Thursday,
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April 4, 1940.
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was
on the
DEUTSCHLAND
AM one of the very few "foreigners" who have ever been shown over the pride of the Nazi Navy-the
10,000 ton pocket-battleship, Deutschland.
I arrived at the top of the gangway to the accompaniment of the normal ostentatious Teutonic heel-clicking, to be met by my host a typical young Prussian.
The Deutsch-
land's quarter. deck was much the same as mont warships', but somewhat re- stricted in area owing to the pre- sence of two sets of quadruple tor- pedo-tubes on it, and dominated by the three eleven- Inch guns of the after turrat. whose name was Mindenburg (cach gun turret in Ger- man ships has a name of its own). As climbed
the ladder from the quarter-deck
to the upper deck
I was able to observe closely the
armouring of Hindenburg, and if it was any indication of the armour- ing of the rest of the ship, then the pocket-battleship may be more ac- curately called armoured ship, which is just what the Germans do call it "Panzerschif"-not "Sch- lachtschig," as they call a battle- ship.
Just forward of Hindenburg were the Admiral's and Captain's quar- ters, with a seaman sentry-drawn bayonet in hand-outside the door.
The ship was exceptionally clean, and the men amartly dressed in their
white
loose customary "blouses," ordinary sailors' trousers, and their long-tailed" cap ribbons, inscribed "Panzerschif Deutsch- land," which
pig-tast hang. fashion, down their backs.
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THE Fahnrichsmesse
(Junior Officers' Mess) was the next place in our itinerary.
It was not even comparable to a British Gunroom-its nearest equivalent being very uncomfort- able and much too small for its twenty inmates.
The German Fahinrich" hus no real equivalent in the British Navy, as, although, he is ranked with t Midshipman, he is considerably
older and much more fully trained, and is niso able to specialise in Gunnery, Torpedoes, Navigation, o Engineering at this comparatively -early-stage, before he is promoted "Unterleutnant"-Sub-Lieuten-
to
ant.
The pros and cons of the wisdem of this method raise far too many highly specialised and controversial. questions to be discussed here.
The "Fahnrichsmesse" how- only the Fahnrich's living and study space, he
with the menses
ever
other, ofcers in the Wardroom, which in very large and luxurious in the Deutschland, panelled in light oak, light, lofty, and stretch- ing almost the full width of the
hip.
Ön entering it must be greeted with the customary Nazi salutation. but the Quarter-ileck-saluted by senmen through the ages-is ap- parently not entitled to recognition by the Nazis.
The inevitable picture of the Fuehrer-actually smiling-hung in fe Wardroom, but here It had competition in the shape of an- other picture, that Hinden- burg.
But even in 1930 the German Navy was definitely the Nazi Navy, although the officers tactfully re- frained from talking politics or indulging in that obscene Naz! hobli of thrusting down the throat of the victim tales of the wisdom and
goodness of their Leader, and of
the wonders and advantages of life
In the New Germany,
However, they had most
Inside it was a small armoured conning tower, ngain "verboten." Above this, by contrast, the Signal bridge seemed inadequately small, und above the "verboten" conning tower was a small armoured post- tion rumoured to contain secret in- struments.
Here my Prusalan Gunnary of- Acer guide got into his stride for the first time.
He was enthusiastically en- deavouring to explain this sclentido marvel to me in broken English and German mixed, when one of his more discreet WHE contrades-in-arms pointed out that this was, also verboten," and I was Lusiled oul.
This was a pity because, given time, this
this loquacious and boastful Prussian would have told me quite a lot about the five complicated looking instruments in there, which happened to be his action station,
The impression I received of the ship was on the whole good, but apart 'rem the fact that so much hud bren contained in sơ light a tonnage (10,000), which is more an engineering achievement than fighting quality, I do not think that ellher she or her two sisters- Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer-constitute a grave menace to our Navy.
A. H. FORBES
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Forward of the Wardroom were corridors leading for-
two
narrow
ward, looking exactly like those long corridors In iners, ennnciled a fawn colour, well fit, with the officers' cabins opening through polished mahogany doors on the outboard side find bath-rocms. alore-rooms, etc., on the Inboard
side.
At the end of the corridor was a watertight door, leading to the fore- part of the stup.
THROUGH this door we con-
tinued our way forward, passing the engine-room doors --verboten" to me-to the crew's mess-decks.
These were much the same as our own, except that the wooden mess tables and benches were stowed overhead when not in use,
large leaving a
and apparently pointless empty space.
This space was very clean, well- scrubbed floors, the walls enamelled
a blus off-white, and plenty scuttles for light and air,
of
Painted on the bulk-heads-only About thirty
feet
apart, even above the waterline-was the name of the compartment and; in compartments below the waterline there
were
niso blueprints on boards showing the plan, cross-section and cleva- tion of the ship at that point, and full details of the pumping, flooding and draining arrangements,
Hammocks, mude of dark red ennvas, were nently lashed up and slowed in bins where convenient.
Forward of the mess-decks was the "canteen." Th
This was an elabo- rate affulr looking very like any small German "Blerstube," with small marble-topped tables and
light wooden chairs.
Forward again of this Bierstube was the Petty Offeers' Mess, also a very fine large place, and con- venlently situated. The greater
part of the men of the Nazi Navy come from Bavarla oddly enough (hence the importance of the Blers- h), but the majority of the officers are Prussians.
WE now went up to the
Navigating bridge, which was a very spacious semi- circular and totally enclosed space, with large square porta all round.
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CHARACTER PICTURES
CHARACTER studies make interesting pictures.
Choose a subject whose face is marked by charac- ter and experience, and you have opportunity for a real picture-perhaps a whole series of pictures.
Elderly persons. are usually chosen for character studies- but there's no reason why a younger person can't be used. or even a child.
For example, a picture of Johnny pouting over his spinach, or trying to puzzle out an especially hard pro- blem in arithmetic.
Try to make your picture truth- ful to the character.
Sometimes the face alone is nuffelent for the picture....In other cases, you may want to show the subject in his or her normal setting.
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For example, sweet-faced grandmother in her favourite chair by the window, busy with her sewing basket.
These accessories, the basket
Character studies inako interesting, truthful pictures-well worth having In your snapshot collection,
and chair, would help explain the SCIENCE
subject. They would also add truth and natural quality to the picture.
When the face only is shown, With
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Dig down into the family trunks or storage boxea, and find some old-fashioned dresses or outmoded suits. Have members of the family dress up in these, and pose for a series of "old family album" pictures.
Also, try creating characters- such as a pirate, or an old-time scissora grinder.
This isn't difficult, for with a Uttle cloverseas, you can Impro- visa various costumes casily, just from materials you find around the house.
Making character studies will develop your skill as a photo- grapher and it's type of ple- ture-taking you should know. Try it you'll have plenty of fun.
DEATH
FASTER
THAN LIGHTNING
NOT even the creators of "Buck Rogers", of comic-strip fame, ever envisioned a death ray that would kill as rapidly as a lethal radiation recently produced by Dr. H. C. Rent- schler and Milton Hoyt at the Westinghouse Lamp Division research laboratories in Bloom- field, New Jersey, U.S.A.
In less than a hundred thou- sandth of a second-about the time a #ghtning flash needs to get well started his death ray kills every living organism within its range, and none escapes! There is no fore- waraing-merely sudden death.
Produced by a variant of the now familiar Sterllamp, the radia- tions are being used experimentally to determine the ultraviolet sensi- tivity of various types of bacteria and other microorganisms to short exposures.
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A MINIATURE pool, form- ed by cementing a brass ring on a microscope is filled with a few drops of liquid organic culture.
By means of a microscope and a projector, Images of the organism are then projected on a screen at a magnification of about 200 diameters. Bent around and slightly above the | pool of culture is a thort Sterilamp,'
connected to a source of direct cur- rent through a spark gap with spherical 'electrodes, Connected across the direct-current line is a bank of capacitors, which store up electricity
the until
breakdown the voltage of spark gap is reached. At that Instant all of the energy stored in the capacitors is discharged through the Sterilamp and causes it to emit powerful ultraviolet radiations,
The reaction on an observer is startling: Halry-looking, ovate paramecia dart aimlessly hither And thither about the illuminated screen. One becomes fascinated by their senseless scampering. Then a sharp cackle as the spark gap flashes, and there is no more movement. The organisma do not slow down gradually; they stop Instantly, most of them partly ex- ploded by the Intensity of the death ray.
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WHAT practical application such a device is likely to havO is anybody's guess.
Where perlodic rather than continuounirradiation of an in- footed area is desirable, this device might be useful. In the meantime, a demonstration of this lightning- fast bactericide in planned for visitors to the Westinghouse exhi bit at the New York World's Fair
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