SUGGESTED BURNING OF London:

Temuka Leader, Issue 9428, 8 July 1882, Page 3

SUGGESTED BURNING OF London:

A, Russian chemist, called Professor llezzerkoffj has -been delivering a lecture fc a meeting of Irishmen in New York, ii?theinteresting subject of the “Burning f'Edridori/’ arid the ease and trifling lost wit,h which he could carry put his lobleproject, having made a study of war Bid explosives used for destructive purposes. He said that at a cost of 150 dolIrs he could annihilate an English war fesel'tSaTlTad cdst 11,000,000 ■dollars, fcd was .coated with.iron armour 22 Iches thickness; He could go into IdridoD, Paris,' Berlin, Constantinople, 1 or

St Petersburg with twenty men, none of them burdened with anything more bulky than an ordinary satchel, and in 24 houro, would destroy the city. He could not then explain what he would use : but there were others present who understood aiid ifcho couMtlill 'hhWi dffisd..' tive they. were. He could for a few thousand dollars stretch itr double line of dynamite torpedoes before every harbor in Ireland, and so make a worse than impassible barrier for every English ship. He*c&irld stand iman* chit *- skirt of Constantinople, in a space Onefourth the size of the room in which he was speaking, and with means now at his command; destroy, the, entire,:city... professor then explained a few objections which might be made to warfare prosecuted in. this manner, but insisted that the ; meand he had named were legitinrate weapons for Irishmen against their 'English tj rants. The riteetitig, being cotirh posed of Irishmen, at once resolved to subscribetowards the cost of the proposed friendly suggestion for the “ burning of London;’-^' 1 ” u ’' J ■