LYDDITE ÎN'WAX.
Much has been said retently in the cable dispatches about Boer protests against the use of lyddite shells in the field are the deadly nature of the gases fiberated by these shells. It seems from the following elaborate special article in the New York Tribune that international agreements do not bar any explosive used in shells of big guns, and that lydidite, while a powerful explosive, has not the suffocating power claimed for it.
Why should lyddite be intred in civilized warfare? This question was put to two pro minent members of the United States Ordnance Department. The first answered: "Probably, because General Joubert has none and the British have plenty and the second simply said that, he had no idea on what grounds the pro test could have been made. The aim of all these international understandings," said the latter of these two officers, "is to prevent the infliction of unnecessary pan. Explosive bullets for use in small arms are forbidden, because they lacerate the bodies of the wounded cruelly and needlessly. In the same way one form of the dum-dum bullet has been put on the forbidden list, though another form, which only increases the virtual caliber of the weapon that is, gives to a 30-caliber bullet the effect of a 40-caliber is allowed. But in the matter of artillery fire there is no limitation as to the character or force of the explosives used for filling shells."
"But," it was urged, "they say that at the battle of Omdurman, where these lyddite shells were used, many of the Mahdi's men were killed by suffocation."
"In the open air? Pooh !
The expert further pointed out that there was nothing in the laws of war or the comity of nations to prevent people killing their enemies by suffocation, if that should happen to be the most effective weans within reach.
There must be something, however, at the bottom of that "suffocation" story which has survived from the flaming days when the English papers were full of Kitcliener's victory over Fuzzy Wuzzy" and his brethren. What gave rise to the notion that this explosive made A vapor which either poisoned or asphyxiated seems to be satisfactorily explained by an officer connected with the United States War Department, who was in New York last week: If you could explode twenty or thirty of those shells close together at the same time, then, I dare say, those of the men who happened to be standing at that spot and were not other wise killed would be suffurated, even in the open air. But with the intervals of time between the firing of the successive rounds the carbonic oxide, which is poisonous, and the carbonic dioxide, which asphyxiates, would be dissipated in the open air. In an inclosed space it might be different."
What the corespondent really meant, suppose, by asphyxiation, or suffocation, was the effect of the shock produced by the violent explosion of such a mass. The bodies of these poor fellows would be found without a scratch or bruise after the action, at spots where shells had exploded, and then it would be supposed that they had died of sulibration by the dis- charges of gas, or their deaths would be so described by a war correspondent.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1900,
military authorities are just ns secretive in their experiments at Sheerness, Woolwich and on the United States the Plumstead marshes as at Sandy Hook. Ilut the books say that lyddito is some six or seven times as powerful as gunpowder, and in its comprisition akin to melinite, being a picric acid compound
potassium and ammonium, The pieric acid in question, otherwise called carbarotie neid, is a subalance which crystallizes in the form of It yellowish flakes and gives a brown solution. is formed by the action of nitric on carbolic acid This acid itself is not by any means of modern origin, having been discovered in 1788, but until recently it was chiefly employed in the peacefiti capacity of dye for textile fabrics, and the equally pencelul, thougis not quite harmless, capacity of an adulterating agent in beer. In its latter use it has had the recom- mendation of an intensely bitter taste, which the inexperienced and the thirsty might easily mistake for the flavor of hops; and so picric acid may have been the undoing of "many a good tall fellow" long before it was called upon to help make an explosive.
One of the chief recommendations of lyddite, for practical use in war, is the comparative safety with which it can be handled. To explode at all it must be acted upon by a detonator, and a powerful one at that. The discovery of the explosive properties of picric acid is anid to have been made accidentally, when a quantity of it being melted in a fire at some lye works at Manchester, England, dowed into some loose litharge and produced a violent explosion The origin of the name is not to be found in any of the works in which the history and character of the substance are treated.
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"It is not generally understood what a tre mendous concussion of the atmosphere is pro duued by the bursting of a shell charged with composition of many times as much explosiv force as that of gunpowder. As I understand, the naval guns latterly employed in the defence of Ladysmith throw a six-inch shell. In our Ordnance n six-inch shell weighs 100 pounds. The armor-piercing projectile is nineteen inches long, the common kind twenty inches. The latter is made of cast-iron, and, of course, is filled with a much more sensitive fuse than the former, so that it will explode upon contact with the earth or carthworks, and this is the
have used." kind Captain Lambton must
Now, i
cannot speak of the effect of such a ot in the way
of conjecture, because shell except in
has been used in--Fry, Dr this is almost the first time actual warfare, and I was not present; but should say that nothing within a radius of ten feet could survive the explosion, and many more wounds would-be inflicted beyond that radius by the fragidents. The concussion would be fatal within the ten-foot radios, 1 believe, All
that is generally known of its physiological effects so far is what has been ascertained by experiments with chickens. It was found that a number of chickens that had been within a few feet of a detonation like that of a lyddite shell were unwounded, but dead, and on dis section, their blood vessels were found to be choked with clots of blood. From this it bas been deduced that the concussion produces such an effect upon the nerves as suddenly to check the action of the heart and blood vascu lar system, with, of course, fatal effect."
Ay to the wounding over of the scattering fragments, that will vary with their size. The fragments of a high explosive shell are generally much smaller than those of a gun- powder shell, but their velocity is also generally much higher. I suppose that any fragment of a lyddite shell, except the small ones, would kill up to a distance of 150 feet from the point of explosion."
Referring to the statement that one shot from one of these heavy naval guns had wrecked a heavy 40-pounder on the Boer side, the sanie officer said he did not believe that this effect would have been produced unless the shell had struck either the gun itself or the carriage or exploded in the ground immediately under the Any one of these bits would be re-
cable, he thought, though not by any means beyond belief in the high state of perfecttion to which the art of gunnery has been brought in recent times.
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Miss J. F.
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"dw. (4)
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This lyddite explosive, which has so sud- denly and so sanguinarily burst upon Hancock, W. St. J.. the notice of the general public, is one of the four principal chemical compounds that have been discovered within the last ten or welve years for the promotion of peace and good will among civilized nations. The others are melinite, emmensite and thorite. Melinite Is the pet of French artillerists. Emmensite, which may be roughly described as a mixture of picric acid and nitric acid, was discovered in Lopez, J; G.
Khan, Melts Kaufmann, W. W. Kohn, Siegfried.
Nestor, W. N. Polusingh, Teguinat Kleus, A. Renault, Mons. Paul (2) Romero, J Reiber, Fr.
Rankin, A. W.
Ranchverger, Miss F. Schwaz
Stemer, C. L.
Silva, M. da Swantanes, Rupert, S.C. Syatt, Mr.
Sanders, Mr. M. A.
Suckermaun, R. Silva, L. J. da Taho, Mrs. Tajima, Mr. G. Vanuzen, L, C. Weisman, B. Weinstein, J. Weil, R.
List of Registered Covers for Merchant
Ships
...c.
Moule.
Mayer, A. 1888 by Dr, Stephen H. Emmens of New York. Miller, Miss. Thorite is the invention of Dr. Tuttle of Seattle, Mehs, Estain Wash., and is now being tried at Sandy Hook, Mullins, D. with a view to its possible adoption by the United States Ordnance Department Precisely for this reason it is impossible for any one not in the confidence of the Governmentorof Dr. Tuttle himself to leam anything about its composition. The Ordnance Department," said an officer, at Army headquarters, "is very strict in guard- ing the secrets of an inventor who submits bia Invention for its approval." This, of course, is only fair to the inventor in any case, and should the explosive be adopted for use its composition. would be a secret of serious importance to the efficiency of the. Nation's military services.
What appears to be understood, however, about thonite is that, like the other latest "ites," it is a modification of what is called "German gunpowder," the general make-up of which is not, as is commonly supposed anything like „-purcottez es dry preparpilon of nitroglycerínky +--Â parliamentary paper just issued gives a but an affair of sugar and prussiate of general abstract of the marriages, births, and potassium,
m, or of preparations of lapain, i
.S.S. Changsha S.S. Caicha
J. Williams. S.S. Carlisle City...Geo. Croll, S.S. Diomed J. Fleming (Baker). (2)
..W. McMarie. S.S. Dioméd S.S. Loosak...G. Menzus. S.S. Mackie A. J. Farrell. S.S. Patroclus.....D. Pritchard. SS. Patricius W. R. Wigmore. S.S. Paramiang......Chief Engineet. S.S. Rozetla... Misa Elder. 5.S. Rosella..... M. T. Clarke, 5.S. 7tinan Capt. Anderson,
cream of tartar and some oxidizing agents, death registored in. Edgland in 1997. The
As to the lyddite which has proved itself auch effective agent of destruction, bere again. othing can be said further than what is written the textbooks on explosives. The British
"number" of marringea) was 248,843, births 921,154, and deaths 41,428. Of the births, 469,050 were males and 452,204 females, and of the deaths 280,325 were those of males and 261,103 of females.
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For Nervous
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CHAPOTEZUT'S
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OP LIME
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PRODPROCLICERATO SYAGP
UNABOTFAUTI.
PUDSSINÁLYCERATE WINE. CHAPOTELUTY {PHOG PRAGLYCERATE CAPSULESİ (CHAPSITEAUTH
B, Pud Visiúna, ANO FRANCË
For full particulars &c., &c, ́,
Apply, to
W, STUART HARRISON,
Manager. Hongkong, 18th January, 1998,
(135 CHS, J. GAUPP & CO., CHRONOMETER, WATCH, and CLOCK
MAKERS JEWELLERS, SILVER
SMITH'S, and OPICIÁNS. -
CHARTS and BOOKS. NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, Sole Agents for Louis Audemars' Watches -awarded the highest-Prizes at every-Exhibition;- and for Voigtländer and Sohn's. GELEBRATED OPERA GLASSES”- MARINE GLASSES and SPYGLASSES. Nna. 54-& ch. Oneen's Rand Central:- [40 LEVY HERMANOS.
NIAMOND
DLERS AND WATCHMAKERS.
MERCHANTS, JEWEL
Sole Agents in the East for the amaigamated CLEMENT, HUMBER and GLADIATOR CO, LE, DUNLOP TYRES'S BICYCLES-PRICE $150. A special reliable Watch made for this Climate?
Quality A..... Quality B.....
1)
512.
40, QUEEN'S ROAD,
Watson's Building.
AERATED WATERS..
HAVE been appointed Agent in Kowloon for the sale of the CELEBRATED AERATED WATERS, manufactured by A S. WATSON & Co., D., which can always, be had at my shop in Kowloon at the same Prices that are charged in Hongkong
H. RUTTONJEE 21 & 22, Elgin Road, Kowloon.
and January, 1900,
"FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.
Clarke's Blood Mixture
[4 THE WORLD-FAMED BLOOD PURIFIER.
AND RESTORER
IS WARRANTED TO CLEAR THE BLOOD
from all impurities from whatever cause milaing
For Scrafula, Scurvy, Eaama, Skin and Blood Dleases, Blackbends, Fimpies, and bors of all kinds,
ir la pavor-failing and permanent Cura. It
Cure Old Botas
Curas Sores on the Neck.
Cuzca Boro Legs,
Cures Hisckhands or Pimples on the Face Cores Sorry.
Cures Dica
Cures Biaod and Skin Discasca.
Cures Glandular Sweillage.
Cleats the Blood from all impure Mutter...... Frost whatever cause arising
It is a real specific for Gout and Ruramailo pilng" 11 removes the cause from the Bipod and Bonks.
As this Mixture is pleasant in the tasis, and ware ranted free from anything loJuriour to the most dev lesie conilution of either the Proprietors solicit mafferere to give it a trial to test ita valve. THOUSAND OF TESTIMONIALS OF WON DERFUL CURES PROBI ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
Clarke's Blood Mixture is sold in Bottles as pd." each, sud in east containing six times the quantity, 21delent to affect a perutnent care in the gumst thafority of long-standing case)=BY ALL MISTS and PATENT MEDICINE VENDORS Ibroughout the world. Proprietors, THE LINCOL AND MIDLANDS COUNTIES Data Cosipany, Lincola, England Trade Marker all,con Mizronką
GLARKE'S BLOOD MIXTURE.
CAUTION,Uurchasers of Clarke's Blood: Merters- thediá seb that they get the genuine br.icle. Worthless italtations and substitutes a somationes' palosed off by kapriocipled: vendore,The weeds Lincoln and Midland Courtins Drug Company, Lincoln, England, lame Filsode Filiaire! bane Bramy, and Clarion's
engraved on the Copart biare in the buds, WITHOUT WHICH HOME AR GENUINE
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