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AMAZING FIRING PRACTICE.

SPECTACLE OFF ISLE OF WIGHT.

THRILLS FOR HOLIDAY. MAKERS.

Recently destroyer of the Atlan tic Fleet were patrolling an area: about 20 miles south-south-east of

St. Catherine's, Isle of Wight, to warn passing shipping that the Nelson, fagship of the Atlantic Fleet, and the minelaying cruiser Adventure would be carrying out Bring in the vicinity, at the wire. less-controlled target vessel Cen-

turion.

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The official spectators and those Fress correspondents permitted to watch the shoot embarked in the destroyer Versatile at Portsmouth and were taken to Sandown Bay, where official visitors were trads ferred to the Nelson, the correspon dents remaining in the Versatile.

North-East Bracza,

By the evening quite a number. of ships were assembled in the at- chorage, for besides the fring vor- sels there were the Centurion, with her attendant destroyer Shikari, the sloop Snapdragon, with a tug, and four destroyers of the Fifth Flotilla.

Throughout the night there was a breeze from the north east with a light sen running into hay, though not sufficient, the ex perts considered, to prevent firing on the following day.

The Centurion's normal comple- ment is about 250, of whom roughly one-half are disembarked before proceeding to the "firing ground. All the remainder must be taken off by the Shikari before firing starts and put on board again when it

pez829,

SUICIDE AFTER A GUITAR TUNE,

BROKEN ROMANCE OF A YOUTH.

PLEADING GIRL.

Broken friendship with a girl was disclosed at the inquest at Donald Cook, Bexley Heath on aged eighteen, captain of Dartford Grammar School, who was found poisoned in a copse after he left a

motor-car in which Miss Violet

Gibbins, aged fifteen, of Bexley Heath, had ridden with him.

A verdict of ** Death from cyanide of potassium poissaing, self-administered during tempor. ary insanity," was returned, and the coroner said, that Miss Gibbins was not the girl mentioned as having broken her friendship with Cock

"LACK OF MENTAL CONTROL."

MAGISTRATE ARGUES WITH A DOCTOR.

SHOP THEFT PROBLEM.

1929.

SPEAKING TO THE COOK.

SOCIETY DIVORCE.

DECREE NISI.

WOMAN... MILLOWNER IN A MRS. PITT RIVERS. GRANTED

BURNED DINNER" SCENE. A cook who was stated to have London. The Hon. Mrs. Pitt burned a dinner and sat reading | Rivers (daughter of Lord Forster)

when her "David Copperfield "

was granted a decree nisi, with the mistress spoke to her, summoned eustody of her children, and costs.. her mistress Mrs. N. P. Whaddia, from Captain Pitt Rivers. owner of mills in Lancashire and The petitioner declared that her India, who lives at Gloucester-husband bad encouraged immoral quare, Hyde Park, for assault, ideas, particularly polygamous, and The theory that a theft was com- The summons, heard at Mary he also had abandened the church. mitted by a young woman underlebone Police Court, was dismissed. She added. "Our marriage has.

The cook, Mrs. Elsie Stonall, never been happy." the influence of a brainstorm was

said that her mistress asked her, What is that about burning the advanced by a doctor who gave evi- dence at Mariborough Street Police pan!" She replied that she was sorry and offered to buy a new pan. Mrs. Whaddin, she alleged, Court in a shop-lifting case.

caught her arm, pushed her to the door, and struck her in the face

Ella Ford, aged twenty-eight, a waitress at an hotel at Liphook, Hampshire, appeared on remand. She pleaded not guilty at first but later, under the advice of Mr. Cyril Grobel, her solicitor, who withdrew the plea, and substituted one of guilty. Mr. Mend fined her 24, with £2 costs.

Dr. Gilbert Boyd Armstrong, of Liphook said that he had been at- Mr. Samuel Cook, the father oftending Ford since March for depres- the youth, said, in reply to ques- sion, feelings of loneliness, suicidal tions, that bis son had been keep impulses, claustrophobia (the fear of ing company with a girl, and his being in a closed space), feeling of -son informed him that he had ask-oppression, and two other conditions ed her to come to the house, which which he wroto on paper, and which she never did. His son told him were not disclosed in open court. in March that the girl had "given The absence of her husband, a ship's him up." and became more de steward, was an important factor in pressed. He seemed normal the day of the suicide and went out to take voters to the poll in a council by-election.

School Witness,

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on her cusĽ.

Miss Violet Gibbins, a school girl, said that she had known Donald Cook about a year. It was only an ordinary friendship. She met him on her way from school, and he asked her to meet him at six o'clock.

He met her outside her home at the time stated. He had the car, and they went electioneering, tak ing voters to the poll till about In even a moderate sea the opera seved-thirty. Cook then said that tion of putting the destroyer along- he was going to Dartford to side and transferring the men in friend's house to fetch his guitar, safety is a ticklish one. In really They made that call and then rough weather it becomes too dan- drove in the direction of home. He At 7 pulled up suddenly and said, "I gerous to be attempted. o'clock in the morning, however, am fed up with life." He took out when we sailed in the Versatile for his guitar, and both of them then down on the embankment. our patrol ground, there was every sat promise of a fine, eunny day, and Cook played one tune and then showed her some sticks of white on getting clear of the land we

matchbox. He said found nothing but a gentle easterly stuff in a

"Good-bye," and dashed into the breeze, with calm sea and a

woods. moderately clear horizon,

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**Not Dangerous," Dr. Armstrong said, in reply, to Mr. Freke Palmer, prosecuting, that he would not agree that she was a rather, dangerous person to be in an hotel.

Mr. Freke Palmer: She might take things and know nothing about it-I see your point, but fortu- nately a brainstorm such as this has never occurred in the hotel.

Mr. Mead: Why do you say it is a brainstorm 1-She showed a lack of mental control.

Why do you say mental control when this is done in a deliberate manner -Sometimes people suffer from temporary loss of memory, and are for a time unaccountable for their actions.

Do you say that she is insane 1- No. I say that she is mentally un- balanced.

Mr. Grobel: On this day there was an explosion, which her condi tion had been leading up to

I

mean there comes a time when she cannot withstand any longer, and the lapses 7-Yes.

"That is nothing like a brain- commented Mr. Mead. storm,"

he is the most composed person in court."

Dr. Armstrong: I do not mean a cyclonic disturbance. I mean irres- She went after him and endea:ponsibility. voured to stop him. She advised him not to do such a thing, and he The replied, "You cannot stop me,"

and rushed further into the woods. She went after him. He w38 standing up, and said, "If you don't go back I will tie you up." She did not know what to do.

Shortly before 9 a.m. the Shikari, which had sailed earlier, made her signalBoarding possible." Arst run wae timed to start at 10 a.m., but shortly beforehand we saw a foreign steamer coming from the eastward and steering across the range. Approaching her, the Versatile draped herself in fags, But it was bot until we were close alongside, Aying "You are stand- ing into danger" and hailing through a megaphone, that the varsel was at last persuaded to

alter her course.

"He showed me the matchbox,”. she added, "and took a stick of white atuff out of it. I saw him put something in his mouth and suddenly lurth forward. I rushed to the road, picking up the guitar as I went."

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Miss Gibbins added that she saw young man named McLaren cycling, and asked him to come to her assistance, McLaren went in- to the wood, and when he came back he said, You had better call the police."

Mr. Mead said later that he case was described as extraordinary. It did not seern to him extraordinary at all. It was an ordinary vulgar Case of shoplifting. If she was momentarily insane at the time she should not have pleaded guilty.

DEATH-WAVES PERIL.

WIRELESS ENGINEER'S

PREDICTION.

[United Press. ]

London. Ancihilation of armies by "death sound waves" is pre- Nelson Opens Fire.

dicted by Mr., John Morgan Symee, a young wireless engineer of Guil The Nelson opened fire, and we

ford, who is experimenting with a saw tali spray fountains leaping

sound apparatus that he declares out of the water found the Cen-

when perfected will be able to kill Cals in the Target,

armies by the mere pressing of a turion, which steamed stolidly on, occasionally altering her course to The practice was finally compiet. button.

Yet, according to Mr. Symes, the ed by 11.45 am,, when the Shikari)

their deaths, avoid punishment, Acroplanes were brought her charge to a standstill, victims will te overbead to spot the fall of the went alongside, and trans-shipped without ever having even heard the sound that killed them for to secure rouúda and report by wireless, and the crew.

It is always a gamble what dama lethal effect it is neccesary, to before long the Nelson was hidden

age they may Bad on their return, produce a eound the pitch of which behind a smoke acreen on, the for though instruments, valuables, is too high for the ear to detect.

There is nothing extraordinary northern horizon; but still her and clothes are placed in safe posiin my plan," said Mr. Symes in an tions behind armour before they rounds pitched about the target; leave the ship and Bring starte. interview. Saience has long real- and sometimes through glasses we there is always the chance that ized that men and animals can be saw a cloud of brownish dust as cabins, living spaces, and one went home,

tance astern.

veteran. any

mese

atruck dead by a sound too highly pitched for the human ear to hear, but it is only with the develop. ment of the science of wireless communication, that the production a large scale has become a pos-" of such highly pitched sounds, of aibility."

Zarly Experiments,

decks may have been opened up to the four winds of heaven. The Centurion was steaming ab

Last year the Centurion's cals what looked like about 15 knots, used to remain on board during he and it gave one an uncanny seas. battles and conceal themselves in the lower part of the ship out of tion to realize that there was not harm's way. If these animals are a living soul on board-that she was still alive or have not deserted to

Already said Mr. Synce, ho had being steamed and steered by wire some safer home they have beer less from the Shikari, some dis-through more engagements than been able to set up warce that, though they cannot be heard, cause It was to be regretted that we agente discomfort to anyone within The Nelson's first shoot ended at were never close enough to secure fifty yards.

"Such sound waves produced on photographs of the rounds falling about 10.40 à.m., but at 11.15, she about the Centurion ne she drove a huge scale," he continued, "would carried out another run under simi- ahead through the water, Never set up vibrations that would shat far conditions. She finished in theless, the firing was instructive ter the car drums and the blood about a quarter of an hour, after and interesting, and one marvelled corpusolee, vet nobody, would hear at the ingenuity of the apparatus them. Death would come so sud. steaming that permits a small destroyer to denly that the victims would know. down from the northward, engaged control a large battleship-to stop nothing about it at all." the Centurion, firing to starboard

or start her engines, increase or Mr. Symes, said that he was now on a wasterly course. Again, we decrease her speed, make her go at work on & high-frequency ap saw the splashes springing up

which the "Adventure..

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the sen all round the target, and tern and alter her course in any paratus which he believes will be though we were rather too far off desired direction, by the manipula- absolutely lethal in its effects.

tion of button which transmite "I will have to be pretty eau- tious in my experiments," he said. the appropriate wireless impules.

to observe detaile, several hits were noticeable as puffs of brownich dust against the Centurion's grey hull,

(Continued on next Column.)

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