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Battleship Virginia, a sister vessel to the New Jersey; no- special preparations were made: First attack-14 bombs of 1,100lb. each were dropped. Report stated that "10 were. effective presumably пед misses), at varying distances on the starboard side." One direct hit was made: ship Est- ed 10 degrees, and twenty min- utes later she sank.."

Ex-German battleship OST- friesland, completed in 1911. This vessel was not watertight before she was subjected to these bombing tests; she had a list of two degrees and was one foot down in the water on her normal draft at the opening of the attacks. Bombing contin- ted for two days. The official report leaves it a little, uncer- tain whether 69 or 52 bombs were dropped on the frst day, but the latter figure appears more "probable. The bombs ranged from 600lb. to ..2,000lb. Little damage was ob

served at the end of the day the list had increased slightly.. and the vessel was about three feet lower la the water. No action was taken to check the leakage.

On the second day eleven be abs of 1,000lb. were dropped and three direct hits obtained. No vital injury was reported, but the leakage increased, so that at the end of four hours the vessel had settled another three feet forward and one foot all. Second attack on яec- and day Six bombs, each of 2,000lb., wer dropped. No hits, but three near misses. one very close. The vessel sank in ten minutes after this. She had sustained sixteen direct hits over

2 period exceeding 24 hours

control and employing all their detence resources, one can only wonder what would have happen- ed. Let me repeat that it la not my purpose to try and minimize the air menace to warships. But there is nothing to be gained by exaggerating it. The thing has to be faced, and faced in its true pro- portions.

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AIRCRAFT DANGER FROM LIGHTNING

PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN

London, May 18. The Air Ministry have re-issued information regarding precautions to be taken by pilots against the danger from lightning, owing to

the increase in the number of cases in which aircraft in flight have been affected.

In nearly all cases recorded, ac- cording to the Ministry, the fol lowing appear to have been the determining circumstances:

Meteorological reports indicated the possibility of thundery cond!- tions.

The aircraft flew into ur close below the clouds before being struck.

The alrcraft had the aerial trailing.

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The follow.ng precautions are advised, whenever the circumstan- ces permit of their adoption:

Avold all large cloud masses from which showers of rain. hall 01 snow. are falling, especially when meteorological reports give Indications of thundery weather: hall is always to be regarded as dangerous,

When radio is being used in the alreraft, an increase in the num ber and strength of atmospherics will generally indicate that danger area is being approached.

TRAILING AERIAL

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If it is not possible to avoid dan gerous areas, the trailing aerial should be earthed and wound in when little danger is to be ex- pected:

Should the aircraft already be a dangerous area, e.g.. in a hai storm. winding in the aerial may be dangers to the radio operator..

In such a case, the aerial should merely be earthed and the air crait Bown out of the storm as quickly as possible; if necessary. It should be fown back on its course

will show defendive features which these old blps entirely lacked. Yet even they served to demonstrate that the armoured warship is not so vulnerable to bombing attack to give the operator an opportu as is being so industriously prea-nity to wind in the trailing aeria ched. She is far from easy to hit before proceeding through: the under the most favourable con. storm.

It is also recommended that the

ditions. It has been pointed out that our capital ships only carry connection of the aerial to earth enough ammunition to maintain should be made to the aircraft structure outside the fuselage.

a barrage from the new anti-air- craft pom-poms for three hours. A gunnery expert has favoured me with his ealculations that three hours continuous fire from the pom-pom armament would merit the presence of at least 10,000 af craft! It is in this sort of thing that superficial 'impression gets so mixed up in the quicksands technical realities.

SEA POWER MUST ENDURE

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Sea power must always endure-

at any rate for as far ahead as any

sune man need worry about. Since

it cannot be replaced by alt power,

Whenever possible, the aircraft with trailing aerial wound in.. lowest layer of any cloud masses should be flown well below the

encountered.

PRINCE ALY KHAN

Marriage In Paris To Mrs. Loel Guinness

Paris, May 19.

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Aly Soloman Khan, do you wish

it must not be displaced by air to take as a wife Joan Barbara

M. Chatenet, Mayor of the 18th arondissement of Paris, the pro- claimed that "bride' and bridegroom were now married by Frenen law.

power. Our seamen, who are quite Yarde-Buller?" "Yes, I do." allve to the menace and quite pre- pared to meet it, feel precious ilt rle gratitude to those well-mean- ing propagandists who are frigh❘ tening their wives and families at This was the simple civil cere- home. May I repeat that what the mony at the Town Hall of the alarmiste appear to ignore when marriage of Prince Aly Khan, sun they protest that sea power has and heir of the Aga Khan, to Mrs. been eclipsed by air power (whien, Loel Guinness, former wife of Mr. of course, is quite incorrect) is Loel Guinness, MP. for Bath, from that not only is the British Em- whom she was divorced. pire held together by sea power,

The witnesses were the Aga but that our daily bread is abso- Khan and the bride's mother, the lutely dependent upon it. To say former Lady Churston, now Mrs. At a later date the United Sta- that for the price of one battlemony, and only a few people were tes naval authorities carried our ship we might build 1,000 aero- Wessel. bombing tests against the incom- planes is to be totally oblivious to pleve battleship Washington, one the fact that 1,000 aeroplanes of the vessels abandoned under could not do the work of a single the Washington Treaty. A differ- ent procedure was followed in this warship when it came to the pro- tection of trading ships against

CHANGE OF PROCEDURE.

the cere-

Secrecy surrounded present when the bride and bride- groom arrived in a closed car.

It was all very simple. The bride wore a bottle-green-coloured

with white stripes.

case. Three 2,000lb. bombs and blue-water raiders. Nor is it very dress with a white collar. Prince two 4001b, warheads were exploded aimcult to imagine how blue-Aly Khan'wore a dark blue suit at the most effective depths either in contact with or very close to the ship's bottom. She Was after- wards inspected, and then code out a gale of wind at anchor for

water raiders would multiply and how very busy they would be f they knew that their only adver- series were swarms of aircraft the extreme cruising limits of which three days. At the end of this they could prick off on the chart time she was listing five degrees.

and say that all outside of those Her main condensers were un-boundaries was a playground for damaged, and the conclusion was that had the ship been in com- mission her crew could have plug- ged the leaks without the use of pumps and kept her on an even keel, de for service in the line of battle. To test the concussion of these explosions lighted candies were placed on the deck forward and aft; they were not extinguish- ed. Finally, the Washington was sunk by fourteen hits from 14in, guns,

It is nly reasonable to assume that the American

the destruction or capture of com- merce. Put in this way the mere 'dea sounds fantastic enough no doubt; et virtually it is in this way that the advance air-minded thinkers are putting it."

Prince Aly Khan and his bride then went to the Paris Mosque where the Iman Ben Kalfa bless- ed them in accordance with the Prince's religion.

During the ceremony the Prince discovered that he had forgotten necessary papers, having left them in his car.

He rushed out to his car and brought them. in India.

There will be a further ceremony.

Bir Hector Hetherington is the Applicant: "Am I bright? Why.rst graduate of Glasgow Univer- I've won several magazine puzzlesity to become Principal of his own contests."

University for more than 60 years. Employer: "Yes, but I need aed in 1873, was a Glasgow man, but Principal Caird, who was appoint- airmen made boy who is smart during bidness Dr Story graduated at Edinburgh,

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Sir Donald MacAllister at Cam- against their unresisting targeta. Applicant: "Well, this was dur-bridge, and Sir Robert Rait at. Had the vessels been under full ing business hourK;**

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INVENTOR OF 25 MAKES TEST

SECRET MACHINE

London, may 14. In a little studio on High Hol- born, London, I emulated Mr. H. G. Wella's "Invisible Man" yester- day, writes a correspondent,

air.

I saw my band vanish into thin

with my other hand-and that die Igrasped the invisible fingers

appeared, too!

Then, while I gazed in astonish-

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OUR SWATOW

LETTER

SILVER PROHIBITION

AND POLITICAL SCARE

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Swatow, June 5. Effective June 1, silver dollars i and subcoins cannot be circulated

changed for Provincial Bank notes 55 legal tender. Anybody possess- Ing same must have them ex-

to

which are of a few denominations. ment, my hands slowly reappeared. have already started to

All the shops and stores, by orders, The man responsible for this

retuse amazing demonstration was Mr. Stern Pribil, twenty-ve-year-old Hungarian Inventor, who has come to this country with his latest in- vention-an "Invisible Ray" ma- chine.

accept silver money for purchases made. What motive is behind this I have not been able to find out. One good reason for doing away with these subccins is that there is less possibility of be- ing done in the eye with counter- Mr. Pribil made various objects feit coins, of which the amount is vanish before my eyes

very great

RADIO SET VANISHES On a miniature stage, brilliantly ut, he placed radio sex,

Then he directed the invisible rays set began to disappear, until nothing was left but the inner parts yet all the time the set con- tinued playing.

A small model of a wagon drawn by two horses was then placed on the stage.

POLITICAL SITUATION Once again the events in the North are having repercussions

here: A feeling of general fear is prevailing at the moment; and the situation is watched with the keenest interest. No emergency measures are taken yet by the local authorities.

There are no foreign warships in port except two Japanese destroy- ers and one light cruiser.

The ray -machine was set in operation. From a small box fitted

People of experience persist war at the back of the stage, there was

clouds are hovering in the "horizon, a faint buzzing sound. and sud-

particularly as a consequence of ly, at the head of the two Kong Dollars soared up to 38. per the high exchange to-day. Hong model horses, a third horse ap-cent. whereas Shanghal peared from nowhere.

BOYHOOD AMBITION " Mr. Pribll told me his invention the result of years of expert

ment.

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"When I was a boy of fourteen," he said, "I read Mr. Wells's book. "The Invisible Mar, and, deter- mined that I would find out the secret of rendering.objects invisible to the human eye.

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"Year after year I worked on the machine, until, in 1932, I achieved

Success.

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reached a point of 123.5 against a recent average of about 17 per cent. The tendency is that both rates are bound to go still higher In the next few days. Something is amiss when market exchange rates go by heaps and bounds.

used in window displays to attract people.

"I cannot tell you the secret of my invention. All I can say is that it is a combination of certain light rays which I manipulate.

"Now

30 going to com- Mr. Pribil la engaged in perfect- mercialise the machine. A well- ing a larger machine with which known British firm has bought the he will make a man disappear en- rights, and the machine will be 'tirely.

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