THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1939,
CHINESE A.R.P. INSTRUCTORS WANTED
The Air Raid Precautions Officer an- nounces that it is proposed to hold a special course with a view to training twelve Chinese A.R.P. Instructors,
Candidates should be over 25 years of age and should be willing to give A.R.P. lectures in Chinese to the re- sidents of the Colony.
It should be understood
that the
work is entirely voluntary, and a fee of $4.00 per lecture is payable from Government funds.
Applications to attend
the course
Colonial
should be forwarded direct to the Air Raid Precautions Officer,
Secretary's Office, Hong Kong.
GROWING MENACE OF SUBMARINES
"BRASSEY'S NAVAL ANNUAL" FOR 1939
SINCE
(WILLIAM CLOWES, 258) MAKES ITS APPEARANCE THIS YEAR AT AN APPRO- PRIATE MOMENT, NAVAL COMPARISONS ARE MUCH IN THE AIR JUST NOW. IT IS EDITED, AS USUAL, BY REAR-ADML. H. G. THURSFIELD,
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OF ITS 16 ARTICLES 10 RE: BALBO
LATE TO THE NAVAL SIDE AND SIX TO NAVAL AIR AFFAIRS.
Dealing with "Foreign Navies," Capt. E. Altham, R.N., observes that "the growing submarine flotillas of
the present day cannot fail to be a source of anxiety, constituting, as they do, a potential menace to all the sea routes to these islands and through the Mediterranean.
"Scientific methods of dealing with under-water craft. have great ly improved, but depend ultimately on a sufficient number of trained men and weapons of the right kind. The training of our Merchant Navy for self-defence is well in hand; it is to be hoped that the personnel and material for attacking these sea pests will be ready and waiting should they be required."
..
ON ITALIAN AIR STRATEGY
Italian air strategy has not been affected by the Abyssinian, Spanish or Sino-Japanese wars, and re- cognises that no great Power has yet employed its air forces in a primary role.
Governor of Libya, in an article on This is stated by Marshal Balbo, air warfare which he has recently written for a new Italian encyclope-
dia.
The article reasserts Italy's relief in Gen. Doubet's theories concern- the supremacy of air-striking
but it is well known that the an- gwer to the submarine-which Russia is acquiring in large num- bers-is not the submarine.”
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forces, and deals with "attacks in mass" and the "moral destruction" of the enemy.
It also describes how an enemy air force can be defeated by the bombing of aircraft factories and storage depots, which, it declares,
will be one of the initial tasks of the Italian Air Force in war-time.
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