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Show nature of the contest that is going on between scientific technicians of the countries at war. The discovery dis-covery of new principles of science, sci-ence, involving radio, sound or electro-magnetic waves for the remote control of weapons, will play a great part in future warfare. It is hardly likely that the course of the present struggle will be altered, al-tered, however, by the application of any such discovery. SCIENCE RACES FOR CONTROL OF WAR WEAPONS Sir Arthur T. Harris, head of the British Bomber Command, says that the "entire war in the air is a; race as to whether we or the Germans keep sixty days ahead in scientific and technological developments." devel-opments." Undoubtedly, there is some basis bas-is for the observation of this veteran vet-eran commander of aerial forces. The Germans are desperately seeking seek-ing to neutralize the aerial offensive. offen-sive. They have introduced a radio-directed, radio-directed, bomb-dropping glider, a plane rocket gun and "an air-to-air" bomb, dropped on bomber formations for-mations from planes flying overhead. over-head. The use of these weapons present pre-sent some problems to our aerial commanders but there is no indication indi-cation that they will be able to halt the devastation of German industry in-dustry and bases. The reports indicate the serious |