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MYSTERY OF SEA DEEPS

PROBED BY SCIENCE

UNKNOWN WORLD REACHED BY BATHYSPHERF}

WHEN PROFESSORS GO EXPLORING

By E. G. Bunlenger

Some forty years ago Mr. H. G.

に

INNUMERAble lightS,

Wells deribed in a short story At Kreater depthe Stygian dark-

how an intrepid oceanographer desi

cended to the ocean abyss employing new shut down upon the awful hollow steel aphere fitted with a stillness of the deep, yet a darkness

THE

HONGKONG

TRAINING OF CHILDREN

Too Much Culture Not Good

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1934.

By Olive Roberts Barton Mrs. Bird arrived in Autter of chiffon and a flutter of words. That settled it. This meant that the new Millers were necepter to the new town, for Mrs. Bird

was soelni arbiter.

She was very nice but very su-

special breathing apparatus and ah-plerced by innumerable lights perficial. Little points of etiquette

servation windows.

not

mere record.

and your type of furniture settled Mrs. Bird's mind whether or It not you belonged to the elect. Was a sort of try-out call and Mrs. Miller knew it.

Lucy was most likely to be the up the straw that would gun

whole works, Lucy was ten. She was a tousle-headed tomboy and she said startling things.

But Ley had been drilled, "If you come in and say, 'I tell the world, or 'You're telling me,' *Til ruin you." spoke her mother. "And for goodness sake, learn to make a decent curtsy. They're still do- Ing it in this town. Oh, yes, shake hands if she offers to. Sit down for ten minutes, keep your mouth shut and your feet and hands still and aur, Yes, Mrs. Bird, or No. Mrs. Bird, and don't stare. Gut

countable AWNTMB of minute This fantasy has come to passen Motha,"

molluses, known na Pleuropods, or flittered round the In actual fact, for within the past

sphere in phorescent clouds. Fish werk Dr. William Berlw, the American Natural History in varying forms, and bearing light Museum's Tropical Research Stjorgans of innumerable kinds, aug- tion, has decended off the Bermadamented a world crowded with life

The ant infinity of shapes... pre- coast with his companium, Mr. Otis valent colouring of these creatures Barton, who took film pictures, in similar steel chamber, termed appeared to be black or vivid red; "bathysphere," to a depth of 3,000 the latter being the dominant hue feet. The divers state that this most of the crustaceans.

Life in the abyss would appear depth of more than half a mil

to be as crowded as in the surface would have been easily excorded, waters. Many of the fish common but their object was scientific ob to the Continental shelf are la the Hervation, anel

depths attuned to their peculiar breaking.

Dr. Bethe, in his latest communi-environment in special ways. The normal angler fish. for example, ention, describes how he and his wave its lure in vain in utter dark companion took film pletures of the

ness. To meet this exigency, eeenn depths, reporting at the same therefore, the fleshy lure, which is time all they saw to a secretary in attached to the end of a rodlike a yacht above. Fragments from is transformed into a luminova the report refer to "fish looking bulb, and this attracts other fishes like shooting stars gone mad," and

to their doom. the account generally indicated à

Not only the waters, but the world no one has previously been abyss floor itself hos a inrge populas privileged to see.

The sphere's searchlight attracted tion, and since the sea bed is often weird and wonderful fish, whichfoozy and yielding

n forguette and she says 'cawn't dashed themselves against the winecial adaptations are required for and wahlah. Now mind."

the creatures frequenting it. Many

Well-latey minded, She dows as do birds and moths against

prawns and crabs walk upon this the lighthouse lamp-chamber,

shifting floor on high stilted legs, not Ley bu somebody else. She was a good little actress. Every- Many of the inhabitants are purs

thing went off very well. And as ed by bottom-feeding sharks which

Mes. Bird lef she said, "I want The "Bathysphere" is, briefly, a urinate the sea bed by means of

Lucy to come over and see Oriel. globular steel case just large enough innumerable lights upon their un-

There are so few cultured chil- to contain two men and a eumers. Ider surfaces.

I ans IL A view of the world without in

the use of lights, indeed.dren for her to play with. afforded by three windows of fused which constitute one of the greatest very careful. You must feel the quartz three inches thick and eight jaarvels of this inky world. The same way." inches in diameter. These win-common cuttlefish of the abyss, for dows give a clearer view than glass, example, carries "R its body and ean, moreover, withstand a twenty-two globular light organs pressure of many tons. The sphere two ruby red, two sky blue, one i only big enough to permit of a ultramarine. and the remainiler

"THE BATHYSPHERE.

Summer is pretty well finished in England now, but the Punch and Judy shows at the seaside resorts are always popular as long as children are on the beaches, as here, at Margate.

nature

squatting posture, and is entered (white or yellow. Another deep sen by a manhole which is Armly squid stores Its light in the form of screwed into position when the two masses not unlike tooth-paste interior is occupied. In action the ur artist's colour, and ander stimu "bithysphere" is lowered by means lus these substances are squeezed of a steel cable, and communication into the water, where they defusc with those on the ship is hold by in a cloud of greenish light. The means of a telephone. The possi-lurdinary ink screen no effective in bilities of such a contrivance are shallow water would naturally be

of obvious.

little use where all is darkness, therefore, The trained observer, in looking and it is interesting, out on the ocean bed, can give at ito note this singular adaptation first hand accurate descriptions of which in the deens is also shared. innumerable matters which would by certain prawns. otherwise be only dimly guessed at

A DEEP SEA "LINER."

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CHANGE OF MANNERS. Lury shouted, "I'll tell the world. Don't worry I'll be ap ple-ple."

"And don't giggle. She

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Bernt Balchen will fly across the South Pole with Lincoln Ellsworth. shortly, and the Illustration depicts the famous airman's departure from Los Angeles for New Zealand,

NAZIS TRAINING SAAR LEGION

READY TO MARCH OVER FRONTIER

ANIMAL HEROES GIVEN MEDALS

BODO, THE ENEMY

OF REBELS

Vienna, Sept. 10.

The Vienna Society for the Pro-

Saarbrucken, Sopt. 2. Germany is training a speels! | Saar Legion, similar the recently disbanded Austrian Legion, ready tection of Animals have decided to award medals to animals that have to launch into the Suar.

be thus is is composed of young Saur.saved human lives.

The first animal to landers aged between 18 and 25 decorated will be a small mongrel who are given a semi-military

Graz, training in German labour camps dog from Fernitz, near WAN

which saverl small child from "cation.

them for the struggle in drowning. Another recipient will

LESCO

In that town it happened that every mother, in order to keep in with the rich Birds and have their children say they were friends of Oriel's, tried to mold their young- sters manners after those of the artificial ebiki. Not that i hart them much to get some rest man ners, but this is not the end of the story.

artificial Oriel was

She con cealed her real self under an sa real exterior that one sensed was untrue and forced.

In five years every girl of her set was a "prim Priscilla" who gushed commonplace nothings, who over-accented politeness and hid frank and real personality so constantly it was a complete ore to talk to any of them. TOO MUCH.

Then Mrs. Miller began to wor- ry. Her nice little Lucy was be- coming so superficial-she-no-long- er knew her. Once she said. "Lucy. Fil give anything to hear you say 'Darn it all," or "You're crazy' or something natural once in a while. Be yourself.

No on

defendan

Television machine in action at the Nazi ceremony in Berlin where Herr Hliler spoke to a million Naxis,

any of your

crowd.

certain

as the result of trawlings. Toe ofton specimena gathered from Some of the farms known are depths of more than 2.500 feet confe quite inexplicable. One of the to the surface damaged beyond most baffling has

just been dis- can stand identification owing to the sudden covered at a depth of 1,000 feat. You'll all die old maids. Butter relaxation of the enormous pressure The creature is a fish which begins tongues-all of you."

But Oriel to which they are normally sub-life with its eyes planted on stalks Jected. The movements of such half the length of its body. On grand young ladies' school, and creatures and their general ways reaching maturity and a length of the rest, of course, had to go, too. of life must, therefore, be matters 14 inches, the eyes assume a normal They came home "poised." "Yes, of conjecture, but the "bathy-position and the fish then dovelopes Mrs. So and So," "No, Mrs. So sphere" opens up now vistas in the huge tenth, a complex barbel, and and So. I became a polite but realma of deep sea exploration. a row of light organs along its deadly chant.

went to a

Dr. Beebe's "bathysphere" is an body, which make it look like a When Lucy was nineteen Bho Improved model of the first concep- miniature liner with every porthola was a complete sphinx, and tion built seven years ago, and Illuminated.

stranger to her own family. And which was first tried out off the Certain small fishes less than a then Mrs. Miller wept. "What n coral reefs of Non Such Island, quarter the size of this miniature mess I've made of her. I wish I'd Bermuda, in comparatively shallow dragon are without tooth, and brought her up in a mining camp. water: As time" "progressed overbear huge light upon either in overalls. I've buried my roal increasing depths were explored. cheek. At first they were thought girl forever." - and Interesting revelations of the to be the larvao of the stalk-sveil

waterworld resulted. It was found creatures, but they have now been

that at a depth of 100 feet visibility Identified as males, and are knows tions to our store of knowledge, was excellent, but at 200 feet the to lead parasitic liven on their refn most zoologists will agree that only orange faded from the spectrum, tively, gigantic consorts. and at 300 the water was of on Mr. Beebe in his latest communi- Intense blue, which, as Dr. Beebe cation-states that "every dive con- has described, "acemed to all the vinces me of the futility of trying sphere, so that it crouchi oc to beget the true iden of deep sea the protecting walls."

will deny the value of his contribu-

the drag-net can bring murine forms within the reach of the scientific museum worker, and that as a result, the drag net will always be an Detailed knowledge of

the

his

In addition, a special group of be Bodo, a German sheep-dog, now air pilots has been trained in the police dog. During a rialng, Suar itself under the aegis of ap-was surrounded by the rebels and minster, who is a police-inspector. parently neutral sport associations. These disclosures are made by the Saar Governing Commission, which publishes documents recently confiscated during a police raid on the German Front headquarters in Sanr-brucken.

threatened. However, Bado bit everybody whe menaced his master.

Some weeks ago Bedo's master had an opportunity of saving his faithful dog's life. Bodo jumped into the Danube just when a big paddle steamer was approaching. The Governing Commission hus Hia master, in full uniform, jump- hitherto allowed Saarlanders to takeed into the water and saved the part in voluntary labour service in dog from being drawn into the Germany, but on the grounds of the

paddles. Another dog awaiting material now discovered such parti-decoration is the police-dog Prinz, cipation is in future to be illegal. which can detect the smell of bird- The documents disclose that in me. He jumps at those who carry October, 1932, the Prussian Gov-It, and has thus saved many birds ernment entrusted the Reich Volun- from traps and death. tary Labour Service Association with the task of training 10,000 young Saarlanders in German labour caraps. They were to be retained In Germany till the plobis- cite In 1935 or until such time "as they should be recalled to the Sanr," The orginal figure of 10,000 has been exceeded by 6,000.

The organisation in the Saur of the voluntary labour service is in constant communication with the Secret Pollee in Berlin. Saar- landers who give' unfavourable re- "ports of conditions"in"Germany"and" In the labour camps are denounced in Berlin and in some cases sent to concentration camps in Germany.

COLUMBIA NAVY RECRUITS

BRITISH SAILORS DISILLUSIONED

MIGHT HAVE HAD.

TO FIGHT

Nine British ex-Naval ratings who in February agreed to serve for two years in the Colombian Navy returned to England recently wearing the uniform of the Royal Navy with cap ribbons bearing the names of the destroyera Antioquia und Caldas

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ANOTHER £500 PRIZE

AIR RACE PROMOTER'S

GENEROSITY.

They landed at Plymouth on the:

Sir MacPherson Robertson, the arrival of the liner Simon Bolivat Australian millionaire chocolate from the West Indies and the rest manufacturer, who has already of the party of 150 will be return-given £15,000, a gold cup valued ing shortly.

prizes £600, and gold medals "We are fed up," one man with for the London to Melbourne air three good conduct stripes de-race has now given another £500 clared. "We expected 1 squire

as prize for a Melbourne to Hobart déal and did not get it."

"We went out purely in an ad-Tasmania) race, to be flown after

the main raco. visory capacity to assist in training

This brings the number the Colomblan anilors, but on "side"

racca in Australia, for Arrival wo were told we should have which competitors in the main race Our King's are eligible, to six, says Austral to fight If necCABREY, Regulations wore read over to us News. Prize money

amounta overy day, and we had to abide by approximately £0,000. them and also by the regulations of the Colombian Navy,

"Our contracts stated wo should be paid in English money, but wo were given foreign currency, which was worth considerably less, so we are all cancelling our contracts and coming home.

"They

wanted to disrato me and tried to remove the good conduct badges I had earned in our Navy,” another man declared.

of

to

RINTELEN: LOSES HIS RICHES

Confiscated To Pay For Nazi Revolt

Vienna, Sept. 1. The departure of the men for the The villa and property of Dr. Colombian navy caused, a scene in Rintelen, the man whom the Nazi the House of Commons on May 30. robels of July 25-proclaimed as the When Mr. Geoffrey Mander, Liber-successor to Dr. Dollfusa, the mur- nl M.P. for East Wolverhampton,dered Chancellor, have been con protested against their enlistment fncated.

he was accused by the First Lord With the money standing to his of the Adiniralty (Sir Bolton credit In Styrlan banks, the pro- Eyres-Monsell) of holding up porty will be used by the Govern- England to international oblomir, ment towards paying for the and a meeting of Liberal M.Pa damage caused by the rising. Wan held to discuss what" was It is estimate that the valuo described af n grons Ministerial of the villa and property, which are

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