Scarcity of wild ducks and wild geese has brought expert. ornithologists from five countries into action, and a sub-committee of the Presorvation of Wild Birds recently Mary Committee for the concluded a two-day conference in Brussels, reports the "News Chronide."
For a "time" shell to be really effective it had to burst at the right distance and height and so produce a sufficiently dense cone of destruc-live particles. Otherwise it was better to burst the shell on impact so as to produce a powerful, although local, effect:
Now the Army, to a great extent. has reverted to armour and there are fewer targets for shrapnel.
Artillery experts have advocated the change for years, "You were little more than a wild beast on the road. The public must be protected from people of your sort who drive motors in such a reckless manner."
Mr. Justice Charles thus addressed John Lindsay Parkinson, aged 32, a civil engineer, of Burgh-lane, Chorley, Lancashire, a son of the late Sir Lindsay Parkinson, who was found guilty at Liverpool Assizes of dan-driving, but not guilty of the laughter of Margaret Traynor, aged 20, of Burns Street, Bootle.
He said that the jury had taken an extraordinarily merciful view for some reason best known to themselves, as it was one of the worst cases he could conceive, and the jury were very well entitled to find Parkinson guilty of manslaughter.
Parkinson was sentenced to 12 months in the second division and disqualified for 15 years, Miss Traynor was a member of a coach party travelling from Liverpool in Rainford on Easter Saturday. The coach stopped at Knowsley for passengers to "stretch their leg: it was alleged that Parkinson's car came "like an express train" and killed the girl while she was walking arm-in-arm with another young woman across the road, Parkinson's uncle, Mr. William Parkinson, chairman' of Sir Lindsay Parkinson, Ltd., said that the accused man was employed Bt the new munitions factory at Chorley and would shortly! have about 2,000 men bunder him. It was hoped that he would take over the position held by his father,
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