Daily Post - 11.12.1941, Blaðsíða 3

DAILY POST
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Ey George
George is forty-five to-day,
yet even the editor fcrgot.
Forty-five years of trying to
^ake people believe he is
really called Laughing Boy and
all he gets 's an intervie\V with
the unit education officer who
stresses his suitability for a
correspondence course in em-
halming and funeral manage-
toent. Crack jokes in Iceland?
Crack Brazil nuts without your
false teeth.
* * *
Etta the Taxi Terror has a
ríval in Dora from Hafnarf jörð-
ur. They have decided to draw
the boundary line between
°ccupied territories. but it is
suspected that both are mass-
iog armies on their fronts.
* * *
A stitch in time saves nine
'tays for unsoldierly appear-
ance.
* * *
Leading Seaman (Yo-Ho)
Benbow, when offered pro-
oaotion and the chance of
^earing a crown and anchor on
his sleeve, asked if, to give a
hetter indication of his techni-
cal abilities, he could wear
crossed loaded dice.
$ * *
“Every time that gun fires,
fire away six bottles of
^hisky.” — Beaverbrook. What
a thing to boast of. It’s enough
make the,Black Watch lay
^own their arms. Why waste
Uioney on a shell. anyway?
^ire the whisky. What enemy
does not get killed in the
sfampede to the contaminated
area will perish on tasting a
Hquid so long forgotten to man.
If you are down and feeling
sad,
Get a “Battleship” block and
cheer up my lad.
D.S.A/S Fleet
of Alrcraft
Carriers
The following is extracted
from the American newsmaga-
zine “Time”, Nov. 3rd 1941.
Another unit cf the greatest
fleet of aircraft carriers in the
world last week got her com-
mission from the Navy. She
was the 20,000-tcn Horn'et
(cost: $31,000,000), whose brcad
decks can acccmmodate 80
planes. The addition of the
Hornet brought the number of
active U.S. carriers up to seven,
ranging in tonnage frcm the
14,500-ton Ranger to the 33,-
000-ton Lexington and Sara-
toga, which were started as
battle cruisers before their con-
version in 1927. Although num-
erically the British and Japan-
ese are credited with superior-
ity cver the U.S. in carriers —
England has eight, Japan nine
— the U.S. aircraft fleet can
handle almcst as many planes
(800) as the other two put to-
gether.
Abuilding are eleven other
carriers with a plane capacity
equal to or better than the
Hornet’s. How many the Brit-
ish and Japanese have under
construction is not known. But
it is known that the Japanese
are busy as beavers turning out
small carriers, which the Nipp-
onese fancy. Balancing this
activity, the U.S. Navy is doing
a fast job of converting Mari-
time Commission cargc-pass-
enger ships into auxiliary
carriers. Already in service is
the first, U.S.S. Long Island.
Four of her sisters, .originally
completed as cargo ships, will
be commissioned as auxiliary
carriers within six months. Two
more, still abuilding, can be
completed as carriers within a
year. The Long Islands, which
can make 17—18 knots, have
room for 20 planes and are
ideal for convoy duty. Unlike
their big sisters. who stay far
•behind the fleet during combat,
they will travel safest in the
middle of convoys.
FAGTS ABODT
H. M. S. PRÍNCE OF WALES
H. M. S. REPULSE
PRINCE OF WALES.
Launched in May, 1939,
was one of five ships of the
George V Class, having a dis-
placement of 35,000 tons,
and complement of 1,500.
Overall length 739 feet,
beam 103 feet. Aircraft 4.
catapult 1.
Guns:
10 — 14 in.
16 — 5.25 in.
4 — Multiple Pom Poms.
S.H.P. 152,000. Speed over
30 knots. Armour, unoffi-
cially stated to weigh 14,000
tons, was specially strong
against air attack.
A young R.A.F. officer lay
pinned in the wreckage of his
shot-down aircraft for four and
a half hours before the crew
of a passing tank picked him
up and sent him back down the
line. He was flown to the near-
est hospital. The surgeons gave
him 48 hours to live. His in-
juries included a broken neck.
That was in Eritrea. last
March. To-day, that young man
is fit and well again, and has
just passed his final medical
examination in England. He has
declinéd a chance to go to South
Africa as an instrúctor in the
Union’s Air training scheme.
In a letter to an officer rear
gunner in the Middle East, who
used to be in his old squadron,
he writes:
“Have refused instructor’s
job. You know how difficult it
iá to get back on ‘ops’ once you
take on that work. I still
haven’t lost my taste for
flying . .. . ”
What does he want to do? He
wants to get another crack at
the enemy.
REPULSE.
Battle cruiser of Renown
Class. Launched 8th Jan.
1916. Displacement 32,000
tons (36,800 full load). Com-
plement 1181/1205. Length
750 feet. Beam 102 feet.
Draught 27 feet.
Gims:
6 —15 in.
12 — 4 in.
8 — 4 in. A.A.
4—'3 pdr.
1 — 12 Pdr. Field.
5 — M.G.
10 — Lewis, and Multiple
M.G.
Best speed 29 knots.
BROKE NECK,
FLIES AGAIN
Crossword
Solution
No. 3.
Across. — 1. Nonconformist;
7. Laundered; 9. Grin; 10.
Keen; 11. Steep; 13. Bounty;
14. Daring; 15. Unroll; 17.
Little; 18. Lyric; 19. Hack; 21.
Moss; 22. Entertain; 23. Deter-
mination.
Down. — 1. Neighbourhood;
2. Clan; 3. Ninety; 4. Opened;
5. Meek; 6. Transgression; 7.
Liquorice; 8. Deviation; 11.
Still; 12. Panic; 16.Lyceum; 17.
Listen; 20. ELnee; 21. Mist.
I Battleground '
By Spike
ELECTRICIAN ASKS:—
What is the formula for
Bakelite? Many of. the lads
here imagine it is celluloid
dressed-up.
I’m no chemist old man, but
bakelite the invention of L. H.
Baekeland is a carbon com-
pound of formaldehyde and
phenol.