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Proposed new Diocese. The Bishop of Worcester for some time has been making a strenuous effort to found & diocese of Warwickshire with Coventry on the cathedral city, He was so well supported that a sum of £42,000 was contributed by people of every class. The bishop now appeals for £18,000
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Fate of Ruskin's old Home; The old home of Ruskin,, No. 28, Herne-hill, London, is'in the hands of the house-breakere, who have now removed the attic. The Ruskin library and study are ma yet untouched. Baskin lived at No. 28, a spacious mansion that bas stood tenantless for seven years, from the age of four years till his marriage.
Trawler and Whates.
The Grimsby trawler Lord Wolmer has reached home, and reports that when coming from Iceland she encountered a school of big whales in the North Atlantic. Several of the fish collided with the vessel, which more than once was in danger of papaizing. One of the whales was atrack by the propeller, and the blades broke, compelling the vessel to proceed home slowly..
Tragedy of Titanic Survivor, A seamen whose experiences in the Titanic disaster are believed to be the cause of his mental
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Fishing for Hastile Air Ships.
The latest thing in bombe, to
derangement is missing from destroy an enemy's aeroplanes o the Cardiff Mental Hospital dirigibles, is nald to brit a
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aircraft. In neither case the crew of the attacking aeroplane risks more, possibly not as much, as an ordinary scout. Yet how tremen- dous the possibilities of putting the enemy's air fleet out of commission!
'Aeroplanes equipped with auch devices woul:I be a deadly menace to airships, magazines,
at Whitobgrob. The man, who sort of fish-hook, with which the shede, ships in repair sad under is forty years of age, waa among military aviator apples for his construction. Airships equipped those who manned, the last boat
When the hook catobee with larger devices of this type which left the sinking liner. the hostile craft, the bomb excan play havoc with sea and land forces, particularly at night; sod The Late Mr. L. S. Irving, plodes; for, unlike the common
made on Application was behalf of Mr. H. B. Irving in the angler, the object of the fisherman may attack and destroy an enemy's in this case is not to land that airshipe and bangara, docke, Probate Court for leave to presume be hooke, but to destroy it. This magazines, abips, and terrorize the death of his brother, Mr. Laurence Sydney Irving, the device, of which we read in an very generally. There would be well-known actor and theatrical artiole on military aeronautics no means of defence against soch contributed to Flying, is the air-ships except fast aeroplanes or similar manager, as having occurred on
devices. May 29 in the Empress of Ireland invention of Mr. Joseph A. Stein armed with gune
matz, of Philadephia, a member wreck. Mr. Laurence Irving, the Aero Club of America and said counsel, by his will of July vice-president of the Aero Olub 1, 1907, bequeathed his property to his wife, Mabel, who also of Pennsylvania. Says perished in the wreck. There writer:- were no children, and the next of
the
"One striking feature about this device is its simplicity and
low cost. The mechanical con- rivance which explodes the bomb "It is an ironical fact that the whenever one of the berbe kin were Mrs. Irving's mother best bomb-dropping device and catches is simple and effective; from possible difficulties and brother. There was no real the best aircraft guns are Ameri- and the aviator is protected cetate, but the net personalty was can inventions-inventions which about £1,000. The President are being adopted by all the first through the dangling wire by a and second-class Powers, except simple device which cute the wire granted the application.
the United States! So it is not when the tension reaches a given An "abusual and significant surprising to find that the last figure." activity in the fashioning of word in devices for aerial war-
Nightmare War.
With the building of huge new devices for naval war, which fare, an aircraft destroyer maneh dreadnoughts and the develop may surprise Mr. Wolls and more far reaching than any ment of machine guns it was would stagger Jules Verno could bomb-dropping device or serial thought that the science of war- he return to life, is disclosed gun invented, is again an Ameri- fare had gone a long way toward in almost every page of the Naval can invention. Annual for 1014 just published.
abolishing warfare. But the rise of the airship advances this end by adding new terrors as well as now instruments for attack.
"As described in the patent, Of all the new weapons describ this invention relates to cffensivo
"Thus at the rate progress is ed none perhaps in more devilish operations against aircraft, and than the Leon torpedo mine, its object is to provide for the which has now been acquired destruction of an air-ship by an being made in military asro- and is being rannafactured by other air-ship, which itself incura Bautics we may expect that the a British firm. This engine is little risk of injury. Preferably, next war in Europe will see aerial so constructed that it can be set the attacking air-ship is an aero warfare as terribly intensive as ie admitted by the military auth- to hover between any depths plane, since this type of air-ship Wells could depict it. That mach balow the surface that may be is capable of quickly changing its orities of the world. They know desired. When placed in the direction at high speed and of
Bione are all valserable to änd water it has a slight negative rising or falling at the will of the that fortresses and tactical divi- defenceless against aircraft, buoyancy, and ainke until auto-operator.
"The invention involves lower- matically a propeller is brought into action which drives it up. ing bombs to a suitable distance therefore they have efficient of aircraft which will defend ward again. It can be used in from aircraft in flight by means aeronautical organizations, fsets
and an army tacking aerial fighting forces will be doomed at the Blart hostilities,
of
the open sen by any type of ebip, of a wire or other flexible con- them from attack" just as angles or in the case of tidal harbours it nection, and providing the upper could be released by a vessel side or end of each bomb with defend their nest; and the mes DE outside so as to make its way contact devices adapted to cause of defence are also means of with the tide into the anchorage an explosion when the bomb is offence. Just as a ship without and perhaps destroy shipping drawn upwardly by deflection of aeroplanes is blind, so a fort there, A touch on the deadly its supporting wire through is without aeroplanes is a helpless steel "whiskers" which project meeting an air-ship. Such de-forget from its upper surface and the flotion must occur whenever enemy would be sent to the there is contact between the bottom, as were the Hafsuse and laterally moving, pendent wire the Petropavlovsk in the Russo- and an airship, except only in the Japanese War.bideen
highly improbable case where the Disappointing Shipping Results, wire and the attacked air-ship Beil n, Juty 6-The reviews are moving in the sume direction of German shipping for the first at substantially the same speed, half of the present year are unfa- when explosion can be caused by vourable. The Hamburg oorres- manually pulling the wire. pondent of the Borsen-ourier
"Diagrams recently published
says that although the outlook is give a diagrammatic representa rather better for the next few tion of (1) an aeroplane provided
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