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DIEU DEFEND LE

DROIT !

GRAND FLEET

By Hector C. Bywater

these ships form a

Collectively an event of historic

I was

Significance when, on May á powerful and well-balanced fleet, the H.M.S. Afridi was commissioned last unit of which should be in com- mission by 1842. Five of the battle- at Portsmouth. In ordinary ships belong to the King George V. eircumstances the commission cluss, 35,000 tons, protected by mas- ing of a new destroyer would not sive armour, engined for a speed of exeite much comment. In this about 8

case the simple ceremony was a portent.

*

kuols, and armed with numerous 14 guns, hard-hitting, long-range weapons with a high rate. of fire. Their anti-aircraft batteries

The meaning of that portent is are the most formidable ever install- fully recognised in naval and diplo- ed in British men-of-war.

matic circles at home and abroad.

AIR ARM'S REVIVAL For the Afridi, of 1,850 tons, is the

The two battleships of the 138 Arst unit to be completed of a naval

programme are to be larger, though construction programme which em- they will not exceed 40,000 tons. braces nearly 600,000 tons of new They are to mount 18in gums. Aghting strips, a figure that exceeds understood that further buttleships half the aggregate tonnage of the will be provided for in next year's British Navy of 1935. She is, in fact, Estimates.

It is

the forerunner of the future Grand Four of the aircroft-carriers now Fleet which is being built to guard building are ships of 23.000 tons; the the 80,000 miles of seaways that con- fifth may be somewhat larger. Their stitute the arteries of the British designed speed is approximately 31 Commonwealth.

knots, and they are reported to have

70 aircraft. Fourteen years of unilateral dis- accommodation for 70 armament had left those arteries gether with the 22,000-ton Ark Rozil, dangerously exposed, as we discover which is to be commissioned next ed when the Mediterranean crisis month, they will take to sea pome arze in the autumn of 1935.

To-

420 aeroplanes

that will be considerably increased if, as is anti- A DANGEROUS POLICY

ripted, five of the older carriers are To consolidate our position in that retained on the active list. Further- sea we had, almost literally, to "re- more at least 100 aircraft will even call the legions" by detaching ships ttually be borne in battleships and from every foreign station to rein- cruisers fitted with catapults. force the Mediterranenn Fleet, Dur-

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By George Clark

CONTIST

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9.6

"Peanuts, popcorn, phone numbers!"

INSULIN AND ITS STRUCTURE

By A Scientific Correspondent

on some

forced into war with Germany and heavy armoment were a tacit ad- the direct oder the in a quarrel that was not our destroyers were outclassed by the acting wing of the battle fleet. Pro-juices and chewing and churning is] fundamental feature of the structure

now

a

the question of

Shape of the Molecule

ад

a few

When food is eaten it is moistened purely seientific knowledge of insulin surprising. It was found in the mouth by digestive juices and is more chewed and then swallowed into the, that it is a protein of the same class stomach. Other digestive juices are as egg albumin. Like egg albumb there added to the mixture, which is it consists of molecules of a definite When it is mentioned that at the then churned around by the stomach's size and more or less globular in ing those critical nine months it beginning of this year the Fleet Air muscular contractions. The food la shape. The melecules of this class would have been difficult, if not in Arm had a total strength of only 230 considerably mixture is squirted into that of a hydrogen alone. This has

dissolved in

in about 1113 all have weights about 38,000 times pussible, to provide adequate pratee aircraft, the magnitude of the Ad-hour, and the mixture

navel, the small intestine. tion for shipping on any routes but miralty's effort to develop

1 in nesaulted been proved especially by Svedberg, those in home waters, the Mediter aviation will be appreciated,

by two more streams

of digestive of Uppsala, and is one of the most

remarkable discoveries through

in recent ranean and the African roundabout. Both before and during the Mediter-Juice. These come

It was while the crisis was still canean crisis the dearth of cruisers pipes into the beginning of the in-science.

The uniformity of the shape and acute that the Afrid) and six sister gave rise to anxiety. These ships testine from two glands by which

many t It is just a quarter of a cen-vessels were ordered under a sup- fulfil

functions that The they are manufactured by the body. mass of molecules of proteins, such lementary vote to the Navy Exi- demand for them must always outrun One gland is the liver and the other is as insulin and cg albumin, which have very different biological func- tury since Great Britain was mites of 1935. Their unusual size the supply. Upon them devolves named the pancreas.

of guarding The object of all this digestion with tions, seems to depend mission that our earlier post-war the trade

Din tect

to reduce food to a solution which is of living matter. Its clucidation is of the greatest sclentine flotilla leaders in which certain Con in view of the enormous area of sen capable of passing through the walls theretore Tears in My Heart. F.T...Tommy Dorsey & His Orch, seeking; in a quarrel that, up to

tinental navies had specialised. For to be covered it is clear that the of the intestine into the blood stream importance.

of and we had been present authorised establishment

The molecule of insulin, with mast then the very moment the British the sake of economy

being incorporated into Bie building ships which, good in them- 60 modern and 10 over-nge cruisern building process of the body. If the about 30,000, is known to be built of thousand aloms. These B 8747--Baby, Won't You Please Come Home. Fox Trot Ambassador in Berlin was hand-selves, were interior in tonnage and is inadequate. That this total will be supply of any of the digestive Juices several

I just Couldn't Take It. Baby. Fox Trot

ed his passports, we did every-gun-power to potential opponents increased in the near future is con- fails the digestive process will be up-must be arranged in some more

false and dangerous policy which sidered inevitable.

sel. For instance, if the juice, or less Lionel Hampton & His Orch.thing in our power

globular shape. This supe

to avert.

ale, from the Bver is stopped from might entirely dety analysis if the ignored the tragic lesson of Coronel and other bitter experiences, such as

VALUE OF SUBMARINES

flowing into the intestine by an ob- atoms were arranged singly in an We have

entered the the one-sideri Pensus-Koenigsberg Destroyers, Fox Trot.

as the 100,

Navy's struction the patient will not be able irregular way, but fortunately there ducl

"maids of all work," are in constant to digest fat and will have jaundice. is chemical evidence that in all pro- twenty-fifth year after the out-

teins the (Film: "Her Jungle Love")

Much has been fearned of the na-

atoms eluster in duty In consequence of the Mediter demand for

battle fleet 15 break of the Great War. Many rancan crisis and the steady

the digestive types of groups. The overall shape de screens, convay, and anti-submarine iure and origins of terioration of the general political work. Even when the construction julers by experiment. Mering and of the molecule must depend on the a young father and mother of situation, the long-delayed restora programme is completed we shall Minkovski discovered

in 1889 that an

that arrangement of these groups. This It the

The problem. pancreas to-day was not even born on tion of the Navy was tackled in have only 100 modern destroyers, anals from which

greally simplifies August 4. 1914. To still earnest in the spring of 1936. plus about 60 old boats dating from gland is removed develop diabetes-cecurred to Dr. Dorothy Wrinch, R

sary mathematician at Oxford, to

to consider the war period. The Still hampered by treaty restric-

that is, they cannot assimilate sugary omission of greater number the memory of tions which, inter alia, torba the destroyers from the 1938 building and starchy foods. Minkovski then how groups of these types might be accord- the war is but a childish recol-building of battleships before 1937 plan has evoked criticism, but there showed in 1900 that if a fresh pan-arranged in globular forms,

Hand

was grafted into an ing to geometrical principles. She lection. The parents can pass arbitrary Units-the Admiralty faid these vessels will be

and kept our cruiser tonnage within is reason to believe that a number of creas

ordered next animal without one the diabetes dis- suggested that these groups are on to their children

BO first-its plans for the rebuilding of the Year.

appeared. It was evident that some capable of form hexagonal

wire cheet like a piece of Fleet. An unobtrusive census of, all On hand knowledge of what horror val shipbuilding and armament re- navul opinion is divided, one school searched for it strenuously, but with folded into a many-sided solid figure submarines gen! trom the pancreas was easen-etling, and that this sheet can be

tial for digesting sugar, Physiologista war really is.

sources was taken. The result was doubting their value to the British out success until 3022, when Bunting

which is roughly globular. The Responsibility for the last surprising.

Mavy, and the other maintaning that and Best obtained it in a relatively number and size of such solid

solid Agures Great War has been a subject. JUMP IN PRODUCTION

they are indispensable both for re-pure form und numed it insulin. as may be constructed are strictly connaissance and attack.

defined by the laws of geometry, and which has produced hundreds of | Firms which had been working at

it turned out that by geometry alone low pressure during the years of Both schools agree, however, in de- hooks, thousands of unsettled economic depression boldly offered to precating the tendency, observable in

Since then the methods of prepar- the molecular weight classes found have been much im- by Svedberg can be predicted. Dr. arguments. Even history-for accept contracts which would entall recent speeches by public men, to dis- ing insulin the last war-is-history to the threefold increase in production, miss the submarine as an out-moded Proved. It is now compounded with Wrinch considered which of the set and when the offers were accepted weapon no longer to be regarded as the sperm of various fisher In this would have about the right moss for protumine, u protem obtained froms of sizes obtained from her analysis majority of living-people-can- the subsequent orders were fulfilled a serious menace Naval herinre form it acts in the body less quickly the insulin molecule, and she con- not settle the controversy, ex-according to promise. Heavy ord- under no such illusion. Submarines

nance and armour-plate plants which are just as dangerous to merchant so that one large injection will do cluded that it would be one which

the work of

consisted of 280 of the repeated small ones.

constituent war vessels to-day as they were in 1914- cept that official documents coll- had lain practically idle since he wit 18, and, despite all the progress in his saves the patient from the dis-groups of utoms. elusively prove that the two were reconditioned and put into ser- detection and counter-attack methods comfort of on excessive number of

Professor Bergmann, of New York, vice again. The most serious nations who genuinely struggled blem to be solved was the shortage made since the Great War, no com-injections and also from, dangers or found chemical evidence at about the same that the molecule of egg for peace in those fateful July of skilled Inbour. This still persists, feel comfortable it he knew that

manding officer of a warship would overdoses and relapses

The improvement in the method of albumin, which is of the same chias, though it being overcome as the days were Great Britain and farge number of apprentices entered

in his applying insulin is not unexpected, consisted of 288 connected groups.

as great efforts have been made to France.

in the past three years advance in vicinity.

Structure of Crystals discover a thing of such obvious If war is farced upon Europe

In addition to the impressive pro-] practical value. The advance in the But chemists so far have not found

much chemical evidence that The Navy Estimates for 1938 pro- rumme of new construction tabulat- week-and, unhappily, vided for two battleships, two air- ed above, the dockyards are working

constituent groups are arranged In There is every reason to fear craft carriers, seven cruisers, 17 des- at full pressure on the midernisation Plans have been Inid for reorganising when opt

un hexagonal pattern. The groups that it may be there can be no royers, zeven submarines and many of older vessels. Battleships. battle the fleets and squadrons at home and i chemists seem then to be like zigzag become accessible to auxillary vessels. This was by far cruisers, equivocation, no doubt whatever, the largest programme to be infri- have been, or are to be, thoroughly grumine matures. The Fleet Air This does not prove, however, that destroyers abroad when the construction pro- hairpins rather than rings in netting. regarding the guilt. It will be duced since the war, yet it proved to reconstructed, and although a re- Arm, so long the Cinderella of the they are not arranged in a net when be well within the capacity of the juvenated warship can never be the Services, is to be developed on a seale vain for German sophistry to shipbuilding and armament indus- equal of a new unit, reconstruction undreamt of until recent times. assembled in the complete Insulin attempt to draw a distinction rica. The following table shows the aids years to its useful lite.

molecule. building prograinmes for 1936-38, In- between frustration in Czecho- elusive:

CARGO-SHIPS' DEFENCE

The methods of determining the REFILLING THE RANKS

shape of molecules are The whole problem of commerce restricted to chemistry. The chemist no longer Slovakia or any other cause to

So for the material aspect of nuval protection on the high seas and in sinds the shape by taking the mole- Battleships which she might attribute the Aircraft carriers

rearmament has been considered, but narrow waters has been reviewed in cule to pieces bit by bit by analysis. it is hardly necessary to say that the the light of modern conditions, with But if the substance will crystallise blame. There will be no need Cruisers

backbone of the Royal Navy is in us the result that plans for safeguard- the shape of its molecule may be Destroyers for Britain or France to demon-

Submarines

man-power. During the years, of ing the nation's food carriers have found by shining an X-ray Inside It. forced economy the Fleet was griev been prepared to the last detall. It Very fortunately and strate that they exerted any but

ously under-maned, and serious is not pretended that these arrange-

surprisingly in- the most genuine and painstak-

hordship was inflicted on the person ments are infallible,

Bulin 19

has been crystallised. The but they are nel by the disproportionable amoit sufficiently elastic to provide for the that is, they are built in six-sided thehind the immediate issues of of foreign servlee which had to be most unexpected contingencies,

have hexagonal features- ing influences against cataclysm that threatens the peace or war is whether the performed. Moreover, us pracileslly

nets of atoms. The crystallisation ir With the co-operation of ship-assisted by the presence of atom of all ships were short-handed, officers owners die Admiralty is preparing zine. It seems that the zinc atoms: Nazis' ultimate object is to get and men were over-worked. pence of Europe.

In view of the Czecho-Slovan stranglehold on Czecho-Slova-

to equip the greater part of our act as mortar to hold the molecules To-day, in spite of the large in- ocean-going merchant fleet with the of insulin together in regular order, kinn concessions which

akia as i prelude to grasping the reuse in personnel-from 89,853 off means of self-defence, such as guns and that each molecule requires tantamount to complete capitu-

cers and men in 1933 to 119,000 in for low and high-angle fire and antl three atoms of zinc for this purpose. lation by Prague to the original rich prizes of the Danubian and the present your-the Fleet is sill mine patavanes. Defence courses for

The structure for total in- Merchant Navy officer were institut has Baikan granaries,

under-manned, since the cludes nearly 12,000 boys who are ed last year, and over 5,000 such.om- methods. The The last war cost nine million not yet fully trained. To cope with very have already graduated.

very complicated, existing traluing establishments

of cargo-carrying chips-about 2,000 them the structure proposed by Dr.

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1936 1937 1938 Total.

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were

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and

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obtained are

at first it did

from

these concessions would be car-human lives. The next war the great influx of new entries all the There is an acknowledged shortage not seem possible to deduce |rici" out, there can be only one will be more horrifying and have had to be enlarged and two new fewer than we had in 1014-but, ex her mastery of geometry, analysed

reason for war.

Wrinch, She has, however, through

In Mein Kampf/more brutal, because innocent ones established-H.M.S. Caledonia, cept for this con, it might the pictures herself, and according

formerly the liner Majestie, at be claimed with

ture.

Hitler said: "There is no room women and children will be the Rosyth, and H.M.S. Wildfre at Sheer- tain is in a far better position to-day contem in detall her proposed struc- Wat Bri- to her calculations finds that they in Europe for Germany and an-victims of modern war weapons, ness.

to meet a challenge to her sen com- other Power. Either Germany as they are in China and Spain. Except in certain artifeer branches, munications lian she was at the out-

break of the Great War.

There le still disagreement among must be Europe or nothing." Let any man who releases this there has been no difcuity in fill

up the depleted ranks of the Navy been achieved in the way

Much of the credit for all that has concerning her conclusions, but she the experts of X-ray Interpretation Is the threat of war against mad dog of war upon civilisation Doys and young men of the best type Czecho-Slovakia a step in the beware. Upon his soul will rest the age-old call of the sen, eager to dicuted belongs to the retiring First Langmuir, who has just published in of pre has the powerful support of the have responded in their thousands to paredness on the lines I have infamous American chemist Dr. Irving fuifllment of Hitler's mad the damning guilt of a massacre serve under the White Ensign.

Sea Lord, Adml. of the Fleet Lord collaboration with as tha Limitations of space preclude more Chatfeld, who will dream? In the words of the of innocent lives such

her a compléte always be account of the investigation in the aya Journal of the American Chemical London Times, the question world has never before wit. than a bare summary of the other honoured by the Navy both

measures taken in the Just three great sea captain and as a naval ad- Society. mark which looms so large be- neased.

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