NEWS BY MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 390, 16 May 1910, Page 7

NEWS BY MAIL.

IRON CRUISER OF THE AIR. TO TRAVEL 50 MILES AN HOUR. CARRIES CO PERSONS. Treves (Germany), March 12. An immense air cruiser to carry from fifty to sixty persons, and intended to travel from 'forty-four to fifty miles an hour, is approaching completion here, and will he launched early .this spring by its inventor, Andern Border, an engineer in this city. He introduces an entirely new departure in the construction of airships, and is built of iron. The new vessel is expecte;! to achieve even more successful results than the ship of the rigid aluminium type built 'by Count Zeppelin, on which it is chiefly modelled. It is to be named the Trier (Treves), the town in which it is being constructed.

It is estimated that its five powerful motors .wall give the vessel a speed of at least forty-four miles an hour when they are all working, and it is even thought- that an average of fifty miles an hour will be attained. The enure weight of the framework, motors, and equipment is thirty tons, without the gas filling, and the enormous volume of gas contained by the vessel when fully inflated will permit of the transport of ten tons of freight or fifty to sixty persons.

THE PRINCESS' TWOPENNY TRAM-

CAR RIDE.

SURPRISE VISIT TO HER SON AT

BROADSTAIRS.

London, March 17

The (Princess of Wales paid a surprise visit to Broadstairs yesterday, travelling privately by the midday train from Victoria.

Her Royal Highness drove in an open carriage to the residence of Sir Francis Laking, where Prince Henry of Wales has 'been staying for the past four weeks.

Prince Henry, whom her Royal Highness found looking much better and stronger for his holiday, was delighted to see his mother.

After lunch the Princess walked with her son in the garden of York Gate House, afterwards taking a tramcar nde to Ramsgate. The Princess, who rode on the outside of the cor, paid the fare of twopence without being recognised.

NEW DANGER IN WARFARE,

NEURASTHENIA CAUSED BY

NAVAL BOMBARDMENTS. Paris, March 15. Neurasthenia as one of the horrors of modern naval warfare is serious discussed .by the Matin to-day in describing a series of experiments recently made at Toulon, with the disused battleship Jena as a target. After the Russo-Japanese war naval experts discussed the possibility of death being caused by carbonic acid after the explosion of shells. The results obtained by bombarding the Jena shows that suffocation is not one of the dangers to be feared when a warship is subjected to heavy fire, but that the officers and men would become neurasthenic owing to the severe concussion. Two dogs were placed on board the Jena. They were docile and friendly, but after the first bombardment they were found to be morose and terrified. Later they ceased to answer to their names aud tried 'to conceal themselves.

This condition grew more serious after each bombardment, till at last the dogs committed suicide by jumping overboard and not making any attempt to swim.

TRAGEDIES OF LOVE. BEAUTIFUL GIRL SHOT IN A CEMETERY. Geneva, March 14. A mysterious tragedy was discovered yesterday at Davos, where the body or a beautiful Russian girl, who had been staying at one of the principal hotels, was found lying in the local cemetery with a bullet wound in the heart. The girl had dug through the deep snow, and lain down ,in a grave-shaped excavation 'before firing the fatal shot. Her identity has not been established. A purse filled" with money was lying beside the body, which was dressed in black. There is supposed to be a love tragedy in the case.

EOBBERS KILL LANDOWNER'S;'. NIECE. Madrid, March 14. Two bandits .to-day caught Senor Salvador Barcda, a wealthy landowner, in a field on his estate at Manzanares, and, talcing him to his house, robbed him of £IOOO. They attempted to force him to disclose "the whereabouts of other money, when his niece, a young girl, began to shout for help. Tne bandits immediately shot her, and ran away.

MURDERER IN A TRAMCAR. DRAMATIC ARREST OF AN ESCAPED CONVICT. New York, March 17. Alexander Devoe, who escaped eitrht days ago from Sing Sing prison, where he was serving a life sentence for murder, was caught this morning under dramatic circumstances in a crowded tramcar in Columbus Avenue. Ever since his escape detectives have been watching the house of Devoe's sweetheart, who is known to the police as "Ida the Goose." Two men were seen to enter the house last night, and ' three detectives who were watching unsuccessfully tried to get in. As they feared that Devoe might escape by the roof, they did not force the door, hut waited until eight o'clock in the morning, when they saw Devoe leave the house and race across the street after a ' tramcar, which he caught. Detective Mugge ran behind Devoe. who did not suspect that he was being 1 followed, and, .hoarding the car, he grab- * bed Devoe's left arm. Devoe plumed his right hand in his overcoat pocket. where he tod a revolver concealed, hut i the clever detective, pretending to be , a private citizen, instantly apologised ■ for the mistake he had made. There- ' upon Devoe withdrew his hand from his ! pocket, artd Detective Mugge. who had ? his own revolver in his hand, pressed it i to the convict's head and grabbed him again. , Meanwhile the car was travelling full I speed, and the passengers, thinking that Devoe was about to he murdered, began to take his part. The Detective ordered the car to stop, and when the two other detectives arrived Devoe was manacled

and taken to the .police station. When he got there he turned to Detective Mugge and said, ''lt is lucky for you that I didn't recognise you when you grabbed ime, or you would be dead now." A LOVER'S REVENGE. BLOWS HIMSELF AND" HIS FIANCEE TO PIECES. Madrid, March 17. A girl and her lover were blown to pieces to-day at Caudeleda, in the province of Toleda, as an act of revenge. The girl had .promised to marry a rival who (recently returned from the war and Morocco, and had broken oft" her engagement wath her fiancee.

This morning the rejected lover went to the house of the girl's father, and on learning from his former sweetheart that she was determined to marry his rival, he seized her in his arms and exploded la dynamite cartridge. Their bodies were dismembered, and the house was reduced to ruins.