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TWO-DAY FLIGHT

OF R.100.

"FLEW THE DISTANCE

TO EGYPT."

Major G. H. Scott, the com- mander of B.100, described the fifty-three hour flight of the airship when she moored at Cardington efter having cruised for more than 3,000 miles last month.

"We had no trouble whatever on the trip," said Major Scott, "and the ship behaved finely on her turn- ing teet at different speeds and at diferent rudder angles.

Some of these tests were made round the Eddystone Lighthouse, where there was a mist-free patch,

70-M.P.H. Maximum.. Our average speed was fifty miles an hour and the maximum seventy, although then we were not going all out."

Most of our trip was og clouds too high to top, although we ascended to 5,500 feet over Oxford to-day.

I personally have never had so long a flight on which I saw so little of the ground.

watches were

We all had good rests, and regular four-hour Scot. Navigation was by radio directional apparatus, but occasion- ally we were able to take drift casurements when the ground was

visible.

It was rather cold aloft in spite of our electric heaters, but the heat from the kitchen improved

matters a little.

Smoking Ban

"None of us could smoke for the fifty-three hours, for there is no smoking compartment like that in

R.101.

The flight was greater than the distance to Egypt, and when we landed we had fuel in our tanks for" more than 1,000 miles."

A complete examination of the airship was made by experts, and all the observations worked out and cfciency and performance figures, calculated.

R.100 rests at the mooring mast The hull is lost in the mist, which has grown denser, and the only signs of her position are the tiny lights which outline her shape, and shine like a new constellation in the blackness of the night."

"HE STOLE MY WIFE."

R.A.F. OFFICER'S OUTBURST IN ALLEGED THEFT CASE.

An R.A.F. officer made allega teas against his wife and hus late comunanding oficer at Seabrook Police Court, Folestone, last month. Capt. Kennedy Gerrard Brooke, of Tinsley Worth, Crawley, Sussex, and Mrs. Grace Auriel Joan Lines were summoned with being concern- ed together in stealing a silver tex- set and cofice jug, à mahogany box di cutlery, and several articles of household linen, to the value of £40, the property of Firing Officer F. R. Lines, R.A.F., on January 19.

irs. Lines is the wile of Flying Officer Linès. Plea

Mr. B. H. Boniface, prosecuting, said Capt. Brooke had been the commanding officer of Flying Oficer Lines, in Egypt.

"Flying Officer Lines was sent to Irak, and there he saw in the news papers that Capt. Brooke had been divorced by his wife, and that the woman cited was Mrs. Lines.

Lover's Letter Found. The husband claimed leave to come home and on Mrs. Lines giving an undertaking that she would in no way communicate with Captain Brooke they became recon- ciled, and lived together for a short time, in bungalow at Hawkinge.

When they left this bungalow for another one the box containing the articles. alleged to be stolen was placed in the regimental stores at Hawkinge. Mrs. Lines.went to her home at Horley for Christmas, and the husband went to his home in Landon,

Mre, Lines telephoned her hus- band for an attaché case, and, as he had suspicions, he opened the case and found two letters from Both Capt. Brooke to his wife. letters were the foundation of divorce proceedings which had been commenced,

"Stole My Wife," Flying Officer Lines found that Capt. Brooke had been staying at his wife's home For Christanaa,

On January 18 Capt. Brooks and Mrs. Lines arrived at the guard- room at Hawkingė and obtained the articles they were accused of stealing, Mrs. Lincs stating she bad the anthority of her husband to have the keys of the stores.

They were accompanied by an unknown woman. The articles were put in the back of his car by Capt. Brooke.

Flying Officer Lines, in the box, said he had not given his wife any authority to take the articles.

Asked, in , cross – examination. what motive Capt. Brooke could have to steal his goods, Flying Ocer Lines replied: Be hai elready stolen my wife. He might steal my goods,'

SINISTER MARVELS.

CONDUCTED TOUR AMONG

DEADLY. POISONS.

In a quiet, airy room, a minute or two from the rear of Oxford. street, W, I stood before a glass case full of strange secrets-the secrets of men and women who have committed the subtle crime of murder by poisoning, writes a cor. respondent of a London paper.

Queerty assorted were the con tents of that glass esse in the. Well come Historical Medical Museum.

Side by side, with prim labels attached, lay sharp-polated darts of and innocent-looking articles jewellery. Each of them has been capable of causing death-suddenly or slowly, according to the mature of the venom which the murderer had chosen,

Sir William Willcox, the toxico- logist who has been an expert wit ness in many murder trials, lectur- ed at the Welcome Museum recent ly, to an audience of medical men, on the subject of secret poisoning.

He showed them the chocolates sent by the poisoner Armstrong as a birthday present to a solicitor who was his professional rival. In those chocolates arsenic had been cleverly concealed.

An Hour's Tour.. Sir William spoke of a man who tried to poison his wife by giving her gin containing cyanide of potas- sium, and of a woman who killed her husband by placing strychnine in beer.

Afterwards he described the uni- que exhibits which the museum it- self contains, and which I examined in a layman's tour.

That hour among the sinister marvels of the Wellcome Museum- historical medical the Anest museum in the world was more fascinating than a dozen "thrilling" novels.

Human skulls grinned from glass cases in the room to which I was taken by an official. We passed a long, narrow case in which lay the crouching forins of two shrivelled mummies.

As we reached the poison exhibits the official pointed through the glass at a small piece of some dark vegetable substance, wrapped in straw. The label announced that it was a species of poison prépared by the Wandorobo tribes in East Africa.

That quantity of this particular poison," said the official quietly

would be sufficient to kill 80, elephants.".

A tiny sealed bottle of Venetian class stood in a corner of the case. It was led with a colourless liquid. At one end the bottle tapered away to form a delicate

stem.

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There once lived a man who car- ried that little vessel wherever he went, so that, in a desperate emer- zeney, he could break the stem with his teeth and swallow the colourless liquid- deadly poison.

Deadly Daggers.

Near the little bottle were two Spanish daggera, with gracefully blades and ornate decorated handles. In the shaft of each was a groove for the reception of poi so.

neat

I saw rings arranged in rows. They were of gold, beauti fully worked. One was marked to resemble a coiled snake; another. was set with pale blue stones.

On a third a minute death's head was mounted

Each ring contained a secret re- ceptacle for poison, with which the wearer could take his own life-or an enemy's.

Some poisoned. rings, I was told, were so designed that death could be caused by a handshake.

A concealed spring caused a tharp-pointed protuberance to ap pear on the outer edge of the ring. stabbing the flesh of the unsuspect- ing person grasping the wearer's hand. The venom with which the. ring was charged began its work within a few moments..

Venom in Wine. Antidotes to poisoning and de-i vices by whith it was hoped to detect the presence of of venom in wine were in this same glass ́ense,

Among them were cups made of

horn; magnificently: rhinoceros earved." The rhinoceros horn cup, so the ancient Chinese believed, would change colour instantly it liquid placed in it contained poison.

To-day-Sir William Willcox told the learned medical men who as sembled to hear him lecture-secret poisoning is a rare crime; the care- ful investigation of alt suspected cases by the Home Office and other authorities serves to deter the would-be poisoner,

That is reassuring. But I jump ed, all the same, when an acquaint srce whom I met immediately after Wellcome Museum leaving the renched out his hand and graiped mine heartily."

He wore a gold -ring ||

ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE: EXTENSION FUND.

SIR ROBERT HỌ TUNG

GIVES 81,000,

The following amounts bare bemi Mr. Medicott, for the defence, received and are gratefully acknow- pleaded not guilty in both cases, ledged- and asked that the case be tried by In hand

a jury.

$10,000

Sir Robert Ho Tung

81,000

HOME RUGGER.

FIERCE WELSH ATTACK

AT SWANSEA.

IRELAND DEFEATED;

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SWANSEA, March 9. There was a gate of 40,000 at the International rugger match played here to-day, when Wales beat Ireland by 12 points to

Ireland were the first to sOOTE, with a dropped goal by O'Davey from a distance of forty yards, two minutes after the start. Skym scored try for Wales before the interval.

Half-time BCOTE: Ireland 4, Wales 3

rough and Fierce play and a tumble enamed after the resump- tion. The referee had to stop and game and caution the players.

The main factor in the Welsh victory was the fiercenes of their forwards. Peacock and Arthur secured tries and Bassett scored a penalty goal. The only response from Ireland was a penalty goal scored by Murray.

Prospects of England winning the International Championship a result are greatly enhanced as of this match. At the same time it destroys Ireland's hopes in that, direction.

Final score: Wales 12 points (three, trica, one penalty goal):

one penalty goal). Ireland 7 points (one dropped goal.

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