The Inst issue of "Chamber's Journal" which has just come to' hand contains an interesting account of a new explosive which has; recently been placed at the disposal of the French Government by' a distinguished English chemist whose name the paper declares it not at liberty to mention. The new explosive is called "'annihilate."" The shells containing it form, when' they explode, a fierce blast of flame some 2,000 yards long and from 100 to 200 yards in width which, passing over men, animale or material, leaves nothing but a scorched and charred mass behind. Trenches, fortifications and other means of defence are, says the paper, of ne avail. The atmosphere within the radius of its explosion is a'l burnt up, owing to its chemical action on the oxygen of the air v'ich is changed into a consuming fire.
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