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MODERN BOMBER COULD FLY OVER IT

Paris Air Defences Reach 30,000 Feet

By RONALD WALKER

RAVE concern is felt regarding the Government's plans for a balloon barrage to defend London against air attack.

Orders for a large number of balloons have been placed. There has apparently been great delay in their delivery.

Moreover, the Government seems to have adopted an obsolete type of balloon which cannot rise above 10,000ft., whereas the improved type of "Ariel adopted for the defence of Paris is known to be able to rise to more than 30,000ft.

The matter was raised in a speech delivered by Mr. Harcourt Johnstone recently. He stated that only three balloons have been delivered, and it will be many months before much progress is made. "If the balloon barrage is sufficiently high, it is probable that raids will never be attempted;" he said.

The questions raised aro:

the

Can the balloon adopted by Government reach the height of the French balloon?

Is it the right type for the

protection of London?

First used during the war for

dressed in complete war equipment This robust Spanish peasant girl is the mascot of the international Brigade in Madrid.

NEW NERVE DISCOVERY

RATS COST Branch System in

FRANCE

MILLIONS

Although Paris, plagued during the

the Skin EXISTENCE SEEN IN

EXPERIMENT

By A Medical Correspondent A new system of nerves in the skin,

the protection of London and Middle Ages by the Black Death-hitherto unsuspected and apparently Flaris from air attack, the the dread Rubonle Plague propagat- balloon apron or barrage ised by rats--has long since forgotten closely concerned with the defence of the body against injury, is described about the dangers of these pesta, considered to be a valuable de- their ruvages cost France a billion in the current issue of the British Medical Journal by Shr. Thomas terrent. The barrages, consist» Į franes a year.

Lewis, the famous expert on the heart ing of a series of kite balloons connected by steel cables from which hung a screen of wires, were raised ut night.

What German

Air Chief Said

Filots of bombing machines, faced with the possibilty of flying into these invisible barriers, which would wreck their machines, dvolded the areas where they were thought to be

By the middle of 1918 ten aprons were in position to the East of Lon- don.

General van Hoeppner, in com- manded of the German air forces, reported that if the aprons were increased and improved much more they would make a raid on London almost impossible.

Paris was ringed with a series of balloon barrages. Charts kept by the French authorities showed

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Rats suddenly Joaped to the Purls and circulation.

front pages again last week when a Sir Thomas starts with the well- girl was bitten by a rat in the Meire known fact that when a small area of corridors, and people began finding skin is Injured there develops in many. out about the little beasis that live people a much larger area of tender-

Ipeca which

ich sprends slowly, and may round them wit the time Gabriel nee

an oval ten minutes or so, reach an my of Medicine and expert on revealed that the rat population of This development of a tender Paris exceeded its human population, has been closely studied with the use Conservativo estimates, he stated, of local anaesthetics, and Sir Thomas placed the Parls rat colony at about argues from his experiments that it 10 millions.

nothing to do with the ordinary nerves of sensation or the nerves of

Petit, member of the French is, area of several inches in its long axis.

has

area

In the Middle Ages every European what is termed the sympathetic ByB- city was subject at regular periods tem which supplies the blood vessels to the dread Bubonic Plague. In of the skin.

If the area which has to be injured 1500 the rats drove Henry VII out of London, and he went as far as Calais is first of all injected with a local before he stopped. In France they anaesthetle and a small crushing in- were a real danger down to the time jury made in the centre of the small of the French Revolution. Since insensitive urea, then the develop then mankind has found more effecment of the large area of tenderness five-means-of-fighting against the does not take place until the central rodents and the disease they are apt injured patch has recovered its sensu to carry.

tion.

This shows that the phenomenon is The last epidemic occurred just not due to the spread of any pain- after the World War-the Plague us producing substances, but is conveyed ually follows closely after war by nerves.

It is argued, that it cannot be the

periods, when physical resistance is thu

over Paris during the earlier part of the war, the burrages prevented them from dying over the area of the city and suburbs.

The bombers did not penetrate the ring of balloons trailing the dreaded wires.

M. Yves Tinin, the Frerich authority, writing on the value of the barrage, said that their presence alone stopped attacks. The effect was moral and perfectly emelent. Doubled Height

Of Operations

The

war-time barrage, could be raised to a height of between 0,000 and 10,000 feet.

low and rats have had a hard time ordinary nerves of pain for various foraging for food. The origin of the considerations concerned with the epidemie was traced to a ship from mode of spread and the localisation of India which had docked in the Seine. the tenderness. Nor can the pheno- Rats escaped and carried the germs menon be due to the sympathetic to their neighbours of the Paris at nerves, since tenderness is easily pro-

when the colony. Dead rats became numerous voked even

sympathetic

In 1910-10 ang soon the toll began to system of the tested portion of skin mount among human beings. There la known to have been destroyed by were 01 cases of the Plague treated in sonte previous operation upon it. 1020.

.

By the use of mass vaccinations

NOT A NET-WORK

and a huge rat-killing campaign the It is concluded that the new system epidemic was stemmed at once. [of nerves is not a net-work, but a of branches and There have been no cases since 1921 complicated series

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Each year France pays in

in Paris. Moreover, in 1938, of that these lle actually in the skin 3,025 live rats captured and examin- itself.

Iaboratories there were From a series of experiments upon ed in the

Iines bearing the Bubonic germis human volunteers along the

were only four

considered described above, the conclusion is reached that there is a system of nerves in the skin hitherto unrecog- rat-nised, and for this system the name

Meto

Mayer

WED. THUR,

Thus the barrage must be raised hos

It is to be of any use,

protective action which this system probably affords.

The exact method in which this phenomenon of a large tender ares actually protects the sila is com- plicated, but there seems little doubt

none and The operational height of the suspect. bomber has been moro modern than doubled, and the super-

engine rives full extermination and damage caused by "noelfensor" is suggested in view of charged Acro

rots more than u billion france. This

the power at 20,000 feet and over.

caused authorities to think to something nearer 30,000 feet If seriously of getting rid of the pests

for good.

The many old quarters of Paris are naturally honeycombed The secret of the French "Ariel" with their roads and they can only type is that the gasbag automatically be eliminated once for all by

erection of new houses. This part of expands as it rises.

U programme going ahead As a balloon ascends the surround-by To-dny the so-called Norther ing abr pressure decreases and the system is being examined for applica gas in the envelope expands. tion in Paris. First used in Denmark Moreover, the lifting power of the and now winning favour, in England, this method consists in deliberately gasbag decreases as it rises. Strato Infecting the rats with killing sphere balloons are only inflated to disease which is harmless to human, one-eighth of their capacity to allow beings. It is bacteriological warface for expansion at great altitudes," carried out not against humans but

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HOW GIRL DETECTIVE "SPOTS" PILFERERS

FACIAL BETRAYAL'

the

ngainst their age-long enemies. Thero will be no declaration of war, but soon the Paris authorities will curry, out one of the most merciless ware In French history. If the rats of Paris knew of it there would be an exodus surpassing the grand march of the Pled Piper,

Misa Barbara O'Tourke, who was which people, to which? stated to have had two years and a!

| hqlf experience in delccting pilfering

of the validity of the deductions.

War Training for Soviet Children

MINIATURE BULLETS AND GAS MASKS.

Moscow, Apr. 3. A new. law published do-day orders instruction in military science and strategy for all schoolchildren from the age of eight upwards, until they'rench military age.

The law also provides for the manufacture of millions of miniature

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ut a London store, was a witness in ooit on their faces, r

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She never stated in an interview

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in action for damages for false im that she could "sense" people who The children will be Instructed by prisonment.

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Mr. LaskiNo, but I have seen Mr. Neville Laski, K.C; (cross-speeches that I was alleged to have examining her)How do you know made that I did not recognise.

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