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So much has been written (în naginative forecast) of quite opposite effect, that perhaps the best equipment of a civil popnis- tion against the terror by air might be a thorough examination of the actual experience of civil ian demoralisation and casualties from air bombardment. Madrid's people, for instance, may have
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1937. had bomb-proof shelters and
A. R. P.
Giving its first sign
gas-masks, but their best defence against the visitation has been their realisation, as they became familiar with such attacks, that exis- their spirit could rise above it. tence as a live organisation in Of that there is no doubt from the Colony, the Peace Pledge the admiring descriptions by Union, in a letter to the Press many correspondents in English- last week, condemned Air Raid papers. One cannot judge effects Precautions instruction as a hoax adequately from descriptions by and as an incitement to a war excited people who have run in- mentality, at the same time de to fields from trains or to the af claring that any air raids pre-nearest dugout, in spite cautions would be hopelessly in their knowledge at first hand of adequate and impracticable in a bombing raid in action. More
lover, propaganda sees to it that the face of a modern raid.
It is a line of argument that nothing shall be lacking in horror it is easy to follow even when which may move some Power there is no agreement with it from whom help is desired. It The proverbial man in the street, may, of course, be replied that it however, will almost certainly is as easy for a commentator to mimise 28 to aggerate the reply in his matter-of-fact fash- ion, that any precautions, where horrors of aerial warfare. The there is a real danger of des-point we desire to bring out is truction of life, is better than that aerial warfare has apparent- none at all, while observers of ly not demoralised civilian popu- the recent effects of aerial bomb-lations to the extent promised; ings, in actual damage, and psy and from this it is natural to chologically, will wonder whether ask whether it may be part of both ARP and PPU are not the plan of those who would use
prone to the same fault of exag the "frightfulness" of air war-
gerating the danger.
For some fare for their own interests to years European peoples especiall induce in "vulnerable" countries have had the terrors of air bomba lively anticipation, in advance, ing in the next war" almost of just that frightfulness. If daily drummed into their ears that is the case, it seems foolish Countless books have been writ-to play into their hands. / ten on the theme that, under
future air bombardment, no city
will be safe, fleets and armies Music in Industry will be rendered powerless, and
huge civil populations cannot ex-1 We have often been assured pect to survive. Civilisation will recent years that experiments
and
be blotted out. Nations might as have shown that cows yield well cease to build fighting ships more milk when a gramophone is and train armies. A few hours played to them, and the usual re- attack would blot out London, port runs that foxtrots give the Paris, Berlin, or Moscow. Hong best and most persuasive results. Kong could be devastated from It is gratifying, then, to have Formosa So has run the fore-proof that man can still keep a cast. Opposing feefs of aircraft point or two ahead of the lower fighting above would rain down animals, for a message from upon cities and roads below the Smyrna states that "classical wreckage of their desperate en-music played in factories during gagements, thus visiting destruc-working houry has been found tion indirectly also upon the have a gumulating effect cowering earth.
working men and women Much of this vaticination may and to rease their output. be true, and even without exag-That puts the harmless geration aerial warfare would be necessary cow back in a less cul- very terrible. But how far have tured class; crooners and jazz the worst effects of aerial war-will serve to encourage its not fare been exaggerated? Does quite so sensitive soul, but with aeroplane bombing shatter the the diligent and refined Smyr- moral of civilians and so paralyse motes the maximum the fighting arm of a nation atment has been attained war? Mr. Winston Churchill, work was done to the during a debate in the House of ment of operas and Commons, speaks of the immea- It is even added surable catastrophe of London's music" does not have vulnerability from the air, but like such a saluta the spirit of Nanking survived output, jazz the worst Japan could do. Of the ideal indu Madrid where more intensive The first raidings have occurred, Mr. Chur for pure an chill could only say that it had will, no apparently not experienced the ears worst of air terrors--he instan
ed the incendiary thermite
But surely what has
upon Madrid for so long breaking the spirit of if for defence could not have made
orse b
tion in aerial attack
such varT2-
Nanking, however being clos- tion
is to us a more striking de-i more
prove-