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BOMBING THE GERMANS
How Science "Reads" the Ages of Fish
TELLING the age, origin of
fish and how many times they have spawned by their scales is a new technique re- cently developed by Dr R. A. Nesbit of the United States Fish and Wild Life Service and David H. Wallace of the Chesapeake Biological Labora- tory of Solomnons, Maryland.
The scales of fish show annual growth "rings" much like the annular rings in trees. 'Fish scales are better age in- dicators than teeth in horses.
The portion of the scales shaped like an inverted "y which lies underneath the skin reveal these "rings." They show up as blank spaces where the new, scales were not laid down due to slowed growth during Winter. It is neces- sary to use a microscope for accurate results.
. Such factors as food supply, saltiness and temperature de- termine the scales' first-year rato of growth. Biologists can tell whether a fish was born in the Hudson River, Ih Chesapeake Bay, or even in what part of the Chesapeake Bay tributaries.
The fish absorbs the calcium it needs from the outer edge of the scale at each spawning. This shows up clearly in "scar tissue" in the scale "biography."
Balloon Barrage Improved
A
The bombing of
Nazl 2,000-ton supply ship by' Skun aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm off the Norwegian coast, The first bonib (top pleture) was a "near miss" but the second (below) registered a direct hit.
When last seen the ship was listing heavily and had been -abandoned-be-her-crew-
A German bomber was brought down recently in England through being caught in a balloon barrage of improved design. Tho machine fouled a balloon cable.
It is not possible to give any detalls of this now
of weapon defence, but it enables our balloons to fly at a much greater height an hitherto,
By Hannen Swaffer:
Is the Public
Told
you please en-
"W lighten me as to whe
ther the public outside London is, or is not, being gulled by the B.B.C. and the Press ás lo the damage being done to London and suburbs?"
The letter comes from a wo- man in Herne Bay. Someone has been telling her harrowing stories of the destruction of London.
THE most illuminating reply
I can make is by quoting the remark made yesterday by a friend who, despite the fact that he is a violent anti- Nazi, has just been released from an internment camp, and who was surprised, when he went round the town, at the comparative smallness of the damage.
And this was after the violence of a recent night's bombardmenti
"When, in Yorkshire camp, we read the papers and heard the wireless news," he sald, "we thought things were much worse than they are."
Lies?
party he gave after a big flop
is no more.
Homes of the poor and mansions of the great have suffered.
There are gaps in hundreds of roads.
But-London is still there..
NOT till yesterday did I hear
of the death of a man I knew well. For weeks, others had lost relatives or friends. Mine had all survived. Then I was told of a colleague who was killed while walking into his club..
I shall hear of more-unless I go first.
We are all in the front line.
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THE minor tragedies I hear
about are the loss of per- sonal possessions-the collec- tions of years of travel or experienee which, valueless to everyone else, are precious to their owners,
"All my film stars are gone," said a man yesterday.
He meant his scores of to- photographs gathered
wood.
SEE, some mornings, that a bit more of my boyhood-gether-during-years-in-Holly-- has gone, that places I knew in my youth and in my man- hood have suffered damage. The London of Wren and the London of Dickens are now, in parts, among the ruins that Hitler knocked about a bit!
The old music-hall where I last saw Marie Lloyd is now only a shell. Two theatres from which, at different times, I was barred for telling too much truth about snobbery or flapdoodle bear the marks of bombs.
The restaurant where first
I lunched with Chaliapine will not sent any more hungry folk for months.
Cinemas where I have seen many films famous for their brief lives suffer serious scars,
An actor's flat--well do remember the grim supper-
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Manuscripts have been burn- ed by the hundred. Pictures have been smashed,
Many a man's Cavalcade of personal reminiscence has dis- appeared..
LONDON, in the daytime, is
more ΟΣ less normal. People arrive late at their. ollices, perhaps,
little grumpy after a bad night and then a roundabout journey.
Business goes on somehow, Sirens are almost disregard- ed—until nightfall.
Then, soon after the Black Out, as a rule, the Warning
comes.
That means another night of it.
For half an hour or so there are still a good. many people in the streets.
Then, when the guns start, they disappear, one by one. Until morning, except for occasional passers-by, the streets are almost empty.
EX
LONDON'S just a big vil-
lage now, at night," said shopkeeper, closing just after dusk. A few taxis run during the evening. There are some omnibuses. Other- wise, almost the only traffic is a hurrying ambulance or a fire engine dashing past.
BUT the guns and the ex-
plosions!
If you are lucky, you get to sleep while there is silence. If not, they keep you awake for hours.
· Even L bomb that has fallen half a mlie away seems only a few yards distant.
You hear the fall of glass- and, every hour or so, a heavy drone mens the presence overhead of a Nazi. plane.
At intervals for hours there "are"bangs and tliuds, sounds of collapse, thuds under- ground..
THEN at long last-unless you have slept there comes another day.
You hear of deaths in one district, ruins in another, and stories that "So-and-so has copped it," when, if you go to look, there is usually only a hole in the road.
The paradox is that while people make the worst of it when they talk of damage- that is why all the stories spread-they put on the best air they can when they face another night.
Their philosohpy saves them. Their insular calm is their shield.
As for the
of the
Britain's Motor Torpedo-Boats Night and they are legion
Fast motor torpedu-bonts, now figure in most of the world's navics. The naval book of reference "Jane's Fighting Ships", mentions 25 such veascle in the British Navy, with another ten due to he constructed under pre-war programmes, There are also motor anti-submarine bonts. What additional fast motor-craft may have been completed or laid down since the outbreak of war, it is im- possible to say:
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M.T.J. No. 102, in which I was at sea before the war, may be taken as fairly typical of the boats built by one well known firm. She is what is generally known as a "hard chine" boat, 68 feet long and bullt, as to skin and frames, of mahogany, with Canadian elm for timbers, hog, chine and gun- walo. Her deck house and most of the deck-fittings are of stainless sicol, and the fully-laden displace ment is about 28 tons on a draught of 38 Inches.
Driven by thres eighteen-cylin- der engines each of 1,000 horse.
by "Taffrail"
there was very little fuss or bow-
wave.
The accommodation consists of a Domy forecastle with comfortablo pir-cushioned lockers, a wardroom for the officers, a wireless cabinet, and
pewer, her fully-laden speed is the all galley and lavatory.
is a
a small duapod must for over 40 knots. Like others of her signalling purposes and for carry- class, she has two V8 engines ing the wireless aerial; one set of which can be used to drive the engine controls with a wheel in wing shafts, and producing a the deckhouse under cover, and speed of 8-9 knots.
others on deck,
The roar of the engines at full
Motor torpedo-boating is neces- speed is like that of an aeroplane, surlly a young man's job, and and as the noise might give away though comparatively little hos a night attack, the auxiliary en been heard of the work of British noiseless outside these said, that they have done arduous M.T.B.'s since the war, it can be gines, would enable an MTB. to creep up to an enemy at night to fire service in all sorts of weathers her torpedoes, and then to make with conspicuous success. off at full speed. The change over An to what the future may bring from the Auxillary to main en- in this type of craft, one cannot gines can be
accomplished in about predict; but MTD.'s of 60 knots twenty-five seconds.
with n greatly extended range of The armament consists of two action are by no means impossible. 21-Inch torpedo-tubes, and a num- The first British torpedo-bont lustr of machine guns. Depth aver bulit, the "Lightning"" of 1877 charges could also be fitted for of 34 tons and 19 knols speed, war roughly the same size as kómo work against submarines, weather, and I was struck by the Navy. The little "Lightning" was My trip to son was in moderate of the MTB.'s now in the Royal and habitability. really the ancestor of all our Even at over forty knots, with her modern torpedo-craft, including bows lifted well out of the water, the large destroyers of to-day.
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what are we going to do about them?
An auxiliary fireman wrote yesterday:
"May I, on behalf of all of us, say that we consider that it is our turn to do a job of work?" he said. "We are do- ing what we can. No praise is asked for.
"There is one thing, how- ever, that we would like-pen- sions for our widows! Yes- terday, wo were naked to sub- scribe towards soventeen widows of A.F.S. mon. Tho widow of one of our own chums has had to go to the Public Assistance Board,
"We work 148 hours at a stretch, and then one day off -in other words, an averago of 112 hours per week. But that is not half so important as the wife. Please do some- thing and you will and us balancing on even higher bite of wall and doing the impos- sible with as light a heart as ever walked on a duty path."
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on Saturday morning, 18th January, ladies will offer flags for sale in aid of the Fund to present more bombers. to Britain.
Fifteen thousand flags have been given for this purpose.
If everyone pays one dollar for his or her emblem
$15,000
will be sent Home.
If everyone gives five dollars
$75,000
will be sent Home.
Will you please decide NOW to give gen- erously-and help to establish a record for Hongkong?
Organised by the Hongkong War
Effort Committee.
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