CURRENT COMMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21242, 12 October 1940, Page 11 (Supplement)

CURRENT COMMENTS

The Nazi authorities in the Czech Protectorate have ordered the destruction of books by Czech patriots, including ex-President Benes, and books on Pan-Slavism, according to a despatch from the Slovak frontier. Three Paris, no longer free, is still better off than Berlin. million books will have to be destroyed, it is estimated. In Paris they do not have to pretend to be overjoyed The German police are also said to be confiscating pulp when Hitler visits. * __ for paper making. Because of Germany’s shortage of * * * * !,: * high-grade iron, new rails are being taken up and rcIt is the German people who will decide Hitler’s placed by old on all the Czech railways. fate, rather than the British forces. Let the British * * * * * - peace terms be tabled for the world and Germans to <- cc ' The discovery of a natural substance whose chief * * * * * characteristic is the release of great energy is nnThe British Government need have no fear in trust- nounced by the authoritative Physical Review. This ing the people, or that the morale of the nation will be substance, it is claimed, can be found in many places, lowered by knowledge of the truth. including England. It is known as U-235, and is said * * * * * * to be related to uranium, a radio-active element found Some day Mussolini wiil shout: "Am I sick? Am in pitchblende. Energy is released from U-235 when I tired?” And from millions of his erstwhile dupes will it is placed in water, which it turns to steam. It is calccme the answer: :"No, but we are.” culated that one pound of U-235 would yield a power output equivalent to that of 2500 tons of coal. So far The captain of a Finnish ship who has arrived in only minute quantities of U-235 have been isolated, but Malta states that his ship was attacked eight times by it is predicted that it will soon be produced in quantities Italian bombers, who dropped more than 100 bombs sufficient for industrial and military use. A number around the vessel without hitting her. of American laboratories is working on the discovery.