Testing Torpedoes At Portsmouth

Dondon, Fob. 17.- Experiments were made at Portsmouth yesterday with the Sims-Edison eJectric torpedo. The :ests of the naval weapon were made m the preaence of Major J. C. Post, the military attaché of the American leg-ation in this city: Capt. Einary and a mmber of other foreign attaches; Lieuts. Toppan of the United States navy and nuraerous Engüsh and ofcher European offieers. The experimenta veré gr.itifying and proved that the orpedocould be worked suocessfully vlun launched from a vessel in motio'n with a range of one mile and a quavter nd a speed of nineteeu knots an hour. The torpedo shown yesterday as four ears old. Mr. Sims, who personally onducted the trials, claimed that ata eeent test of the torpedo a speed of twenty-one knots for over two miles was attained.