city. Ho could not then explain the means ho would use ; but there were others present who understood and who could tell how effective thev were. He could for a few thousand dollars stretch a double line of dynamite torpedoes be. fore every harbor in Ireland, and so make a worse than impassable barrier for every Engli»h ship. He could stand In an outskirt of Constantinople, in a apace at one-fourth the size of the poom in which ho was speaking and with means now at his command destroy the entire city. The professor then explained a few objections which might be made to warfare prosecuted in this manner, but insisted that the means he had named were legitimate weapons for Irishmen against their English tyrants. The meeting, being Composed of Irishmen, at once resolved to subscribe- towards the cost of the proposed friendly suggestion for thp “ burning of London.”