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To AUSTRALIA
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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 29, 1939
THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT
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chances of survival are dependent up- on the severity of the impact. If it is no more than a slight ‘graze" then we may reasonably hope that life, even some fragment of human life, might survive.
"We can assume that the shock would displace the earth but not its atmosphere. Crudely stated, the earth | would be jolted out of the skin of air that loosely surrounds it - but that skin would return and settle evenly around the earth again. We should suffer tornado and flood upon two sides of the earth as it slides out of its at- mosphere, and a temporary disappear- ance of air upon the other sides. But I repeat that everything would depend upon the nature of the impact.'
He looked up with a faint smile. "Now I am glad to speak of some- thing constructive and hopeful after so much gloom,-The engineering corp: of all armies are at work upon subter- ranean strongholds, built with the ut- most strength and fitted with every possible protection against shock, flood and lack of air. The officers and men employed believe the dugouts to be against air raid and gas attack from foreign Powers. The number of peoplc to be protected in this way cannot be more than the smallest proportion of
our population, and the selection will, of course, rest with the Government." I suppose we were all affected, far more deeply thun we realised. Or pos- sibly it was the result of the presi- dent's reply to the last question of the evening.
He stated that, upon present indica- tions, the moon would strike the earth upon the evening of May 3 at about eight o'clock.
Seven months of life remained to me and the rest of the world two hundred days, How ought I to change my mode of life to get the best from those precious remaining hours?
I could not risk divulging the Secret. No, I must do my duty by carrying on exactly as if nothing had happened.
Had I known of the things that lay ahead of me I believe that I should never have returned by train to my home that night. I belleve that I should have gone down the hillside to the River Arun and died while there still remained distinction between life and death.
蹦
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As if to pay compensation in ad- vance for her approaching madness, Nature presented us with a perfect au- tumn and a mild winter during those grim seven months.
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