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LOSS OF THE TITANIC

Fatal Blunders

A LESSON FOR THE NATION

STUDIO OF THE NEW TREATMENT

FUTURE

B.B.C. Engineers' Device

An

NEW ACOUSTIC PRINCIPLE

Twenty-five years ago, late at night on April 14, 1912, the Titanic. on her maiden voyage, struck an Iceberg in the North Atlantic and

orchestral broadcasting sank in two hours and forty min- studio, new to this country and utes, only 711 out of the 2,201 peo-known as the "live end-dead end ple on board being saved.].

type, has been evolved by B.BC. engineers at their research labora- tories at Nightingale-lane. Clap- ham.

પર્વ

FOR BURNS

Successful results with a new treatment for burns. suitable for home use, have been reported by a doctor at the Edinburgh' Royal în- firmary to the therapeutic trials committee of the Medical Research Council.

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The chemical used is known as "amyl salicylate." It is stated to give almost instant relief from pain and to promote rapid healing. with it is mixed one part in 10,000 of a powerful germicide, since "amyl salicylate" by itself has virtually no disinfectant action.

It is not intended for use in more serious cases than would normally be treated as out-patients at a hospital..

Amyl salicylate has a strong and unpleasant smell, but in spite of this a doctor with knowledge of the treatment told a "Morning Past" representative that he would not now be without a bottle of it in his home.

The Titanic disaster, with its loss of 1,490 lives, was the greatest sea catastrophe ever known, though the sinking of the Lusitania, when Its effectiveness in actual prac- 1.158 lives were lost, roused greater tice has not yet been tested, but feeling on account of the cir officials of the Corporation claim cumstances which brought it about, that It represents an important The first shock of the news stun-advance in studio design. ned "the world. The estimates, of The principle is that roughly the loss of life varled from hour to half the studio-that section hour but were always so large that which accommodates the orches the mind refused to accept them. tra itself-shall be free of acous- Happening, as it did, far out in the tical treatment on floor, walls or Some yeurs ago. when amyl Atlantic and in the days when ceiling, all the absorption neces- salicylate was made in less pure ship-to-shore telephones were un-sary being concentrated in the form and smelt even more strong- known, the difficulties of obtaining other half, in which the microp-ly it was tried in the treatment information about the rescue work hone is normally placed. Studios of burne at Guy's Hospital, London, were enormous. For some days it have recently been specified to in- was impossible to piece together a corporate no less than six inches connected reconstruction of the of mineral wool," one of the most useful types of porous absorbent.

events

When the first shock of the dis- aster had dulled there Was an angry murmur all over the coun- try. It was not out-raged national pride that caused It. but a deeper feeling, a conviction that the hu- man element somewhere was to

Detalls of this "studio of the

the "B.B.C. future" are given in an article in

Annual for 1937."

and was abandoned because of its

smell.

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A firm of acid manufacturers, in

Silver-town, then tried the remedy

for treating an acid burn, and were so pleased with the results that they wrote to a number of other published recently.

firms to tell them of the "dia- Another innovation, which has covery." It was a request from one now been incorporated in the lar-0 these firms to the Medical Re- further in- blame. Inevitably were wrongful gest of the Maida Vale studios: search Council for accusations Wild stories, wild takes the form of a concert platformation which led to the pre- standers were freely bandied about, form for the players. consisting of sent series of tests. " - Some of these burned so fiercely tiers arranged in a curved forma- Into

the public mind that they tion, such as at Queen's Hall. The persisted twenty years after the brightness of reproduction, it is disaster, though their baselessness stated, has been greatly improved had long been clear to all who by this tiered are arrangement. studied the evidence. But, these apart, the national conviction" was right. There had been blunders. and the official inquiry a few weeks later revealed them.

FOREIGN ARTISTS The B.B.C.'s policy in booking foreign, artists is fully outlined.

Str Cosmo Parkinson was ap- pointed to the Admiralty in 1908 and transferred to the Colonial Of- ace in the following year. He was assistant private secretary succes- sively to Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Mr. Bonar Law, and Mr. Walter Lond. and served in the King's African Rifles during the War.

Sir Henry Moore served in Cey- lon. Bermuda, and Nigeria before being appointed Colonial Secretary of Kenya in only

1928. He has been Governor of Sierra Leone since 1934.

"While," it is stated. "the Rereading Lord Mersey's report Corporation welcomes opportuni- after an interval of twenty-five ties to invite outstanding interna- years one is struck by the tense, tional figures, it endeavours never steely edge of some of his com-

to lose sight of its responsibilities ments. Judicially phrased though to the British musical profession they are. Some at that time who and music. Foreigners are clamoured for an eye for an eye engaged when they are "of Inter- called the report. "whitewash." It national reputation and interest, was not. It was a powerful caus-or offer something exceptionally tic wash. The International Con- valuable. They are as a rule in- vention on Safety at Sea, which vited only if, and when, they are met the next year, was one of the in this country on other business." fruits produced by an orchard that had been cleared of à plague of woolly aphis.

THREE CAUSES

The Titanic disaster was due to three main causes the course the ship was following and her speed. incomplete organisation for the use of the boats, and the failure of the Board of Trade to keep pace with advances in shipbuilding. Of these the third was the one on which blame was lald.

The Annual, which gives a com- prehensive account of B.B.C. ac- tivities, contains the following ob- servations:

Television Finance. The de- velopment of television will be severely hampered if expenditure has to be borne out of the 75 per cent, of net Licence revenue grant- ed to the Corporation.

"King Edward VII. Abdication. -During the crisis, approximately Many people nowadays say that fifty talks were arranged by Ame- the Titanic was trying to beat the rican broadcasters. There is no record. She was not. Her design-doubt that their entire freedom ed speed was 22 knots, as against to broadcast from London contr!- the 25 knots of the Mauretania and buted to the better informing of the Lusitania. She had no chance the American public, and was s of beating the record, but she had valuable counterweight to much not reduced speed after ice warni sensational statement or specula. ings had been received (there is tion from other sources. evidence that some of the later Empire Broadcasting-The fac warnings never came to the notice tor of world rivalry among the of the captain or the navigator), many nations now operating and she was following "the in-short-wave services cannot be variable practice" with regard to lightly disregarded in considering her course. Lord Mersey said the development of the Empire tersely: "The event proved the Service as the volce, not of Bri- practice to be bad." It was sub-tain only, but of the British Em- sequently changed"

pire.

COLONIAL OFFICE CHANGES

Sir John Maffey's Retirement

The boat organisation was the subject of close investigation. It was established that some boats had got away only partly filled be- cause passengers were unwilling to leave the ship. Even then, those boats failed to go back to the re- scue of the drowning. "There might have been better organi sation." There might, and later there was; but to this day no one has succeeded in evolving an or-

It is announced. from the Co- ganisation that will work efficiently

lonial Ofice that Sir, John Loader with an undisciplined mob-which retire from the office of Permanent Maffey has expressed & desire to is what civilian passengers are at Under-Secretary of State for the sea. To this day scores of them Colonies with effect from July 1. decline to be bothered with the boat drills and lifebelt exercises

The Secretary of State for the that are carried out as soon as the Colonies, with the consent of the ship leaves port. They lounge in Arthur Charles Cosmo Parkinson, Prime Minister, has appointed Sir their deck chairs with a smile of pitying tolerance for the fussy fools an Assistant Under-Secretary of who obey orders. If any doubt this state, to succeed Sir John Maffey.

Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore,

BASQUE APPRECIATION `

let them ask a merchant service at present Governor and Com- officer with experience of luxury mander-in-Chief of Sierra Leone, liners. The reply will be convin- cing.

has been appointed an Assistant Under-Secretary in succession to Bir Como Parkinson, and will aa- sume duty at the Colonial Office at the beginning of September.

It i also announced that Bir London, May 2.

Percy Ezechiel, Third Crown Agent The Basque Government, through for the Colonies, will retire from. its London representative, has ex- the Service with effect from Janu- pressed its profound gratitude forary 1 next, and that the Secretary the British Government's decision of State for the Colonies has ap to protect on the high sens ships pointed Mr. J. E. W. Flood, an As- carrying refugees from Bilbao. sistant Secretary in the Colonial

Ofice, to succeed him.

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