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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 4, 1940.

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I was on the DEUTSCHLAND

I AM one of the very few "foreigners" who have ever

been shown over the pride of the Nazi Navy-the

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- atrleted in area owing to the pre- sence of two pets of quadruple tor- pedo-tubes on it, and dominated by the three cloven- Inch guns of the after turret whose name was Hindenburg (ench gun turret in Gor- men chips has o name of its own). Ar 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 "Panzerschif" not "Sch- lachtschig," as they call a battle- ship:

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

The ship was exceptionally clean, and the men anartly dressed in their customary

white

loose

"blouses," ordinary sailors' trousera, and their "long-tailed" cup ribbons, inscribed "Panzerschif `Deutsch- land," which hang, pig-tall fashion, down their backs.

THE "Fahnrichamesse

(Junior Officers' Mess) wus the next place in our itinerary.

It was not even comparable to menrest British Qunroom-its equivalent being very uncomfort- able and much too small for its twenty inmates.

The German Fahnrich" has no real equivalent in the British Navy, as, although, he is ranked with a Midshipman, he 19 considerably

alder and much more fully trained,

and is also able. to specialise in

Gunnery, Torpedoes, Navigation, or Engineering at this comparatively early sluge, before he is premated to "Untericutnant" Sub-Lieuten-

oot.

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

The "Fabnrichsmesse" is, how. ever, only the Fainrich's living and study space, be messus with the other ofcers in the Wardroom, which is very large and luxurious la the Deutschland, panelled in light oak, light, lofty, and streich- ing almost the full width of the ship.

On entering it must be greeted with the customary Nazi salutation, but the Quarter-deck-suluted by seamen through the nges—is op- parently not entitled to recognition by the Nazis.

The inevitable picture of the Fuchrer-actually smiling-hung in the Wardroom, but here it had competition in the shape of au- other picture, that of Inden-

burg.

But even in 1930 the German Navy was definitely the Nazi Nnvy. although the officers tactfully re- frained from talking politics or indulging in that obscene Nazi holsit 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- lent Hock In the Wardroom-doubt- less the work of Herr von Ribben- trop, who had not yet risen to the shaky heights of the Nazi heirarchy and a plano 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 it, with the officers

cabins opening through polished mahogany doors on the outboard side and bath-rooms, store-roons, etc., on the inboard side.

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

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THROUGH this door we con-

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

There were much the some of our own, except that the wooden mess tables, and benches were stowed overhead when not in use, leaving a large und 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 also blueprints on boards showing the plan, cross-section and eleva- tion of the ship at that point, and full details of the pumping. Gooding

and draining arrangements.

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

Forward of the mess-decks was the "canicen." This was an elabo- rate affair looking very like any smoll German Bierstube," with mall marble-topped tables and light wooden chairs.

Forward again of this Blerstube was the Petty Officers' Mess, also

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. the), but the majority of the officers are Prussians.

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

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Inside it was a small armoured conning tower, again "verboten. Above this, by contrast, the Signal bridge seemed inadequately small, und above the "verboten" conning tower was a small armoured post- tion rumoured to contain secret in- struments.

Here my Prussian Gunnery of- flcar mulde got into his stride for the first time,

Ilo was enthusiastically en- deavouring to explain ,this scientific marvel to me in broken English: and German mixed, when one of his more discreet comrades-in-arms pointed out

that this was also "verboten." and I was busfied out,

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This was a pity because, given this loquacious and boastful Prussian would have told me quite Ave complicated

a lut about the

instruments In there, which

Tpened to be his action station,

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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 Jight o tonnage (10,000), which is more an englavering achievement than fighting quality, I do not think that either she or her two sisters-i Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer--constitute a grave menace to our Navy.

A. H. FORBES

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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 truth- ful to the character....

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

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

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Character studies make interesting, truthful pleturoe-well worth having In your snapshot collection,

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

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CHARACTER pictures can be taken indoors or out.

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Also, tre granting charactor such as a pirate, or an old-time scissors grinder.

This Ion't difficult, for with a little cleverness, you can impro- viso various costumes caully, just from materials you and around the house.

Making charactor studies will develop your skill as a. photo- grapher-and it's a type of plc. turo-taking you should know, Try it you'll have plenty of fun;

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FASTER

THAN LIGHTNING

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. H. C. Rent- schler and Milton Hoyt at the Westinghouse Lamp Division research laboratories in Bloom- field, New Jersey, U.S.A.

In less than

ጎ hundred thou- sandth of a second-about the time a lightning flash needs to get well started this death ray kills every living organism within its range, and none escapes! There is no fore- warning-merely sudden death.

Produced by a varlant of the now familiar Sterlamp, the radin- tions are being used experimentally to determine the ultraviolet sensl- tivity of various types of bacteria and other microorganisms to short exposures.

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

By means of a microscope and a projector, images of the organism are then projected on a screen at a magnification of about 200 diameters. Beat around and slightly above the pool of culture is a short Sterlamp,

connected to a source of direct cur- rent through a spark gap with spherical electrodes.- Connected across the direct-current line is a bank of capacitors, which store up electricity until the breakdown voltage of the spark

13 Rap reached. At that instant all of the energy stored in the capacitora is discharged through the Sterllomp und couses It. to emit powerful ultraviolet radiations.

The reaction on an observer in startling: Hairy-loolting, ovate paramecia dart almlessly hither and thither about the illuminated

One ястсер.

becomes fascinated by their senseless scampering. Then a sharp cackle as the spurk gap ashes, and there is no more movement. The organisms do not slow down gradually; they stop Instantly, most of them parily ex- ploded by the intensity of the death

ray.

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WHAT practical application such a device is likely to have Is anybody's guess.

Where perlodie rather than In- continuous irradiation of an fected area is desirable, this device might be useful. In the meantime, o demonstration, of this Ughtning- fost bactericide is planned for visitors fo' the Westinghouse exhi-. bit at the New York World's Fair, In 1940,

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