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DEADLY AERIAL TORPEDO.

War Office Purchase. WONDERS OF NEW ZEALAND INVENTION. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Sydney “Sun” Service. (Received April 5, 7 p.m.) LONDON, April 4. The newspaper “People” says the War Office, after years of exhaustive tests, has purchased tho invention r.f it New Zealander named Captain Allan Roberts. 1 It is an aerial torpedo, believed to be capablo of torpedoing entire cities and air fleets one hundred miles distant.. It resembles a miniature aeroplane, with small wings. Flight and speed at the moment of explosion, are directed by wireless from the ground. It is used similarly to a torpedo from a battleship. The Avar Office stringently tested Captain Roberts’s claim that the invention could not bn influences by any other forces.

Captain Roberts, using a control niiparntus only half the power of that with which the officials attempted L> influence the torpedoes o l their course, successfully guided it along the ground as he willed, thus eradicating the chief fear of the AA’ar Oflice that the machine could be turned during it.s flight against launchers by superior enemy wireless control.

It is claimed the torpedo can bo cheaply constructed, and can be safely landed under tbc control of one man.

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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 6 April 1926, Page 7

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DEADLY AERIAL TORPEDO. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 6 April 1926, Page 7

DEADLY AERIAL TORPEDO. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 6 April 1926, Page 7

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