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SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1938.
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British Camera Spies
Working For Foreigners
In Warplane
By VICTOR BURNÉTT
Factories
Following a warning that young Englishmen in the pay of foreign agents have been visiting aircraft works and taking photographs, the Air Ministry have placed a ban on the carrying of cameras by visitors to factories making war 'planes for the Government.
It is now known that there has been a serious outbreak of attempted es pionage in several factories.
Many people consider that the plans which disappeared from the Parnall factory and were never re- covered found their Why into
the hands of foreign agents.
A few weeks ago representatives of a certain foreign embassy in Lon- den found that they could not enter military aircraft factories. An 12- official ban had been placed on them. TWO CAUGHT
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Shortly afterwards a notice circulated to aircraft manufacturers saying that extra care would have to be taken about visitors.
In this notice it was disclosed that the agents of the embassy, finding that they could not enter factories themselves, were paying young Eng- lishmen to visit factories for them.)
Many of these men had been supplied with miniature cameras,
Two men were caught in a factory recently. Both of them had cameras. As the man in charge of the hangar had then received no notice of Ministry warning he let them go.
Then, last week, a new rule was mude.
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It states that nobody shall be allowed to vidt a factory without a written Alr Ministry pass.
Application for this pass must be made at least a fortnight before the proposed visit, and full reasons must be given.
now
The majority of the Government contracting factories have strengthened their private police and watch forces.
'Iron Lung' War On Asthma
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Dr. C. T. Wang Decorated
UFS
Order of Polonia Restituta, highest honour of the Polish Government, was presented in Washington to Dr. Chenting T. Wang, right, Chinese Ambassador to the United States, by Count Jerzy Potocki, the Polish Ambassador. Honour was for Wang's services in international friendship.
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Governors Get Bibles
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Springfield, Mo.
In consultation with the inventor. whose identity is being kept a close secret, French trelnicians have for some time past been subjecting 10 the severcat tests an invention that A women's church club here has may revolutionise warfare.
Gent Bibles to governors of the 48 NEW treatment for asthma.
One of the most fantastic dreams states and asked that they be rend one of the most common of Jules Verne, the flying submarine,
dally in the state penllentiaries. diseases in the world, is being is on the verge of becoming real, and | tried by a famous London hosin--a form-far more ambitious than
pital.
anything Verne imagined, for the new craft will be able to operate on It may spell the doom of the the surface of the sea, below It and disease.
In the air.
An iron lung" for asthma ed in part of a French dockyard, Large-scale models are being test- patients has been installed at from which all unauthorised per- Guy's Hospital.
sons are kept out, by some of the The patient is put into the "aller-cleverest technicians of the French gen free room," as it is known, for Government.
Į several hours,
IN SEALED CHAMBER
It is on hermetically scaled cham- ber. Whatever weather conditions outside may be a uniform circulation
of air is maintained.
The design for the craft was sub- mitted to the French Government over a year ago by a young man, himself at the disposal of the Gov- who was afterwards asked to place ernment.
The air is heated and moisture Failure was the first result, but automatically added by special heat-persistence has at last brought suc- ing clements and a unique type of cess. humidifier.
Plans have been approved and
I is cleaned by means of ale orders are now being placed for the conditioning.
construction of six of the new machines to be used for training pur-
After treatment in the allergen free room patients will
be kept poses. under speelal observation and trent- ed to laboratory tests.
It is claimed that the new machine wll be invaluable as a substitute for submarines operating in distant waters.
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A sensation was caused here re- cently when it became known that under the water. Paramount Pictures had given notice cancelling the contracts whereby they have sold throughout the world films starring Mae West and Bing Crosby.
Krupps Profits Up
Berlin.
These have been made by Emanuel; Cohen, president of Major Pictures The Krupp works at Essen-the Studios, for Foramount to sell to "Armsmithy of the Reich"--had an cinemas, and the notice means that no exceptionally busy time lust year. more Mae West or Bing Crosby films The annual report shows: will be produced for the time being. Major Studios-formerly Vitagraph Studios, where
Wamer Brothers do- veloped talking pictures have been closed and the staff of 75 dismissed.
Mr. Cohen threatens a sult for damages, claiming that his agreement has 18 months to run, and alleging lack of co-operation in carrying out
Gross revenue increased by 11 per cent, to £28,350,000.
Profits amounted to £1,400,000. compared with £1,100,000 the previous year.
The dividend raised from 4 to 5 per cent.
Profits of the Krupp shipyard at
the agreement to produce 16 filma a Kiel were £17,000, compared with
| year at a cost of up to £150,000 each, £20,000 last year, —Reuter;
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