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Claims by Russian Inventor,
The Paris correspondent of aa American daily sent the follow- ing dispatch recently:
BLACKMAILING RICH
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Englishman's Indiscret Love-Letters.
- 33.
Brussels: Two Brussels youths
montha' imprisonment for at-
The Paris Press is taking son-have been condemned to six siderable interest in an invention of amazing possibilities credited: to the Russian engineer, Ma tempted blackmail of an English- honine, who has been in Paris for a,, whose name is not dis several weeks, after outwitting
closed. the Bolshevik authorities.
Makkonine is preparing to run between Paris and Nice, with equipment at present used on the French railroads, a train to balishman mate the acquaintance Some time ago a wealthy Eng- propelled in shorter time and at a Brussels Inly while on loss expense than ever before has visit to the Belgian capital. baen the case, without a single alteration of rolling stock.
He returned to England and
On account of their youth months to serve the sentence if they were bound over for aix
called upon.
This train is to he propelled wrote her a number of passionate without fuel, without water and letters. The letters were discover- with only a little naphtha. 13ed by a friend of the lady and he times smaller in quantity than is entrusted them to two of his com necessary to furnish fuel underpanies with a view to obtaining the best conditions hitherto
money from the writer.
known.
A letter was written to the remittance of £2,000, otherwise Englishman demanding a the letters would be handed over
to his wife.
A technical writer in the Paris Hastration, who has examined Machonine's device, assures the readers of that conservative jo-
A reply was
that urnal that the Russian's invention
sent will revolutionise railroading thro-Brussels to arrange the matter.
representative would proceed to ughout France and Germany.
The story of Makhonine, who is the husband of the singer, Nat- halie Ermolenko, reads like a tale from the Arabian Nights. "It was in 1919 that the Russian inventor: placed his intention before the! Bolshevik Committee on Inven- tions.
the two blackmailers went to the A meeting-place was fixed, and
spot, where they were received by waiting police officers and arrested.
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This committee, consisting of such eminent scientists as I. O. is the latest of the finger operated Mikhailovsky, F. Blistanoff. G.
year,
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Bogoliuboff. L. Secanine, T. Hart eye-class mounting and has been man, A. Kaufman and others, did designed to avoid all the objec- cot pay serious attention to Mak-tionable features of this type of honine's representation until last mounting. The long coil springs of the Fit-U prevent spring break. In March of that year the comed to give more or less pressure age, and can be instantly adjust- mission examined" Makhonine's on the nose. The nose clips are pretentions and signed the con-of special shape to prevent slip- clusion. which Makhonine brought ing. Fit-C Pince-nes of any with him to France, that the metal are obtainable from The inventor's device is all that he Hongkong Optical Co., successors claims for it-namely, that be can, and did to the satisfaction refracting opticians-the most to Clark & Co., manufacturing and of the committee, drive a train
at an enormous rate of speed, competent optical manufacturing without fuel without water, with establishment in the colony- only a small quantity of naphths,Central.
located in 53. Queen's Road.
and that he drove that train with- out changing the existing equip- ment for motive power, rails and rolling stock,
On one occasion Lean Trotsky Only in the locomotive did availed himself of a train driven Makhonine make any change by. Makhonine for a quick trip whatever. That change consist-from Moscow to Patregrad. On ed of removable paris which the another occasion, in November, Inventor did not permit the com- 1921.Dzerjinsky, chief of the Cheka mittee to examine. He always de- or Extraordinary Commission, tached them and carried them off with powers to judge and to ex- with him.
ecute, asked Marhonine for per- These parts are apparently the mission to attach his private car secret from which Makhoning to a train driven by him. Mak- intends to benefit when his inven-honine consented and at the end tion shall have been commercially of the dash to Moscow Dzerjinsky exploited. And he is preparing said to him, as the good Harroun to give a demonstration of the at Raschild might have said to a capacity of his device on a run calender: from Paris to Nice.
I am greatly obliged for the service. What can I do for you?"
The Bolshevik Administration availed itself readily of Makhon- "I want to leave Russia, because ine's offer to run without a stop my health has detoriarated from from Petrograd to Moscow, insufficient food and constant Lamp Shades, Mah Jong distance of 950 kilometres, a train operation of trains," replied the
of ordinary construction. weigh-inventor. ing 500 tons.
"You are asking a good deal, SEVENTY POUNDS OF FUEL. | but I have givan my word.” con- For this trip he estimated that cinded the all-powerful chief of 70 pounds of naphtha would be the Cheks. It needed a little sufficient, as compared with the more persuasion to induce 930 pounds which would be Dzerjinsky to permit Nathalie necessary for the operation of Ermalenko, his wife, to accom- any equipment until then know.pany him. But the permission The Soviet Administration au was eventually given. Bud thorised the use of the national Makhonine, went. railways for the experiment sug- After having secured his ful gested by Makhotine, and the rights for future exploitation in experiment justified all expecta- Germany, the inventor came to tions, the Peris story goes.
Paris, to make his propar- During the trip, however, the stion for demonstration. and inventor jealously guarded his exploitation. While his ap- secret and carried his apparatus plication for patents is pen- with him when he left the ding. Makhonine is rigidly Iocomotive. The Soviet author-silent as to the way in which he ities. then asked him to exbibit makes ordinary trains go at the operation of his invention at enormous speed without the use Kiev, at Voronezb, at Riazan and of either fuel, except in infinites- in the Urals...
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