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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 14,
K. S. ROBSON. AFTER A VISIT TO THE ROCK, SAYS
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ment passivel the Rock h strengthened types of arti aircraft artill
in every stra S our ship swung out of the vinced that it would be possible for ough munition Straits into Gibraltar Bay we the garrison to hold the Rock itself magazines to were drawn on deck by the lights against all attack and thus prevent many months. clustered at the foot of the looming a prized and important position fal- Rock, from half a dozen points of ling into the hands of the enemy.
which searchlights were poising and repoising their rays in the sky. Our last sign of England had been the searchlights exercising restlessly
BOMB-PROOF SHELTERS IN THE ROCKS
Yet owing daries of the artillery actio lie with the the Spanish land. It is f secret that howitzers thorough pre town and made for a lo
en- destructive si
over the Solent and Southampton It is no Water. Here was Gibraltar keeping which could wreck the ita lonelier watch.
dockyard and command the
"GIB"
CAN DEF
The tension of a few days ago has trance to Gibraltar Bay have been relaxed, at least for the time being. Some of the British and French war- ships have steamed away into the Mediterranean.
There are
placed near Ceuta, some 18 miles living on the away, and on the heights above viously immin
and Punto Algeciras
Carnero, be possible to which are only between six and women and ch seven miles away.
French Moroc But Gibraltar has not slackened
Immediately north of Gibraltar a would stay to the pace of its preparations for de- new road has been made in the Sier- in the huge fence. In bed at night you can hear ra Carbonera, which, it is supposed, being made to the unceasing motion of machinery is probably a prelude to the forti- There are and cranes in the naval dockyard. fication of this range of hills. It caverns, By day companies of workmen are would be easy to shell Gibraltar long from 1,000 to to be seen drilling and blasting con- and effectively from any of these first is nearly tinually at various points around the points; and the destruction of the will be finishe Rock. Such is the common interest port would be completed by air- July. Each i in self-defence that the warders of craft, for which certain objectives benches,
each
elect
"NEPTUNA" the local gaol are helping prisoners would be more accessible than for water, first-aid
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in their penal task of making sand-
| bags required for shelters.
IF ENEMY USED SPAIN
AS A BASE
Until quite recently Gibraltar had been turning a commercial eye upon its singular position and history. For want of more serious purposes some of the subterranean galleries and bomb-proof batteries were open- ed to the tourists landing almost every day from calling ships.
That phase is over. Such sight- seers' objectives as the Middle Gal- lery, whose apertures look out on the Spanish hills beyond La Linea, have lately been closed to the public and taken over again by the military. A fortress for 1,000 years, Gibraltar is preparing in all seriousness to up- hold against modern weapons its reputation for impregnability.
The Governor and Commander-in- Chief, Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside, has no illusions about Gibraltar's portion in the event of hostilities conducted in accordance with the present divisions and coalitions of Europe. Gibraltar's primary value to Britain is that of a naval base. In the event of 2 war to-day in which Spain could be used for opera- tions against the Rock, that use could be nullified, at any rate at first, by enemy howitzers in the Spanish and Moroccan hills, support- ed by aircraft operating from aero- dromes distant only a few minutes' flight. But Gen, Ironside is con-
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curtains. It need scarcely be said that Gi- As there wo braltar would not suffer bombard- ing of the app
THE COAST ROAD.—A striking aerial view Wales coast near Penmaenmawr.
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