THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
Rebuilding Quetta
Seek Organisation to Evacuate London in Event of Air Attack
Slums of British Capital Cannot be Made Gas-proof
London, Jan. 1.
In the event of war,
The wholesale evacuation of alum areas in British large cities may
be necessary
because
the houses
cannot be made gas-proof.
London may have to be abandon- ed as a food distributing centre due to its vulnerability.
A different type of protection must be found for chikiren under five as gas masks for them have been found impracticable.
These are some of the problems facing authoritles working out a national air raid defence plan as the god of war glowers threatening- ly over the British Isles.
In case of hostilities, It is likely that thousands of dwellers in dilapidated houses would have to
be billeted in the country.
Vulnerability
of food supply
centres in London in the event of
air attacks has caused the sugges- tion to be raised that ships be diverted to other ports.
Wing Commander E. J. 1lodsell.. of the air rald precautions depart- ment of the Home Oflce, has sent members of his staff to big dock centres. Investigations have been conducted at Southampton, Liver- pool, Glasgow, Newcastle, Bristol, Cardiff and Grimsby.
Scientists are conducting re- search aimed at devising a container which would completely enclose the very young child.
For Protection From Cas The problem of gas masks for every adult is also occupying the close attention of the authorities, It is estimated that at least 40,000.-
000 masks, casting approximately 2s, each, will be required.
It is possibic' the government might provide them free of charge to the populace in the event of a Spread Food Supplics
,"
This composite picture graphically illustrates how London's are vulnerable to attack from the air. Officials ook Alura
■ solution.
ex-
lous by swinging concrete pontcous jaren. This would lessen the over lockgates. However, experts pere to incendiary bombs of con- admit there can be small adequate centrallon of food In large ware- protection against docks being hit houses,
They are making arrangements by high explosives.
also for unloading ships in the river by The defence experts are There is a plan under considera-evolving a pian whereby food sup-hand if electricity is cut off during tion to profeet shipping communica-plies can be spread over a fargela bombing raid.
war.
It wasn't lack of attention that irkod Gigi Parrish. No, sir! Sho secured a divorce in Los Angeles courts because her husband, Dillwyn Parrish, was to atten- tive. "Io even insisted on ne companying, mo to parties
women," she testined.
for
1.1 Bushels of Potatoes
CHINESE PRIEST AS
ENGLISH CURATE
THE first sermon preached by a Chinese clergyman | as a member of the staff of an English parish church was delivered this month at Christ Church, Folkestone by the Rev. Addison Hsu.
Mr. Hsu is to carry out the duties of curate ut the church for some months in order that he may obtain full knowledge of the rout- jine of an English parish. His in- tention then will be to introduce almilar methods in his own coun-- try. He was converted to Chris- tianity while a student at a mission school in China.
The invitation to act as tempor- ary curate of Christ Church was extended to Mr. Hau by the vicar, the Rev. C. A. Martin, with the consent of the Archbishop of | Canterbury.
HEADACHE FOR U. S.
GOVERNMENT
The administration's diplomatic troubles in the Far East were dwarfed suddenly recently by an AAA problem-who wants 1.1 bushels of Chinese potatoes?
That's the amount the New Deal's farm agency decided would not depress the market if imported in the space of a year. If the Chinese want to bring in any more, however, they'll have to pay 45 cents a bushel tax, cash on the line.
U.S. Vice-President John N. Garner hit stormy weather when ncarod the President Pierce Seattle on its return voyage from Manila and that's the reason for his snappy headgear. He headed the congressional party which attended the inauguration of Manuel Quezon as President of the Philippine Commwealth.
LAW DOES NOT PROTECT BEETLES
Berlin, Jan. 5. "Neither fish nor fowl" is the attempt at a legal definition of wator-beatles which has been
τινο
Sleepless nights and nervous, an American would want with an irritable days have beset the best oriental, spud. The bureau of minds of the Administration. Foreign and Domestic, commerce They can't find anyone who will reported the potatoes are not made at Bramstedt. Ta-Chinse potato, and for that large nor the quality very good Hamburgers had bron matter, don't even know who They are grown chiefly in the brought in the last supply in 1933. Shanghai district in muddy soll. charged with infringing the fishery by netting thousands of A Mr. Thlegper, speaking for laws If a Chinese exporter. had re- frained from carning 39 by ship. B. Hutson, chief of the AAA water beetles.
They explained that they made a ping 425 pounds of potatues to the potato division, said he didn't port of New York in February, in think the subject very funny and little parket, money by catching and flies on ponda and 1933, the vexing question would that he know no reason why a law beetles
selling them 25 nover have arisen.
abiding Chinese couldn't export rivers and He sent them in, however, and a bushel, and a tenth of potatoes aquarium food. when the AAA, under the compul- if he wanted to.
The Bramstedt court found, that Bory potato control act, went to A secretary of the Chinese em- the fishery and game laws made: compito import quotas based on a bassy said the potatoes in his coun- no provision against the "ponch of water flens, bootles, or six year average of importo, try were of undoubted excellence ing" China's average came to 1.2 but the differences from American Eles, nor could trapped water- 30 technical he flies rightly be classed as crabs. bushels a year, which was reduced potatoes were to 1.1 to "protect the market." wasn't competent to explain them. The two men wero exonerated;
-Reuters. No one was able to explain what--United Press:
22, 1936.
EARTHQUAKE-PROOF
CITY TO ARISE
A decision to rebuild the city of Quetta on the ruins left by Last May's earthquake, which cost 30,000 lives, was announced by the Government of India to-day. The Government's conclusions in the matter are, broadly speaking, twor
(1) Omeial Quetta is to be rebuilt) could never deliberately ask their as far as possible on the existing servants to return to Quetta if they site, and earthquake-resisting build-were to be exposed to risk of re- Inga are to be provided, for all per-petition of the recent disaster:
of the Govern- manent employequired to live and
ment will be
work there in future.
(2) If the civil population desire
Necessary Precaution
The view of the Director-General
to return to the vicinity of Quetta of Survey, reinforced by that of they must ba prepared to reoccupy
the site of the old elly, and accept, experienced engineers, is that earth- as a condition of their return and quake-proof construction will be a in their own interests, the need for necessary precaution anywhere in In Quetta a better and therefore more expen- Baluchistan, and if this method is sive standard of living than has adopted reconstruction
itself is likely to be just as safe been permitted in the past. The cost of rebuilding has been as, if not safer than, building any estimated in the Reconstruction where else in Baluchistan.. Committee's report at £6,000,000.
The statement adds that the extremely poor quality of the bulld- ings of Quetta City contributed to the magnitude of the disaster, while earth-quake-proof bulidings with- stood the shock, and solid buildings were not seriously damaged.
It is added that according to a recent expert investigation the site of the old city is healthier than most others,
Military Defence The Government point out that Quetta is one of the two spearheady of Indian defence. The garrison there is in the best position to act in the defence of Western India from external aggression, to control tribes, and to maintain peace and order in the southern portion of
Regarding the rebuilding of the 600 miles of North-Western fron- tier, Its climate permits troops to city, the Government discusses two remain there and conduct their alternatives, and prefers the decl- training throughout the year, and sion to have the city where it was, because the natural tendency for incidentally it possesses the only traders and others will be to settle practicable site for an aerodrome anywhere on the Hne from Sibi to in the vicinity of the troops and gradually rebuild a city of, or ap- the frontler.
proaching, the old dimensions.
Military stores of all kinds have been held in bulke in Quetta owing to
the liability of the rallway further back to interruption by flood. or earthquake. Therefore it is necessary for the military garrison to remain in Quetta, In much the same strength as at present.
It follows, saya the statement. that it is highly desirable that the headquarters of the eivll adminis- In the tration should be located same place.
The Government, it is declared,
Scarlet Fever Puts
Stringent Regulations
Salvage operations will eventually clear the existing site, but the width of many roads will be increased, and stringent building regulations rigorously enforced.
The Government has engaged a town-planner to ensure that the layout of the new city shall follow modern scientific lines, with pro- tection against future disasters and disease epidemics.Reuter.
OVER 30,000 PEOPLE
IN QUARANTINE
Hobart (Oklahoma) Jan. 1, MORE than 30,000 people living in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, have been placed in quarantine in an attempt to fight an epidemic of cerebro-spinal meningitis (spotted fever), which has already resulted in nearly a dozen deaths.
The National Guards have been, their Christmas decorations up. ealled out to enforce the order, are almost entirely deserted, and and all activity not. connected there are no lights in the shop with the care of sick or the de- windows at night. A few, shops, and grocers', livery of essential provisions has mainly chemists'
have been allowed to remain open been suspended.
with skeleton staffs, but they are receiving most of their orders by telephone..
As a result of the quarantine order:
Churches, schools, shops and offices have been closed;
The only newspaper in the town lias ceased publication;
Motoring has been virtually stopped and petrol may be sold only
Only one person may enter a hair-dresscr'a shop at one time. No more than two persons may be admitted at once in the few rea-
to persons holding a special medi-taurants remaining open. cal certificate; and
Gatherings of more than three people, other than members of a family, have been banned.
Food Ordered by 'Phone Hobart itself presents a dismal spectacle. The streets, still with
Motorists from other parts of tho
warned country have been that, if they enter the county, they will not be allowed to leave unless they can show that they are free from infection.
"I AM A MURDERER!”
HAUPTMANN FIRST ON
LIST OF TEN BIGGEST STORIES
New York, Jan. 5.
The 10 biggest news stories in
chosen by the *1035 us
Press
1. Hauptmann trial.
2. NRA decision.
3. Assassination
Hucy P. Long.
United.
of Sen.
4. Italo-Ethiopian war,
5. Death of Will Rogers and Wiley Post.
0. Gold clauso ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.
7. German rearmament.
8. Death of Queen Astrid.
9. Inauguration of air mail service across the Pacific Ocean. 10. Mysterious disappears anco of Sir Charles Kingsford- Smith over Bay of Bengal.
WAR-WOUNDED CARRIER PIGEON DIES
Honolulu. Jap. 10.
CRY IN CHURCH
Warsaw, Jan. 10.
SHORTLY before
in
this morning a
the
dawn
service sombre Warsaw Cathedral was nearing its end.
.
Worshippers were on their knees in prayer. Suddenly, a man jumped to his feet.
"May God have mercy on my soul!" he cried. "I am a mur- derer. Arrest mo!”
Ushers He broke down, Bobbing. rushed towards him. Police were called.
cauitry.
At the police station he confessed, "My name is Jakob Namot," ho said. "I have just returned from A carrior pigeon that lost n leg America, I have been there for the Franco during the war has died-last-fteen years.
***I-lled=my native horo at the age of 17 years and 11 months.
after murdering my sweetheart. It was a lovers' quarrel. "Nobody suspected me. Time had dulled the tortures of my conscience, "Recently I returned to my beloved land,
The pigeon, John Silver, flew with the American forces, and was wounded while carrying a message from the Mauno-Argonne front. It flow into a barrage of shrapnel,
The bird carried on and de- livered the message.
In 1921 it was brought to Ha wait, and was placed on the "ro- tired list" at Schofield Barracks, Now its body will be stuffed and sent to the Aeronautical Museum at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.— Reuter.
"My sin came back to me when I heard the words 'Peaco on earth, good will towards men. That was too much. It broke my heart.
"Now my only desire is to atone."
Namot is now in prison awaiting trial...
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