I always gloat over the optical apparatus though three-quarters of it is beyond anyone but experts. But what a hobby for a leisured life in miscroscopy and photography, nor is any nation ahead of us in optics, while most are far behind. This y they are exhibiting the British craft director with model anti-aire gun alongside, showing how one is used to direct the other, with this director 90 per cent. of hits have been scored to heights of 30,000 ft. When one is told that a modern aeroplane may travel two miles while the shell is in the air the marvels of the detector may be appreciated. Of course how it works is not revealed I was given an explanation of it at Aldershot a year or two ago and did not understand one word, Which of course was what I was meant to understand.
Earl's Court is mostly devoted to products from the Dominions. Colonies, and as you may say the Greater and Lesser Cumrae Islands. It is interesting to note that Jersey, our oldest possession overseas, appears for the first time with a splendid display of fruit, red camellias, and tins of ormers. Did you ever hear of them? They are a sort of fish only found in the Channel Islands. At the other end of Great Britain, Scotland gives demonstrations in the various ways of serving herring and oatmeal Queen Elizabeth, as becomes her birth, was particularly interested in this, and confessed to a partiality for herrings and said that with a good prelude of porridge they make a first-class breakfast.
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