MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1922, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

LOCOMOTIVE TUBBTNE'. COPENHAGEN Nov. 1. Sv.'cdcii inaugurated the turbine-loco-motive iit its railways on Saturday with an express tfaiii run from Stockhblni to tipsala and hack, 80 miles in under 25 hours. At times the speed was 55 miles an hour, the highest idlowed in Sweden. ]n the now locomotive steam is led through turbine machinery and tlxwaste steam is led iiito tubes outside the locomotive, where it is cooled by the surrounding air, so that it is turned into hot water, which is again led into the boiler. In an' ordinary locomotive the steam used in the cylinders is thrown up : through the chimney ; frum the turbine locomotive ,-omes oilly a thin smoke without any putts.

The trials show, it i* claimed, that the turbine locomotive- uses only half the quantity of fiibl uhed by an ordinary locomotive of the same horsepowci. The new engine is also said to be h'us noisy than the ordinary one. DEAL OFFICER' MYSTERY. COBLEN(’E, Nov. 10. facts of the death of the British officer, Capt. Lancefield, announced in New York cablegram announcing the release of five former soldiers by the United States Army who were serving sentences for his murder are ns follows: Captain Lanscfteld died as the result of injuries received at likens, Germany on I"tie 23, 1928. He and two other Englishman, whose names are not known, it is alleged were attacked in an hotel there by five American soldiers and one German civilian, who were looking for a girl runaway from their party.

The soldiers were refused admittance to the hotel and forced a way in. During the fight Oapt. Lancefield was fatally injured. The American soldiers —Sergeant Roy 0. Youngblood, Corporal George Gilder, and Privates Carl J. Bryrth, Jame s A. O’Dell, and Jim B. Richardson were tried and sentenced to life 'imprisonment by orders promulgated on December 8, 1920. The German civilian was tried by the German courts and acquitted. It was latter proved that tile German civilian delivered the blow that killed Captain Lancefield. Captain Lancefield was not an officer at the tame'of the assault, but an ex-officer, employed by Motor Organisations Ltd., a British private concern for the disposal of excess motor stocks.