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RYE LIFEBOAT DISASTER.
WATER-LOGGED LIFE- BELTS.
"USEFUL RED ·ANTS.
GERMAN SCIENTIST'S
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Dr. Hermann Eidmann, of Munich University, who has been
HORRIFIED WITNESS AT studying the part played by the aut in forestry, has spino to some very interesting-conclusions as the result of his experimenta
INQUEST.
LONDON, Nov. 11th. Kent and Sussex coroners in vestigated the Rye lifebont disaster which resulted, on Thursday, in seventeen deaths.
A section of the aa family 18 only the so-called Camponalus sat harmful, he states In Germany is an ofender, and its danger lies in ita nesting methods. In nesting it chooses very often pine trees, The inquest on "the six members and hollows out their soft central of the lifeboat crew whose bodies portion sometimes up to a height were washed nahore on the Sussex of 30. feet. This causes the wood coast at Lydd was resumed last to be of little commercial use, and evening at the Town Hall, Ryt. often weakens the tree to such an Their names were: W. Iggles-extent that it is blown over by the den, Charles F. Pope, Robert wind. Pope, Maurice Downey, Joseph In the spring this ant has a Stonham, and Robert Cutting- E
habit of sucking out the sap from Dr. Henderson said that several young oak shoots, thus killing of the bodies, ware bruised, but them. By far the greater portion there were no marks of violence, of the ants, however, are of great The bruises were probably caused value in forestry, The Formica by the bodies being dashed against rufa, the red ant, and its family the "grove
The cause of death | are of especial significance in con- was drowning.
suming vermin.. The Coroner: How many of the bodies were wearing lifebelts when task of determining statistically the proportion of useful and noxious infecta which the aat con- In various parts of Ger. Bumica. many, during the course of the last few years he stopped ants at the ant-hills as they were coming home with their booty, removed it, and carefully examined it.
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*A Horrified Find: Major W. B. Hacking, a member of the life-boat crew, stood up and said: "I am very anxious about this, because I was in the boat when the new jackets were first used. I tried their buoyancy by going into the water, and they were perfectly buoyant at first. I was to perfectly horrified, however, find that these jackets were all waterlogged when found after the capsizing of the bout. They were heavy and would have drowned
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Major Hacking continuing, said he did not know whether the life- belts were perished or not. He suggested that one or two of the lifebelts at the old Lifeboat House should be tested to see if they got waterlagged
The witness was told that there were no lifebelts left.
Major Hacking explained that years before the war the old cork jackets were used and were chang- ed after a man had bad his face injured by one of them. I was the first person to use one in the boat," be said, "and I think it time for inquiry, since other bosta are using the same kind of belta."
Worried About The Belts.
Dr. Eidmann set himself the'
The result of his experimenta is that whereas half the insects"thus examined were noxious, only a sixth were useful insects, since, as a rule, the protective power of the useful insect was greater than that of the vermin.
The scientist determined further that during the course of a sum mer a large colony of ants. coni James about 3,000,000 insects, and that its hunting-ground is often as great as 17 acres.
the red ant was
The usefulness of t particularly apparent in North Germany in 124, "when about. 375,000 acres of forest land were destroyed by vermin. Wherever there was a colony of ants the forest for an area of about five acres remained in good condition, and in not one instance was ant-hill discovered in which had been destroyed.
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Their names were: Robert Her bert Head, the coyswain, aged 49, and his son, James, aged 29; Leslie Clark, 22, and his brother William, 25; Arthur Downey, 23; Herbert P Smith, 40; Albert Ernest Cutting, were 26; Alexander Pope, 22: and
Charles Southerden, 23.
The Coroner (Dr. Harratt): The sceretary of the Lifeboat Institu- tion will have to take the matter up. I shall communicate with the local secretary, and he will deal with it. You think they strangled by the belts 1
Major Hacking: Well, I am very worried about the belts. In two eases, in his opinion, the men he saw were so tightly fixed with their belts that it was not a question of water, it was a question of their lungs being stopped. The belts were off when the doctor saw them I hold," said the Major," that these belts, should not be water; logged; they should be watertight."
"Dud" Belts.
"I think they were "dud belts," Major Hacking added.
George Mills described the launching of the Rye lifeboat in a high wind, rain, and a rough sea. The boat, he said, was of the Liver pool type, which meant that if capsized she would not right her self. As he was watching her go out he received a message from Mr. Frederick Caister, to recall the boat as the crew of the ship they were going to help had been saved,
Signals' Unanswered.
"I sent up three Verey lights," said Mills. It was raining hard The Coroner: If you wish to end there was a lot of wind. The carry this point on, we should crew gave no sign of having seen swear you in and start straight the Verey lights, because they did away now and put it in the not answer our signals. evidence.
I did not fire any more Verey Major Hacking advanced to the lights because I thought it was use table and repeated on oath, his leas as the weather was so
thick. view of the belts, asking that in- Thomas Ferrill, of Rye Harbour, quiry should be made about them.a locomotive driver, said: "I was Witness was given permission by bringing in shingle when I looked the coroner to ask a question of a out to sea and saw the lifeboat ap police sergeant present.
The Police Sergeant said: I really could not set
swim with that around their
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Major Hacking: I was horrified last night I not sleep a wink for thinking of those jackets. I
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STOCKHOLM, Nov. 14th.
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The coroner said that the secretouching tribute to the seventeen tary of the local Lifeboat Associa dead men, in returning a verdict Adversely criticised in the papers, tion, who was the Mayor, should of Accidental death from drown- Mr. Axel Wafert, a Swedish pain- communicate with the authorities in London with a viete to incities in, said he did not want to ter, cut to pieces three of his pie criticise in the slightest any man, tures at present exhibited at the but it seemed to him that perhaps Royal Art Academy.
ing into the matter of the belts,
He recorded a verdict of Death by accidental drowning."
THE SECOND INQUEST. CORONER ON THE RISK THE MEN TOOK
the men thought they might get Mr. Wallert, who for the last back to harbour, and in that sense eight years has been studying in they risked rather more than they Italy, recently returned to Stock- might have done.
holm and arranged an exhibition
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