THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 12, 1939
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A home-made petrol pump in the shape of a lighthouse with a lady attendant to serve the petrol is a novelty which greets motorists at Latestone, near Bridgend, Glam.
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"POISION THE SEA" PLAN TO PROTECT BRITISH SHIPS
Meet the man who wants to poison the sea! He is Dr. W. R. G. Atkins, an official of the Marine Biological Station at Plymouth, who sponsors a scheme to combat marine growths on the hulls of ships.
SUCH GROWTH AFFECT THE SPEED AND THE LENGTH OF LIFE OF ALL SEA-GOING CRAFT, FROM GIANT LINERS TO SMALL COASTERS AND EVEN MOTOR-BOATS.
Dr. Atkins thinks that attack is steel and the damage done entirely is better than defence in dealing differs. with marine growths and that it is advisable to supplement the action
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DUTCH AUTHORITIES.
are in- of protective methods on the hulls of vestigating three reported cases of ships by dealing with marine life German military aeroplanes flying in the waters in which ships are about Dutch military positions dur- anchored.
ing the past few days.
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Although he knows it is not possible FOOD VALUES in relation to to decontaminate rivers, he sees no war are expected to form a feature reason whatever why docks and of the B.M.A. National Nutrition dock basins should not be injected Conference in London. with poison.
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