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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 15, 1941.
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BOMBING THE GERMANS
How Science "Reads"
the Ages of Fish
TELLING the age, origin of
fish and how many times they have spawned by. their scules is a new technique re- cently developed by Dr R. A. Nesbit of the United States Fish and Wild Life Service and David H. Wallace of the Chesapeake Biological Labora- tory of Solomons, Maryland.'
The scales of fish show annual growth "rings" much like the annular rings in trees. Fish scales are better age in- dicators than teeth in horses.
The portion of the scales shaped like an inverted " which lies underneath the skin reveal these "rings." They show up as blank spaces where the new scales were not laid down due to slowed growth during Winter. It is neces- sery to use a microscope for accurate results.
Such factors as food supply, saltiness and temperature de termine the scales' first-year Biologists rate of growth. can tell whether a fish was born in the Hudson River, in Chesapeake Bay, or even in what part of the Chesapeake Bay tributaries.
The fish absorbs the calcium It needs from the outer edge of the scale at each spawning. This shows up. clearly in "scar tissue" in the scalo "blography."
Balloon Barrage Improved
A German bomber was brought down recently in England through being caught in a balloon barrage of
The design.
machine Improved fouled a balloon cable.
It is not possible to give any detalls of this new weapon defence, but it enables our balloons to fly at a much greater height than hitherto,
of
a Nazl THE bombing of
2,000-ton supply ship by Skua aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm off the Norweglan coast. The first bomb (top plcture) "near miss" but the was a second (below) registered a direct hit.
When last seen the ship was fisting heavily and had been abandoned by her crew.
By Hannen Swaffer:
Is the
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[X]LL you please en-
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ther the public outside London is, or is not, being gulled by the B.B.C. and the Press as to the damage being done to London and suburbs?"
The letter comes from a wo- man in Herne Bay. Someone has been telling her harrowing stories of the destruction of London.
THE most illuminating reply
I can make is by quoting the remark made yesterday by a friend who, despite the fact that he is a violent anti- Nazi, has just been released from an internment camp, and who was surprised, when he went round the town, at the comparative smallness of the damage.
And this was after the violence of a recent night's bombardment!
"When, in a Yorkshire camp, we read the papers and heard the wireless news," he said, "we thought things were much worse than they are."
Public Lies?
party he gave after a big flop
is no more.
Homes of the poor and mansions of the great have suffered.
There are gaps in hundreds of roads.
But-London is still there.
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NOT till yesterday did I hear
of the death of a man I knew well. For weeks, others had lost relatives or friends. Mine had all survived. Then I was told of a colleague who was killed while walking into his club.
I shall hear of more-unless I go first.
We are all in the front line.
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THE minor tragedies I hear
about are the loss of per- sonal possessions-the collec- tions of years of travel or experience which, valueless to everyone else, are precious to their owners.
"All my film stars are gone," said a man yesterday.
He meant his scores of photographs gathered to- gether during years in Holly-
·T SEE, some mornings, that a bit more of my boyhood has gone, that places I knew-wood.- in my youth and in my man- hood have suffered damage. The London of Wren and the London of Dickens are now, in parts, among the ruins that Hitler knocked about a bit!
The old music-hall where I last saw Marie Lloyd is now only a shell. Two theatres from which, at different times, I was barred for telling too much truth about snobbery or flapdoodle bear the marks of bombs..
The restaurant where first I lunched with Chaliapine will not sout any more hungry folk for months.
Cinemas where I have seen many films famous for their brief lives suffer serious scars. An actor's' flat-well do remember the grim supper
Britain's Motor
Fast motor torpedo-boats now Agure in most of the world's navies. The naval book of referenco "Jane's Fighting Ships", mentions 20 such vessels in the British Navy, with another ten due to bo constructed under pre-war programmes. There are also
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motor anti-submarine boats. What additional fast motor-craft may have been completed or Inid down since the outbreak of war, it is im- possible to say.
MTD. No. 102, in which I was nt sea before the war, may be taken as fairly typical of the boats built by one well known firm, She is what is generally known as a "hard chino" boat, 00 feet long and bullt, as to skin and frames. of mahogany, with Canadian cim for timbers, hog, chine and gun
wale. Her deck house and most
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Manuscripts have been burn- ed by the hundred. Pictures have been smashed..
Many a man's Cavalcade of personal reminiscence has dis- appeared.
LONDON, in the daytime, is
more or less normal. People arrive late at their ollices, perhaps,
Little grumpy after a bad night and then a roundabout journey.
Business goes on somehow.. Sirens are almost disregard- ed-until nightfall.
Then, soon after the Black Out, as a rule, the Warning
comes,
That means another night of it.
Motor Torpedo-Boats
by "Taffrail"
power, her fully-laden speed is over 40 knots. Like others of her class, she has two V8 engines which can be used to drive the wing shafts, and producing speed of 8-0 knots.
The
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ront of the engines at full speed is like that of an acroplane, and as the noise might give away a night attack, the auxillary en- gines, noiseless outside the ship. would enable
M.T.B. an
there was very little fuss or bow. wave.
The accommodation consists of a roomy forecastle with comfortable air-cushioned lockers, a wardroom for the officers, a wireless cabinet, and small galley and lavatory. There is a small duapod mast for signalling purposes and for carry- Ing the wireless serial; one set of engine controls with a wheel in the deckhouse under cover, and others on deck.
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Motor torpedo-boating is neces- anrily a young man's job, and though comparatively little been heard of the work of British M.TB.'s since the war, it can be to creep said that they have dono arduous up to an enemy at night, to fire service in all sorts of weathers her torpedoes, and then to make with conspicuous success.
The armament consists of two
ot full speed. The change over As to what the future may bring from the Auxillary to main en- In this type of craft, one cannot gines can be accomplished in about predict; but M.T.B.'s of 60 knots *** twenty-five seconds.
with a greatly extended range of action are by no means impossible. The first British torpedo-boat 21-Inch torpedo-tubes, and a num-
of ber of
machine - guns. Depth ever bulli, the "Lightning" of 1877 charges could also be Atted for of 34 tons and 10 knols speed, was roughly the same size as some work against submarines.
My trip to sea was in moderate of the MTD's now in the Royal weather, and was struck by the Navy. The little "Lightning"" was reaworthiness and habitability, really the ancestor of oil our. torpedo-craft, Including Even at over forty knols, with her modern bows lifted well out of the water, the farge destroyers of to-day,
the deck-fittings are of stainless steel, and the fully-Inden displace- ment is about 28 tons on a draught of 30 Inches
Driven by three eighteen-eytin- der engines each of 1,000 horse
For half an hour or so there are still a good many people in the streets.
Then, when the guns start, they disappear, one by one. Until morning, except for occasional passera - by, the streets are almost empty.
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lage now, at night," said
a shopkeeper, closing just after dusk. A few taxis run during the evening. There are some omnibuses. Other- wise, almost the only traffic is a hurrying ambulance, or a fire engine dashing past.
BUT the guns and the ex-
plosions!
If you are lucky, you get to sleep while there is, silence. If not, they keep you awake for hours.
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Even a bomb that has fallen half a mlie away seems -only a few yards distant.
You hear the fall of glass- and, every hour or so, a heavy drone means the presence overhead of a Nazi plane.
At intervals for hours there are bangs and thuds, sounda
collapse,thuds-under-TMTM ground.
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you
have slept there comes another day.
You hear of deaths in one- district, ruíns in another, and stories that "So-and-so has copped it," when, if you go to look, there is usually only a hole in the road.
The paradox is that while people make the worst of it when they talk of damage- that is why all the stories, spread-they put on the best air they can when they face another night.
saves
Their philosohpy them. Their insular calm is their shield.
As for the Heroes of the Night and they are legion -what are we going to do about them?
An auxiliary fireman wrote yesterday: "
"May I, on behalf of all of us, say that we consider that It is our turn to do a job of work?" he said. "We are do- ing what we can. No praise is naked for.
"There is one thing, how- ever, that we would like-pen- sions for our widowal Yes- terday, we were asked to sub- scribo towards Beventeen widows of A.F.S. men. The widow of one of our own chums has had to go to the. Public Assistance Board.
"We work 48 hours at a stretch, and then one day off In other words, an average of 112 hours per week. But that is not half so important as the wife. Please do some- thing and you will and us balancing on even higher bits of wall and doing the impos- sible with as light a heart as ever walked on a duty path."
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For A Few Hours
on Saturday morning, 18th January, ladies will offer flags for sale in aid of the Fund to present more bombers to Britain.
Fifteen thousand flags have been given for this purpose.
If everyone pays one dollar for his or her
emblem
$15,000
will be sent Home.
If everyone gives five dollars
$75,000
will be sent Home.
Will you please decide-NOW to give. gen- erously-and help to establish a record for Hongkong?
Organised by the Hongkong War Effort Committee.