Ulivi Threat To End War.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 9, 1913:
Says His Rays Explode Submarine Mines 15 Miles Away.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    PARIS, Saturday, Aug. 9.— In an interview with a special correspondent of The Journal in reference to his invention by means of which he says he is able to fire explosives many miles distant by the employment of infra-red rays, the Italian Ulivi asserts that he has succeeded in exploding a submarine mine fifteen miles distant from the yacht on which he was experimenting near Havre.
    Ulivi declined absolutely to give details of his apparatus or results of the tests carried out in the presence of high officials of the French Army and Navy. He is said to be about to leave Havre, where there is too much danger for others. "It is certain," he says, "that if the infra-red rays struck a ship carrying explosives they would cause a disaster."
    The correspondent says that the rays will put an end to all warfare if they are able to do what the inventor says they can.