The Archive · 1940

Secret Weapons

Tall Tale from Hongkong To the Balitor of the "Nontu-Ciaxa Dany News"

Sin—Nowadays we hear a lot of dark hints of "secret weapons," and Tam glad to say that the Far East can hold ite head up in this respect, as the following excerpt from the "Hongkong Sunday Herald" of July 28 shows:

The Flying Submarine For a year now the Japanese shi building "yards at 'Yeso. have. been Working dna now type of machine Sthich fas proved to Be very effective In' spite of ite hasty construction. Tt the" pocket submarine. Although only she or seven yards long a remarkable success at torpedoing and. "being. 29. small, is safer and finer to handle than vargee submar= Tio, pov, prem sit ma, range of three. Hind when Fed iritics Tecan be armed with four forse" under water oF on imine of 3 special Te construction of these machines rea British nave simest 9 world monopdl the Indispensable material.

Sez "You Shanghai, Aug. 13.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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