CAPTAIN BASIL HOOD'S
DEATH.
Excessiva Concentration on Cryptograms.
RUSSIAN AMAZONS'
HEROISM
Gallant Charge on German Lines.
A Westminster Coroner's jury
M. W. G. Shepherd. Petrograd returned a verdict of "Death correspondent of the United Press from natural causes" at the in-of Americs, has vent the following quaeton the body of Captain Basil message through the Exchange Willett Charles Hood, the well Telegraph Company- known author, who was found dead in his dat in St. Jame' Street, SW, on recently.
Dr. Donald William Charlos Hood, of Green Street, Park Lane, stated that Captain Basil Hood was his brother. He was 55 yourn of age, and an ex-esptain of the Prince of Wales's West Yorkshire Regiment. He was living alone
side by side in beds in the town On Saturday evening, lying borpital, were five girls of the Legion of Dasth, They were enffering from shell shook, all paralysed in various parts of their
bodies.
One peasant girl had a German helmet beside her: "I saw s
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in a Batin St. James's Street. The German in front of me," he told KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPY, witness last saw his brother alive, and stabbed him with my on July 25, when he thought he bayonet sad pailed the trigger at
looked very ill from overwork His brother was 'Iben writing a play, and was very much occupied on anagram writing from Shakes peare's works, in which be took great interest."
The Coronar. That Becret writing?.
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The witness. You When he was working at that, did he think he could do is better when he had no food ?-He told warded him of the excessive nerve pressure, but be assured me that he was better able to understand himself. I arranged for him to take a holiday, but he would no go,
Did he exosed at all in drink? -No; be wat very abstemione as regarde food and drink.
Replying to questione, Dr. Hood stated that his brother was in no financial trouble; and that there was no "reason to think that he would commit anioide. He was a man who took a very optimistic view of life.
The Coroner. How long had be been dabbling in this secret writing crake?
cook bie hat es & Hovenir." She the same time. I killed him, sa f
-miled delightedly.
"What did the battle look like?" said another girl. "I was very nervous work just be fore we charged. I knew the order to charge was coming, and I think I got a litle frightened, but as soon as the order came I forgot everything and ran forward and heard lote of girle yelling and shouting to advance. None of a were afraid when we started
booling.
"Terrific big abells were break- ing all around. The first dead. man I saw frightened me a little, but we had to jump over corpвee, and soon forgot them."
I talked to a third girl, who described the taking of German) prisoners, "We could not tell what was going on anywhere," she said, "Mme. Botohkareva was everywhere among ne, calling upon us to fight, to die like Ramian soldiers.
"Buddenly we saw a bunch of Germans right ahead of us. Then they were in our midet, or we were all around them. They The witness. When the war throw down their rifles, lifting ap began General Sir Edward their hande. They were terribly Bethune, who was then in charge frightened. 'Good God, women!' of the Territorial Forces at the they exclaimed."
work 10
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War Office, asked him to become Another girl said the German his hon. secretary, and he con-wounded raised themselves on sented. He devoted himself their elbowe, shooting at them. entirely, night and day, Sunday. We forgot ourselves entirely. We included,
atgere aot ourselves.
We were the War Office, In July, Russia fighting for her life."
The loss of Lens, 6 1915, I
most saw symptoms nervons breakdown and warned popular member of the company, him that it was impossible for was keenly felt. Daring the him to continue the work. He battle abn heard Mme. then took three months' holiday, Botchkareva had been killed, and and when in came back be began she dashed forward, saying, "I to write a new play. He wanted am going to find her." She to make up for lost time. When went across a space where sheila he was at the War Office he did were flying. A big shell blew no private writing. He told me her to fragmente, he was helped by mystic în. Bonia Romanoff, "a fluences." I warned him agair et singer, was killed by machine- the pernicious doctrine he held, gun fire. The exact death list is and told him that be was ander-cot yet published. It appears mining his nervons power.
that at least a dozen hig abella The Coroner. He seems to have fell among the girls, killing per- thought he had got a Begrotapa a dizen and wounding 25 message out of Hamlet 7-1 dia before they captured the pri agreed with bim entirely, and Ionera.
concert
would not discuss it. He regard. Five of the capture] Germans ed me as a non-believer."
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Continuing, the witness said The number of women in sil that he went to his brother's armies of the Eastern fronte isl chambers at half-past 8 on Tues- believed to be growing to large day, and found him in hie proportions.. bedroom on a conob. His head; Mrs. Pankhurst declared to me was on his hand, and be appeared that Russian women are stepping to be like a man in a deep sleep. into the breach, as they always He had not eaten breakfast,
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examination, said that both langa Huge crowds daily surround were congested and dropsical, the the Engineers School, where a heart was enlarged, and there thousand more girls are drilling was excessive fibroid disease. in preparation to go to the front. The cause of death was syncope, Moooow has a thousand girl while Captain Hood was suffering soldiers. Kieff and Odessa smaller from fibroid disease of the heart, banda. M. Kerensky authorises the sad other, TeSSOÏS.
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