ADVENTUROUS CAREER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 May 1925, Page 5

ADVENTUROUS CAREER.

SAILOR AND INVENTOR, 2Y CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, May 20. The remarkable career of Gliailes Alfred Gardiner was described at his trial on a charge, inter alia, of obtaining a cheque for £200,000 by false pretences from the Gardiner 'Shipbuilding and Engineering Company after he had retired. . ... , ~ _ A rear-admiral testified .as to bardiner’s courage and integrity and the fact that he had commanded a mystery ship in wartime. / . Gardiner went into the witness-box. He said he went to Paris at the invitation of Abdul Krim, to try to arrange neace between, the Rifts and the Spaniards, and lie afterwards made several trips to Morocco. He. laid all the mines at Port Arthur dunug the Russo-Japanese war. He commanded a Chilia n warship during the Chilian revolution, and made the plans for blocking Zeebrugge and Os tend harbours. He invented non-cuttable submarine nets and the locking system for mines and antisubmarine weapons. He was wounded nine times. The jury interrupted the crossexamination by saying that they had heard enough, and they brought in a verdict of not guilty. Gardiner was discharged.