The newspapers are extremely angry with the Russian authorities for the punishment which has been administered in connexion with certain cases of high treason. A case to which special attention been given is that of Colonel von UN
Stern, an officer of German origin, who established "system signalling on his state Reval for the purpose of communicating naval and military information io German cruisers in the Baltic, the information given in this way 'ncluding details as to the position of mines laid at wa. A. special telephone service was worked {ri conjunction with the coast code signal station. "After the case had' been investigated, the' Colonel was sentenced to imprisonment for ife.
There is an interesting ' paragraph about' another new Germait gun, The chief feature of the Intest' weapon' is that it is hoise. less, the sound of its discharge being inaudible beyond a range of forty yards.
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