THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936.
Exclusive Details of Air Raid Precautions PROTECTING HONGKONG FROM THE MENACE OF GAS ATTACK
LOCAL EXPERTS DEVELOP PLAN OF DEFENCE
HOTELS. BANKS AND Y.M.C.A. AS SHELTERS
GAS MASKS FOR ALL CIVILIANS
"Tolograph" Special Representative
For some years past the local Committee appointed to deal with the safeguarding of Hongkong in the event of a gas raid has been quietly developing the details necessary to complete its elaborate plan of defence.
I AM NOW ABLE TO REVEAL SOME OF THE STEPS ALREADY TAKEN BY THIS COMMITTEE.
One of the most vital parts of the Committee's plans,
HOLLYWOOD DRAMA IN RAILWAY
ANNUAL REPORT
WAR ON THE
WATERFRONT
Two pages in the Annual Report of the Manager of the Kowloon Canton Railway, issued last night, read almost like the script of a Hollywood drama.
They tell the story of the intense competition that occurred last year between the Railway and the river-boats.
Despite this extraordinary competition, and the economic de- pression existing in South China, emphasised in the Report, the railway succeeded in carrying a record number of 2,799,353 pas- sengers during the year, as compared with 2,683,444 in 1934 and
2,765,726 in 1933.
K.C.R. Made World revenue were
Record Last Year
express
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RADIO BROADCAST
Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra
CHILDREN'S CONCERT:
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles):
5-6 p.m. Hengkong Hotel Dance Orchestra.
6
p.m. Children's Studio Concert.. 6.30 p.m. Dance Music.
7 p.m. Selections from Musical Comedy.
*Erik Fanfare-Selection; Fron
Charell's "White Horse Inn;" The Merry Widow (Lebar); SongTo Shield the husband's honour "Helen" (Offenbach)....Friefel Schuster (So-
prano),
7.30 p.m. Harry Roy's Tiger Ragamuffin's
Fox-Trot Medley; It Don't mean a thing; Happy feet; Everybody loves my baby; I got rhythm; Memories of Trot Medley. you; Rain and Goodbye blues; Fox-
Receipts and net operating
$1,411,674
and $500,654 respectively, as against $1,030,776 and $696,604 in the previous year. The former figures It was disclosed in the Annual would have been increased to Report of the Manager of the Kow- $1,612,405 and $601,385 had the loon Canton Railway, issued last terminal through traffic receipts night, that what is believed to be a of the British section of the K. world record for a single-engined
7.45 p.m. Songs by Richard was established by the C.R, remained at 35 per cent. K.C.R. during last year's Jubileo
The shipping war, which com-Tauber (Tenor). celebrations. when the morning menced in December, 1934, was
1. Let me love you tonight (Tun- express irain from Canton on the result of a Diesel-engined bridge); 2. Night and Day (Cole Jublice Day, consisting of 12 vessel, the "Lee Hong." being Porter); 3. Let me awaken your coacher with a normal carrying placed on the Hongkong-Canton heart (Tauber); 4. You mean the capacity of 1.174, brought 2,237
world to me (Tauber); 5. Sonja, I passengers to Hongkong.
love you (Tauber).
p.m. Time, Weather; Stock Quo- In the face of this new threatitations and Announcements.
8,05 p.m. Chinese Studio Concert, to an already over-glutted service, progressive "cut-throat" rt- I p.m. Close Down.
8.05-10 p.m.
Pro- ductions were made by the various
European steamboat companies,
gramme from Z.E.K. on quency of 640 kilocycles.
I learn, provides for the selection throughout the Colony of suitable buildings where the people engaged in main- taining essential services--such as electric lighting, horns, whose ear piercing noise will leave no doubt regarding the waterworks, transportation, gasworks, telephones, etc-warning they are meant to convey, will be safe from gas and bombs.
As soon as the local Committed adopt, decide which nreasure to Efforts are also being made by the Committee to test warnings will be made in the
Colony, in order to ensure that:
populace.
Selected buildings in the Colony are adequately protected; The first and second floors of certain public and private buildings are earmarked for rapid conversion into gas shelters; Water and food supplies are rendered safe from infection; Recognised signals may be given to the population in the event of a sudden attack;
allies,
GASES ARE PERSISTENT
effective
educate the
run,
CUT THROAT REDUCTIONS
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These reductions culminated in fares being cut so much to the 8.05 p.m. A Concert. bone that at one stage it was“ Pianoforte Solo-Mazurka in D possible for passengers to travel Major, Op. 13, No. 2 (Chopin, between Hongkong and Canton Mazurka in A Flat Major, Op. 59, No. by boat at a fare of ten cents! 2 (Chopin)...Ignace Jan Paderewski; Song-Jeanie with the Light Brown At the commencement of this Hair (Foster)....John McCormack, the war the Railway Administration (Tenor); Violin SoloDance of
Yehudi Menuhin; was Informed that the combative Goblins (Buzzini)... measures taken by the various
Serenade (Melichar).... steamboat companies were direcs Songs Come back to me (de Curtis); Beniamino Gigli (Tenor); Song-Avo ed against the "Lee Hong" and not
Marin (Verdi)... Margherita Perrau (Soprano); against the railway.
Instrumental -- Cradle Song (Brahms); Serenade (Schubert)
The larger companies thought
8.35 p.m. "Peer Gynt Suite No. 2"
Announcements.
The "Lee Hong" ceased to be a -10 p.m. Big Ben: Close Down. British ship on December 6 when
an order of the Supreme Court --ZEESEN PROGRAMMES declared the vessel to be the pro-f
2.
Fir Fratern
fur Special progTRISERVER perty of the On Woo Navigation items will be broederst from Zoween sa Company.
followit
.DJU 19.74 m 15,200 ke 1.30-2
Om 19.7
CAUSED BIG LOSSES.
Since that date she has been in DIN
not run. During her short but con- ob- eventful career she caused
of
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South
31.40
18,200 ke 4.45-8,15 -1.
9,540 kc 4.CH-8.15 0.0.
19.7 1.300 ke #p.1.-32,39 *.m.
SOUTH ASIA ZONE
Asla Zone, broadcat from DJB, (10.74 metres) and DJN (3145 metres),
4.50 p.m. Germen Folk Song.
453 p.m. Greetings to our latiners. Talk
Ap..
Hitler Youth Programmes A about "Face" by Dr. Grsk. 5.30 p.m. News and Economic Reviewin
Englishs.
48 p.m. Septit for Violin, Visin, Clarinet, Horn, Dasoort, Cells and Double Blaas in dat major by Beethoven. 4.30 p.m. The Poet spdekat Hune itahberg. 445 m. New and Ecanenle Review in
GER.
20
1 pm.
Concert of Light Music. 7.16 pm. Topical Talk,
7.30 pm. Concert of Light Music (con
tinual).
A p.m.
Nowe in English.
CHEAP GAS MASKS It is hoped that the public will shortly be informed that cheap and effective gae masks, within reach lof the pocket of every citizen of
the Colony, will be available. Ambulance services, doctora and fire brigades are familiar
The Committee intend to make available gas maska with their special duties; and
as soon as they are procurable, Effective gas masks, within reach of the pocket of every The difficulty at present is to ob- inhabitant in the Colony, are available.
tain a minek suitable to the pockets that the economic pressure theyThe Angelus Octet. The essence of any air defence measures is that relating to De- of the Chinese population and to were exerting on this new vessel
the (Grieg) plan is that the public be in-contamination work,
local meteorological conditions. would quickly drive her off
8.51 p.m. "Harry Lauder Mem- formed, through the press and One of the most pornicious pol- One of the difficulties that has had run.
As the year progressed, how.eries, Daventry News Bulletin and by posters and individual cir-son gases is mustard gas and its to be tackled in Hongkong is the
perishable nature of gas masks in ever, it became evident that the culars, of the steps necessary to
struggle was likely to be a prolong-
9.20 p.m. Songs by Webster safeguard the populace in the the current year contain allotments
The Government estimates for humid climates.
At present gas masks. if im led one, and the railway was forced Bouth (Tenor).
to take various steps to augment | event of an air raid, and this, I
I. At Dawning (Cadman); to the Sanitary and Medical De-
ported, would
cost anything its through passenger receipta Mifanwy (Forster): 3. The World is understand, will be done soon.
partments totalling $16,360 for
from $20 to $50 each. But which by March had shrunk ap- mine to-night (Posford). For many yours past there has this work, which one might? new type is shortly being
9.30 p.m. Dance Music. been Jin Air Raids Protection Imagine to consist of the erectim |
manufactured in England, and proximately 40 per cent, organisation in Hongkong, as in of Decontamination centres in it is probable that this will be ----all other defended ports:
Various parts of the city, to where marketed in Hongkong,-when The defence of the Colony civilians may take their clothing, available, at a cost not exceed from gas attack is, of course, a bedding, etc, to be decontaminated ing $1. Governmental responsibility, in the event of a gas attack,
Naturally, the regular Army and and the Government has met this
the Hongkong Volunteer Defence responsibility by appointing on
It is worth noting that the Corps are already equipped with influential Committee of Govern- actual danger from gas raids is the available type of military gas-the hands of a Receiver and has ment officials, assisted by elvi
by no means at an end when the mask. Hans who had special qualifica-
Any Hongking citizen can bombs cease dropping. Gases, tlons-technical and otherwise
and especially mustard gases,
tain one of these masks by siderable losses to both steam- --and by the military authori.
becoming are so persistent that they can
a member of the boats and railway by upsetting tles.
affect people for days after n
Volunteers.
the economic balance of transport It was early recognised by the raid. Cleansing
between Hongkong and Canton. of clothes,
ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCE Committee that underground cel- even to jumping into the har
The only redeeming feature! It must have been evident to all lars would constitute a dangerous bour, is the only remedy.
residents of the Colony, during from the railway point of view is method of protection from
This gas
year, the Hongkong the recent acrial night mance that it has demonstrated in bombs, the contents of which are Government appropriated a total uvres, that the placement uncertain manner its potentialities heavier than air, and consequently of $36,868 for Anti-Gas purposes, nearchlights (and, naturally, anti-as a passenger-carrying medium sink to the lowest possible level. When the next Budget comes he-aircraft guns with them) has been vis-a-vis the river steamers.
Charts take up the story where The danger from high explosive fore Legislative Council in Septem-systematically mapped in order to
the report of the Manager leaves- bombs precludes the use of the top ber, it is quite possible that the protect the civilian population. doors of buildings.
figure will be substantially In- Most of the searchlights that off. In November, 1934, before SAFEST SHELTERS
flashed over, the Colony during the the river war, river boats and the Of the current year's appropria-manoouvros were in positions that railway shared equally in the car. The Committee has therefore de- cided to recommend to civilians that tions. $15.600 went to the Police were not defensive solely from a ringe of passengers.. the safest shelters are those pro- Department. $11,760 to the Medi-military or naval point of view, vided in the first and second cal Department, $4,600 to the but were highly defensive from a floors of six floor or higher build-Sanitary Department, for decon- civilian viewpoint.
tamination work, and the remain- Air defence, I learn on good au- ingat.
I understand that several Defence Corps and the Hongkong at ground defence.
der to the Hongkong Volunteer thority, will not be allowed to reat public and private buildings in Naval Volunteer Force for the the Colony have been re-provision of gas masks. commended as suitable sites for!
for instance, be erected in the New Territories in the near future. public gaa shelters and steps.
The greatest problem facing the This, of course, is permissible will be taken in the future to prepare them for rapid conver-Air Raids Precautions Committee within the limits of the Washing- alon.
is that of safeguarding food and fon Treaty which, in any case, In August the Railway decided water, upon which mustard and has been abrogated by Japan, and to meet the serious competition Several buildings' in the Colony some other gases have most is no longer binding upon Britain by introducing a 60 cent fare to suggest themselves
as obvious serious effect. The question of or the Colonial Government in and from Canton, and also shelters of this type. The most food storage, an carried out at Hongkong.
special express fare of $1.20 single obvious seem to be the new Hong-present in godowns and shops, is
· ABROGATED TREATY
and $180 return. The weekly Banking presenting I kong and Shanghai
the.. Nevertheless, Corporation's building on the is almost insoluble problem, and it arises, whether the authorities ately increased to
questionrailborne passenger tatals immedi
25,000, the land, and the Peninsula Hotel on is likely that special housing pro-will attempt to exceed the limita river totala
remaining fairly the mainland. Other building visions will have to be made intions laid down by the abrogated stationary. which suggest themselves as ob order to overcome the difficulty.
Then, in the same month, the Troaty.. The Colony is now froc vious shelters are the Glouceston
The safeguarding of Hongkong's to proceed with illimitable defen- Railway decided
further Building, the Post Office, the water supply provides a somewhat sive measures, and some assurance drastic reduction, the fares by Importa and Exports Department lessor problem, if water can be that work in this connection shall express trains being reduced to 50 the European Y.M.C.A. and the purified after contamination.
be undertaken would be welcome. conta. The effect was at once Bank of East Asia Building.
Apart from the official measurea noticcable. Railway passenger Tests were recently conducted adopted in Hongkong to combat totale leapt up to record figures, Civilians living in flats in three in England in order to discover the present remote possibility of awhile river boats totala, alumped or four storey buildings will be the best mothed of warning the rain of death from the air, much to 33,000: instructed, by means of pamphlets, populace of a sudden air attack, excellent work is being done by The railway was approached printed In Chinese and English, and the outcome of those expert-private organisations..
by the shipping companies, in the regarding the method of preparing ments will influence the Hongkong Notable is the voluntary work middle of December, with a view. the first floor of their buildings Committee in ta choice of a undertaken by the St. John to fixing minimum rail and steam- as gas shelters.
method.
Ambuinnce Brigade which is boat fares. There is reasonable It is probable that the method One of the major tasks faring
conducting a series of public probability that the negotiations the various Hongkong Dopart-chosen will be the utilisation of lectures which all Hongkong now proceeding máy lead to mente
general agreement early next year. dealing with Anti-Gas special maroons, and Strombos cftizens should attend.
GAS-PROOF FLATS
crensel.
SAFEGUARDING FOOD
#
understand, an
WARNING POPULACE
,--
On February 23 the river boats
reduced their fares from $1 and 70 cents to 40 and 30 cents, while the Railway fares remained at the
sual rate of $1.20.
There was an instant falling off
i
4.35 p.m. Corvert of Light Monie
(com
tinued).
KAST ASIA ZONE Eat Ain Zone broadcast through DJQ ou 19.68 metres (15,280 k.c.) 1.10.5 p.m. Concert. news at pm.
9.4 p.m. German Feik Bong. 3.10 p.m. Greetings to sar Listeners. 9.8.m. News and Review in German. 3.10 p.m. Plano Trie by Casimir von Paar-
17. 10 p.m.
News and Review in English. 10.15 p.m. Today In Germany.
The Peel speaksi 10.46 p.m. "Dan leichte Cinck."
10.30 p.m.
A new R.A.F. nerodrome will in the number of railborne paS DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
enges, the rallway's weekly total dropping from 21,000 to 13,000
from 24,000 to 60,000.
COMPETITION MET
The following ware-lengiba and frequencies
and the river boats' total rising re abaerred by Daventry.
Bign
CBA
(80)
CSC
JAT
Frequently
4,059 2. JEJO KE 9,182 k.. 13,750 ...
Wavelength
efree 49.69 31.55 metrem $1,30 metres
KAR
87
2
ast
A
CERTI
on
31.485 15,140 kc• 17,190.c.
21,429 kc.
21.11 matres 21.28 netren meices 19.82 14.30 Jeizes 13.07 kontrem
81 16,34 kc. 11.41
BJ
COL
(0.8.N
21,440 k.
met.now
19.40 thetra 45.10 metres
Tronsmilsalen 1
0.8.)
12.30 p.m. Big Ben. A Recital by Antonia
nuter. (ViaTuncello),
.19.55 p.m. Tak' on Agriculture
1.10 p.m. The 11.11.C. Empire Orchestra. 216 pim. The News and Arusunennetta. Greenwich Timà Bignal at 2.15 p.m.. Transmission 2
(0.8.G., G.8.31.)
7 p.m.
Be. The Nashworth Haewm of Musical Instrumenta, (1:19 pm. “Aftatre Piratic,” Morrý momenta *nowth the "Jolly RogVISSZA mamaical berlangun
1 pan.
1.15 pm. The Philip Whiteway Ensemble.
Greenwich Time Signat at #. pom.
The News and Announcements. 1.30 pm. The Pavilion Theatre Orchisten.
Transmission 3
1080, B.R.P., `Q.A.D.) '
16 mm. Big Ben, · Erensare. from, West-"
minster Abbey.
10.39 pm. Planoforte Musiri 11. Be middle TIME~ ∙11.48 p.m.; Ayknay. Howard,
11.65 km; The News and, Announce
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FAST CROSSING ATLANTICH
ed at '7.50 pim. to-day from Cork, having crossed the Atlantic at an average speed of over eighty miles per hour.
The airship is expected to land at the new Zeppelin airport at Frank- fart-on-Main at 5.a.m. on Thursday.
After completing the fight, the air- OFship plans to begin her accond North Atlantic flight on Saturday.-Reuter's Bulletin Service,
OVER EUROPE
New York, May 14: Private wireless operatora report
London, May 13,
The glant airship, Field Marshal
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