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"Sunken" British Bats' Flight in Dark
Fleet: Claims.
fortnations.
FROM PAGE ONE
Interests Aviation
the ships' fighters were constantly The solution of one of the greatest mysteries of biology alert for everywhere in low-hanging-how bats manage to fly blindly in pitch-dark caves without clouds there might be enemy bomber striking obstacles-was recently reported before the American We were steaming between the Society of Zoologists by Robert Galambas and Donald R. Grif- Cagliari naval base and Sicily so that fin of the Harvard Biological Laboratories. the Italians were able to accompany thele bombers with many squadrons
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The bats, the Harvard experi- |
ments show, emit super-shrill Hess Had Written To
cries-far too high-pitched for
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While the ships' guns belched shells human cars to hear to pilot Duke Of Hamilton SATURDAY "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante"
up formation or Oghters smashed It is expected that the
M-G-M
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PICTURE
in an almost duylong barrage, spat-them through the blackness. tering the clouds with dancing are These cries echo from obstacles and innumerable black smoke pufts,
wirled and dived and the echoes warn the bal. fighters flashed,
the clouds in relentless among
With this invisible and inaudible and furious attack on enemy bombers.
sound-beam, the Harvard
hands of the British security authorl- Many
bats the far horizon, searchers found, un
can execute ties and no reply was made to Hess. around the shilps coul
could be seen complicated manoeuvres through The Duke had met Hess on one columns of water spouting
without as the virtual networks of wires
for two occasions before the war in bombers jettisoned their projectiles collisions.
connection with sporting mutters In nd hel from blazing guns and *Some of the newest aviation: which both were Interested. British Alters, Hospite the scores instruments are believed to use A Hess is alleged to have said that of Oghters protecting them.
device similar to the one developed when the Duke was the Marquess of Against such overwhelming odds, so effectively by nature in the bat. Douglas and Clydesdale he knew him Uime and
knowledge well and that he had flown to Scot- of Lombers hiding in gained at Harvard from the bat may land and made his estate his objec- clouds nwalting a favourable moment have useful applications in the air tive as he had valuable information to swoop down and bomb the ships. Jarmament programme.
to give to the Duke. Torpedo Attack
Used Their Ears.
Useful Information Scientists had suspected for some This Information, Hess said, would time that hats used their ears to be of great use to the British In guide them. The experiments re-joverthrowing the tyranny that now ported not only showed that hearing prevails in the Relch. is essential to blind flying, but also!
Hess averred that he had made the gave the first proof that the appar-mast painstaking preparations ently noiseless fight of a "bat is his flight from Germany. This state- accompanied by a clamour of shrill ment was borne out by the maps he Suddenly six British fighters dived cries.
had used for navigation, on all of among Ultem with machineguns To study these sounds the experi- when the Duke's estates were ringed
Venomously. One Stuka menters used apparatus devised by in circle, Into the sea in flames and two Professor G. W. Pierce, of Harvard's It was a tribute to Hess' capabilities fighters staggered off into cloud Cruft Laboratory of Physles, for as a pilot that he should arrive in shelter with smoke streaming from
supersonic rescurch.
Scotland and land at a point in such them.
close proximity to his objective, gallant title group of British fighters from all sides, but they maintained their attack until the enemy quailed. The hopelessly scattered Stukas dropped their bombs into the sea and fled leaving our fighters hard- hit but victorious.
The day's most notable feat came at dusk when the last attack was made by torpedo bombers, while at the same time a force of 30. Stukos protected by six fighters were cruis- ing in the clouds with the obvious intention of making a simultaneous nitack.
an
Bullets were rained on the
Abyssinia Trap Is Closing
FROM PAGE ONE
Indian
officer. An
enemy
Uncle Sam Receives A Schooner
Enemy Columns Withdrawing
FROM PAGE ONE
for
ever, that whatever tactics the enemy chooses, they will be countered by The 185-foot racing schooner, equally vigorous assaults by the Bri- Atlantic, which after 36 years tish Imperial forces.
Limited Offensiva still holds the record for racing
May CAIRO,
14 under sail between England and
(Reuter)-A limited offensive operation from the United States, has been Tobruk and the withdrawal of the machine-gun singled him out but he donated to the U.S. Govern- enemy to his original position in the miraculously escaped a stream of ment.
Sollum arca are announced, In u bullets, and the post was silenced. Her owner, Gerard B. Lumbert, G.HQ. communique.
Bold Grenadier
Industrialist and yachtsman, sald he The communique says: "Tobruk. In another instance, during a des- was also giving his 50-foot power-During a limited offensive opera- perate enemy counter-attack, a Sepoy yacht, Utilitle, to the government tion carried out by our troops from slood out in the open, hurling hand and was breaking up his racing: Tobruk, two German medium tanks grenades among the advancing loop, Yankee, and would divert the were captured and many casualties Italians.
proceeds toward purchase of a Split- were inflicted on the ente ne
plane for Britain. and
"In the Sollum area, the enemy hus "It was understood that the Atlan-again withdrawn to his original posi- lic, which in 1805 set a record of ton south and west of Sollum, where days, hours and 1 minute for he is being continuously harassed by the standard racing run between our mechanised patrola. Sandy Hook and Lizard Light, off the coast of England, would-be at- tached to the Coast Guard Training, Station at New London, Conn.
Continuous thunder-storms heavy rains have failed entirely to dampen our men's spirits.
A stream of prisoners, among whom are many officers, are being sent to the rear.
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WILLKIE'S SORE THROAT BILL
ITALIAN CREW Saboteurs Sentenced
SPECIAL TO. THE "TELEGRAPH" JACKSONVILLE, Fla. May 14 (UP) The Captains and 58 mem- Dr D. Harold Barnard of Beverly bers of the crews of the Itallan Hills, California, wants $13,000 for freighters Irania and Confidenza the 52 days he treated Wendell were to-day sentenced to terms rong- Willkle's sore throat during the 1040 Ing from two and E half to four campaign. The bill has been turned years after being convicted On over to the Repubilean National rabotage charges or charges of con- Committee.
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