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FEWER ROAD DEATHS.

STRIKING DROP IN LONDON.

1884 FEWER ACCIDENTS.

REVEALING U-BOAT NAVAL OFFICER AND

SECRET.

BY CABLE THROUGH MINEFIELDS.

GERMAN PRISONER'S

DISCLOSURES

A remarkable drop in the num ber' of accidents," fatal "and" uồn, connection with the nnt fatal, in the Metropolitan Polics submarino operations at Portland, district was revealed when the Corus are of the devices used, eis, the missioner issued the traffe returnelander cable,' recalls an exoni for the first quarter of 193),

Compared with the last quarter of 1930 there word;-

89 fewer fatalities, 3,380 fewer peoplo injured, "and""; 3,894 fower accidents,

ingly dramatic episode of the way, which I am now able to reveal for the first time, writes a Naval cor respondent of the Daily Telegraph. During the last year of kostilities it became known to our Intelli

WOMAN.

40FT. FALL FROM HOTEL ROOF.

man and woman who took rooms at a Plymouth hotel ons night were found at one o'clock. next morning in a e

A critical condi- tion after falling a distance of 40ft. through a skylight

They were identified as... Lieut.-Commander Rowan Hamil

ton, R.N.(retired), of Hill- street, Knightsbridge, London. Mrs. Marshall of Lydford Park- road, Plymouth, said to be the wife of an officer in the Mer-"

These figures coincide with the in-gence, Service that German sub-cantile Marino troduction in the Metropolitan inarines, based on Brages, were It is stated, that when they ar Police area of mobile police patrola, using some secret method for pick-rived at the hotel (the Duke of whose duties under the new Roading their way through the shoals Cornwall) the couple gave the Act are chiafly confined to checking and minefields with which the Flanne of Litut. Commander and. cases of dangerous driving and re-era const was infested.

Mrs. Rowan Hamilton. lieving traffic congestion.

No matter how narrow or for 289 Eliled,2 The figures for the quarter (Jan-tuous the channel between the mine. uary, February, March) this year fields, the U-boats, travelling com compared with the last quarter of Pletely submerged to escape the 1924 and the first quarter of that attention of our surface and air

Total 1031.. Killed Injured. Accents. First Qtr... 290 :". 9,013 20,109

1930,

year road as under:

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patrols, invariably, threaded it with perfect confidence,

While we were able to make a shrewd guess at the nature of the secret, we needed definite evidence before we could take the neccesary counter-measures

Last Qtr.

13,323 30,286 First Qtr... 320 11,441 26,334

Of the 290 killed, 103 met their Eventually this, evidence was deaths through trade and comuner obtained, and it bore out the as- einl motor vehleles; 87 through sumption of our experts that the private cars and 40 through omni-Flanders U-boats were navigated in busca and coaches,

and out of Ostend, and. Zeebrugge by means oflender gear." This is an adaptation of the electro- magnetic system.

Fatal accidents were caused in 97 cases through pedestrians "eros sing the road without due care" and 20 people met their deaths. It consists of a cable laid on the through passing behind, between orbed of the sea in line with a chan- in front of stationary vehicles, nel through minefields, sandbanks, Six pedal cycliste lost their lives or other obstructions. An alter through cutting in.

An official of the Automobile Asating electric current is then pass. ed through. the cable, and this cur rent, reacting on delicate instru- mente installed in a submarine or other vesel, gives the navigator either sural or visible indications of the presence of the cable.

sociation said:.

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Once contact with the cable has heen made the vessel is able to proceed at high speed (up to twenty knots), guided with as much pre- cision as a tram-car, trolley on au overhead wire. The passage can be made. with perfect safety in darkness or fog, or where, as in the case of a submerged U-boat, the navigating officer's vision does not extend beyond the interior of his ship.

"Lender cables" have been laid up to lengths as great as fifty miles, and are understood to have given consistently good results.

This was but one of several strict ly-guarded bont secrets" which caine to our knowledge in the following way.

Woman, Suspended,

At one o'clock the night parter heard a crash and the round of breaking glass, and "going to the still-rooms he found the man lying. on the floor surrounded by broken glaes and the woman partly sus ponded through the skylight

Bath were seriously injured; and were rushed to hospital, where they, are in a critical condition.

"Apparently they had fallen from the roof, which is more than 40 feet above the still-room, but how they go to the root is unexplained, às the rooms, they occupied were on the first floor.

The two had moved from another Plymouth hotel.

The man is suffering from frac tured ribs and an injury to the left lung, and the woman from exten- hive bruising and shock, with pos sible internal injury.

Naval Career.

retired rom the Navy recently, and

Lieut. Comdr. Rowan Hamilton:

has been living with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald D. Hamil. ton, at Hill-street, Knightsbridge.

The ox-officer who is burely 30 years old, had just started a busi- Barnard-Hankey Estates Trust, ness career on the staff of the

Ltd., and the Anglo-Dominion Trust Investment Co., at Dover-street, W. His father is secretary of the Knightsbridge, Prince's Racquet and Tennis Club,

that their son had been injured Mr. Immediately news reached them and Mrs. Hamilton left London for Plymouth.

Lieut. Comdr. Rowan, Hamilton during the war joining the Iron first went to sea as a midshipman Duke in the Grand Fleeet in Sept., 1917. His seniority as lieutenant month he went to, Cambridge: was dated Oct, 1929, in which University for a course of instruc tion. He was second in command. Anaval engagement in home submarine flest at Portland from of the destroyer Torrid, of the anti. waters resulted in the sinking ofOct. 1930, to March of this year, German ships, and among the sur- when he was attached to the anti. vivors picked up by our craft was

submarine school at the same port. an officer who had been implicated

s in a particularly barbarous outrage against nationals of another Allied Power. He was therefore badly

wanted by that Power

His capture caused something of a stir, of which he himself was obviously conscious and not a little proud. His df-complacenty may have been due to his knowledge that so long as he remained in our hands his personal safety was as sured, no matter how black his récord

him ouo night by two of our naval efficere. They were astounded by

the effect.

It is charitable to assume that the prisoner's nerves had suffered as a result of his U-boat experiences, for he broke down utterly and begged the officers to save him. In return he offered to tell everything he knew about the German submarino. organisation and its methods

This offer was transmitted to the This officer was arrogant and Proper: authorities, and, after some deliberation, it was agrend hoartful, but at the same time he that the prisoner should be kept in refused to say a word about the this country if he delivered the German-naval seqrets which-excited-Promised information our particular curiosity, sed actu rally we did not press him in any

way,

for he told us all about the leader He certainly kept his bargain. gear "the principle of which was not unknown to the Admiralty scientists and gave us besides; many other items of news which were of great value to our naval authorities.

anti-submarine campaign cannot be estimated, they were undoubtedly important.

While the direct effects on the:

No Claim to Clemency. When the news of his capture became known to our Allied friends in another, country they sent in an urgent request for his extradition. | Had this been granted the prison that shortly after the incident the For instance, it is understood Zeebrugge-Östend leader cables a for some mysterious reason ceased to function with the result that more than one homing or outward- hound U-boat lost its bearings, and came to a violent and arthog the | hidden perils with which the Flani. "dern coat "ward the Straits of Dover

were at that time so thickly strew

| cr' fate can be surmised, for there. was a damning case against him, and he had forfeited every claim to clémency.

The news that his extradition had been demanded was broken to (Continued on next Uolumn)

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