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ANTIQUE WEAPONS AGAIN
USED i'm EUROPEAN WAR

1t was a combination of very old and
very new ways of fighting. of late
little has been heard of the aeroplane
arrows and it is probable that the
airmen have found high-explosive
bombs more effective.
The German helmet was looked on
in nearly all other armies an ana
chronism. There was great amount
of study put into the problem of re-
ducing the weight which soldiers must
carry, and the helmet was heavier than
other forms of headgear. Therefore ii
was bad The heavy helmet has proved
it's worth and the French have adopted
a steel helmet without the spike as a
measure of protection against head
wounds by shrapnel balls and rife and
machine bullets and shell fragments of
low velocity.
In the cuira ssier regiments the metal
body shield was looked on with amuse-
ment as a relic of the days when war
riers wore chain armor, plate armor
ing metal armor where 1t is possible.
correspondent of the London Chron-
icle, writing from Turin, has said: Re
v'ving the methods of the Roman
/ gions under julius Ceaser, the Aus
trians are adopting backshields and
'breastplates on their Alpine lines. Some
of their infantry use a portable steel
screen. rectangular in shape. furnished
with eye peppers, for protection against
shrapnel shot and grenade splinters
quantity of these has been picked up
in front of the intrenchments north of
Val Grande, between Monte Groce pass
and Friekofel, where the enemy suffer-
ed particularly grevious losses in a
futile attack"
The short sword has not come back
into battle use. but it was reported that
in the charges against the Labyrinth
the French troops used knives instead
of the bayonet The battle ak has not
been heard from in this war, but 1t may
be.
I'VE must get out catapults again"
a French officer has said. such as the
Romans used. They would be quite
useful in throwing explosives from one
trench to another. There is no reason
also why we should not use shields
to protect trench storming parties"
So many men have been wounded in
the left hand by grasping the bayonet
of an opponent in hand-to hand fight
ing that it has been suggested that
they use a mailed gauntlet: and an
other suggestion is that the men should
be trained to use a net, a still more
ancient method of entangling and
parrying the blows of foe.
In this war the harpoon is being used
to grapple and drag barbed wire en-
tanglements from in front of the
enemy'S trenches.
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TO STRENGTHEN THE NAVIES

ships known either to have been COM
pleted or to be nearing completion are
the Ersatz Worth and the It. both
commenced early in 1914. These YES
sells are approximately of $4,000 tons
displacement and mount eight fifteen
inch guns. Compared with the Queen
Elizabeth class. they carry the same
armament much more efficiently pro-
tected. but at an inferior speed. An
English authority on naval shipbuild-
ing has recently written that firms
such as the Germania at Kiel, Blohm &
Voss and the Vulcan company at Ham
burg and the Schichau yard at Dantzie
could probably between them complete
seven or eight battle cruisers by the
end of next spring, when the Germans
would have available something like
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SIR JAMES MURRAY. WHO DISCOv-
Erred THAT A MYSTERIOUS CON-
TRIBUTOR TO HIS WORK WAS A
RICH AMERICAN EX-SURGEON,
CONFINED IN BROADMOOR PRISON
FOR MURDER.
eponse. For several years the thing
dragged along, two editors and many
Of the original projectors having, in
khe meanwhile. died. Finally. Sir James
Murray was chosen as editor.
i When he took hold he found himself
nonfronted with a formidable job. some
&.000, 600 quotations having already
been got together and needing to be
ported and classified. SIR James tao
k1ed the job energetically, however,
end, for the first five years. carried on
bis labors at the Scriptorium, Mill Hill.
hear London, eventually. however Tin
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that time. however. he has completely re-
covered his sanity. He is, as you have
discovered. a man Of great brilliancy and
uncommon learning. Soon after his
covery, he requested to be permitted to
have books, to which we readily consent
ed, and, as he is a member of a wealthy
family in the United States, he has been
able to provide himself with excep-
tionally fine library. He always. 1t ap
pears, has made hobby of words and
their history, and he has taken the keen
est interest in his work in connection with
your dictionary.
To-day he is you or |. and
has, indeed, been offered his liberty, but,
having been here for SO many years. he
prefers TO remain with US, and, needless
to say, he is now treated like anything
hut ordinary prisoner. And now. If
you are not unnerved by what 1 have
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"Dr. Blank? I presume" ventured the
puzzled phlologiSt
NO. Dr. Murray replied the unknown,
Il am not DIR. Blank. but he is here.
and. meanwhile, I don't suppose you have
the slightest idea where you are. This
is Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum,
and 1 am the governor"
DR.. Murray stood speechless.
81 had better explain at once" con-
tinued the governor, that DR.. Blank. with
whom you have been corresponding, is an
inmate of this institution. He is. in fact,
a murderer" tSir James gasped) 'Dr.
Blank is a citizen of the United States
the governor went on, land when he came
to us he was not in his right mind. Since
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a date as the latter could manage. DR..
Blank added that he personally could
not come to the station to greet his
guest, but that he would send his car
riage. st. James. being by this time
overpoweringly curious as to his cor
respondents Identity, promptly accept
ed the proposition, and, few days lat
er. took train for Crowthorne.
After a journey of a couple OF hours,
he arrived at the nearest railway sta
tion thereto. namely, Wellington Col
lege. and was met by a liveried serv-
ant. who asked If he were DR.. Murray,
and, on being given an affirmative an
swer. explained that he came from DR..
Blank. and led the way to a handsome
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A Kissing Danger.

MR. CHARLES H. PARKHURST. pur-
w suing his piquant campaign against
cosmetics, said the other day in
Brooklyn:
The use of makeup Is so prevalent
that II the average young man kissed
the average summer girl. he would be
apt to die of painters collie"
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dreds of yards from DIR. Blanks lodg-
ings. stood a large brewery known as
the Lion" On the night of February
II, at about o'clock in the morning,
DIR. Blank, who was then absent from
his rooms almost nightly. was return
ing home, evidently in a highly excited
condition. The night was clear and
starlit.
Close to the gates Of the brewery the
American suddenly encountered one of
the employees, George Merritt, a stoker.
who was then going to his work. Sud-
denly three shots rang out and the
nearest policeman rushed to the scene
to find Dr. Minor standing with a
smoking revolver in his hand.
"who fired those shots?" demanded
the policeman.
"I did" replied the American, with
complete calmness. i've killed a man.
You wouldn't expect me to be coward
enough to fire at a woman. He's lying
back there.
BY this time another officer arrived
and. going in the direction indicated
by the American, he found the unfor
tunate stoker's body. Death, result
ing from one bullet wound in the neck
and another in the back, had been
practically instantaneous. The doc
tor. whom the policemen described as
entirely cool and self-possessed, was
dfSarmed, arrested and at once con-
veyed to Southwark police station,
where he was imprisoned. He then
appeared quite Indifferent. On being
searched it was discovered that besides
being In possession Of the revolver.
which bore the name of a maker in
Springfield. Conn, the doctor was
armed with a bowie" knife. which
he wore in a sheath attached to his
suspenders.
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told you. 7 will take you to the doctor,
who is waiting for you with great eager
ness But stay. Perhaps before I do so
| had better acquaint you with the de-
tails Of the crime for which DR.. Blank
was committed to Broadmoor."
This is the story which the governor
of Broadmoor, England's great Grim
inal lunatic asylum, related while DR..
Murray sat before him. spellbound:
1t begins in the early days of the
American civil war. namely, in 1851
when DR.. Blank, then young sur
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brougham, drawn by two fine horses.
which was waiting near at hand. Sir
James entered the brougham, and. after
a ride of a couple of miles. found him
self being driven into the courtyard
of a huge brick building, of a forbid
ding appearance, as to whose charac-
ter he could not even make a surmise.
Have the kindness to follow me, sir,
said the servant, and straightway con-
Quoted the puzzled savant UP a gloomy
staircase an1 through a corridor, ush-
ering him eventually into a well op
pointed private Office, at which man
of unmistakably official appearance
was sitting at a desk.
The latter promptly arose and greeted
his visitor with impressibe politeness
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Proved Be Rich Surgeon
lin Murder While He Was
Murray Editor the Dictionary Who Set Out
Fellow Found Himself and
Extraordinary Civil War When the
Principal Surgeon the Wealthy
America, His
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geon Of twenty-six, Joined the army
Of the north in his professional capac-
ity. with the rank of captain. Blank,
who was tall and good looking, was a
member of the New York College of
Surgeons, and had not long been mar
ried He belonged to a wealthy family,
and was both naturally talented and
exceptionally well educated, among
other things being an unusually clever
artist and painter. He had many ac-
quaintances among men of culture, one
Of whom. a professor at Yale, was able
to give him when. ten years later he
set off on what was to prove an ILL
fated journey to Europe. a letter of in
PRODUCTION to John Ruskin himself.
Soon after Blank joined the army 1t
became his duty to brand a deserter.
The latter accused him of having car
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Special Correspondence Of The Star
LONDON, July Is. 1915.
~ OMEWHERE in the United States
~ the writer is not at liberty to
nj state just where or to reveal the
W real name-there is living quiet
iy with his kinsfolk an elderly man.
who is the central figure In the
etrangest story that has been told in
hany long day.
This story. which is now related in
print for the first time, is closely con-
pected with the production of a new
English dictionary edited by Sir James
A. II. Murray. 1t was begun as long
ago as 1887. and is not complete yet,
though Sir James says that. in spite
of the war. which has cut him off en-
firely from his German correspondents,
he hopes to complete the tenth and last
of his volumes-namely. IT to H." some
time in the present year.
-
The project of compiling the diction-
AIRY originated in resolution by the
Pathological Society of Great Britain in
1897, the mover of which was the late
Archbishop Trent. The original plan
was that the Pathological Society should
finance the work. but some years later
the oxford University Press undertook
to do this and TO bring it out Mean
was issued and met with a large re-
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ried out this duty with unnecessary
severity, and the incident evidently
made a deep impression upon the young
surgeon. though 1t did not upset him
unduly: Some time later. however. hav-
ing In the meantime served with great
credit, Blank had a sunstroke. the con-
sequences of which were serious. He
was. in fact, so completely unbalanced
that it was alike impossible to continue
in the army, or, upon quitting it., to
pursue his profession or any course
of study.
His malady took the form of deIu-
sions. one of these being that. because
Of the branding which he had been
expressed it. "a marked man" He
feared, too. attacks upon himself. his
supposedly wouldbe assa ilants being,
In his imagination, always Irish. these
being the times of the Fenian out
breaks.
In the hope of a cure. at his brothers
advice, he entered an institution for the
insane at New Haven, Conn, and re-
mained there year or two (this in
1859, but came out with his delusion as
strong as ever. No one deemed him in
the slightest degree dangerous. how
ever, and he lived in his brothers house
years he practically devoted himself to
drawing and painting. and produced
some extremely fine work.
Eventually, in the autumn Of 1872,
following the advice of his friends, DR..
Blank started on visit to Europe from
which 1t was hoped he would derive
benefit. He Travelled alone. being we'll
supplied with money and carrying ex-
ceptional letters of introduction, one of
these. as has been said. being addressed
to John Ruskin. the famous art critic
and author of Sesame and Lilies" In
this letter, its author. a Yale professor.
explained to Ruskin that the doctor
hoped to regain complete possession Of
his health. and that he desired to make
sketches and paintings of the beautiful
scenery of England.
Arrived in London, DR.. Blank took
lodgings in Lambeth, his address there
oughfare off the York road in this dis
trtct. which is, Of course, close to the
Thames embankment,s. At, the Ameri-
cans subsequent triaf Tor murder his
landlady testified that for month or
two after his arrival namely. in Decem-
Der and January, his behavior was quite
normal. Then. however, he suddenly be-
gan sleeping out, returning in an unset
tied condition of mind.
Shortly afterward. it seems the doc
tor presented himself at the local police
station and there made wild and inco-
herent complaints of persecution from
the Irish, who, he said, had prosecuted
him in America and continued to do so
here. He also wrote a letter to the po-
lice. in which he said: my life may be
taken any night. I trust your agents
are not to be bought over, as the Amer
lean ones are"
The police authorities recognized that
the doctor was mentally deranged. but
did not believe him dangerous. 1t was
thought well. however, to communi-
cate with his friends in America, and
this was done; done too late. as it
proved. For the next act was tragic
one In the Be1vedere road. Lambeth,
cla Ia II,axaszerfnx1l hridsra fa5ar
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IMPORTANT changes may be taking
place in the navies of Great Britain
q and Germany. What Is being done
behind the screen which hides Ger
many's high seas fleet. and what behind
that which hides Great Britain's mighty
battle fleet is a matter of conjecture. 1t
is reasonable to suppose that important
additions have been made to those fleets
since they retired from the view of the
outside world. 1t is probable that the
British navy has received the greater and
heavier additions. yet because of the
highly centralized and unquestionabls ef-
ficient shipbuilding plants in Germany it
may be that greater strength has been
added to the German than to the British
navy. This would seem scarcely likely,
though, for tha reason that British ship
building plants have greater facilities
and have capacity for a larger output
than the German plants, and because
the German admiralty places its faith
more and more on the undersea boat
and bends its shipbuilding energies in
that direction.
When the war came on there were in
the German navy, according to the best
information available, twenty modern
battleships. eight cruiser battleships.
twenty older battleships. nine first
class cruisers. six second-class cruisers,
thirtyseven third -class cruisers, six
gunboats. 152 destroyers. forty-seven
torpedo boats and thirty-nine subma-
rines.
The largest of the dreadnaught type
was the Schleswig Holstein. 13.2O0 tons.
There were at least ten of these ves-
sells. The largest Of the dreadnaughts
was the Frederick der Crosse type
24,500 tons. There were ten Of this
type. The largest battleship was
4.15O tons, the Odin type, and there
were two of these. The biggest of the
armored cruisers was $4,000 tons. The
largest of the protected cruisers was
the Strassburg type. $500 tons.
X
Germany has undoubtedly added to
her navy the Kronprinz, which was
laid down at Kiel in the middle of 1912.
while the battle cruisers Luitzow.
launched at Dantzic near the end of
1918, and the Ersatx Hertha, laid down
in the same year. will certainly have
joined the waiting battle cruiser squad
ron by this time. Without doubt
formidable number of submarines larger
and of longer cruising radius than
those in commission at the beginning
Of the war have been added to the
German navy. There must have been
and still is tremendous activity in the
building of these craft since their
practica bility has been SO signally
demonstrated, and also in the effort to
keep pace with Great Britain's heavy
submarine building program.
The most formidable Of the German
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At his lodgings, besides a number of
letters of introduction. including the
one to John Ruskin. already mentioned.
were found a quantity of beautifully
executed paintings of London and the
surrounding district.
The affair made a great sensation.
The promiscuous carrying and frequent
use of firearms by Americans travel
ing in England had become more or
less of a scandal, and the attitude OF
the London press toward DR.. Blank
was frankly hostile. The more so as
the murdered man proved to be the
father of seven children, whose wife,
moreover. was again about to become
a mother.
Dr. Blank was tried at the spring
assizes in the following April. the trial
having been postponed to permit his
wife, his brother and other witnesses
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The additions to the British feet of
those ships building at the beginning
of the war are considerably greater
than additions to the German fleet.
Work has no doubt been rushed on all
warships ordered by the British gov
ernment before the outbreak of the
war, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that others have been ordered and
laid down since the war began and that
rush work is going forward on those
ships.
What changes have been made in big
ship construction in the light of lessons
of the war is another matter of conjec-
ture. but that important changes have
been made would seem to be reasonable
Because of lessons taught by the war
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n NE of the features of the war is
II the use of weapons and of means
Of defense which it was believed

~ NE of the features of the war is
II u the use of weapons and of means
W Of defense which it was believed
had been discarded. Many of the most
intellectual military experts were SO
sure that close-in fighting was thing
of the past that they looked on the
bayonet as an antique
The memory of the hand grenade, an
explosive shell thrown by hand, was
preserved in the designation of certain
regiments. yet IT was only remarkably
shrewd, far-seeing and we'll informed
soldiers who believed that the hand
grenade would return to the battle
field. The grehAde used in the seige
warfare in western Europe and in the
more open fighting in the eastern the
ater is an improvement on the grenade
which was used one and two centuries
ago. but 1t is still hand grenade. The
soldier of the olden time would light
the fuse of the grenade before throw
ing it and there was guesswork and
irregularity in the burning of the fuse
The grenade of the present explodes
by percussion.
The long range riHed cannon was
faithfully believed to have forever sup
planted the shortyange smooth-bo
gun. and yet the armies are using a
little mortar, which they call trench
mortar. 1t fires a bomb. not for any
considerable distance. but with 1t the
vertical fall of a shell may be obtained.
A year ago. short guns of this kind
would have been interesting to a SOL
dier Of antiquarian tastes, but not to
the smart and up-to-the-m minute soldier.
He would have told you that the place
for such weapon was a museum and
not a modern army. In one of the Eng
lish reports it was said that THE Brit
ed by the loan Of some French trench
mortars, which, dropping bombs con-
tanning thirty to seventy pounds of
melinite vertically into the enemy's
trenches. were used with deadly
effect
A correspondent of the London Mail
has written of the English troops:
Already we are using old mortars,
fat, stumpy little weapons, which can
throw a heavy charge of explosive
with certainty for half mile and drop
half hundredweight of melinite in
the enemys trenches. Our men. too.
are becoming experts in the use OF
hand grenades. They are real grena :
diers again. as we'll as bombardlers
II the trenches are near enough. gren-
AIDES are pitched from one trench to the
other. Cases actually have occurred in
which British soldiers have picked up
German grenades and thrown them
back into the German trenches.
Not long after the war opened there
were reports Of the use OF arrows. NOT
by bowmen but by airmen. The arrows
or darts were dropDed from aeroDlaneR,
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twenty dreadnaughts and fifteen battle
cruisers
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