THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 17, 1989
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Attention was drawn in the House of Commons yesterday to methods used in China against high explosive bombs. Particular reference was made by the questioner- Mr. S. F. Markham, Labour member for Not- tingham South to the methods involving light additional roofs built above existing roofs.
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Mr. Markham asked whether the Minister for Civil Defence, Sir John Anderson, proposed to de- velop or introduce any such methods in Eng- land.
SUPPLEMENTARY ARMY VOTE
London, To-day.
A supplementary Army vote for 1938-39 published yesterday amounts to £8,025,000.
Sir John Anderson replied that he understood that in China, erec- tion of a series of bamboo roofs over the roofs of buildings were found to be of some value in inter- cepting and detonating moderate- sized bombs.
However, their use was subse- quently prohibited by the Chinese authorities owing to the added fire risk. Reuter.
The largest single item included
CANTON FEATURE in this sum is an amount of £4,595,- The protection referred to was 000 for speeding up the construc-mainly confined to Canton, a fea- tion of military establishments such ture of the city being the rows of
bamboos constructed as barracks.
Additional expenditure of £901, 000 was incurred during the Euro-|
while pean crisis last year,
the Palestine warfare has cost the army £865,000..
Expenditure of £3,455,840 for the Royal Ordnance Factories is not included in the eight million pounds:
-Trans-Ocean.
DANGING IN 6 HOURS
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roofs.
over the
While this "protection" gave the occupants of houses a feeling of confidence, it proved to be entirely useless in prematurely exploding large bombs. As a rule, the bam- boo caught fire and added to the confusion of air raids.
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