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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 Solomons, 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 alowed growth during Winter. It is neces- sary to use a microscopo for accurate results.
Such factors as food supply, saltiness and temperature de- termine the scales' first-year Biologists rate of growth. can tell whether a fish was born in the Hudson River, in 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 "blography."
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A German bomber was brought down recently in England through being caught in a balloon barrage of
design. improved
machine fouled a balloon cable.
It is not possible to give any details of this now weapon of defence, but it enables our balloons to fly at a much greater height than hitherto.
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By Hannen Swaffer:
Is the Public
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"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 as to 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 bombardment!
"When, in a Yorkshire camp, we read the papers and heard the wireless news," he said, "we thought things were much worse than they are."
I SEE, some mornings, that a bit more of my boyhood has gone, that places I knew
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 henr
about are the loss of per- sonal possessions-the collec- tions of years of travel or experience which, valueless to everyone else, are precious to their owners.
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**All my film stars gone," said a man yesterday.
He meant his scores of photographs gathered to- gether during years in Holly- wood.
-in-my-youth-and-in-my-man-Manuscripts-have-been
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 Maric 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 seat 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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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.
TONDON'S just a big vil-
lage now, at night,” said
a 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.
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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 a bomb that has fallen half a mile away seems only a few yards distant.
You hear the fall of glass- and, every hour or so, a henvy drone means the presence. overhead of a Nazi plane.
At intervals for hours there are bangg and thuds, sounds of collapse, thuds under- burn-ground..
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
or.
less normal, People arrive late at their offices, perhaps, a Bttle 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.
Britain's Motor Torpedo-Boats
Fast motor torpedo-boats now figure. in most of the world's navies. The naval book of reference "Jane's Fighting Ships", mentions 25 such vessels in the British Navy, with another ten due to be constructed under pre-war programmes, There are also Bix motor anti-submarine boats. What additional fast motor-craft may have been completed or laid down since. the outbreak of war, it is im- possible to say.
long
M.T.B. No, 102, in which I was at sea before the war, may be taken as fairly typical of the bonts built by one well known firm. Sho "Is-what is generally known as a
"hard chine" boat, 48 feat and built, as to skin and frames, of mahogany, with Canadian elm for timbers, bog, chine and gun wale. Her deck house and most of the deck-fittings are of stainless steel, and the fully-laden displace- ment is about 20 tons on a draught of 38 inches.
Driven by three eighteen-cylin- der engines each of 1,000 horse
by "Taffrail"
there was very little fuss or bow- wave.
The accommodation consists of a roomy forecastle with comfortable air-cushioned lockers, a wardroom for the officers, a wireless cabinet, and a
a small galley and lavatory. There is a small duapod mast for signalling purposes and for carry- ing the wireless nerial; one set of engine controls with a wheel in the deckhouse under cover, and others on deck.
power, her fully-laden speed is over 40 knots. Like others of her class, she has two va engines which can be used to drive the wing o
shafts, and producing speed of 8-9 knots, "The roar of the engines at full Motor torpedo-boating is neces- speed is like that of an aeroplane, sarily a young man's job, and and as the noise might give away though comparatively little has a night attack, the auxiliary en- been heard of the work of British gines, noiseless outside the ship, M.T.B.'s since the war, it can be would enable MTB. to creep
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sald that they have done arduous
up
to an enemy at night, to fire service in all sorts of weathers her torpedoes, and then to make with conspicuous sLICCESS.
off at full speed. The change over- As to what the future may bring from the Auxillary to main en- in this type of craft, one cannot xines can be accomplished in about predict; but M.T.B.'s of 60 knots twenty-Ave seconds.
with
a 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-boat. ber of machine-guns. Depth ever built, the "Lightning" of 1877 charges could also be fitted for of 34 tons and 19 lots speed, work against submarines.
was roughly the same alzo as somo My trip to sea was in moderate of the MTB's now in the Royal weather, and I was struck by the Navy. The little "Lightning" was seaworthiness and habitability, really the ancestor of all our including Even at over forty knots, with her modern torpedo-craft, bows lifted well out of the water, the large destroyers of to-day,
THEN at long last-unless have slept there comes another day.
you
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 Baves them. Their insular calm is their shield.
AS
S for the Heroes of the Night-and they are legion --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. Ilke-pen- sions for our widows! Yes- terday, we were asked to sub- scribe towards .savanteen widows of A.FS. men. The widow of one of our own chums has had to go to the Public Assistanco Board.
"We work 48 hours at a stretch, and then one day off in other words, an average of 112 hours per week. But that is not half so important ng the wife. Please do some- thing and you will find us balancing on even higher bits of wall and doing the impos- sible with as light a heart as ever walked on a duty path."
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For A Few Hours
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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