A HUMAN SACRIFICE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13822, 1 May 1919, Page 3

A HUMAN SACRIFICE.

"He walked with a slight stoopof thes boulders, the result of ong hours spent over the chess board, a game at which he was an expert." So writes T. Topping, former private secretary to Brand Whitlock, American Minister to Belgiom, in tho July number of the Red Cross Magazine, in his description of Louis Brill, who shot to death the un- . named renegade -who betrayed the En<j- \ lish nurse, Edith Cavell, to tho German invaders of his country. The carrying ou tot* this manoeuvre included a .sacrifice, and that sacrifice was the chess player Brill's own life—a feature of the' combination that doubtless was foreseen and accepted as necessary.

A set of chessmen, each ot the size or a man, made of paper macho, has been invented by C. More of Milwaukee, Wis., by means of which ho proposes to popularise the a rune of chess by making it. possible to'exhibit a great international match to large assemblies of people a.s the score comes move by move over the telegraph wires. The board on which the ".aim- is reproduced consists of .1 linoleum carpet painted in large black and white squares, to be easily seen by the audience. This device "resembles a game of living chess, in which men and women representing the pieces take part. Whether the inventor can realise the fultilment of his ambition to popularise chess is questionable. There is no'doubt, however, that by this method greater interest will be taken in the match games.