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THE
Forces:
Camouflage Nothing More Than Visual Deception
The word camouflage is nothing more than a rather foolish title or indirect, which for any type of visual deception, either direct
makes it harder for the enemy to find his target, writes Lieut.-Col Homer Saint-Gaudens to the "Christian Science Monitor." The enemy may be on the ground, or out at sea or up in the air. These days, however, the enemy is so much more dangerous when he is to the ar than when he is anywhere else that hiding from aeroplane observa- tion forms the chief reason for the existence of camouflage.
at
We should get it out of our head, developing
опсе
camouflage
MR. LATTIMORE GIVES SPEECH
IN CHINESE
in
Speaking at a dinner given on Tuesday night by the People's For-
Associations, eign Relations Chungking. Mr. Owen D. Latti more, personal political advisor to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
declared tliat United States assis-
tance to China is not temporary, but would continue even after the
war.
He
emphasised. however, that
meet pro-
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941.
FOREIGN MAILS
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 14th AUGUST, 1041.
Air Mail to Rangoon to connect with the British Over- scas Airways Service will until farther notice be closed on Mondays and Fridays. Correspondence for despatch by this route must be superscribed by "C.N.A.C.".
The public are reminded that it is a breach of postal
The Printed Matter Service to the following places in China is temporarily suspended:-
experi- the United States would not in-regulations to enclose in a postal cover communications intend. that camouflage always ments The 84th Engineer Bat-terfere with China's internal af-ed for persons other than the addressee. implies absolute hiding.. Complete talion at Fort Belvoir has 100 off-tals as China must evolve her hiding is fine enough, but if that cers and men working at camou own organisations to cannot be obtained, even the les flage construction. In Belvoir, a blems. sening of the visibility of a target camouflage school of 50 officers Mr. Lattimore spoke throughout to delay recognition is something has just closed, so that when troop in excellent Chinese. The speech training begins, a camouflage off-lasted nearly 40 minutes, says Reu- ta be regarded with satisfaction.
ver can accompany every division, ter. Atr elds are being told to look like tobacco farms Coast artillery positions are being dressed up as horticultural stations,
LITTLE HOPE
young
N.Z., AUSTRALIA WILL NOT YIELD
These days many roen of years ask me if they cannot do some thing for Uncle 3am by way of camouflage as a not tou strenuous
I act as a bureau of informauja occupation. Many
artists in the Office of the Chief of Eng- about to be drafted hoped to find ineers, Troops are being told why
LONDON, Aug. 13 (Reuter) ----Mr. a possibility of putting their art the north side of a bush is safer
work as well as their feet. Most than the south side. Keep off the Frter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand broadcasting last of my elderly visitors are ready to grass signs couched in military
"The Far Eastern do anything asked of them. Others, language are sprouting like dan night, said: generally the youthrul oues, fecl deltons la the spring. Artillery situation is serious but there is that the country owes them a com- nets are being dispersed. Pam-stil time for wiser counsels than nilsalon
phlets are being published. Non-aggression to prevali." reflecting glass for windshields is being looked into.
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I can extend little hope to either type. because Army camouflage is a military function In time of
CAMOUFLAGE FERTILE FIELD camouflage wal.
erection while
Camouflage naturally 14 a fertile heing shelled. like establishing a river crossing under fire, requires field for fantastic ideas. Once in a soldier first and a specialist while, though an effective sugges-- afterward. When a soldier is not lon does appear; so those con- good cerned with Army camouflage de a soldier, be is not even specialist, he is just in the way. It velopment are scrupulous in their is quite understandable that the desire to inspect every notion that is pubile should be confused about submitted to them. In this process of i all this though the situation is re-staking the situation down to a ally sumple Two forms of camoyline of brass tacks, what is asked flage exist. For want of better of any scheme is: Will it deceive names. I will call them milltary the camera? Does it fool your eye? camouflage and industrial camou flage
COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
Is it simple to erect? Is it prac
tical from an engineering stand- point? How much will it cost?
Expressing confidence that if in
Yunnan
Szechuen Kwelchow
Hunan
Fuklen (except Amoy and Kulangsu Kwangs!
North and East of Kwangtung
Sinal Packet Post to a countries is suspended.
INWARD AIR MAILS
From
Dae
spite of every effort to maintain Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Direct Ser- peace in the Pacific the tide of
vice" San Francisco date, 5th August.
Airways Direct Ser- war should reach New Zealand and Air Mail by "Pan American Australia the Dominions would show vice-San Francisco date, 19th August. the same unyielding determination
as the Motherland.
He declared that New Zealand would stand shoulder to shoulder with the United Kingdom.
CONGRESS CUTS APPROPRIATION FOR U.S.
ARMY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (Reuter)
FRIDAY
For
15th Aug.
26th Aug.
OUTWARD
AIR MAILS
Date and Time
Fri, 15th Aug.
K.P.O.
Rog. Ord. 4.30 PM
4.00 PM
G.P.O,
Ordi.
4.00 PM 4.30 PM
K.P.O. Reg. 5.00 PM
Ord.
5.30 PM.
O.F.O.
5.00 PM
Ord. 7.00 PM
Mon. 18th Aug.
K.P.O.
Reg 4.00 PM
Ord.
4.30 PM
G.P.O.
4.00 PM
4.30 PM
: That last question causes aston--A reduction of some 31,234,000,- Air Mail by Air to Rangoon to connect with the Reg. Military camouflage is a form of, ishment these days when we hear 000 in the new Defence Appropria-
"British Overseas Airways." counter intelligence created to so casually of millions being spent tion Bill of $8,065,000,000 was voted keep the enemy from knowing for this or that. It is a pertinent by the US. Senate Appropriation what our forces are doing and to question just the same. If camou- Committee yesterday. hide from the enemy our offensivo flage costs too much, it is more
Passed by the House of Repre- Air Matt for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A. and weapons. industrial
camouflage advisable to invest the money in sentatives on July 28. 1941, the Bill
Europe via "Pan-American Airways and Trans-Rog. concerns itself with blurring huge some other form of protection. I
Atlantic Services" carried approximately $7,100.000.- targets, such as munitions plants. know of a collection of nideable
COO in cash and $1,000,000,000 in from planes watch must unload all tanks; that is, hideable, if a their bombs while from three to couple
contract authority. of million dollars were five miles away from their target. spent on camouftaging them. Two
Military camouftage, which is million dolars would go a long Trans-Oceanic Plane the Army's concern is 211 active ways toward burying those tanks one. The Engineer Board at Fort or relocating them, or decentralix Belvoir. Virgina, ras nine officers mg them,
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MONDAY
Crash Into Hillside Air Mal by Air to Rangoon to connect with the Reg.
LONDON, Aug. 13 (Reuter) Twenty-two person are believed to a trans- have been killed when
"British Overseas Airways,”
TUESDAY
Ord.
محنت
Tue, 26MÍ Aug.
or building concrete walls around them. In such a case, what the engineers would want to know would be which one of these schemes would prové, the most oceanic aircraft crashed on a hill-
side.
belleved The plane is efficient within their cost limits.
have left a British airport.
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A. and A TIME FOR IT
The
the Air Ministry issued
Europe via "Pan-American Airways and Trans-Reg. Atlantic Services” following
last announcement
to
In both military and industrla}| concealment there k time to night; "The Air Ministry nuch camouflage. It easy, to design a regrets to announce that on Sun- LONDON, Aug. 12 The building sniper's suit that will bide a man day last a
trans-oceanic aircraft
of warships for the United States in a clump of blackberry bushes, No new into a hillside shortly Navy is accelerated by double sniper's suit with hide that soldier taking off from this country and triple shifts that it is now in a wheat field. It is possible to that. 22 passengers and crew confidently expected that the two-
their lives." rean Nuvy plan will be substan.hilde a battery of 3-inch artillery tally realised by 1944 when the pieces almost anywhere along the Eastern seaboard. It would be im-! whole Fleet will be the most powerful in the world.
possible to hide that artley on the DRESS
Camouflage would make it dif-
For the past two months, a new cult for a bomber to centre on United States warship Was Jaunched almost every week and the plant in the country beyond
38 keels for new vessels were laid, Buffalo, New York. It would be
REFORM
one for an aircraft-carrier, five hopeless to attempt to diminish IN F.M.S.
for cruisers, 24 for destroyers and eight for submarines.
BRITAIN DENIES PEACE RUMOURS
LONDON, Aug. 13 (Reuter).
the visibility of the mills in Pitts-
after
and
lost
K.P.O.
Reg.
5.00 PM
Ord. 5.30 PM
G.P.O
Ord.
5.00 PM 7.00 PM
RADIO LOCATION SECRET KEPT
The branch of the Services which requires the most highly qualified men is the radio detection department, a department whose work is about to be applied to the defence of Australla with improvements on the system which has proved such a suc- cess in Britain.
H
The Royal Australian Air Force, August 1939 with a story of fine is appealing for recruits for radio achievement and thrilling possibi- burgh, located as they are at the Official communiques have been detection work and most of them litles. intersection of a bridge, a boule-issued to departments in connec- must know enough about physics His knowledge was placed. be- vard and some railway tracks. It tlon with dress reform which was to be able to pass the first year fore a smail group of cabinet would be possible, though foolish, advocated in these columns some of any university science course, ministers; and Prime Minister to hide the plant in the midst of time ago, says the Ipoh reporter of Applicants for appointment es Menzies gave an the industrial centre in East Cam- the Malaya Tribune. bridge, Mass. Do not ask me for detalls; take my word for it.
NO ABANDONING
order for full officers should hold degrees in steam ahead on the basis of the. It is understood that the High science, electrical engineering, or programme taken back to Austra Commissioner has forwarded re-physics, or u diploma in electrical lla by the scientist. It is officially denied in London
સ technical As any threat to Malaya must commendations to this effect to' engineering from that there is any truth whatsoever
necessarily be by air it is to be in a statement emanating from Because camouflage is of value the various Residents of the States training college.
There will be a six months hoped that Malayals of good America and attributed to Senator only under certain circumstances, and the latter, in turn, have cr- schaffer that Lord Beaverbrook however, is no reason for abandon- culated the various departments. course of intensive training, the education will be given, a chance In this vital work here.(Malaya In the commanniques to the local oretical and practical. during has notified the authorities of ing it. The Army does not abandon. the United States that Great Bri-pontoon bridges because they are departments-the Resident suggests' which trainees will devote all their Tribune.
w negotiate peace with useless in Arizona, nor give up that the wearing of shorts and time to this work, g Germany unleas the United States howitzers because they cannot stockings and
Sir David Rivett, Deputy Chair- enters the war within 30 days,
function in swamps, Camouflage did trousers with open shirts, is perman and Chief Executive Officer begin with a bucket of paint. Now missible, sports shorts, with color the Commonwealth Counell for PATENT ABSURDITY
what it needs is a plumber's kit, lars, are also permitted.
Scientific and Industrial Research, NEW YORK, Aug. 13 (Reuter-That is why when a man of my age
But It la doubtful if there could and former Professor of Chemistry Mr. H. J. Timperley, well-known Mr. Cordell Bull, United States comes to my desk, I shake my head be much in the way of economy at the University of Melbourne, Australian Journalist, fa leaving Secretary of State, termed the with regret knowing how much he points out the Resident, in the use, recently revealed that in 1939, the Singapore by air for Java whence latest rumour that Britain may would like to be in the Service. of shorts and stockings.
Australian Government was invit he will fly to Ball and Sicerabaiya
tain
from Washington.
open
shirts or
TIMPERLEY FOR JAVA
scek peace as a patent absurdity, That is why when a young man The dress reform is conditional ed by the British Government not for a short visit, after which he according to a Dow Jones message comes to my desk, the "approved" and does not apply to law courts merely to share in the knowledge will return to Singapore.
then available, but to take an ac conversation if I had my way, it is understood. would run something like this: An inspection of the local de- tive part in carrying on the re- "Thanks for your statement about partments showed that the major searches then in progress, and the your painting ability but are your ity, of Government employees have still greater number to be begun. fest all right have you a strong availed themselves of the new
| FINE: ACHIEVEMENT ARMY SERVICE ›
back; how are your tooth; let me order. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (Router) look at your hands; can you make It will be recalled that the Tri-the Radio Research Board was scott, Chief Far Eastern reprezen
UNITED STATES
Mr. Timperley is proceeding to London via the United States by Clipper, Mr. Kao Ling-pai, the Chinese Consul-General here, is - 1 entertaining Mr. Timperley at din- One of the leading members of nor tonight at which Mr. R. H.
-An attempt to put the proposed | anything?" val
burie recently published an article extension of military service on a "Yes, I think I remember that with regard to dress reform into haste to England and tative of the British Ministry of taken into the confidence of the Information, and a number of voluntary instead of a compulsory scene where Robert Taylor made troduced in defion by HE. Sir British Belentlic authorities there. local foreign pressmon will also be basis was defeated by the love to Hedy Lamarr." "I certainly Andrew Caldecott, the Governor. House of Representatives. yesterday do recall the set they were in." The shange in dress in govern- by 100 votes to 140.
"You say you, designed it and built mental circles in Kuala Lumpur
A number of emotional outbursts it and built it too?" "That is what was first, noticed last week when marked the debate, such Ris wanted. Go right out to Belvoir game of the officers of the Fode- "Brave old England, I hope ale and tell it to Major Lincoln of the ral Secretariat came to office with stande,"
84th Engineers.
open shirts
He
returned to Australia In prezent (Central News),
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