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Japan's Unfinished
Memorial
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Rising high and forlorn on j'ilesign. Major General Sakurai, | dead. The sword is said to be Hong Kong's lofty peak Mount who came from Japan for this still baried there," deep ande Cameren, symbol of an un- purpose, peznounced Gen. fifty feet of earth. realised hope, stands Japan's isogai's proposed monument as As far as it is, known, Che anfinished monument, erected the finest he had seen. As a interior was to be 'à form of to the conquest of Hong Kong point of historical interest, the a hall supported by four di and the memory of their dead. Brst of these shrines is believ-corated columitis.
In the mid- It is a reflection of the un-
Plaimed originally to rise to ed to have been erected over dle this would, be, set th happy slow progress towards per-
one hundred and fifty feet. two thousand years ago, in one, or possibly several urn manent peace that one foreignome eighty feet of unfaced honour of the Samurai the car- which were to hold the consr affairs debate in these days is brickwork and cement, tappedly Japanese warriors, who aperated portin of bone fron | very like another. All that can by an incongruous, corrugated proximated 10 our English the bodies of the dead Japan
be said in general about the latest roof, are, all that can be seen knights. in the House of Commons is that today.. To the inhabitants and there was nothing in Mr. Bevin's ex-internees of Hong Kong, and report to destroy the impression to the members of the British, that his attitude towards most of Dominion, and local forces who his tasks commands support, as fought so gallantly in Decem Mr. R. A. Bucler indicated, far ber of 1941 it is perhaps n
relic of particular interest- party. In some of them, such as the helping of Greece towards a fair and free chance of recovery. criticism is confined to à section of his own party. One of the main points made by Mr. Bevin was his refusal to abandon Greece at the instance of such critics.
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wherein Russia has for sume time been conducting a "war of Herves" against Turker, Mr Bevin's, unequivocal refusal allow Turkey to be elbowed gut if her sovereignty, or the other signatories of the Montreux Con- vention out of their interests in the future of the Straits, should help to bring to a head a ques- tion which has been dangerously simmering in the background fa:
ese soldiers. On the outside-o Even Tombstones the urn would be engraved the The laying of the foundation soldier's name, several thousan stone by the Governor General names heing carved on the ury was a formal event. A number The princis of Japanese businessmen were world be sacred, un ane, excer asked to the ceremony and sub the attendants, being allowed sequently invited to contribute within the hall, and ftp their Ordered By Isogai to the funds for its ercelion rame to pay their homage awarded the it was forbidden to approgch Early in 1943 Lt. Gen. Isogai, Cel. Noma was at the time Japanese. Governor honour of taking the firs.yond the 1 pmost sten of the General of Hong Kong, gave stroke with the pick axe. Build-flight of stairs. Such then was orders for a shrine to be raising was then begun, under the the intended_memorial. ed in memory of the Japanese management of a. Japanes
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killed in the triumphant fight-contractor while the labour sup. ing for Hong Kong. A special plied was mainly Chinese; the 'committee was sent to Japan wages of this forced abou to obtain suitable architectural consisted of a daily issue of designs for the purpose. On food. Although the structure the General Staff held about February, General Isogal in -Concurrence with Col. Nomia and Cel, Nakao made thei choice from among the designs submitted. It is an interesting sidelight that Co Noms, Chief
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CARNIVAL..
By Dick Turner
* COPA. 1948 MP NEA SERVICE, 1940, T.
"No, no, no, madam! That is the purse-this is the hat
The Old Rocket And The New
The furacus Science Museum ¡ for a number of reasons. Look-
With pains and patience. with a great amount of pride, and not a little gruelling labour. for the local Chinese inhabit- ants, this monument was raised
1915, when the surrender Hong Kong was decmed in- evitable, work was stopped. The monument remained. Half built, a sign of the unfulfilled ag
andisement
Ity of Japan. future still remains uncertain. The Army was originally chare at South Kensington has re-ed at as it lies with its "works" en with its demolition and Ppened, after being closed dur-exposed one is struck by both ing World War I. with a the complexity and simplicity' plans were drawn up for it destruction. Other and mr special section devoted to Ger of the weapon. Even in 1844 urgent demands of engineering aeronautical developments. there were "experts" ready to imposed themselves, The wonderful old exhibits "prove" that a rocket missile ever
scen by could not be guided 200 miles and since the Civil Government which have been
Londoners resumed administration, its millions
and with accuracy, at least without As can be seen from the re- fate has been passed on to the visitors to London are coming radio control. reduction, on the left of the Civil Pubile Works
back from their bombproof nie! The Germans used no radio Depart flight of steps leading to the ment.
ng places to stand next to the control, ranger being regulated central door is the statue of a Suffice it to say, that every weapods with which Germany by the moment the fuel was cut The of after about 60 seconds for large dog resembling lion stranger who comes to Hong hoped to win the war.
Direction range). the guardian of the shrine Kong must wonder at this salt is some strange and in- maximum
and stability were secured by against the Spirits of Evil. A forlorn relic standing illetstructive contrasts.
The flimsy "bamboo and an automatic pikt, such as is more interesting form of pre-ted against the sky. If, as envas aircraft in which the weed in aircraft, working on tection was the ceremonial thought, it was griginally in burial at sundown of an antique tended to face South, the sign
Wright brothers made their vanes acting as rudders and Japanese sword reputed to be of a signal achievement of con- pioneer flights hangs from the clevators in the stream of the dve hundred years old. Eneused quest, to, the Japanese pussing ruling a few yards from Het gases as they emerged. The in a specially made box this at se, if must represent, in its 162 Volksjaeger which is moving part" is the tur was buried under the top step present farm, an encouraging driven by a turbine jet unit bine, driven by centrifugal And is believed. to hold tir sight to these Allied troops and capable, according to German gures, of 558 m.p.h. and a power of warding off the devils civilians now sailing back an
limb to 10,000 feet in four which might otherwise try to forth from Hong Kong in free
minutes. prey upon the spirits of the dom.
and brick- largely ef- cement work it was intended that the finished monument should have a stone facing. Granite for this was quarried from Morriesn Hill, a large amount was laid 'out in preparation in Happy Valley, and tombstones were even seized from the under
All these blocks of be takers. ound capable of arguing on the stone had to be manhandled relative merits of architectural the hill which has a steep in ex long. It is, however, onl:eauty. Of the alternative decline and is, in parts, covered
signs produced, two are still in with undergrowth.› the hands of the Hong Kong. authorities. Oac represents af plain pyramid. flanked by ter- races of stone, built into the hill side; the other, a simple undecorated colunin, about one hundred feet high, not unlike the British Cenotaph in White hall. In the picture reproduced here, can be seen the design which was finally chosen. Had it been completed, pitched on the skyline as it is, it would undoubtedly have made an im- posing picture.
one of those which raise the now familiar problem of whether re tations between the Great Powers en be rescued from a decline into that futile actimony which was too often evident in the Paris Conference. Mr. Bevin said what he could for that gathering; and he is right not to despair. As he suggested, of all the courses open
to us the best is to try and try
again to re-establish harmon with Russia. It is, however, ur- less to pretend that the Pari Conference registered any real progress towards that goal.
Mr. Bevin's own description of the controversy about Trieste, in which the self-evident altruism of our proposals and matives was swantonly traduced, is sufficient proof that, though hope has not withered, expectation that a coin- xin purse to avert war will be soon translated into practical agreements has hardly been born. For the few really brighter spots the Foreign Secretary had Travel to the Far East, where he was able to confirm, for example, that our troops would leave Java by the end of the month. But in Europe it is not only the Danube which, failing commonsense agreement, is "silting up."
Japanese Custom
It is the custom in Japan for each district to erect such a shrine for the remembrance of the dead. The building of these monuments is controlled by the "Chuzei-Kemsho-Kai," (The Royal Souls Memorial Society) whose committee have
the final right of veto on any
Britain
Returning
To Normal
So much depends on a better international atmosphere 1fa1 The rapid strides Great even. Mr. Revin's important out- Britain has made in the last
normal conditions are cm- phasised in the latest Ministry of Labour figures of employ inent in industry.
| line of British views on the future | thirteen months to return to
of Germany tends, in its absence, to seem academic. Indeed, of more immediate interest was his warning that the Russian attitude was causing the Potsdam Aprer ment to collapse-It has lung been clear, though never
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There were more people em- manufacture played on metal that at any time in the last 7 years; and "engineering, the chemical industries, and enter.. prises engaged in the construc lion and repair of vehicles all show increases in personnel..
4,080,000 men and women were engaged in the manufac- ture of goods for "the home market at the end of July this clearly stated, that we must rike year the same number as mid- hur own measures to ensure that | 1999 and an increase of 78 per our zone of Germany ceases to 'cent on last year. Another he, a pensioner of the British tax-} 1,354,000 were working on goods payer and contains some kind of for export, which is 37 per cent xonomic life and hope. For his more than before the war. policy in this direction Mr. Bevin gained the loudest cheer of the lebarea dicer certainly not wholly due to the promise to na tionalise German industry. As regards. longer-term plans, it is worth noting that Mr. Bevin outline for the future constitution if Germany follows in general his prescription that Germany hould have a hope of prosperity without a power to becoine again a world danger. Particularly, if The can in truth devise some ef
fective substitute for rejection of 61.700 in the coal mining in- the French plan for a separate redustry. 19,000 in gas, water gime in the Ruhr and the Rius and electricity undertakings, land, there is in his suggestions, and as much as 053,000 in the a scaffolding on which a new and distributive trades. Building better Germany could be built, and civil engineering are only But it will never rise if the same 8 per cent below normal.. spirit is manifested as has so far The numbers in the Forces frustrated progress in Austria at the beginning of August frustration of which he so rigia were 1,875,000-a' decrease of "3,217,000′′ on the mid-1945, ly complained, Let us hope still that the spirit will change. Mean while, what cannot and must not change is the independent, clear, and abjective statement of British views. Ad
Basic industries and services including agriculture, fishing, mining, utilities, transport, National and Local Govern ment) are also able to show a total increase, but the position there is not satisfactory, as there have been a fall of
total, while 40,000 were em- ployed in the manufacture of equipment and supplies for the Frees. This is only half the number so engaged in the sum- Iner of 1039, and there is to be a further reduction of 149,- Washington, Nov. 3. 000 by the end of this year, President Truman" naid yes |- «725,000: men and women who terday that the 48 Estonian had left the Services had not refugees who landed in Florida yet taken up employment, while withex immigratiof visas will there were 369,000 Insured per. be permitted to remain in the sons registered, as unemployed, United States ---- Associated ↑ naj against: 11,270,000 pribe" to
the war
Guardian Of Shrine
The monument which the Japaness intended to creet. The. inscription roads Royal Spirit Tower
Iding can
of
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remps to force the alcohol and liquid oxygen fuel into the combustion chamber where i
hey were ignited to produc the "jet" that drove the rocket. forward. Most of the material is cheap and ordinary steel.
Size Of "Warhead". But there are a maze of electric wires and complicated units, such as, the auto-pilot and
Pioneer Aircraft The Wright brothers used petrol to drive their little en- gine. The German fighter used
ydrogen peroxide (T-stoff) ad a mixture of mathanol and ydrazine hydrate (toif),¦ Juriously, the contrast is not ao f strong when we come to cun- perhaps the most striking thing trast the endurance of the two but the rocket is the small rize of the "warhead" compared machines. The German -uir-
craft was capable of ony 236 with the immense bulk of the counds at for thrust and had missile. Out of a total weight of rarge of only 22 miles at 496 var 12 tons, only one ton is m.ph. Like its predecessor of Caplosive. All that manufac 40 years ago, it was a pioneer nearly 9 tons of it) to deliver ture, transport, testing, fuel (as far as the Germans were f concerned in a new form of one ton of expicsive "with astonishing accuracy consider. `flight-jet propulsion,
Another strange contrast ising the range, but with no great n the tw exhibits marked certainty, by the standards of "Becket." The one is Stephen-metern bombing. Is it not son's famous locomotive that more economical to use a bom- ber, which, although, even more marked the beginning of the Ladway era, "The other is the cestly, can deliver 10 or 20 tons Germun Lay Range Bucket of explosive over and over.
Again? popularly known as V2. Hun
The controversy about the reds of thousands of fam
Runmanned" missie and the doners who were under fire by crewed bomber, is likely to con this weapon in the winter ti
1941-5 have been to see it at tinue, one side urging the say- ekse range, as they eculd nevering of precious crews, the other do when it fell at 2,800 m.pl that can be attained with such the great accuracy and weight from the sky: human curiosity air fleets as used by Britain being what it is, many who es- and the US. In the event, the caped injury during the -12-
have hurt themselves by at- air fleets proved far more templing to handle the glass destructive they delivered in a weel of which enormous quan- the 12 brought to London in single raid more explosive than tities were used to insulate the the eight months it was used. combustion chamber!
Shell With Fins The 47-foot-long rocket, look np like a gigantic shell with its, represented the last word long distance missiles and is u extremely interesting exhibit
But in a future war, military experts may now be thinking,
will not be so easy for the. air fleets to mass as they did, in 1944 and, 1945, A
Rocket Which Radared
There are other rockets. which encourage this belief. Many of them were not in full production when the war ond, ed. Possibly if they had been. perfected they would, hot have inflicted decisivo casusifles, on the Allies. But in 10 or 20 years, it is almost certain that similar anti-aircraft weapons. will make bombing an extremēš ly expensive business, The Ger muts were busy with a number of radio-controlled rickets with ranges up, to the maximum height of bombers. The most Ficgenious was the ricket which radared back its position con tinuously. The operator receiv erla radar "picture" of target aircraft as a blip on bis screen. He also received a "“blíp" - representing the rock
fravelling towards the aircraft hand, had radio controls which
could alter the direction ofathe a rocket. He had aimpl two "blips"" on his tube together to ensu the rocket being fitted proximity fase.
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