Briton's Invention Probably Open. to Purchase by Foreign Powers London, May 22. the House of Commons to-day, Mr. W. Leach, the Under-Secretary of State for Air, told questioners that his attention had been called to claims made for an invention which was known as "the death ray" and that the Air Ministry was in touch with the inventor, Mr. Grindell Matthews, but it was not advisable at present to make a full statement concerning answer an inquiry if the invention vas first offered to the British May 23, Considerable significance is attached to Mr. W. Leach's reply in the House of Commons yesterday with regard to the "death ray," Decause Mr. Grindell Matthews is present in France, being cally welcomed by Lyons, where a French company has placed a laboratory at his disposal. It is stated that the company has offered {o. purchase all Str, Matthews's inventions, including the death-ray, Which is reputed to kill people, ex: lode. ammunition, and disable an Aeroplane motor ata distance of several miles. Ife has also invented means of controlling: submarines by wireless, which were successfully demonstrated during the Matthews's journey' to Fr voked an outery in the British press iugainst allowing possibly valuable warlike inventions to go abroad, Later.
Mr. Grindell Matthews, the inventer of "the death ray," is, returning to London for a further:
terview. with a Government Demonstration Witnessed by.
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