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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1937.
640 VOICES ON
ONE LINE
POST OFFICE TESTS
'PHONE CONGESTION
SOLUTION
SALISBURY
PLAIN
BOMBARDMENT"
* A
BARRAGES TO AID INFANTRY
2 TONS OF SHRAPNEL FIRED
A "possible solution of the pre- sent telephone situation" was de cribed by Col. A. S. Angwin, De- puty Engineer-in-Chief of the Post Office, lecturing at the institution of Electrical Engineers, Victoria Em- they can bankment.
The new system allows of 320 people at each end of a single tele- phone line, and of four of these lines being laid underground in one cable.
Gunners and machine gunners at how Larkhill ably demonstrated
Smash down opposition by con- centrated fire;
Protect advancing with barrages;
infantry
Screen an exposed flank with dense clouds of smoke; and Conceal themselves in prepared positions so that, although they are firing continuously, they re- main invisible.
Col. Angwin said that the Post Office would soon have this system in operation over the entire route between London and Birmingham, between Birmingham and Manches-about 330 officers, including 26 ter, and on to Newcastle.
The new system will be used to provide circuits where telephone service is heaviest and the routes long.
Alternatively, the cable cores can be used to transmit television.
Telephone Development.
Col. Angwin said that this de- velopment looked like being the economic solution of the present telephone situation.
The operations were watched by
from the Royal Air Force, 24 from the Royal Tank Corps and 17 from the Royal Naval Staff College. They were planned with continuity so that the demonstrations followed logically.
Two columns of infantry were supposed to be advancing from Salisbury towards Devizes, and the right column was held up by ma- chineguns on Netheravon Down.
We saw the infantry commander call up the battery commander to quell the opposition. A signaller with a telephone wire to the artil- "You first have a pair of wires lery wireless unit, sheltering be- and put up one conversation at a hind a wood, followed him. After a time," he said. "The next step is short conference between the of the system in which 12 simultaneous ficers lying on the ground the wire- telephone conversations are handled less unit was transmitting.
in each pair of wires; then this In 3 minutes we saw a mechan- newest development, in which more ised battery of six guns coming over than 300 separate conversations are a shoulder of the hill. In 82. min- possible through what is one wire utes it had moved up half a mile in a four-core cable.
and was in the position its officer
"Since November last the 12 sim-had chosen.
ultaneous conversation system has Two and a half minutes later the been working between Bristol and first ranging shot was fired at a Plymouth. This is the immediate village, represented by tin huts on solution of telephone congestion, a far hillside, and four minutes and has been tried, proved and after this effective fire was put found most successful.”-
down on it. The attack, however, Col. Angwin ådded that the new-was held to have failed, and more est system, soon to extend to New- artillery support was summoned. castle might possibly be taken fur- ther.
CRIME COSTS £5.700
A MINUTE
Shrapnel Pandemonium
We now saw what a barrage by the 18-pounders of a divisional artillery brigade, assisted by a platoon of machine guns and by 4.5in howitzers, means. White tar- gets marked the opening line, and when the barrage came down on them they were almost blotted out
LAWBREAKERS IN by the smoke of shell bursts and
U.S.A.
flying dirt.
・ As the machine-guns fired until
In an attempt to give an idea of their water jackets boiled, the crack the crime problem confronting the of passing bullets from a wood United States, Mr. Edgar Hoover, close by was louder than the dis- chief of the Gemen; Federal police, tant slâmîning of the guns and the gave some startling statistics in a pandemonium of shrapnel bursts. speech at Philadelphia.
Two hundred and fifty rounds of He declared that the crime army, shrapnel, weighing two tons, were or underworld, -of-to-day totalled more than 4,000,000, and that in 1936 the United States had:
fired.
A Staff officer said that one of the objects of this demonstration was "to let the young idea hear the noise of war.
One felony every 24 seconds; (#13,242 murders or manslaughters, 667,881:sex crimes; 34,300 rabbéries; In the final attack, which was 47,534 cases of aggravated -as- quickly planned, a smokë, screen sault;
278,829 burglaries and 716,674 larconies;
213,712 cases of motor car theft. This makes a total of 1,264;63 major crimes.
''It is estimated" that the cost! them amounted to £5,700 a that is 48,208,000 a day 920;000 rar year.
was laid down on the right flank by 4,5in howitzers, and after only four or five rounds an impenetrable wall of white smoke hung between us and the sky line. Three 18-poun- der batteries and · "machine-guns, again using demonstration flon, plastered a tin hut village.
Poor visibility caused the anti- aircraft exercises to be cancelled.