The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-18
GERMANY WILL
BUILD A|RSA|PS
Plans Are Completed For Two
Big Machines
PH0N0GRAPH IS BARRED
Berlin Police Object to Its Use as
Street Preacher-German Den
lists Prepare for Big
Meeting in August.
.PH0NOGRAPH IS BARRED
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

BY MALCOLM CLARKE.
Berlin, July "details are now pub
lished of two new German airships. One.
which will shortly be begun at the we'll
known LAM machine works at Mann
helm, Is a wooden vessel designed by
Professor Schultz of Danzig. It will be
considerably more powerful than the
Zeppelins, will have a gas capacity of IS. :
600 cubic metres, and will be driven by
motors of between 50o-h horse power and GOO
horse power. The inventor expects to de-
velop a speed of from IS to As miles an
hour.
The vessel is built on the Zeppelin
rigid SYSTEM but the use of wood in
stead of aluminium will render possible
the employment of wireless telegraphy.
which is impracticable on the Zeppelins
The second news vessel is approaching
completion at the works of the Siemmens-
Schuckert company, near Berlin. 1t is
equipped with four motors of 125-horse
power each. Zeppelin has engines of 30
horse power, which the builders think will
give 1t a vastly greater radius of action
than that of any airshie yet constructed.
The vessel, which is of the ''non-rigid'
eyPo, - 11V lcet ioHS, 30 Ieet III diameter,
and has gas capacity of 1900 cubic
metres. The navigator of the new vessel
will be Captain Krogh, a famous army
aeronaut.
The photograph has entered into social
life almost as intimately as the telephone,
the bicycle, wireless telegraphy, ice pal
aces or any similar invention, but the
police here draw line at its use as me-
a cfr oala A
ing Itself the Spandau Reform Preacher
society recently gave proof of its activity
by sending out missionary with phono-
graph to hold divine service in outlying
parts of the city. The apparatus having
been installed at some convenient spot the
service began with one or two sacred
songs, sermon or extracts therefrom
followed, and more chuch music wound
up the performance. The plan, however
found little favor with the public and APP
peals were made to the police to interfere.
The appeals were successful, and when
the apparatus was made ready for ac-
ton In one of the suburbs police lieu
tenant and his men took 1t into custody
as it was wheeling out the first bars of
Nazareth"
An invitation to all the dentists of
the world has been issued by the Berlin
ternational dental congress, which is to
be held in the reichstag buildings here
from August 20 to August 2S. 1t states
that the German imperial government
has decided that the governments of the
nations represented shall be officially
informed of the meeting of the con-
gress, and adds: THE united German
i dental profession is preparing worthily
to celebrate this occasion, and to make
he 0
this congress stand out as a Landmark
in the development of dental science.
For months past the police of the
Perm government in Russia have been
endeavoring to trace a number of per-
sons who had disappeared from the dis
trict-mostly young men and girls AT
length they received information that
led them to connect the disappearance
with a certain strange religious sect,
known as the Krausobosniki, the men,
bers of which met In secret places. The
police discovered that the sect met at
q deserted spot, and one of these gath
erings was watch ed.
The people were found to be wor-
Shipping idols rudely carved in wood,
both the presiding priests and the
members of their audiences being in
state of frenzied exaltation. At a sort
of altar a boy was lying, bound hand
and foot, while over him stood priest
chanting in strange tongue, and
holding in his hand long knife. There
could be little doubt that human sac
rifice was about to take place, and the
police promptly surrounded the meet
ing and arrested all those present.
On a search being made within cave
hidden by the rocks, an underground
graveyard was discovered, from which
the police exhumed a number of bodies
which were subsequently identified in
many cases as those of persons for whom
they were seeking. 1t is stated that the
victims had all gone voluntarily to death,
in a spirit, evidently, of religious mania.
Charges of murder will be preferred
against all the members of the sect who
have been arrested.
An interesting legal action is pending
against Abdul Hamid, the ex-Sultan. The
plaintiffs are a firm of Constantinople
jewellers named Constandara Bros.
They were court jewelers. to Abdul
Hamid, but the latters spies having as
certained that the firm had business re-
lations with Rechad Effendi. now the Sui
tan Mahommed Abdul Hamid ordered
the shop to be closed and exiled the pro-
prietors.
Messrs. Constandara estimate their loss
at 100000, but, owing to the heavy fees
payable to the tribunal, are claiming
$4,000 only now, reserving the right to
proceed for the recovery of the balance
later.
Upon the application of the petitioners
the tribunal yesterday issued warrant
ordering abdul Hamid, dethroned Sui
TAM" to appear and offer his defense be-
fore the court in Salonica on July 2S.
The warrant was handed to a process
server. He was refused admission by the
guard, and on demanding to see the Off
Ger in charge was informed that the villa
was under military control and that it
was impossible to serve a writ except
through the medium of the commander
Of the Third Army corps, Mahmoud Chef
ket Pasha.
The president of the tribunal has ac-
cordingly written to the governor of the
.vilayet enclosing the writ and requesting
him to make the necessary arrangements.