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NEW IDEAS FOR THE WAR. It used shrapnel shell, Congreve rockets, and the carliest torpedoes, then known as

çatamurn:s WHAT SCIENCE COULD DO FOR US. plosives than the French; it supplied its

It produced bettor ex gallant troops with better weapons. We are mobilising our industries for this country be said to enjoy any advant In neither of these respects to-day can the manufacture of shell at last in the age as against Germany. tenth month of the war.

The Germans When shall we have provided themselves with such vast mobilise our scientists ?The urgency of plants that their machine industry--which this question is emphasised by the now, is mainly concerned in the output of war that the French Academy of Scienco is material is equal to supplying the whole about to be placed in the closest possible world. touch with the French Army. Under a immense difficulty, even with the aid of While the Allies experience scheme which is explained in the Petit America industry, in maintaining their Journal by M. Edmond Perior, himself supply of innnitions and arms, Germany a savant of high distinction, officers are can provide her own troops with millions to inform the Academy of new needs as of rifles, tens of thousands of machine they arise and to submit questions for guns, hundreds of monster long-range solution. Thus in present conditions weapons, thousands of tons of steel arm- wire entanglements are usually removed our, countless motor-cara, and unlimited by a very clumsy process-using high-ammunition, and she can also provide her explosive shell to tear down their sup- Allies, Turkey and Austria, with what ports. It might be possible, es M. Perrier, they need as well. suggests, to devise some more effective scientific means of achieving this end. Similarly with gas. The prisont idea is to meet poisonous gas by the issu: has failed against science in Germany. respirators, It would be batter and Only by changing our methods can quite as practicable to mutralise the change the fortune of this war.Daily asphyxiating gas with other gas or feil. valpour To give an example, chlorine fuines would be rendered harmless by spraying soda solution. In place of choking vapour there would be a snowfall of a solid innocuous substance, chloride of sodin, or common salt.

In science all the surprises have come from Germany; the new weapons hard been German. Routine in Great Britain

AN EVIL WOMAN:

BEAUTY SPECIALIST AND SPY.

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The Germans mobilised their scientists and physicists for military purposes as they mubilised their whole ration The war is more and more becoming a matter of science. The scientists have given them various kinds of asphyxiating gases West End and probably one of the most Bertha Trost, a well-known figure in the and beanbs charged with formaline and dangerous as well as one of the most evil other chcking funtes. They have turned women in London, has just been turned out out high explosives in gigante quantities of the country as an undesirable alien by aud of relative stability, When the order of the Home Office.

Allied blockade interfered with the supply A painted and powdered old woman, with pf nitrates and nitric acid is an essential looked nose, orawn green eyes, grop Vic- ingredient in every explosive-the German tarian side-curla, nad wearing a poko honnet chemists produced their plant by which with broad velvet ribbons, flowered silk and nitrogen was extracted from the air. They a crinoline, Ming. Bertha Trost was often to have anticipated every move of the Allies be seen driving about the West End of and have sprung surprise after surprise London and in Hyde Park behind two fine upon us. We have been far behind them grey horses: She lulled luxuriously in her in the consistent and detailed application of science to the conduct of war because, as a fellow of the Royal Society has pointed out, the scientists with us have not bren mobilised or formed into a scientific. thinking arm to aid the General Staff as every turn and deal with the chemical, biological, and physical prostems of the terrific conflict,

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cushions, and holding a tiny flowered-silk parasol over her head with a withered oil band half hidden by diamonds and by black silk mittens. Everyone turned to look at her, and she was never better pleased than when at tracting attention. She drove at regular hours in the park, and would sometimes appear on horseback, attended by grooms, in "The Row."

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She combined her two" rôles" as "benaty specialist" and "antiquary dealer" at a shop, No. Die, Clifford street. Her clients were distinguished of both sexes and of all ages Mine, Pertha would act as hostess, per- forming introductions, trotting about with a silver cigarette box, pouring lea, arranging night parties, and the rest. She would discuss affairs of State and affairs of military and naval importance. Learning a little bit here, a little there, she would join her. frag ments of knowledge together till she could give the appearance of knowing all about subject and thereby disarm any cautious

There is an ill-founded idea that the British are inferior to the Germans in scientific aequirements and inventiveness, This has been inch exploited by the Huns, but it is sheer nonsense. The British brain is still among the best and most originative. One of the most famous American millionaires states that he has made his immense, fortune out of British brains, and declares that the British are groader inventors even than the Ameri Dans. Sir William Rammy recently proved that the most remarkable chemical inventions of the last few years wore the achievements of Englishmen. Even in military matters we have stown originalient into more open discussion. She was In the application of heavy a famous talker, and, it is said, cobl extract artillery to war, for example, the British information most efficiently. led the way.

In India so far back as the Mutiny they took weapons of the largest size that then existed into the field. They forgot or dismissed what they had done, to be disagreeably surprised when the Gorgias in this war turned up with

1lin, and 16in. howitzers.

So with the machine gun, of which the Germans are making so enormous a use. The British Army after the French discarded their mitrailleuses was the first in Europe to be equipped with this pattern of weapon and to grip its value. Having done this, it stood still and was content with a tiny allowance of these guns. The Germans, on the other hand, were slow, as they usually are, to adopt | a new idea. But when they once adopted it it was on ah epormous scale They ordered just before the war 50,000 machine guns. The result is that they are able to hold their treiches today with machine guna worked by half a dozen neu, whereas wo for want of three weapons are com pelled to cram our lines with men and thus to offer the German high explosivo shells a splendid target.

The difficulty of proving that she was n recognised and paid spy of Germany lies in the g fact that she passed on information not by writing but most probably by word of mouth to morn highly placed people in the Py service of Germany and Austria, who found means of getting her information sent! to their employers.

FREAK COSTUME SUPPER

When Mme. Trost left her antique and beauty shop in the early evening she drove home in her earringe to her big house, No. Marlborough-gate, overlooking Hyde Park. Formerly she lived in Queen's-gardens, but the parties that took place there lind attracted unwelcome attentions. Her parties would begin towards midnight. Carriages and cabs would come quietly one by one and from them would step women, British and foreign, and men, many of them foreigners and Eas- term foreigners, in evening dress. "Freak costume suppers were a feature,

So crafty was the old woman that instead of employing several servants as she had done at Queen's-gardens-servants who she be liever had brought upon her the attentions of the police-slie employed only one woman, Wo led the world in the adoption of the probably a trusted servant. All the cooking Dreadnought type, and here again the beyond that done by caterers she did herself, Germans merely copied us. "The modern and the big house at ordinary times was submarine of the pattern which is now empty save for her and her old servant. She infesting British waters was a French kept two locks on the front door and carried design; the Gormains copied it and, in the the two keys huurself. The house was opinion of many who should know, did most queerly furnished-with bizarre hang not improve it. The one real Germanings and rugs, queer eastern ornaments and invention is the Zeppelin, and to this, if mirrors,

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we had taken pains, gone to our men of science and been content to spend a littlo

In a room by itself not far from the old money, a reply could long since have been! discovered. But while harping upon the woman's bedroom was a rosewood enfin lined importance of science and the value of it with rose-coloured satin cushions and with a to the State, there is no class which our lid fastoned down by lock and key. A silver politicians so much fear as the chemists, plate on this lid stated "Bertha Trost." She physicists, and men who know their busind had the coffin made ready for her own ness. The State's idea of the expert one should familiarise oneself with the iden remains at a cost of 200. Her idea was that chemist was shown in an advertisement last year offering the princely salary of of death. Even her graveclothes were ready. £2.53. a week to a first-rate chemist They were of delicate and expensive lace, required for research work in one of the

JA HARMACE ARRANGED, Government laboratories,

It was in the week before last that Mme. In Germany, as a neutral who has just Trost got to know that the Home Office were returned from Berlin states, the chemist inquiring about her, and, knowing she was goes about with a halo. His "jopularan alien and liable as such to deportation, she with the ladies because everyone believe determined to become an Englishwoman-by that it is the chemists who are going to the simple act of marrying an Englishman. win the war for Germany." Yet these bridegroom was forthcoming. He was chemists are no supermen, but simply English, about fifty years old, above middle plodders, careful researchers, painstaking height, with a short bushy moustache, and he collectors of facts, who apply their knowl- said he was a butler and from the north edge to military and naval use,

of England. Last week he was There are no limits to the possibilities the house and the marriage before the scientist. There are explosive went were all ready. Hat on Tuesday of unimagined power to be discovered and morning detectives arrived, who tohi Mme. applied. It may even be that Mr. Wells' Trost she must go for examination by Home ingenious idea of a ray which liberates Office authorities. She went, and after the force of the electron is realisable, but many hours' examination returned in the only by effort and experiment. Again, afternoon in charge of detectives. At 6.30 new kinds of armour can be devised these men saw her on her journey out of the methods of protecting ships against, tor- country with one.

The house furniture, pedoes-machinery for rapid entrouching, as her sole lugge tiny hag and a big trapk In every direction there is ample scope its hangings, with pictures and the rest, is in for the engineer, the electrician, and the the hands of the Public Trustee.

Mme. Trost came to England chemist.

than And there is need for action. The his- twenty years ago, a striking women in the tory of the Napoleonic wars shows that

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