... THE NEW AUTOMATIC GUN As Tried at Perivale A demonstration of the Rexer automatic machine gun which has been adopted by the Danish Army and Navy was given last week at a shooting ground near Perivale. The power for working the mechanism is obtained from the recoil, which drives the barrel with the breech and other moving parts some 2 in. back wards, thus compressing a strong recoil spring ...

... The festival banquet of the Great Northern Central Hospital is to be held under the chairmanship of the Duke of Connaught at the Savoy Hotel on May 1 7, its purpose being to raise 1 0,000 to meet many im provements and additions. The hospital has 162 beds and yearly relieves over 2,000 in-patients and 30,000 out-patients. 'TNie newest camera is styled the No. 4 Screen Focus Kodak, its special ...

... THE DISASTROUS EXPLOSION ON THE SUBMARINE A 5. Tfrae Loss of dlhe Beautiful Fceiaclhi Ciruiiser,, Sully. The perfecting of the submarine is not to be achieved without loss, it is less than a year ago since the disaster overtook the A I, and on Thursday last week a terrible explosion occurred on board the A 5. The submarine, which had arrived in Cork Harbour on the previous Tuesday with ...

... OF INTEREST TO SFORTSMEN The Slaughtered Bittern Ambush II. fell dead at the Curragh on Saturday. He was eleven years old and was by Ben Battle-- Miss Plant. The King bought him for £500 in 1898. His great feat was winning the Grand National in 1900. Ambush II. was to have appeared in the Grand National this year. The horse was credited in the newspapers with a biography longer than is ...

... T ady Lawson writes from Bombay I had the pleasure of being one of the many hundreds of invited guests assembled to witness the arrival of Lord Curzon of Kedleston on his return to India after seven months absence to resume the viceroyalty. The scene in the shamiana (tent) where the guests were seated was a brilliant and picturesque one, in cluding as it did scores of military officials in ...

... THE RELENTLESS ADVANCE ON PORT ARTHUR Aim Early >Uag| isn ftlhi Afctacflio This picture was taken at a spot looking south to the sea, from the Middle Hill at Nanshan, where Prince Fushimi gallantly led the first division of the Japanese army last May. In the foreground are Russian earthworks with protecting sandbags beyond is a Russian magazine. The Russians had erected every sort of defence, ...

... THE IRON INDUSTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN Tlhi Girsift Irim WrM.s aft Garroirao Four Great Blast Furnaces at Carrorv Works, Stirlingshire The blast furnaces are each 61.J ft. high and ate outwardly huge cylinders of iron plates. These conceal the firebrick lining within them. At the top can be seen the gallery from which the charges are fed into the mouth of the furnace, which is no longer open as ...

... A Box of Matches. By Hamblen Sears. CHAPTER XXIV. When finally the announcement of his engagement to an American girl reached England Ackton was in hot water in earnest. First her ladyship wrote him a series of letters telling him what ruin he had brought on the family and bidding him come home at once. Ackton stayed calmly in Naugatuck and New York, and replied politely and with great pains ...

... MAKING A CART ROAD IN THE HIMALAYAS Is&dians wlh> Flay ftlh. R ...

... HOW ENGLAND CARRIES HER SPORTS With her to the Ends, of the Earth Ootacamund, the summer headquarters of the Governor of Madras, is situated 011 the Nilgiri Hills in the Madras Presidency. The members of the Ootacamund Hunt can gallop for miles over glorious downs at a height of 7,220 ft. above sea-level with the pure moorland air blowing round them and the Nilgiris, or blue mountains, in the ...

... THE ENGLISH SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEINS Prince Christian as a Sportsman TJrince Frederick Christian Charles Augustus of Schleswig-Holstein he bears all these names but is known only by his second is hale and hearty, yet he recently celebrated his seventy-fourth birthday. Although since his marriage nearly forty years ago he has become English in every sense except that of birth, his son, Albert, has ...

... SOME ENGINEERING ENTERPRISES Stockholm and Simon's Town 'T* he forthcoming marriage of the Duke of Connaught's daughter with a Swedish prince makes Sweden far more interesting to English people than ever it has been before. Indeed, Stockholm has a great deal to teach London, notably in the way of all sorts of clever mechanical devices. It is particularly well ecptipped in the matter of ...