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MAMMOTH DIRIGIBLE'S IMPORTANT MISSION:
CASE OF MEDICAL JURIS- PRUDENCE.
THEORIES ADVANCED AT ASSIZE COURT.
Penang, March 7th -Peculiar medical features appear to be as- sociated with a
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NEW MOVE IN AIRSHIP CONSTRUCTION. Dindings now proceeding at the
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Three Tamil estateroolles are charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder by causing the death of a compatriot,pamed Veerapatran at Damar Laut, Dind-
London (U.P.).—Britain will enter the commercial war in the air this summer with heavy artillery. Two airships, the R100 and R101, are now being built with all possible speed for the British Airings on January 19th.. Ministry. They are both expected to be ready for tests this spring
or summer.
While it is definitely understood that there is practically no question of either of them being used for any kind of commercial service, they are the forerunners of airships which will be used for commercial purposes. Both dirigibles will be tried out exhaustiva ly on demonstration flights to Canada, Egypt and India-on which a certain number of paying passengers might be carried-but the main object will be to extract all possible data for future airships of much larger size.
The Two Airships.
The general opinion that the first long-distance flight of the Rico would be to the United States is by no means confirmed, the United Presk learns,
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The Deputy Public Prosecutor in opening the caso said the three se cused were alleged to have attack- ed the deceased with sticks, and s
a result of blows indicted the de cossed died a week later.
Was
Medical evidence was given to the effect that the deceased was ad- mitted into hospital with five wounds the most important of which was a contused wound thres Mooring Towers.",
inches long on the right side of the These masts are in the shape of head. The patient made an excel- unlike lighthouses in leat recovery for six days and then appearance, and about 200 feet suddenly became unconscious and tall. The bow of the sirship can died. A pest-mortem examination be attached to the mast in such a revealed that the brain was con manner that the ship can swing
gested. Semi-clotted "blood freely in the wind as a maritime under the surface of the brain on ship at anchor swings to the tide.
the left side and the wound was on the right side. The cause of death Fuel and gas are taken in through the bow of the ship from haemorrhage which was brought was compression of the "brain from the masthead, and passengers are about by the bruise. A blow on brought up the mast by a lift and
one side of the head causing a fao embarked by a covered gangway ture on the other side was a com- of the ship. The airship will only on the left side might have been leading through a door in the nose mon thing. In this case the bruise enter her shed for overhaul at long caused by the wound on the right intervals, being normally either inside. According to medical text flight or at the mast.
"books this is known to have hap- It has been argued by experta pened before. that an airship of the R100's size The deceased was suffering from must necessarily be weak. It is general weakness as a result of stated, however, that the R100 can chronic malaria. withstand conditions five times as healthier a firm clot of blood would Had be been severe as those which broke the have formed instead of further Shenandoah, also that she is fully bleeding.
The H100 is being built by the Airship Guarantee Company, Ltd, at Howden, Yorkshire, under the direction of Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney, C.M.G., the inventor of the paravane. The Riot is being built at the Royal Airship Works, Cardington, Redfordshire. While both ships are being con- structed to the same general speci, fcations, they cannot be called "sister-ships."
Commander Burney has been given a free hand, and, it is under stood, the R100 follows Zeppelin practice in being constructed of duralumin, but embodies many note-equal in strength against air dis-The trial is proceeding-Straits | worthy Improvements in design turbances to the standard set by which Commander Hugo Eckens the present-day passenger-carrying who piloted the Graf Zeppelin on its trans-atlantic.flights, has since decided to adapt in future Zeppelin designs.
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The Shenandoah hit a sudden vertical current with an upward EXECUTIONER SHOT DEAD. velocity of about 15 miles per hour,
and broke. The R100 would be MAN WHO ELECTROCUTED 140 safe when running at full speed
On the other hand, the R1D1 is being built to the ideas of British official airship experts, who are experimenting with a scheme where-into a similar gust with an up-.. by the dirigible is built in sections on the ground which can quickly be joined together: Stainless steel is also largely employed for the first
time.
Faster and Cheaper.
It is expected, if the experimenta prove successful, that airships in the future will be turned out at a much greater speed and compara tively smaller cost, since the new method will enable mass production practice to be followed.
Sir Samuel Hoare, secretary for air; recently announced in the House of Commons, that both air shipe would be ready for tests this spring, which, while purposely vague, means that they will at least, be completed by June....
wards velocity of 50 miles per hour.
During the last two years, while the R100 has been building, a new method of engine distribution and a fuel gas have been developed, which if applied to the R100 will ximately to be doubled. allow her performance appro-
MURDERERS.
New York, February 24th:- Mystery surrounds the death of Mr. John W. Hulbert, ex-State execu tioner, who has electrocuted 140 murderers. He was found shot dead in the cellar of his house on February 22nd. The police authori ties are not certain whether it is a case of suicide or murder...
Six Rolls-Royce Engines. In the meantime, R100 is fitted
Mr. Hulbert had lived for years with six Rolls-Royce petrol engines, in mortal fear of assassination, not. and in consequence can only be altogether. without reason as at operated without danger in tem-lenat on one occasion his food was perate climates. These engines de poisoned and he recovered only i velop 4,200 horse power, and have few minutes before an execution maximum speed of 80 miles per and, when he visited Omaha to in- cur, with a cruising speed of 16troduce the electric chair there, the miles per hour.
enraged populace threatened to of petrol in tanks disposed over a
The airship will carry thirty tons hang him and he fed from the town. Mr. Hulbert's callouances ia great part of the length of the illustrated by his once saying hälf At present, the destination of the ship. This is sufficient fuel for a sovereiga in taxi-fares by riding R100 on its first long-distance flight 3,500 miles in still air at the cruisin hearse with the body of a max is very much a matter of conjecture. ing speed. Allowing for head he had just electrocuted.
According to the present arrange winds, its safe operating range will ment, the Airship Guarantee Com- be about 2,500 miles. In still air pany contracted to build the B100 it will cover this distance in 38 for the British Air Ministry at a hours. It can operate as well and cost of $1,500,000. Commander with equal reliability by night or Burney, however, has the option to infog as it does in normal buy back the dirigible for half that visibility. sum, to be put to whatever pur poses he pleases, which may mean a fight to the United States, or Dot. Should the Commander not exercise his option, the Air Ministry will most probably send the R100 to Canada.
South Africa has also been men tioned as the possible destination of the airship on the first long- distance fight. But, while in a cordance with the agreement reach- ed at the Imperial Conference in 1929, the Canadian Government has already erected a mooring mast just ontside Montreal, the South African Government, the ather party to the agreement, has so far only chosen the site.
Hash-Hush " Engines.
The five thousand mile journey to India would be covered in two stages of 28 hours each, with an in- termediary stop in Egypt for re- fuelling and gassing, which would occupy not more than 12 hours The journey to India would be completed in 84 hours, or at an average speed of 60 miles per hour, 30 per cent. greater than the air- plane.
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of the R100 is filled with hydrogen, since helium gas, which has a "lift" comparable with that of hydrogen and is non- inflammable, is not commercially obtainable except in the United States, where its export is prohibit led.
crew and the two upper ones to the This coach is sur- Passengers. rounded entirely by a double wall, through which air is circulated to obviate the danger of any inflam- mable gas or vapour penetrating to the living quarters.
Cooking is carried out here. in an electric kitchen. The passengers are quartered in two and four-. berth cabins very similar to those found on board a steamship. Windows in the sides of the ship provide the light and the view, and these are faced by promenades suffi- ciently spacious to accommodate dancing and other pastimes.
The Engine Cars, Below the crew's quarters of the passenger cosch is alung the con- trol.car, an excrescence on the hull. Aft of the passenger coach the cor ridor narrows and becomes more
The cost of helium is very high spartan, being designed for the use In addition, the B100 is run on in comparison with hydrogen, and of the crew only. Some 130 feet petrol, which would be a potential its "lift" is less, so that a 8,500,000 ft of the coach there are two en danger under the tropical conditions cubic foot ship inflated with helium gine care suspended outside the of the eastern route, when the is necessary to do the work of hall. Each car contains two Rolls- petrol would become more volatile. 5,000,000 cubic foot ship inflated Royce engines of 700 horse-power On the other hand, the R101 is being with hydrogen. For these and and one motor car engine, whose fitted with semi-Diesel engines using other reasona it is doubtful whe-function is to drive a dynama to bigh gas oil similar to crude oil, ther helium will be used in this provide the electric current neces which, it is understood, will be more type of ship until its size is sary for lighting, heating, cooking, suitable for the Egypt and India increased to. about 9,000,000 cubic and wireless. M
fect.
Ninety feet aft of these engine From London to New York or
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cars, a third car, similar to the Quebee in three days; to India in The new airship is capable of other two, is situated. Aft again, four and Australia in eight That carrying A hundred passengers' one comes to the fins and rudders is what is claimed for the E100. with fifty pounds of baggage each, in of the ship that serve the same pur« The R100 will be the most up. addition to a crew of about fifty. It pose as the feathers on an arrow to-date and modern dirigible ever is on the basis of the lessons taught in ensuring stability to her fight. built. It will include many im by the R100 that a new and larger There the corridor ends, and ninety provements and suggestions emanat type of airship will be built, feet aft again the ship comes to an ing from the Graf Zeppelin's trans capable of carrying 160 passengers. end in a fine run tail, say “ atlantic flights, since the B100 is Commencing at the bow, there According to the builders the ne designed principally for long die are the attachment fittings, for the commodation made for the passen tance passenger fights
mooring mast, and an observation gers is intermediate in comfort be The airship is described as a station with windows for the use tween a Pullman train and an rigid dirigible of 5,000,000 cubic of the crew. Passing down the ship ocean liner: To give some idea of feet displacement. It is 710 feet by an enclosed corridor designed the space available they say, the lang and 130 feet in diameter, in for the use of the passengers and sense of restriction which the pas ether words, about as big as the lit electrically, one comes to the senger will experience in a ship liner Mauretania, and generally passenger coach, about 180 feet that is carrying a full load will speaking, follows the lines of the from the bow. This structure is be similar to that experienced in Graf Zeppelin. Its site is the main slung inside the hull of the ship one of the smaller hotels, characteristic of the R100, and and consists of three floors, of Noise is practically eliminated, special mooring maats are being which the bottom is allocated to the owing to the great distance of the constructed to hold it.
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