Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — NOVELTIES IN WAR. [ARTICLE]

NOVELTIES IN WAR.

STARTLING DEVICES TO OVERCOME HOSTILE ARMIES. Uncle Sam’s Experiments With New Methods of Destroying His Enemies—»Thc Highest Explosives. The United States Government is taking active part, particularly of late, in the experiments which all civilized and Christian nations are engaged with for the purpose of discovering more effective means for wiping out hostile armies and fleets, writes a well-informed Washington correspondent. While lmsy .with smokeless powders, the chief object, of which is to make the foe visible, the "War Department has been keepipg an eye upon tho “smoke grenades” that are now exciting attention in England. They are filled with chemical substances which, on explosion, pr oduce clouds of dense black smoke, and ure designed to.be carried in advance by skirmishers and thrown, so as to conceal the troops following. Not less novel and remarkable arc the illuminating bombs which are being tested by the Italians. One of them, east among the enemy at night, will burst and immediately light up the darkness with a power of 100,000 candles.