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July 9, 1941. By Ernie Bushmiller
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DUTCH WARNING OF AIR INVASION
Tests Being Carried Out
The Dutch do not believe that Hitler has given up his plans to invade Britain-despite the statement by Berlin officials that the invasion was "shelved" until the Battle of the Mediterranean was over..
A Dutchman who saw full-scale In tests in the open sea soldiers Invasion tenta ng he lay on the beach were so ill that they refused to con- at Scheveningen has reached Eng-tinue. A number were shot. Jand. He tells, In the Free Dutch "I watched a big test from the newspaper, of this and of German beach at Scheveningen. When near preparations at Rotterdam, Flushing the shore men in the barges jumped and Amsterdam.
overboard and waded ashore corry- ing ropes. They pulled these and the front of the barges dropped down forming a landing deck. Tanks
"Folk In the Netherlands," he says, "think that Hiller will try to Invade and break Britain this spring, not by sen, as originally planned, but main- and other army vehicles trundled out ly by air-borne forces-great num-on to the beach, bers of troops and parachute-carrying planes and gliders.
Navy Not Keen
No Comparison
"I was very impressive, but a local fisherman who watched with me exclaimed 'You can't compare the British coast and beaches with ours.
"The Nazis evilently realised this At Rotterdam there were eight huge
"When the invasion preparations were at their height German Naval officers were asked how the invasion could be accomplished. They frank-barges painted while and emblazoned ly replied: "We think not of all, we do not want it, but the Army want it: they will pro
1 probably get
with great red crosses, Six sea-going tugs were decorated in the rame style.
"The Germans were anything but Various causes nut Hiller off his cocksure about things," They had autumn Invasion-but the bulk of hundreds of Thine barges, the wheel- the feet still lies in "Dutch ports. houses of which had been cut away The best news a Nazl soldier could | and special bows built, to enable get was that it would never put out tanks and artillery to be carried.
to sea."
Prisoners Released To
Work German Farms
| By midendi, Zan
ERN
MOUTHPIECE-Ready for loud spooch to Hitler's invadors is John Bull's huge mouthpiece, somo. whore on British coast. It's 12-inch howitzer on railway mounting, with camouflage covering. It fires shell waighing third of a ton. Troops man it constantly.
Tests On Guinea Pigs Point To Infantile Paralysis Curb
CHICAGO-New advances, which may eventually result in bringing under Although hundreds of thousands of war prisoners, control infantile paralysis, the scourge of childhood, were described here to a meet- also farm workers from the Protectorate and the occupieding of the Federated Biological Societies by Dr C. W. Jungeblut and Dr Murray countries and contract labour from Italy, are available. Sanders of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, to provide an ample number of workers for executing the
Continuing an experiment, which has produced amazing The work did not stop at that: German campaign to raise food this year and although results since they began it over a year ago, Drs Jungeblut and point, however, Virus laken direct
ly from monkeys would not infecti much more land than last year will be placed under cul- Sanders told how they had succeeded in giving the same strain
guinea pigs. It was only when the tivation, there is much anxiety in Germany.
of the poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) virus which infects virus had passed through the colton rat and the white mouse that it had humans to guinea pigs and how they had thren immunised other No experiments have
any elfect, guinea pigs against this same strain. been carried on with human beings.
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pig to be the same.
Latest Immunity The latest development is of great;
dead
provide immunity against bacteria- were his akhough other mon tion and
not
The
In part, it is pointed out, this is namely, the engineering and building because all the occupied territories sections were this time unrepresent-
But Drs Jungebiut and Sunders nre even more dependent on their ed. Though the number and variety
Look the virus from the infected imports of agricultural produce than of the samples of merchandise and
A virus is a living agent, From this infected cotton rat Drs guinea pigs, and with this they suc- is Germany itself-where food pro-trade which were offered were as duction, however, has been dislocated great as ever, comparatively little smaller, for example, than Jangeblut and Sanders prepared acceded in Infecting monkeys with by the war. Little relief can be ex-could actually be purchased for home bacteria. Viruses cause such mixture, which they injected into pollo. Extensive tests then made white mice, once again producing showed the virus In the monkey, pected from the Balkans as the typl-consumption, owing to the dearth of diseases as yellow fever or poliomyelitis. Then came a more white mouse, cotton rat and quines cal case of Rumania, whose political staple and natural raw materials and smallpox as well as infantile crucial test. up-heavals have upsel furm routine.even more to the acute shortage of paralysis.
The
researchers injected monkeys Indicates.
skilled labour, while on the other hand the amount available for the The New York researchers started with some of the original virus which In accordance with plans which home.
and market was restricted by with the suspicion that it would be was known to Infect them
the importance. It shaltered the existing are now, beginning to be put into cationing and military orders and the impossible to immunise against pollo simultaneously they injected
by using products of the dead virus same nonkeys with the virus from beilet that neither mice nor guinea
.could be infected effect, every scrap of arable soil in first claim.
with bacteria are often used to the white mice. These monkeys plus the accupled countries will be cul-
did not de-poliomyelitis. It advances a fruitful tivated. To enable farms in occupied
line of research in polio immunisa- caused diseases such as typhoid fever.velop paralysis,
opens up a new line of the living France to be ploughed and sown, the
One of the most striking features So they went to work with the liv-keys, protected by German military authorities live de- cided that French farm owners and of all sections of the Fair was the ing virus, using virus which came virus from the white mice, did, when thought concerning latent immunity farm workers who are now prisoners employment of substitute materials, from a child stricken with infantile injected with the same monkey virus. in human beings. It may, in fact The same thing happened when the explain why pollo epidemics umong of war in France will be given tem- that being most noticeable in textiles paralysis.
Work With Monkeys porary leave to attend their farms, and packing materials destined for
mouse virus was Injected 24 hours humans fali off as suddenly as they bee paper read also indicated that! while even the few thousands of home consumption. Sheet fin for In their early experiments they after the monkey virus, those who are prisoners of war in picking conserves had almost dis-worked with monkeys, the animals Experiment. With Mice
In their latest work, as reported to apparently the virus undergoes some appeared; in some cases it was re-ordinarily used by researchers in Germany will be released for farm placed by aluminium costing five or this field. They produced all the the Federated Biological audience mals so that, while it would not in- niysterious change in different ani-
six times as much, but more often
ten symptoms of pollo by injecting them the two New Yorkers tried to infect feet guinea pigs when taken directly Links For "New Order" try plastics or cardboard made from with the virus they had started with guinea pigs, with the strain of from monkeys, it would infect them
potato-plant stalks. Nevertheless and also with virus taken from mon- poliomyelitis taken from the while after Some indications of the extent and foreign buyers could place orders for keys to which they had already given mice. This was a feat which, in the after it has passed through the other animals. This last discovery is like- rapidity of the economic transformn-conserves packed in orthodox tin- the disease.
25 years that scientists have been ly to be of great importance through- tions coused in Europe by the effects ware.
Then,
after the earlier work of De studying this crippling disease, no out the of the war and the blocknde are
ore Germany's urgent need of foreign Charles Armstrong of the U. S. one had succeeded in accomplishing out the large field of diseases, which caused by viruses-influenza, the furnished by the reports that are now.
Public Health Service, Dra Jungeblut
Guinea pigs are commonly used by common cold, yellow fever, measles being circulated among the neutral exchange was indicated by the pre and Sanders took virus obtained from experimenters because in many cases and rables, to name a few. trade experts who attended the Leip-yailing rule that foreign orders would
The work is not yet ready to be zig Spring Fair, which closed on be booked only it subject to the con- the monkeys they had worked with their reactions are so similar to those
irled on humans, but that stage may March 7.
dition of one-third of the cash with and Injected this into a North Caro of humans,
Drs Jungeblut and Sanders gave not be too far off. the order, one-third on delivery, and in cotton rat, a peculiar little ani-
Je cross between a the guinea pigs their white mouse The Germans nasert that the de- the remaining one-third within three minnie and a rat.
guinea
virus by mouth and through the mand for industrial products prevall- months, whereas formerly almost any
nose, but nothing happened to But the cotton rat did not come ing all over Europe is Indicated by length of credit used to be given.
down with poliomyelitis
them. But when they injected it The fact that of the registered atten-i
Undaunted, the Columbla re- directly into the brain, they re dance of more than 100,000 buyers
searchiers prepared a “soup" from
ported to-day. the guinea ples were stricken with pollo. the ground-up brain of the cotton rat and injected; this Into another
And then they found that the same cotton rat. This one
did come guinea pigs which had been given the down with pollo, Indicating that virus orally and nasally and had not the virus had been present but been stricken were immune to heavy!
doses put directly into their brains.
work in France.
there were 9,000 foreign buyers, in-
According to German scientists, a
cluding 2,500 Dutch, whereas at the lighted match is visible for half a last Spring Fair, of 115,000 buyers,mile, a stable lantern for a mile and only 5,400 were foreign.
a quarter, and the light from one
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