Safe From Aerial Bombs.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 5, 1913:
British Ships Need Not Fear, Says the Inventor of a New Device.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, April 4.— The Standard says that by a jealously guarded secret invention the British Navy is believed to be protected against aerial attack. The inventor, Arthur Jenkins, an Englishman, who is said to be a Director in an American railway, told a Standard reporter that his discovery would banish the fear of aircraft dropping bombs upon warships. He has been in communication with Winston Churchill on the subject, and Admiralty experts have tested the invention and are said to have been convinced of its efficacy.
    Mr. Jenkins says he has not approached the subject from the viewpoint of financial gain, but as a patriotic Englishman. The invention, he said, was for British ships only, though other powers were anxious to get the secret. Secret Service men had approached him, he said, on behalf of the German and Russian Governments, one of them asking him to name his own price.