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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1955:
ATOM-POWERED FRENCH CIVIL DEFENCE
ANSWER TO RUSSIA
Under Polar Ice
Anchorage, May 5.
Atom-powered submarines travelling to the attack under the frozen surface of the Arctic seas may be the West's answer to any future Soviet aggression, according to the world famous Australian aviator and polar explorer, Sir George Hubert Wilkins.
Sir Hubert is at present in the far north testing Arctic clothing for the military authorities. Before coming to Alaska, he attended the launching of the first atom-powered submarine, The Nautilus. at New London, Connecticut."
He says that he is convinced that such undersen crafi could play a decisive role in any northern war operations! of the future.
Sir Hubert's exploits include numerous Arctic and Antarctic expeditions using ships and air craft, and one aboard 3 sub- His first trip marine.
Lo polar regions was as a member of the Stefansson Arctic expedi- tion of 1913.
FIRST EXPLORATION
Nearly 20 years later. 1931. he commanded the first underscas exploration
area
the
of the Arctic, in the north of West Spitsbergen. «An earlier namesake of the Nautilus was used for this expedition
"After many years of war, people are finally starting to believe me when I say the
Arctic is important in world affairs," Sir Hubert said
here.
SIR HUBERT WILKINS
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1919 he and General Billy Mitchell were lone proponents of the iden that the Arctic would some day be a bastion of defence against Russia.
Today, the concentration of military forces and defence out-
Kong posts in the Arctic by both the Birds
Herklots, G. A. C. 1953. Hong Kong Birds." "Pp. +233. pla,, 8 in colour, numerous blacie- and-white drawings in text, Hong Kong: South China Morning Post,
Ltd. HK$35.00.
East and the West bears out their visionary belief.
In this atom age, America must face the intense cold of the Arctic if she is to be pre-. pared for defence and, if need be, offence, according to the. Australian
explorer.
***This means the US must maintain an army in the Arctic at all times," Sir Hubert said.
even
Sir-Hubert said that he be- carte convinced that submarines could play a decisive role in Arctic defence, or offence before his underseas exploration of the polar seas. In 1927. head of the Detroit Arctic Ex- pedition, he made numerous Bights over the Arctic pack ice from the northern coast of
* a most welcome handbook for ornitholo- gists resident or station- ed in Hong Kong. All the hitherto recorded species are included; plumages are clearly and concisely described, and a short account is given 'of feld characters, Alaska. raice, habits. status,
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etc. The illustrations, On March 20 of that year, he
except for three plates
and Ben Eielson, pioneer
Until then, popular opinion was that the water in the Polar seas was only 1.500 feet or less deep.
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Sir Hubert said that the great depili « af the Polar seas, combined with the clear quality of Unusually
the
the water. convinced that wartime submarine operations there were possible. He
proved clarity of the polar sea waters at first-hand-while on the pack ice he fell into the sea through a thin spot.
The explorer belleves that atom-powered submarines would be an important weapon in any future Arctic war because of their ability to stay submerged indefinitely Aircraft from Alaskan and other bases, he declares, would have to smash through a heavy Russian net- work of aerial defences in the event of the United States being forced into war and wishing to carry out offensive strikes,
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But, he added. “Submarines could move without much des tection. Then they could sur Europe, face. launch their missiles and 0.9.8. Canada, disappear as unobtrusively
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Italy, France, 2 plan Special.
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WAS HE TRYIN' TO TELL ME -- THAT YOU'RE THE CROOKS!
[HE SURE WAS. POPS. DROP THAT GUN.
FERDINAND
Alaskan bush pilet, took GT NANCY from remote Point Barrow on their first long trip over the Arctic Ocean. It was 30 de- grees Fahrenhei! below zero (about minus 34.5 Centigrade)
as they made a five, and one- half hour flight to the porth- west. When they were more than 500 miles from Alaska's northern shores,. their engine began to miss.
of photographs, are all by Cdr. A. M. Hughes, and include four attrac- tive plates of the heads of 42 species and many useful drawings in the text. The writer of this review
would have benefited greatly from this book, when station- ed in Hong Kong some years ago, Even now, on referring to it, some 40 unfamiliar species plane on which notes were made at the time have almost all proved easily identifiable, D. W. S.
(Extract from ""The _This official organ of the Britian Ornithologists' Linton, British Museum).
and
Eielson brought the crippled down safely on the ice proved something which Sir Hubert had long contended: that wheeled aircraft could land safely on the polar sea.
While the bush pilot was re- pairing their craft, Sir Hubert chopped holes in the ice and detonated charges to take, echo soundings. He found that the Arctic Ocean at that point was KOWLOON" more than three miles deep.
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APATHY
Authorities Have Plans For 'Ostrich Heads'
Paris, May 5
French civil defence authorities are working hard to prevent the civil population from being caught unprepared in the event of war.
But they are hampered by public apathy and by lack of Government funds. Their plans so far are still at the "general staff" level.
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The school has four main lines of action
According to M. Maxime courses at the British. National, Roux, head of France's National Civil Defence School at Sun- Civil Defence Service, too many pingdale. people in France think that there is nothing to be done against modern air attacks, Frenchmen are a bit apathetic." he said, and tend to have an "ostrich approach” to -civil defence.
1. Informing and instructing higher technical and administra- tive officials about civil defence.
2. Helping to work out civil defence doctrine and control.
3. Malding people evil de- fence conscious.
4.. Acting as a civil defence library. It consists so far of 450 French and foreign "books on
the subject.
The problem, he continued, is to make people feel an Pab solute duty to help in civil defence. Even with modern nuclear super-bombs there are always people on the fringe of Students following. courses the bombed arpa to be saved from five days to fortnight
In addition, the soldier at the include local government" offi- front must know that maximum cials, civil defence
precautions are being taken tohle figh pollice
officers,
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protect his family.
from the National College and industrialists, Teb The key centre for France's women from local government civil defence preparation and offices and civil defence organi
were among the 421 propaganda is the National Civilsations Defence School, which comprises students who have attended the Adapted by May Jeocios. Park (a) a fire protection school in school so far. "Mr Toad (BBCTS); 3.30. Popular Paris for fremen, and (b) Bong Fade 7-Set to Your Pact geperal civil defence instruction
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surded London Relay): 10 Record Workships and a luxurious tele-old head of the Nainville school, Round about: 19.59, Weather Report; vision-equipped bar.
say that practical exercises had 11. Time Signs). Radio News Resi
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The Ministry said that misleading reports might have started as a result of offers from abreed to resume barter trade,
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Students are also shown films of atom bomb explosions and their effects and a flm on the bombing of Berlin in the last
war.
But for future practical ezer- cises, an exercisé ground in- cluding a "bombed" building. tunnels and various models of air raid shelters is being set up)
"Grassroots" civil defence training for local groups will be" "given" in threa" regional centres." "One at Lyons and one at Toulouse are expected to be ready early next year. A third will be set up somewhere in the Páris region
The Nainville school deals not only with wartime problems
of civil defence, but also those of
peacetime disasters, such as earthquakes,
floods and forest ares. Lectures are given on the peacetime as well as wartime application of the national aid plan, known as which is applied at departmental,
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regional and
national levels according to the extent" of disaster.
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The plan went into operation anational scale. during disastrous floods last January. M. Roux directed it..
M. Diebolt said that many. students from Nainville' became useful" "propagandists and were organising divil defence lecture. in their home districts, borTOW= ing lecturers and films from the school
.
M. Roux, questioned at a Press conference about civil defence plans against possible atom bomb attacks, said that general evacuation plans are now being studied and plans for a nation wide alert system are quite advanced."
LONG TERM
Long term planning includes the construction of shelters which. can be used as "garages or warehouses in peacetime.
Ald teams should be pres pared and trained
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work and bringing in food sur plies. On the basis of Japa experiences with first atom bombs, it was calculated that one rescue worker would be needed for every three victims.
· M., Roux said that credits for French civil defence were very Emal. Their Fabjalute - mini- mum" requiremenia was 67,000d collálom dranes" (choat 2#7,000,- 400) B year. In the current financial year, they had been granted a 500 million francs (about £1,500,00012:
French civil defence authori ties copperate closely with the North Atlantic Treaty Crimniss- tion's civil defence expatSTRO Organisation's chief adviser for civil defence
Sir John Bedsolt, helped in
in getting the Kampilla school
Civil defence experts
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