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Mohammed said: "Every painter is in Hell Fire, and Allah will appoint a person at the day of Resurrection to punish him for every picture he shall have drawn, and he shall be punished in Hell. So, if ye must make pictures, make them of trees and things without souls." The reader will recognise the Hadj's reference to bicycles, cameras, motor-cars, and other mechanical toys. Melinite shells.
Perhaps it was melinite that he employed for the massacre of the innocents of New Guinea, not dynamite." "No; it was dynamite. But the natives had stolen it from his steam launch and they exploded it themselves." Mr. Ayrton lay back in his chair convulsed with laughter. "And that is the true story of the dynamite massacre?" he cried.
We are inclined to believe, however, that the Boer losses from artillery fire have been greater than ours, partly because their shots have been widely distributed in a speculative way with no particular object in view, while ours have been aimed directly at the enemy's batteries, or at sangars, to which their gun-crews retire between the rounds; and partly, if not mainly, because our naval guns fire common shell with bursting charges of black powder, the effect of which though not so violent locally as that of the Boer shells, charged with melinite explosive is spread over a much wider area.
No! the engines, after the manner of Artillery Captain Chapel's discoid projectile, return towards the doomed vessel like an Australian boomerang. The next instant the air is shaken with a violence comparable to that which would be caused by the explosion of a magazine of melinite or dynamite, Back Cup Island trembles to its very foundations. The cruiser has disappeared, blown to pieces.
After nearly sixty hours of almost continuous fighting, during which the fortifications had been wrecked by the war-balloons, the German ammunition-trains burnt and blown up by the fire-shells rained from the air, and the heroic defenders of the city disorganised by the aërial bombardment of melinite shells and cyanogen poison-bombs, and crushed by an overwhelming force of not less than four million assailants.
Cellars may give protection from fire or melinite; but they are worse than death traps against the heavy fumes of poisonous gas. So the murderous order was given, and faithfully the boche gunners carried it out. There were no gas masks for the civilians and no chemicals that might permit them to save lives. Many succumbed." The final act at sea was almost concurrent with this tragedy.
People rushed up to see what damage it had done, but they only found two little dead birds one with a tiny hole in her breast, the other with an eye knocked out. Ninety-six pounds of iron, brass, and melinite, hurled four miles through the air, at unknown cost, just to deal a true-lovers' death to two sparrows, five of which are sold for one farthing! Sunday, January 21, 1900.
To your world and to yourself you are every bit as good as dead except that dead men have no time to fill in. I know now how a monk without a vocation feels. I know how a fly in a beer-bottle feels. I know how it tastes, too. And with it all there is the melinite and the shrapnel. To be sure they give us the only pin-prick of interest to be had in Ladysmith.
One horse standing there seems to be badly wounded, but curiously enough hardly shows any signs of terror, though the explosion close to him must have sounded terrific, and he was half blinded by dust mingled with fumes of melinite.
Topham, the under-secretary, shook his head gravely, and said in his most dignified manner, that he thought the reported occurrence the melinite incident quite improbable. He was going on to explain that the composition of the explosive differed so materially from that of the food that it would be almost impossible for any mother to take the one for the other, when our hostess rose." "Mr.
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