Are You Sure?
(Answers on Page.10)
1. We all know Scolland Yard. But where would you o in London to find Ireland Yard?
2. Where would you look for
Ilon's thorn
A
On ita nose, in its mane, in
the parts of its paws, on the tin
of ita tall?
3. Hoosh is
Cascade of water, strong
Hiquor, hotchpotch or
request for quietncia?
4. A baby leopard
kind of cat? On
stew,
A new
5. The ice-plant is a native atm
South Africa, Iceland, Greece, Canaries, Greenland?
6. What law is meant when you refer to relatives "in law's
2. Die, my dear doctor? That's the last thing I shal
a." The last words of
Pitt, Palmerston, Gladstone, Duke of Wellington?
8. I given a Fazebo you would
Fry . give it to the Zoo, send for a policeman, admire the view?
9. The term "left in Jurch" is used in--
Poker, vingt-et-un,
cribbage, what?
the
rummy,
10. When was the first paper money issued in England?
Plans For New
Lidice
Today a willowed-lined brook and a handful of alders aro all that breaks the flat line of the land where the town of Lidice once stood,
But the deserted fand will soon begin to live again, On June 0. the first the foundation stone for new Lidice building will be laid, on the fifth anniversary of the Nazl destruction. Workmen are already preparing to put up construction shacks and tool sheds.
A score of dwellings for returned Lidice widows and children will be built this year. Much of the work will be done by volunteer labour "youth brigades" of Czechs and foreigners.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1947.
GERM WARFARE REPORT
33 DISEASES ARE POSSIBLE METHODS OF MASS KILLINGS
HIRTY-THREE. diseases of man, plants
and animals possibly
useful in bacteriological
By Howard Blakeslee
(Associated Press Science Editor)
war, and 37 that seem un- the war. The nations are Po- Normally mosquitoes sprend Flu, the common cold and land. France, Italy, Czecho yellow jack, and getting rid of malaria are listed in war possi- ritain and the United States. But the study says that in 1981 more studies are needed to find Slovakia, Morocco, Belgium, the insects stops the disease. bilities, with the proviso that
there were cases spread in a out how to use them. Inboratory without mosquitoes, and that this discovery was never followed up.
suitable for war, are de- scribed with U. S. War De- partment permission in the Journal of Immunology published recently.
This study is announced as the first step by the scientific workers to educate the public on what bacteriological war can The report, 40.000 words, is do. It says there are no pre- written by three members of sent possibilities for interna the American Association
of tional control like those for Scientific Workers. It docs for hlological war what the Smyth report did for atomic war, giving all the possibilities, but withholding war secrets.
Bacteriological war, it ap- pears, will not have to be con- fined to attacking great arcas, It can hit specific places, like island bases, naval bases, single cities to be demoralised, and war production areas to be dis- rupled.
Details of probable attack and also of defence are set forth at length.
This report was written by Dra Theodor Rosebury and Elvin A. Kabat; professors of bacteriology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Co- lumbia University, with aid of Dr Martin II. Boldt. All work ed on biological war at Camp Detrick, Maryland.
AFTER GREAT STUDY But this work came after their great study had been made. members of the American Association of Scien- tific Workers, whose president, Maurice B. Visscher, also re- leased the report today in Chicago.
atom bombs.
Even small nations, and inno- cent-looking legitimate medical laboratorics can fashion the kind of weapons described in the report. In fact, even before the war, any bacteriologist in the world, with time to make the monumental search, could have found out what to do,
Air-
PLANES ARE SPREADERS Airplanes are considered the best disease spreaders. borne infections, that people get by breathing are menaces. Water and food-borne discases are in the picture, but not considered as so likely to succeed.
the
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Among the rejected diseases for war are smallpox, cholern T and typhoid bécause of vaccina- Chippy sitting beside a table of his own Botulinus poisoning is not too tion. Streptococcus infections smoker's
Here he tells you How promising. This is the poison, are rejected because of too low making. one ounce of which could kili casualty rates. The straphylo- you can make one for yourself. 180,000,000 persons and which coccus diseases of food poisoning Step 1-Ġet two pieces of Umber made a great sensation last are also ruled out. Leprosy for the upright skies, Bin, wide by summer when the chemical war- takes too long to incubate. Main. thick. One piece la ft. fare service said they had found Most of the
71. long, the other ift. din. a way to mass-produce the poi- monins lack sufficient infecti. Step 2.-Prepare the top, boltam vity. Veneral diseases are son.
considered too difficult to spread.
PROTECTION
To be so deadly it has to be inoculated by needle. Also there is a toxoid that given in advance would protect human beings.
per cent and
cominon pneu-
and shelf. These are the same width and thickness (8in. wide and in. thick) na the aldes. but their
2ft. nheit, lengths are; top,
bottom, 2ft. 112in. Round the top piece at one end no shown, if you can; if not, just saw off the corners.
Disease germs, and viruses, too, can be made more virulent for war uses. Also it is pos- sible in laboratories to get drug-Step 3.From the bottom of the fast germs, which means they resist medicines, including the sulfas, penicillin and strep: tomycin, that ordinarily would kill them. War would use these drug-fast organisms.
MISTS AND DUSTS
longer upright side saw out a plece from cach comer 1in, wide 24in. deep. Into these will fit the rear ends of the lengthwise battens which form the base,
Step 4-You need three baltens for this two long ones (28. 24in. x in. x 24in, thick)- and one shorter ene (Bin. x 14in. x in, thick), It you look at the lower sketch you will see how to mitre two of the corners of the battens to give a neat base.
Anthrax, which kills quickly like blood poisoning, rates well. This germ is tough, lives a long top time and only a fow are needed to kill. In tests one anthrax germ per animal killed 25 per cent, two per animal killed 60
20 per animal The ·war diseases include Topping the favoured war killed 100 per cent.
some not prevalent in most diseases are tularemia, or rabbit Anthrax could be scattered civilised countries, but capable fever, not the common form, by shell fragments, or sown on of spreading there if introduced but one that spreads in air and the earth. There is an animal in sufficiently, massive quanti-Step Thoroughly sandpaper all causes pneumonia; pneumonic vaccine, but it is not known tics. Such "new" discases says plague, which is the lung form whether man can be success- the report, can be expected in Step 6.-Assemble the five pieces- of black death and spreads by fully vaccinated. nir; and melioidosis, a glanders- rare, which like disease, now attacks the lungs.
Bubonic plague, the form of black death spread by rat fleas, is considered unfavourable for war, because it can be stopped completely by getting rid of rats.
RARE MALADIES Psittacosis is said to be pos sibly one of the most useful war diseases, because large amounts of the virus that causes it can be obtained. Vac cination may be possible.
Undulant fever, spread by air, and the typhus-like diseases, such as Q fever and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, are considered
war.
Present means of detecting diseases may fall because war will not always use nature's known methods of sprending them.
your pleces where necessary.
two upright sides, top, bottom and shelf as shown in sketches. Screw together firmly, (For
added
PRISONER WROTE MUSIC FOR HER
be
strength the more experienced can also cut grooves to. take the up-
and rights
glue the joints. Will Measurements
need to adjusted.) Step 7-Now to at the battens on the base. If you look back at the Step 3, you will remember two little pieces you took out of the longer upright. Into these t the lengthwise battens.
Finally, give the job a last rub over with sandpaper before applying your paint or stain..
BIG BATTLES. UNDERSEA
Evidence of life and death battles between whales and giant squids off West Africa has been gathered by scientists aboard the British whale fac- tory ship, Balena.
The report predicts that food animals on farms will be vul- nerable to disenses scattered by
The crews of the whaling ships, plane. They may suffer, too,! By special permission of the War which are returning to Europe, after Antarctic, say They gave the study to the Melioidosis is a rare disease,
from plant diseases scattered to Office in London, Rudolf Orthmann, six months in the
a German prisoner of war, was that giant squids with an estimated Federal Government, which with only 83 known cases up to
reduce their own food supply.
allowed to attend a concert nt Shore-span of up to 70 feet live in the sea kept it secret throughout the 1942. Only two lived. During
Planes can drop germs and ham, Sussex, this week to hear Miss off the West African const. favourable.
Gliddons, The viruses that have been dried in Mary
the 26-year-old war. It does not contain their the war there were a few fatal
Sperm whales come to the warm daughter typhus types are spread by cultures where they live, so as
of Rev. Paul Gliddons, eing war work, but Dr Visscher said cases on Guam.
be True glanders, a hardening of ticks that can the report is essentially sound.
sown from to scatter widely. Some dried some songs he had composed for her. Waters off Africa during the breed-
But Rudolf was not permitted to in season and are frequently common in
live the planes.
bacteria The report gives the work on jaw glands,
a long time.
lacked, by those aggressivo cannibals. plano the singer on the dcced. bacteriological warfare of scien- horse and buggy days when Some rare maladies like Weil's Chemical fogs and smokes can
Scientists measured hundreds of Orthmann, 32 years old, WIS ascars made by squid suckers. The tists in eight nations, prior to horses gave it to men, is also disease and rift valley fever be used to enable infections to. 1942. Not one German was In considered a possibility, but less are also considered. The first seep indoors. Glycerine and schoolmaster and music teacher in full marks as the squids threshed this list, because apparently favourable than melioidosis. is a fever, and the second causes other mists, and dusts, will Bostock, a Baltic port, till the out the whales left indelible wounds. break of the war. He kna been The longest extended to 35 feet German biological war science Yellow fever comes into the high-sheep mortality and light concentrate infections on target playing and composing music since land ran from the head to the centro went under secrecy long before war picture in a new guise. human mortality.
he was 12 years old. Reuter.
of the whale's body,
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
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"The Helping Hand"
BY KEMP STARKETT
*ILL TEACH YOU
HOM TO PAINT
IF YOU HAVE TALENTS
at-
IT'S NICE THAT MOST OF THE
ADVICE ONE GETS IS FREE.
COME INTO THE OFFICE
ANY TIME YOUNG MAN.
WE'LL TAKE CARE
OF YOU /*
AND THEN HE TRIES
TO BORROW TWO BUCKS. Janez
THERE ARE MORE HELPING HANDS AT A SCRAP THAN ANTS AT A PICNIC:
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ALL BY
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