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PIERRE Laval, three times Prime Minister of France, was executed as a traitor by a firing squad in Paris today after he had attempted suicide by taking cyanide.

MALCOLM Barrass, the Wanderers' inside-left, has been chosen to play for England against Wales on Saturday. It will be his first appearance in such a big game, and he has been selected on the strength of his remarkable performance last season when he scored 22 goals in 40 games.

THE gentleman whose name is identified with a very valuable mode of producing steel - Mr Henry Bessemer - has written, suggesting a mode of making steam directly applicable for the purposes of warfare, which, if successful, would supersede, to a great extent, the mitrailleuse. He proposes to apply the principle of the steam fire engine to the projection of bullets. He calculates that, with a pressure of 150lbs of steam, 1oz and 2oz bullets might be projected with an initial velocity of 1600 or 1800 feet per second at the rate of 2000 per minute of the smaller, and 1000 per minute of the larger missiles. Mr Bessemer proposes to submit details to the War Office, but he seems confident of the practicability of combining the bullet projector with the traction engine, and of so producing a warlike machine of a most formidable and deadly character.

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