TRACKING THE RAINBOW

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 127, 15 February 1918, Page 5

TRACKING THE RAINBOW

1 AIRMEN FIND IT IN THE CLOUDS. Speaking to a juvenile audienco in London recently, Dr. A. P. Thurston, 11. F.C., said: "Flying in a thunder cloud one sees the sparks on tho wings of tho machine and one really becomes part of the lightning. I know where the rainbow ends: it ends on tho top of every cloud. It becomes smaller and smaller as you approach it until it becomes a ball of fire. Then you run into a clammy, cold mist, which forms the cloud, and you are 'where tho rainbow ends.' Flying near London you see the silvery winding Thames, with London under a great black pall. The Thames looks like a great silver snake which has swallowed a big frog and is having an extremely bad time. "On a clear day it is impossible to go up anywhere in Englaud without seeing tho sea. Three and a half miles high on a very clear day in Hampshire one can see from the IJristol Channel to tho mouth of tho Thames, the long line of tho south coast stretching away with the tiny Isle of Wight ' in the middle, liven if the Huns discovered a gas which was not inflammable we could still bum their Zeppelins," declared Dr. Thurston, who added that sometimes the Zeppelins might get 100 miles away before it discovered ''that the mischief had been done." He told of a Zeppelin commander who, realising that he was descending, threw out his secret documents and his gold watch into what lie thought was tho. sea. "They were fount! and we had the pleasure of handing him his gold watch back and of listening to his remarks."