HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-05-21, Page 6.A. chamber of horrors may be
vss:d rl .every army. training unit
soon.. •
Expgriments have been carried.
nut by the British. War Office to
,get,- inen used ,.to. thetroise of..
• e ' and the Sight and sound
tH .
o because men
who ,have been through it declare ,'
that it isthe noise that frightens.
A, soldier is sent alone: into a
dark room, • which is'
equipped
with Squint fil nal and dummy
Aa..,. he .handles -the ' • guns, he
bears the noise • of bombs and.
divebombers.=
At. the •sa rile time, through 'ape;
cial'•steroscopie glasses, he wat •
• ches fila whiel show planes div-
ins on1411n'n. ,`
Ail . the.. bine • someone, outside
jobs durnmy . hand `grenades and:
'bombs into' the room, so that the
soldit r is
choked with 'the fomes
of bur,ming°"%cordite "and—deafened
b real explosions too.
After three' or four spells of
his, pynost hien can go, into battle
tirith;fironnerves.
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it
GOrtnan Decrees
•
Two .regent decrees of the •Germs.,
-:--8nan.-.authoritiesa-•in II -folioed -were
received inti. -different 'ways -one
'Cadged derision, the other annoy-
', ince.
When the 'order 'came that all
squares a rstreets-: 1n the coon
ttry naiiiedVater: members .of: the
.. 6l rase of Orange should change
e
their names, 'the •burgomaster of
Rotterdairi immediately .; complied
before •.thee' -order' could be modi
fied.' Hie example,.. according to
news that hes reached' The Sun.."'
day Times of • •,London, has been
emulated by others.
• His . renaming `included "Van
Hogendorp," "Vander ;Duyn; .van
• Naas'.dan". • and -others connected
with the restoration of the mon-
archy
after, the Napoleonic • occu-.
pation. •
The other order .'ousted .. the
Queel'.s effigy from coins. ' In
' the. ease of small brass and: silver
piece`s{(this was:: done with an: alloy
of copp,` er easily retrieved y reino ed by acid,
thus restoring the effigy, until
the German -controlled mint turn-
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guiifer . Owes; the face of�`the
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