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THE CHI A MAIL, JUNE 13, 1989.
BRAIN TRUST CAN END MENACE FROM THE AIR
750 PLANE OUTPUT IN BRITAIN
A
"We Can Drive Bomber SALVAGE OF From The Skies,
Scientists Claim
Immediate use of the best brains in England to devise new methods of defeating bombers, is AIR.now being demanded in scientific circles. ⠀
LONDON, TO-DAY.
TOTAL OF 750
PLANES PER MONTH IS
WHAT THE “DAILY TELE-
THETIS THIS MONTH
LONDON, TO-DAY. REPLYING TO A QUESTION
OF COMMONS... YESTERDAY,
TIONED THAT
SALVAGE RECOM-
Lt.-Comm. R.T.H. Fletcher (Lab-
Professor J. D. Bernal, who has just been ON THE THETIS IN THE HOUSE appointed a member of Sir John Anderson's "brain THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. GRAPH” BELIEVES TO BE nation on A.R.P., made the sensational claim that OPERATIONS WOULD
trust" of eight eminent scientists, to advise the NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, MEN-
THE OUTPUT OF THE BRI- a sum of £250,000 spent on fundamental research MENCE IN TWO OR THREE TISH AIRPLANE INDUSTRY could get rid of the air menace within two years. WEEKS. AT PRESENT. IT IS HOPED For complete safety, he envisaged first a sys- our), amidst Opposition cheers, THAT BY SEPTEMBER THE tem of deep air-raid shelters, then two years asked the Premier whether he was intensive investigation which would end by driving aware that public opinion expected the bomber from the skies, by developing aerial the vessel to be raised, and if
realised the extremely bad feeling "mines," improving the balloon barrage, and de- which would exist if there was any vising new high precision instruments of ground failure in view of the success defence.
MONTHLY OUTPUT WOULD
HAVE REACHED
1,000.
PLANES.
Comparing in the light of these production figures the strength of the R.A.F. with the strength in the air of the Totalitarian States and of Germany in particular, the correspondent declares that the Anglo-French armament programme would not secure the western powers' parity in the air.
IMPERIAL'S PLANE SINKS
This branch of research, says "Discovery," the scientific periodi- cal published by the Cambridge University Press, is not being treat- ed seriously enough.
"These are not normal times," the journal declares. "The problem
LONDON, TO-DAY. is urgent: there is an imperative IMPERIAL AIRWAYS FLYING-need for organisation, a sum of BOAT VENTURION IS REPORT- money negligible ED TO HAVE SUNK
as military ex- IN THE penditure goes (say, £100,000 or HOOGLI RIVER, EIGHT MILES £200,000) and a faith that the pro- FROM CALCUTTA, YESTERDAY. blem can be solved."
The flyingboat had alighted the water and was about to be towed
on
Collaboration in their, which to all probability the German and Italian high command had agreed upon and had been planning at- ready, in detail as well as the superior organisation of the air-into harbour when the accident forces and the requisite indus-occurred. tries of the two countries, secur-
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raising the German warships Scapa Flow.
THREE ASSESSORS
he
in
at
Mr. Chamberlain declared the Government also expected the ves- sel to be raised.
an-
Subsequently the Premier nounced that the three assessors ap- pointed to assist Mr. Justice Buck- nill at the enquiry would be Captain
Menzies George Cunningham
(a submarine officer), Captain Archi- bald Hamilton Ryley (one of the Elder Brethren of Trinity House) NOT WORTH THE CANDLE
Thomas and Professor
Bertrand Dr. C. P. Snow, editor of the jour- Abell (Professor of Naval Architec- nal, reveals that Lord Rutherford, ture at the University of Liverpool). "the greatest and most realistic of Four passengers and the crew of English physicists", had no doubt that the air raid menace could be EPPING CRASH
ended, and in quite a short time. Meanwhile, another air accident
"About a year before his death in Since Britain and France alone is reported from Thornwood, near 1937," writes Dr. Snow, "he said are unable to compete with Ger- Epping Forest, where a plane is that within a few years. it should many and Italy, the correspon- said to have crashed into an R.A..be possible to bring down such an dent demands the closest co-oper-munitions depot, ation with the air forces of Rus- sia and Poland. · Trans-Ocean.
ed a dominant position for the five were rescued. axis powers.
"THE KING AND
:
QUEEN BELONG
TO US"
Sherbrooke, Quebec Province, To-day.
An explosion occurred, but the extent of the damage is not known. The pilot was seriously injured. Trans-Ocean.
immense proportion of attacking aeroplanes as to make air warfare not worth the candle.
"This view is shared by many of the best and most inventive minds in England to-day. Somehow, by air mines or in some other fashion,
-Reuter.
AMERICAN LADY INJURED IN CHENGTU RAID
Chungking, To-day.
An American, Mrs. Liljestrand,
ROOSEVELT'S 'GOOD aeroplanes can be stopped. It needs wife of a medical professor, was
LUCK' TO HIS ¡MAJESTY
"Good luck to you.
the organisation of a team of our
best scientists, and a tenth of the injured by flying glass; eight Chin- cost of a single submarine. If it ese were killed; and many were were done, it would at last let injured, in the bombing of the science get back to its proper work."
West China Union University near
BRAINS TRUST
:
'a
New York, To-day.
All the luck! The appointment of the A.R.P.Chengtu by Japanese aircraft, ac- "brains trust" was the result of cording to telephone messages the "New public pressure.
Pre- Whether the creation of such from foreign sources there.
"brainą trust" remains an empty The university itself is report- gesture, or whether it will actually led to have been hit by six bombs, be used by Sir John Anderson, de- two of which did not explode. The President's eldest son, James pends in the opinion of scientists, The raiders had previously set Roosevelt, is reported to have on whether public demand for pro-fire to buildings in the city. wished Their Majesties "a pleasant tection remains at a pressure high The casualties are estimated at voyage and no icebergs."—Reuter. enough to enforce action:
1500.
in the world." When the Royal Train crossed These, according to the Canadian border, Their Majes-York Herald-Tribune,” were
sident Roosevelt's last words to the ties the King and Queen were King as they shook hands at the greeted both by a welcome drop station last night. in temperature and by a dense crowd of 100,000 people who gathered to prove that they were once again among their own people.
A resident of Sherbrooke ex- plained-
"The Americans are a fine peo- ple, and gave Their Majesties à fine reception, but the King and Queen belong to us!"
A procession at Riviere du Loup last night was Quebec Province's final farewell to Their Majesties, and small towns whose normal population is 8,000 were swollen five times for the occasion. Reuter.
SMOKE
Genuine C. Ingenohl's
Reuter.
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