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By Ernie Bushmiller St. Francis Hotel
Amazing Instruments Are Almost Human
NOV-1
BRITAIN BEATS NAZIS IN SCIENTIFIC WAR
By IAN MACKAY
RANGETOWN.
FOR the past two days our little party of British and Dominion journalists have been whirled from one great arsenal to another in the incessant clamour of anvils and electric hammers.
Our car drums have been shaken by the roar of great
lene flares; our flesh parboiled by the outrageous heat of furnaces.
To-day, after vur sojourn in those infernos, we emerged into the blessed peace and sunlight of a scientific heaven.
NAZI BOAST FAILS
Planes Not As Fast As They Claimed
THE airplanes are warming up. Air raid alarms and alr recap- the naissances have spread to hitherto strangely undisturbed area, the British sector of the Maginot Line.
But the best bombing weather already has gone. For eight weeks the Nazi pilots have en- joyed the iden! "six-tenths" conditions which are the dream of bombers.
Six-
I should explain that the "tenths" are units of the sky space. tenths of this area have Julely been cloud. This cloud is the bombers' friend. They can approach behind t emerge from it, and retire into it like Ja trench raiding party popping out of
felt bomb-proof shelter.
Now these conditions have changed.
GHT
GERMANY
No Tea, No No Coffee, No Smiles
For to-day, we visited the in- spectors who test the scientifle I HAVE just returned from a instruments without
through which trip
Germany-the modern warfare, would be a most bewildering and depress- feckless affair.
ing journey I have ever made.
We looked, in short, over a great As a neutral I had no diffieud- optical instrument factory which is ty in obtaining a visa to enter working top-speed, fashioning the
Germany. eyes of the Ficet, the Air Force and | the Army.
Kinothcodolytes
It would be idle mockery for me to pretend that I understood one. hundredth part of the things I saw.
Neutral newroapers I had with me were confiscated at a railway station
ear the frontier.
I was handed my traveller's ration cards containing vouchers for about
But you will not wonder at that 2ib, of bread, 215. of meat, and Boz. when I tell you that many of the of fats and butter. Lillled workers who produce them,
or the highly-trained soldiers, sallors Troops Go Home
who use them, know and alrmen
these astonishing AT Freiburg, the first station Im- very little about instruments.
mediately behind the Siegfried Line, Among the many marvels which the train was invaded by hundreds of we saw, but failed to understand, troops in full war kit. were:
the
Five East Prusslans entered my compartment on their way home for But their one fortnight's leave. idea seemed to be to get some steep.
I was told that more trains were troop following and noticed that trains going in the opposite direction were quite as numerous.
Predictors which tell you in advance where on acroplane i going to be, thus enabling the shell and the acroplane to arrive at the samo place at the same time;
Kinetheadolytes, which film the passing planca and never let them out of sight.
But it seemed to me that while Epidia coper, which--throw-on foreign reports stressed the constant FLEET STREET-Earth, gravel or shingle, scrap timber,
Lati enornicus natural-flow of fresh troops, westwards, they coloured photographs of anything might have overlooked the fact that masses of old books, and nieces of old linoleum are the materials The autumn harvest of the bomber
pou place inside them and can de-these were, in the main, reliefs, and used by the Ministry of Home Security in its model types of in. has gone by. Henceforth in winter
tect forged banknotes; he will operate under increasing dis-
{that the eastbound trains were by no door or outdoor shelters which Londoners will presently be able abilities.
Telescopes which look round means empty. to inspect. They have been constructed to Illustrate the leaflet We can congratulate ourselves on recently distributed to householders “Make your home safe now." At 200, King's Road, Chelsen, boards supported on rafters, covered visitors will see the surface "pill-with Hirolum, and earth piled on top. These shelters give protection equal to box" big enough to shelter four that of the Government steel gardep people where the ground has shelter, and the timber for ench costs. only a few shillings. An emergency been excavated to a depth of two covered trench just under 4ft. In depth feet, and 'n low wall built round was built by three men in one day. it of boxes made from planks or short lengths of old floor-boarding filled with earth. The fourth side of thei chellor is the brick
garden wall.
Window Protection
A large room in the house had been chosen to show three types of window
For the German warplanes Bill outnumber ours, though Int speed they are inferior. Recent bombing vielters to our stores with n boasled weed of 250-300 m.p.k. barely achieved 200 m.p.h. At this pace our pursuit planes must, throtile back If they are to keep under their fire the enemy gunner behind the pilot.
Corners;
Gunsights which enable you to Ersatz Coffee see behind your head, and
A comic-looking gadget-which | THE Frankfort hotel at which I should be in every schoolboy's stayed was practically empty, And knapsack-which will work out it was here i Bret sampled the food mathematical 1775 or problem which the Germans now have to eat. instantly.
Coffee was coffee only in name. It The predictors not only record the was brewed from a mixture of acerns, future movements of enemy aircraft, Įbarley, and syntheile coffein." This slowness of the German bom- but actually make allowance for the bers makes it equally hard for their wind. own Ughters to accompany them, protecting them like destroyers pro-
"A Little Knowledge..
Often during my journey I heard German women, normally so proud of (their rich brown coffee, exclaim, "It is not so much the lack of meat and The machine Is worked in clone ether things I mind, but what wouldn't earth roat, and linoleum protects this retion, otse Window Protefighters must held themselves back in co-operation with the anti-aircraft I give for a real cup of coffee!" Thicker planks support the boxed protection, one window protected by ni wet a battleshalp. For the escorting
two feet of old books, a second by order to carry out their convoy dutyun, but the gunners are not en- while our own fighters can fing) ber-covered trench shelter fur Ten bags plied on a table, and a third people, the trench dug four feet deep window was protected by a shingle at top speed.
from rain.
In the same garden is a serup tim- boxes of earth or shingle or of sand- themselves against the whole armade/couraged to know how the predictor
in the earth, ita roof formed of old
Training In Canada
works.
I thing about it."
Tea-This was even worse, Bread.-What it was made of 1
"A little knowledge is very dan-don't know. It certainly contained maitress. Wire netting Was nailed
gerous in a thing like this, my only a small proportion of wheat. officer gilde said, “ond we think it Butter.I received two tiny pats in ncross the window frame inside and out, old linoleum placed inside the The break up of flying weather better they should not know any-exchange for a oz. ratlon voucher
--was passable. netting, and the space between it and favours us in a second sense. the window glass filled with shingle. gives us time to train more pliots. It Then there is a new height-and- Sugar was greyish in colour. I was in, very ikely that the Power with range-finder, which records two ple- given three minute lumps for my ten, The coal vault beneath the pave the most pilots will win this war. Itures of the approaching plane,
Marmalade.—A frugal helping- The man af "the controls turns alwas quite good. NEXT CHANGE ment, with its strong vaulted roof, takes from six to 12 months to train and the escape openings into vaults;
The supreme a pilot.
value of on either side made a very good shel-Canada at the moment is that sho
The Ministry considers that while a room with a small window can provide the training grounds.
KING' Sil
Saved from jail for greater temptation?
THE SENSATION
OF THE HOUR
GIRLS PROBATION
ARE THEY THE MARKED
WOMEN OF TOMORROW?
ter.
and thick outer wall gives good pro-
tection, a basement passage with two
walls as protection on elther side and
two means of exit is still safer.
of more expensive type, was strutted with timber, a task not requiring
skilled labour. A glass window had
KIDNAPPED YOUTH
handle and when the two pletures Nobody Smitor meet the exact height la recorded on In 'chart at the back of the finder.
A Ministry of Supply spokesman WHAT struck me most was the told me our instruments are domplete absence of mirth. Nobody finitely better than Germany's
smiles. The Germans have forgotten "unless they have something we how to smile. They have become know nothing about.
stern and worried,
The basement passage at No. 58, Cheng Chung-Fai Returns
Throughout my stay in Germany I In the inspection department we Abingdon Villas, Earls Court, a house
To Hongkong Unharmed saw a new, wide-eyed type of anti-was haunted by a feeling that the aircraft binoculars which work night civilian and even more so the for- as well as day.
eigner-la un intruder.
Even the Orrmons themselves are Son of wealthy Chinese in Hong-
At the optical works we Baw been painted with a special clear paint kong and brother of Cheng Kwok-lenres, glasses, cine projectors and conscious of this, and only the native a protection against shattering, and yuu, Cheng Chung-fal, 17, who was all sorts of visual instruments being Nazis gem immune from its depress- there was an earth wall protection reported to
ing effect. have been kidnapped turned out by the thousand. for a semi-basement window.
Everywhere there are men in uni- from Hongkong, was traced to Poklo,
forms.
No. 12, Chorlwood Hloud, Wands Walchow district, and rescued in a worth, was a less solidly built semi- Chinese Police raid. ietached house where a small kitchen The boy returned to his parents at
· A Wondor Lons
All cinemas, theatres, concert halls,
The star product here is the new night clubs, and other places of
at the end of a passage find been, 78 Morrison Mill Road on Saturday lens which the RAF is using in the amusement are open, but owing to chosen as the most sultable "safe" and is recovering from the effects of reconnaissance flights over Germany. the shortage of money they are not room and its windows filed up. To his experience. Cheng told bla This has a wida fold of vision well frequented.
*ant deer was protected against blast parents that he had not been mal-which enables the airman to photo-
by a wall of earth.
treated by the kidnappers.
graph in small detail an aera of 40 When the police raided the house square miles from 20,000.
You In Poklo, it is reported, Cheng was
what this appreciate will found with man named Wong wonder lens can do when I say dint
Landmark To Be Museum
DEFENCE BONDS Chu, who allegedly had enticed him 40 square miles is exaelly 40 times
KANSAS CITY THO It can photograph accurately and
origial Cable and Wireless, Limited, are away and who described himself as the area of the City of London. A mechanic of the Fing Kee radio among the large firms assisting their firm of Gloucester Road, Hongkong, it detall everything in the area be- Wyandotte county court-house bulid- sinks to purchase Defence Bonda ond, When arrested Wong were with two tween Highgate and Streatham, and Ing hna been bought by the Women's [Chamber of Commerce here and will National Savings Certideates. At-giris and all three are at present in Poplar and Bayswater.
It consists of five different kinds of be used to house historical museum. rangements have been made by the the custody of the Chinese Police at
Cable and Wireless Company for
glass, and it took two years to work Mrs. Fannie Stagill, president of the Poklo. Staff. throughout the world to have The buy was not. Interviewed, yes- but the mathematics of the thing. chamber, sald the building would be facilities for Inverting in theso new terday as his relatives, said he was If you want one, they will let you restorei, ns, nearly as possible to la
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