Secret Tests of New Explosive

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 28, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 29.

Secret Tests of New Explosive

It is said that secret tests are in progress with a new high explosive for torpedoes. If successful it will revolutionize the torpedo work of the navy.

For these experiments to succeed would not be at all surprising. The past quarter of a century has seen a succession of improvements in war equipment, that are continually rendering obsolete everything of the past. Single super-Dreadnoughts of to-day could successfully meet whole navies of twenty-five years ago; and the submarine boat, which has been for the most part developed during the last decade, may yet show that even the super-Dreadnoughts are powerless before this little device that can travel so successfully and for such a long period under the surface of the sea.