MARSEILLES PORT IN USE.— The port of Marseilles has been repaired and is already being used in spite of the Germans’ widespread demolitions. The port facilities are now capable of handling 30,000 tons of cargo daily. (London).
ARTIFICIAL PLASTIC EYES.—Experts at a conference of military surgeons yesterday revealed that the Army and Navy Medical Corps have each developed an artificial plastic eye which moves in co-ordination with the natural eye and is almost indistinguishable from it. The Navy issues plasitc eyes in sets of three—one for daytime wear, another with a smaller pupil, for nighttime and a third, slightly glazed and bloodshot, for periods of acute hangover. (Washington).
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Southland Times, Issue 25514, 7 November 1944, Page 5
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