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  3. NAMED AFTER HIS MAJESTY.

    The King George V. was successfully launched at Portsmouth by Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. Her length is 560ft; her beam, 89ft; and ber displacement 24,000 tons. Her turbines will develop 31,000 h.p. Her armament will be like that of the Orion-ten 13.5in. guns, twenty 4in. guns, and three 2lin. torpedo-tubes. Great Britain has now thirty-two Dreadnoughts completed, launched, or projected (fifteen of the first class, seven of the second, ten projected) Germany 21 (nine of the first, four of the second, and eight of the third); the United States, 12; Russia 7; France, Italy, and Austria, 4 each: and Japan, 7. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 117 words
  4. FIENDLIKE IN APPEARANCE, FRIENDLY IN ACTION.

    A New York fireman has invented this smoke." helmet," which is described as follows: " To a brass collar, which slips over the nozzle of a hose and projects ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 115 words
  5. CARRYING THE SICK BY RAIL.

    The Swiss Federal Raillways have recently added to their rolling slock several hospital cars, which are intended for the conveyance of sick and invalid travellers, and Whose equipment represents the most modem development in this direction. The cars are placed at the service of private parties, and being intended especially ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 147 words
  6. ANOTHER MAN-WOMAN.

    A stir was created among the large crowd of pleasure-seekers at the Spit;, recently, when a woman dressed as a man calmly walked through their midst and ...

    Article : 374 words
  7. HOLDER OF 9,000,000 GALLONS.

    We are accustomed, in dealing with the statistics of the world’s water-supply, to large figures. So perfect is the supply in England that it is very difficult for the ordinary man to realise what a season of drought may mean to other peoples. To India, for example, the storage of water is obviously a problem ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 102 words
  8. THE DAM-BURST WHICH DESTROYED TWO TOWNS AND DID OVER £1.000.000 DAMAGE.

    On the afternoon of the 30th September a new dam at Austin, Pennsylvania, burst without warning, releasing 500,000,000 gallons or water, which raged forward in an avalanche two hundred yards wide, wrecking the towns of Austin and Costello, causing considerable loss of life, and doing damage estimated at £1,000,000. The dam was 50ft. high. A number of people in Austin were saved by a telephone message, sent by some who witnessed the bursting of the dam, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 169 words
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