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Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1916, Page 10

The kidnapping oi' Kin# (ieorge and the CV.iir by mean* of a giant matfntit in «i fjiant aeroplane—one of the fairy tali's which, as mentioned by Bishop Stileman at (lie Church llou.se, is being circulated by Germany among the Mohammedans—suggests a method by which (lerniauy can get possession of a very desirable African colony when the war is over and her inventors have time to develop the big magnet a little more, says the Westminster (Jazette. One brainy Teuton suggested, about a ouarter of* a century ago, that it would be possible to brinjf the moon down to the earth bv magnetism, and if the thitiu; were done properly it could hi' deposited in the desert of the Sahara. In those regions, he explained, were mountains of iron pyrites, one of which could be insulated front the earth by running beneath it a platform of molten glass. That accomplished, suitable dynamos could be used to magnetise the iron mountains when the moon i>. making one of its near approaches to the earth, and down in the Sahara it would come. There would seem to lie no necessity to take the trouble to iu.-ulate a mountain for this purpose, now that Uermany has n magnet which can draw monaivhs into the air. From that to one capable of attracting the moon to the Sahara desert is surely ail easy step for the Kaiser's