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Thursday,

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April 4, 1940..

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on the

DEUTSCHLAND

AM one of the very few "Foreignent" who have ever

Inside it was a small armoured conning tower, again "verboten."

been shown over the pride of the Nazi Navy-the Above this, by contrast, the Signat

10,000 ton pocket-battleship, Deutschland.

I arrived at the top of the gangway to the accompaniment

of the normal ostentatious Teutonic heel-clicking, to be met by

my host a typical young Prussian.

The Deutsch- land's quarter- deck was much the same as most warships', but somewhat re- stricted In prea owing to the pre- nence of two sets of quadruple tor- pedo-tubes on it.. and dominated by the three eleven- Inch guns of the after turret. whose name was Hindenburg (ench gun turret in Ger- man ships has name of its own). As I climbed

the ladder from the quarter-deck

to the upper deck

I was able to observe closely the armouring of Hindenburg, and if It was any indication of the armour- ing of the rest of the ship, then the pocket-battleship may be more ne- curately called armoured ship, which is just what the Germans do call it "Panzerachtg" not "Sch- lachtschif," as they call a battle- ship.

Just forward of Hindenburg were the Admiral's and Captain's quar- ters, with a scammon sentry-drawn bayonet in hand-outside the door.

In

The ship was exceptionally clean, and the men smarily dressed their customary loose white "blouses," ordinary sailors' trousers.. and their "long-tailed" cup ribbons, Inscribed "Panzerschif Deutsch- land," which hang. pig-tall fashion, down their backs.

THE Fahnrichsmesse** (Junior Officers' Mess) was the next place in our itinerary,

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It was not even comparable to British Gunroom-its nearest equivalent-being very uncomfort- able and much too small for its twenty Inmates.

The German Fahnrich has no rent equivalent in the British Navy, 119, although, he is ranked with a

Midshipman, he is considerably

older and much more fully trained, and is also able to specialise in Gunnery, Torpedoes, Navigation, Engineering at this comparatively early

stors before he is promoted to "UnterleutnantSub-Lieuten

nnt.

The pros and cons of the wisdom of this method ralse far too many highly specialized and controversial questions to be discussed here.

The Tahnrichsmesse" is, how- ever, only the Falinrich's living and

with study space, he messes

the other officers in the Wardroom, which is very large and luxurious in the Deutschland, panelled in light cak, light, lofty, and strelch- Ing almost the full width of the ship.

On entering It must be greeted with the customary Nazi salutation, but the Quarter-deck--saluted by seamen through the ages-is ap- parently not entitled to recognition by the Nazis.

The inevitable picture of the Fuehrer-actually smiling-hung

in

the Wardroom, but here it hath competition in the shape of an- other picture, that of IIinden- burk.

But even in 1930 the German Novy

was definitely the Nazi Navy, although the ofeers tactfully re- frained from talking politics or Indulging in that obscene Nazi habit of thrusting down the thront of the victim tales of the wisdom

and

goodness of their Leader, and of the wonders and advantages of life In the New Germany.

However, they had most excel-

bridge acemed inadequately small, and above the "verboten" conning tower was small armoured posl- tion

rumoured to contain secret in- struments,

Here my Prussian Gunnery of- ficer guide got into his airide for the first time.

'IN enthusiastically en Contouring 10 explain this scientiflo marvel to me in broken

English and German mbred, when one of his more discreet comrades-in-armis pointed out that this was also "verbolen,” and I was hustled out,

This was a pity because, given this loqunelous and boastful time. Prussinn would have told me quite a lot about, the five complicated looking Instruments in there, which happened to be his action station.

The impression I received of the ship was on the whole good, but apart from the fact that so much had been contained in so light a tonnage (10,000), which is more an engineering achievement than a Aghting quality, I do not think that rither slic or her two sisters- Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer-constitute a grave menace to our Navy.

A. H. FORBES

lent Hock in the Wardroom-doubl- THE

less the work of Herr von Ribben- trop, who had not yet risen to the ahuky heights of the Nazi heirarchy and a piano well played by one of the officers.

Forward of the Wardroom were two narrow corridors leading for- word. looking exactly like those long corridors in liners, enamelled a fawn colour, well fit, with the officers' cabins opening through polished mahogany doors on the outboard side and bath-rooms, store-rooms, etc., on the Inboard alde.

At the end of the corridor was a watertight door, lending to the fore- part of the ship.

THROUGH this door we con-

tinued our way forward, passing the engine-room doors "verboten" to me-to the crew's mess-decks.

These were much the same as our own, except that the wooden mess tables and benches were stowed overhead when not in use, teaving a large and apparently pointless empty space.

This space was very clean, well- scrubbed floors, the walls enamelled a blue off-white, and plenty scuttles for light and air.

of

Painted on the bulk-heads only. about thirty feet apart, even above the waterline was the name of the compartment and, in compartments below

the

waterline there were niso blueprints on buards showing the plan, cross-section and eleva- of the ship at that point, and full details of the pumping, flooding

draining arrangements. Hammocks, made of dark red canvas, were neatly lashed up and stowed in bins where convenient.

Forward of the mess-decks was the "ennteen,' This was an elabo-

Lion

and

rate affair looking very like any small German "Bierstube," with all marble-topped tables and light wooden chairs.

small

Forward again of this Bierstube was the Petty Omeers' Mess, also a very fine large place, and con- veniently situated." The greater part of the men of the Nazi Navy come from Bavaria oddly enough (hence the importance of the Biers- tobe), but the majority of the officers are Prussians

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WE now went up to the Navigating bridge, which 11 very spacious semi- circular and totally enclosed space, with large square ports all round.

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CHARACTER PICTURES

CHARACTER studies make interesting pictures.

Choose a subject whose face is marked by charac ter and experience, and you have opportunity for a real picture-perhaps a whole series of pictures.

Elderly persons are usually chosen for character studies- but there's no reason why a younger person can't be used, or even a child.

For example, a picture of Johnny pouting over his spinach, or trying to puzzle out an especially hard pro- blem in arithmetic.

Try to make your picture trath- ful to the character.

Sometimes the face alone is sufficient for the picture. In other cases, you may want to show the subject in his or her normal setting.

For example, a sweet-faced grandmother in her favourito chair by the window, busy with her sewing basket.

These accessories, the basket

Character studies maka interesting, truthful plotures-well worth having In your anapshot collection.

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When the face only is shown, a plain background is best. With must cameras, you will have to include more than the subject's head. However, when largement is made, everything except the head can be masked out. The picture above was en- larged in that munner-the origi nal negative included the subject from the waist up.

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NOT even the creators of "Buck Rogers", of comic-strip fame, ever envisioned a death ray that would kill as rapidly as a lethal radiation recently produced by Dr. II. C. Rent- schler and Milton Hoyt at the Westinghouse Lamp Division research laboratories in Bloom- field, New Jersey, U.S.A.

In less than a hundred thou- sandth of a second-about the time. a lightning flash needs to get well started this death ray klils every Hving organism within its range, and none escapest There is no fore- warning-merely sudden death.

Produced by a variant of the now famillar Sterilamp, the radio- tions are being used experimentally to determine the ultraviolet senal- tivity of various types of bacteria and eller micioorganisms to short exposures,

A MINIATURE pool, form- ed by cementing a brass ring on a microscope is filled with a few drops of liquid organic culture.

By means of a microscope and e projector, Images of the organism are then projected on a. screen at a rengifention of about 200 diameters. Dent around and slightly above the pool of culture is a short Sterllamp,

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spark gap is renched. At that instant all of the energy stored in the capacitors is discharged through the Stefilamp and causes it to emit powerful ultraviolet radiations.

The reaction on an observer is startling: Hairy-looking, ovate paramecia dart aimlessly hither and thither about the iluminated screen. One becomes fascinated by their senseless scampering, Then a sharp cackle as the spark gap flashes, and there is no more movement. The organisms do not alow down gradually; they slop Instantly, most of them partly ex- ploded by the intensity of the death Tay.

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