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Otago Witness, Issue 3250, 28 June 1916, Page 46

—An entirely now type of gun, which army officers believe may revolutionise artillery warfare, will bo given a second trial at Fort Hancock soon, following two remarkable demonstrations of its power at Fort Hamilton and Sandy Hook. The now weapon, in the perfection of which a woman, Mrs Kat-herino M. Stanton, of Whitest-one, L. 1., aided, operates upon the fundamental principle of centrifugal force, without powder, therefore being both noiseless and smokeless. Although it can bo packed in a 3ft box. and eaa be operated from any sort of base, from an automobile to a Dreadnought, it will throw projectiles of different sizes six to seven miles,_ according to officer* who saw the first trials. The gun can be manufactured at one-tenth the cost of big gun* using powder, and its operation is said to be so simple that trained men are not needed to work it. '—At a Westminster inquest recently on Huv iliirton Tlnrdy, 24, mechanical engineer, of ' Vdclaide, who w.-.s found shot at the Piccadilly Hotel, London, a verdict of "Suicide during temporary insaniiy" was returned. Ho we.s anxious to take part in the war. but nothing v -' is- found for him to do, and be had a grievance regarding the War Office, lie bad suffered greatly from insomnia OS