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Kenneth Gilmour (whose father was In Submarine Service

in the last war) standing smart'y to attention as he takes, a group of raw recFults for rifle drill before a small crowd of on- lookers. An ámbing picture with the Kenley (East Surrey) kea Cadet Corps at their headquarters In the Caterham Valley. (Copyright, Fox).

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The release of more aliens from internment camps promised by Sir John Anderson in the House of Commons will give British industry the services of invaluable scientists and research workers.

The expulsion from Germany was mentioned by Mr. Churchill as one of Germany's most serious losses of the war. He claimed that Britain is already outstripping Germany in scientific research.

It is estimated that Germany Fag been deprived of the services of more than 5,000 first-class, scic- ntists and research workers who

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The Germän student body has been halved because of the deple~ | | tion of training staffs brought "about by the same policy of mur-

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pelitical and racial "undesirables." In the year before the outbreak of war, the number of German en- gineering students had dropped by 47 per cent.

Jew's Discovery

Jews have always figured high- ly in German scientific research work. In certain fields, such as mathematical physics, they were supreme.

A German Jew, Fritz Haber, nearly wor the last war for Ger- Many by his discovery of how to use the nitrogen in the air to

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Dne of the most important drage, a dyè known, ab salvar; Ban, or 600," was the discoverý of á German Jew, Ehrlich.

This dye kills germs without hurting the tissues of the human: body, and from it was evolved, by British scientists, the drug known as M. and B. 693, one of the great-

EGYPT'S WARTIME ECONOMY

During the past five months railway revenue in Egypt has increased by £239,000 and harbour dues by £172,000 because of the arrival of troops and war material from the British Empire.

Figures such as these not only show that both the Mediterranean and Red Sen routes are com- pletqly under British control, thus contradicting Italy's claim hat Egypt is blockaded, but prove that the wheels of com- merce and industry continue to revolve smoothly.

by the This is explained fact that what little Egypt

Is losing from · reduced external trade she is picking up locally, it being estimated that about £500,000 normally spent abroad how remains àt home, while Britain is spend- ing £2,000,000 annually

Egypt for the maintenance of her forces and for other war púrposes.

It is true the local cotton trade:

in has helped to relieve

the

has been hit by the war but Bri- situation by purchases amounting

to £3,000,000.

Reservoirs Protection

In the meantime the Egyptian Government is carefully watch- ing the economic situation. Re- cent precautionary measures in- clude the allotment of funds foi the protection of reservoir catch ments in the event of air raids and also the careful nursing of stocks of commodities.

Steps are also being taken to swell the country's coal reserves With this end in view the State Railways have decided to pur chase 5,000 tons of coal fron Natal at: 18/9d a ton, to be de ivered in Egypt at a freight rate of 70/- a ton-Reuter.

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which are well under way, have been ful- filled.

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"We will deliver 'planes for Britain,' said a spokesman of the company quoted by Reuter, but when and how many I can- not say.”

The good humour an mutual helpfulness Londoners in the midst o the bombing ordeal is a encouragement and in spiration to visitors from the country, the Bishop o Truro, Dr. J. W. Hun kin, told a battalion of th | 986666000000000000s Home Guard in Trur Cathedral yesterday after as a noon.

est discoveries of the age, M and | talten gway and interned

B 093 is used to fight, pneumonia, Class "C" allem. H's anti-Nazi and is equally effective against | attitude is unquestionable. other diseases whose prévalenée

is particularly widespread in wur time.

Half-Measure

The Bishop, who is a membe of the Home Guard, told the cor gregation that hundreds of thou

In July the Government ah-sands were quietly carrying on. Many of the scientific workers who fled from German and Austria nounced a change of policy to- come to Britain and to the Unitedfications likely to be of use to Bri wards friendly aliens with, quali States. In the latter country they tain's war effort, but, in fact, only. were welcomed.

15,000 applications. 10 persons were released out of

A feading American scientist re- ferred to them as "Hitler's gift to the Western Hemisphere.

Were Interneď

The tragic fact is, however, that' most of those who came to Britain bringing with them an intense; hatred of Nazism and a willing ness to put their gifts at the dis- posal of democracy, were put into internment camps during the schte' about Fifth Columnists.

There is, for example, an in- terned Austrian, mathematical physielst, and about the only per- son in the country who can do a certali, kind of radio resenreir.

The difficulty was that, ac cording to the White Paper CX plaining the conditions of release of Germans and Austrians, an Internce could only be freed if there was a job awaiting him at the place where he was em played before Internment......... Sir John Anderson has now un- der-taken to waive this condition.

OVER 300 KILLED AT BOMBAY

It is now feared that between At the outbreak of war he was 300 am 400 lives were lost in the employed by a fadiu firin working cyclone which struck Bombay and for, the Air Ministry, Hid firm up-district carly: last wedit, it was plied for a permit to allow him to stated by Delhi radio yesterday. continue his work, which was re-1: Material damage is, estimated

gorded us invaluable, but he wasat about £370,Reuter

He had found bus conductor police and other officials ver friendly" and helpful with . Ir- formation, and adsistance. As example of the general spir the Bishop fold how one evenin when the vicar of a parish can into the basement to conduct sho night prayers for families prepa ing to spend the night on ma tresses, a man came forward wi a special request they should si a verse of the National Anthe This they did in rousing fashion

There was a gront deal - broken glass in London but t (vast majority of the great buil

|ings........ were still sold, sald Bishop. — British Wireless,

BUCHAREST TO BE BLACKED OUT

Sturfed

Compulsory black-out

in Bucharest last will continge every night; was... stated in Berlin,##Reuter..