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HONG KONG. DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1938.
AIR RAID LECTURE
(Continued from Page 1)
You must remember that you have these vital, spets to guard→ mouth, nose and eyes and I will demonstrate to you later how these are catered for.
The first thing to do on 'detect- ing the presence of a war gas is to pull out your respirator then remove your hat or headgear this again seems stupid but I have seen
trained men in a panic endeavour- ing to put on a respirator over a auri helmet.
ADVICE TO LADIES
I would therefore advise ladies in time of war not to wear expen- sive models that require, a lot of adjustment and will also, veritare | further to advise them to keep their hair short--they cannot expect any respirator to make a good it if they have a large "bun" at the
back of their heads.
For
the men, I suggest that beards be removed for the same reason that is you cannot get a decent gas-tight At if you have a large and heavy "beaver."
by padding using Sorbo rubber in
Li requisite places
The eye pieces are made of splin. terless glass and can be removed. and renewed.
It is most important to keep these clear as your vision is much impaired apart from your breath condensing on them!
H.K. POLICE RESERVE
(Orders by The Hon. Mr. T I King, Commissioner of Police).
CHINESE COMPANY Anul Gas Lectures-The under- mentioned members will report daily at Chinese Company Head quarters at 17.30 livars on Mon- day, Tuesday, Wednesday Thura-. An anti-dimming outat is pro-day and Friday, January 10,1 vided in each respirator haversack 12 13 and 14, 1938, for Anti Gas
Course Lectures: for this purpose which also gives full instructions as to how to use”
This dimming or the eye pitces *e to condensation of breath · 18 also to a degree counteracted by the air breathed in entering, the musk almost midway between the eye pieces. The exhaust airgoes out through a non-return valve which is so designed to augment
the speech of the wearer.
CIVILIAN RESPIRATOR The civilian, duty respirator is de signed for those men and women who having no part to play in the AR.P, organisation will merely put them on, go to their houses or shelters and sit quietly until the at- tack is over.
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The container is exactly the same as the Service one but as you see being smaller cannot be ex- pected to stand up to a strong con-
me as a Service one. In fact it centration for the same length of
would not be required to.
1.
Whilst on the subject of hats would also advise those who are lable to be caught in the open- country people as opposed to town dwellers to invest in a tin helmet or at least a sun helmet-remember everything that goes up has to come down and most of the Anti- Aircraft projectiles and shrapnel wil go up from or near the towns and come down in the surrounding country. Going back to the orl ginal, subject having removed your hat, hold your breath and face the wind-hold your respirator balanced on the two thumbs-dig your chin Into
It and with the made. thumbs follow "through until the
To test the ft of these place the
palm of your hand over the Inlet valve at the bottom of the contain- er. I you can still breathe there
Constables: R19 JC. K. Want R21-Wong Ping Kwan, R23 Kong Kar Yan, R25 Lee Chee Leung, R32 Yeung Po Kan. R36 Ho Tu Nam R37 Leung Wing Tscing R38 Henry Wong R43 Laur Chick Kat and R45 Chu Kwan Yu.
Patrol Duty-Nightly between 18.00 hours and midnight by mem- Charge of Company. bers as detailed by the Officer in
OFFERED BRIBE OF FIFTY CENTS
FINED $300
Fong Hon, 23, unemployed, ap- peared before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy yester day on a charge of offering a bribe 'of 50 cents to an Indian constable of the Royal Naval Dockyard Fo-
GROWTH OF
IMPERIAL
Ministry's
AIRWAYS
Comparisons
___During_its_Arst year.... (1924-5): Imperial Airways flew, 853,000 air- craft miles and carried 391,000 ton miles of traffic. In the year ended April. 1937, the respective atures It was alleged that defendant, were 4,560.718 and 4,803,427. The who had been in the employ-of-the-company, and its subsidiaries and
·lice.
associates are now flying over routes totalling 27,000 miles,.com. pared with the original total of 1,760 miles.
Dairy Farm selling ice cream, wanted to sell sweets on Stone cutters, Island, but was unable to as he had no ometal pass. He approached a Dockyard Indian po- These, comparisons appear in liceman and, it was alleged offer the Air Ministry's report for 1936 ed him and another constable a on the progress of evil aviation, sum of $2 per week to allow him Issued recently as a Blue-book. to board the launch to Stonecut- A(Stationery Office, 589),LA.. ters to sell chocolates. The con-
stables, however, reported the offer to their senior officer and a
INDIAN COMPANY' Training Course Part II-The undermentioned members of the Indian Company will attend Trap was set. dlan Company Headquarters for Part II of" Training Course Tuesday, January 11, 1938, at 17.30
on
United Kingdom aeronautical exports amounted to £2,923,138," which exceeds the 1935 record by £201,697,
A
There were forty-two accidents Jo registered aircraft in the United Kingdom which caused either fatal or serious injuries in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Most of the accidents were attributed solely to " de-error of judgment or faulty air-
box,
At an appointed time defendant met, the two Indian constables át the Kowloon Police Fler and hand- hours:
ed 50 cents to one of the con "Constables: R246 M. Y. Khan, | stables, who detained him R297 Karam Khan R211.5. Aras Defendant, in the witness R215 Feroz Khan, R219 Nur declared that the constables Ahmed, R223 Firdos. Khan, R229manded a sum of $2 a week. M. R.. Malik. R230 Mohamed Sentence of three months' im Asghar, R279 Mir Wali Khan, prisonment was imposed with the
option of a fine of $300% 2
and R221 Hakim Ali.
Patrol Duty-Nightly between 18.00 hours and midnight by members as detailed by the Officer Ini Charge of Company...
EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE Commendation. Inspector (R).
must be some adjustment-gen-. V. Field is commended by the, erally around the temples to be
If you cannot breathe it is ob- pad is on the back of the head-vious that you have a good it and in so doing you have. protected the
will therefore have complete pro- vital points mouth, nose and eyes tection" in that order, then breathe out heavily to clear away any gas-that may have got in, after that you can make yourself comfortable by running your finger around the edge of the mask and getting the elastics straight and square.
PRACTICE NEEDED Having got your respirator on, and you will not be able to do this first shot without a certain amount of practice, all you have to do is to alt still until you have "reason to believe the gas, has gone.
Never
remove your respirator without testing for gas-this is done in a very simple..fashion" by putting two fingers under the side. of the chin, holding the breath and anding-If all clear you can then remove it by an upward moventent
The "offspring" of this civilian duty respirator I mentioned is the civilian type designed. for women and children who it is hoped would be, in their houses with doors and windows closed and all other means of gas access, closed by paper and other means which you will be told about in a subsequent lecture.
The principle and container is the same as the others the only difference being that you exhaust through", the sides of the mask ag opposed to having a valve. This is merely to reduce the cost...
"LACK OF OXYGEN”.
Hon. C. P. for prompt action in assisting to extinguish a fire in a garage at Kowloon City on Dee
15. 1937.
Lecture.-Lecture on Police Work will be given at the RU.R. Club on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1938. at 17.30 hours. All members will at
tend.
General. The undermentioned members of the Emergency Unit Reserve will in future report for duty at the Stations as under:-
All Stations (All Sections):---S.I. (R) R. P. Dunlop,
Frost.
Ali Kowloon (Sec. 1/3):—P.S. Ġ.
All Hong Kong (Sec. 2/4):-P.8, J. A. Bendall,
Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station (Sec. 1):-L.S. G. J. Gröver. “P.C. -M.-A-de-Souza-PC. N. 8. Daghain,
J. C P.C. L. B. Budagain, P.C. Powers,
No 2 Police Station (Sec. 2))— LS. B. W. Simmons, P.C. M. A. R Souza, P.C. V. F. M. Bouza, F.C.
A. Staritsin, PC. J. Van Der Lely.
2) PC. N. Stardmoor.
Quarry Bay Police Station (Sec.
I have stressed the term "War designed to protect against what Gases" as these respirators are not
is known as "Accidental Gasce" f gas is still present take your
such as Carbon Monoxide C.0.2 fingers out and breathe out heavily the basis of which is "Lack of once or twice. Glasses can be Oxygen" and can only be dealt with worn if really required in a respira-
by a self contained breathing ap tor provided the frames are of thin
paratus-in other words some ap wire-thick tortoise-shell rimas ob-pliance that can provide its own viously would upset, the fit of the air-it is no good trying to alter mask. People with punctured ar
a gas which has no oxygen in it. drums should wear the ordinary rubber plugs as worn by bathers who are apt to suffer from "tropicat respirator and therefore treat it Savitsky, P.C. D. N. Willis.
'ear."
That completes the individual factor of protection and I will now
go on to the respirator.
TYPES OF DUTY
As I mentioned before there are two main types "Service" and "Civilian Duty-the latter has an offspring in the shape of a "Civilian, type."
I will take the "Service" one first. It is issued to all members of the fighting services and will
Please remember that your life may. depend on the efficiency of your
Kowloon City Police Station (Sec. 3):--L.B.. L. W. Tipple, P.C. HR Webb.
Yaumati Police Station (Sec. 3): -AL R Lee. P.C. G. Tavastjerna, PC. P. Archipoff, P.C. I. A.
with respect.
It should be kept in its haversack 2/4):-PS. J. A. Bendall.
All Hong Kong Stations (Sec.
| casionally and wear it for a while-P.C. W. E. Dorablée. P.C. L. E in a cool dry place take it out oc- Central Pollee. Station (Sec. 4) -this helps to prevent it cracking Rosario.
me, and also accustoms you to 4):-P.C. J. Priest. through being folded up for a long Quarry Bay Police Station (Sec.
wearing it.
Always wipe the inside of the face-plece dry before you put it
infect it from time to time. back and it is a good thing to dis-
This is very easily done by turn- ing the face-piece inside out and.
be issued to all civil essential wiping the whole of the inside with
a rag moistured, with weak diin- rectant-about an egg cupful to a
C. CHAMPKIN,"
D. 8. P. (R) Hong Kong. Monday, Jan. 10
CROWN LAND SALE
services whose duties might in-
At a sale of Crown land held at' volve those remaining and work-
the Public Works Department ing in high concentration of gas-3-gallon bucket of water.
yesterday. Inland Lot No.5100 (about 10,500 square feet, in area), such as police, fire brigades, decan- tamination squads, ambulance men
Be careful though that moisture situated in King's Road, was put etc. It consists essentially et a
or drips enter the container, there up for sale at the upset price of
$14,625. container filled with material to should be a thin gauze pad over
this which should be renewed The highest bidder WLA ME. Alter or absorb the gas, a' race-every time the respirator is-dizin-Yeung Ship Leung who, on behalf of Mrs Yeung Wan Shl and Mrs. Chan. Fok Yee, purchased it fo $14,825. The annual rental
lected. These can easily be im- Provised out of 10-12 thicknesses of fauze.
$358.
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is
ture that the .A.R.P; are endeavour HEALTH RETURNS ing to make you “Air Raid Minded" must not be overlooked and is also ease of dysentery were reported to but as gas is a possiblity which Four cases of small-pox and 1
a subject of which most of you are, the local health authorities during happily in ignorance of a large the 24 hours ended midnight, Jap percentage of these lectures must be devoted to it.
+
uary 9,
plece making an air-tight junt around the face and a flexible tube to connect the face-piece to the Alter or container, thus you can only breathe in through the tabe peat again from the opening lec- In conclusion I would like to re- and therefore through the con- tainer, therefore you are only breathing Altered air.
This container or alter is a very simple affair consisting of a tinned Iron box containing layers of ac- tivated charcoal which absorbs the gases and several alter pads which prevent, the passage of poison dust euch as arsenical smokes,
Please keep in your minds whe This container can easily be you have been told agout nign ex, charged should its power of absorb-plosive bombs, their splintering and lag gas (60 hours in a heavy.conblast effects and also the incend centration) or if it becomes ary bomb with the ensuing fre damaged in any way,
peril. Also so far as gas is: con- cerned. remember that these res- The head harness as you see justed as I have tried to tell you pirators if properly worn and ad- constats of clastics which can be to-day will give 100 per cent proports for the week ending January adjusted to suit the wearer. The tection against any known wAT ENA face-piece or mask is made in three including arsenica, amokes. sizes small, formal and large one
THREE SIZES
of which should fit the average
man or women; Occasionally casan
what
occur in which none of these sites. The first Criminal sessions for will at emclently owing to facial 1938 will be held at the Supreme configurations this ip dealt with Court on Monday, January 17,
It is officially notifed that, quar- antin's restrictitis imposed it. Singapore against arrivals from Hong Kong on account of cholerá have now been removed.
FAR EAST HEALTH
The health bulletin of Eastern
1, states:-Plague Bassein<j«case} Cholera-Calcutta 6 cases; Madrus. 38 cases; Hong Kong 1 case; Shang- hai 3 easca Bmall-por-Bombay 79 cages; Calcutta, 43 cases Madras 58 cases, Rangoon 7 cases: Cown- pore 2 deaths; Hanol 1, case; Fal phong 14 cases; Hong Kong 7 opres,
GAMBLING RAID
manship, but in one or two cases" the possibility of the "private" plot having been overtaken by illness in the air could not be dismissed.
THEFT OF PURSE
Sentence of four months Im- prisonment was imposed on a 45- year-old unemployed. Chan. Tam, when he was convicted on the
Eleven, women and a man were charged with gambling before Mr. K.M.A. Barnett at the Kowloon Police Court yesterday and were each ordered to pay a fine of $2 when they pleaded guilty. One other who failed to appear to sa- charge of theft of à purse, contain- swer the charge had her bail of | ing $8.62 from an Indian constable $3 estreated. The arrest followed in Hamilton Street on Sunday by a surprise raid on the second Mr. H. R Butters at the Kowloon. floor of No. 12. Gilles Avenue,on Police Court yesterday. Inspector Sunday.
Past prosecuted.
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