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THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1937.
NE of our memories of pre-war school days was the Fifth
when of November, celebrated the famous gun- much fire
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likely that any European Power would bother about Hongkong. But where we gain from geo- graphical advantages vis-a-vis Europe, we lose vis-a-vis Asia,
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create a panic that would be hard to suppress in a Colony where 80 per cent. of the population is of an excitable disposition..
The Government must tell us, through the newspapers, what steps are being taken to protect
Both China and Japan have aerial fleets which, should the necessity ever arise, could bomb us." many
Hongkong and Singapore out of existence,
AMERICA AND EUROPE Whilst the United States powder plot with still maintains its traditional gusto and
crackers. policy of keeping out of foreign entanglements, there have been constant reminders of late that the American Government and the American people are deeply interested in events in Europe, as they must inevitably be in
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We
still
remember Guy Fawkes and his gunpowder.
these days, when happenings in one part of the world have their reactions in others.. Indeed, it Hongkong school-kiddies, is clearly realised in official cir-probably through environ- cles that circumstances might ment, do not possess the arise in which the United States facilities we had at Home in a for celebrating one of the world war, should one, unhap-happiest of juvenile anniver- pily, again break out. The saries. American Ambassador to But this article is not about France, speaking recently in res sehool-boys, or gunpowder plots in underground cellars. It is United States in relation to the about another danger, not under international situation, declared: neath but above, far deadlier than any store of explosive. Are "We hope to stay out of war, we not too unconcerned of that but we are entirely aware that shadow over the heart of Hong- there is always some possibility kong-the shadow of a military that some nation may be suffi-aeroplane? Iciently reckless to drive us into Remember that the position war." This speech,, as might for Hongkong is very different have been expected, has re- now from what it was in 1914- ceived worldwide notice, and 1918. has set people in many parts of the globe talking about the possible action which America might take in any future major
Mr. Bullitt referred to the The increase of range and re- unsuccessful efforts to keep out liability of aircraft affects every of the last war and in this con-person in Hongkong. In the War nection it is important to recall we were safe from aggression from the sea, land and air. The that Japan WAS then on the
because the waters same side as the United States. The war that Americans have in mind is one in which Japan, in view of her alliances, might reasonably be expected to be engaged in an offensive war. Any student
War.
No Power in the world could have throatched Hongkong from the air in the grim days of the Great War.
sen,
"Despite the steps which the Government are taking to in- crease the Air Force for Home Defence and the ground anti- aircraft defences, it is impossible to guarantee Immunity from at- tack. The increasing speed of aircraft makes the task of de- fence progressively more difl- cult, and their greater weight carrying capacity adds to the damage which can be effected even by a single aircraft which eludes the defenders."
That warning is not mine but is quoted from the British Gov-
ernment's air defence circular to
local authorities.
Even if we had twice as many
aircraft as any possible combina- tion of attackers, that would not give reliable security; and our predominance would be regarded by others as a danger to them
selves.
Even if a million gas masks were issued next week, and if each of us except the babies could put on our mask in time, and if each mask was perfectly effective against the type of gas for which it was designed, those masks would be useless if, the enemy, warned by his secret ser. vice, took the simple precaution of using some other type of gas.
We are promised several squadrons of Royal Air Force machines as soon as they are available, but even ten squadrons may prove ineffective against. a mass attack by enemy bombers,
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BUT we can at least obtain the best possible safeguard at present available, and it is this that we urgently require.
The remarkable flight this week of the two Japanese avla- tors en route to London for the Coronation typifies the speed at which modern bombers could travel.
All this talk of heavy ex- penditure on refortification of Hongkong is leaving the people with the uneasy feeling that they may be the scapegoats in the event of war-that only those people essential to the defence of Hongkong will receive protection. If Hongkong is to become the outpost for Singapore, as the Officer Commanding General
The two men left Taihoku, in northern Formusa, at 10.15 a.m. on Tuesday and passed south of suggested recently, something Hongkong at 1.15 p.m. exactly must be done about the menace three hours. From Koshúin, in from the air. The civilian popu-
southern Formosa, to Hongkong is only two hours flight for a
modern bomber.
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lation is helping to foot the bill for all this new military activity,
and
is
and is. entitled to know what is being done for it in return. It's all very well telling us that we IT is almost a year since the can obtain gas masks by joining Government announced the the Volunteers, but that won't appointment of an Air Raids help our wives and our kiddies. Precautions Committee
Soon or late-and-it should be vestigate the position in Hong-soon-Government must take long. Whatever has been done some definite steps to protect the
In the intervening inhabitants of Hongkong officially period has been shrouded in Government should announce secrecy.
what steps it intends taking. Newspapers announced that
Until collective security big plans were afoot for the pro- again a reality in this part of the... tection of the population. Gas Pacific, or a new attempt is made masks were to be made avail- to master aviation the destroyer able for all, and gas shelters and to set free aviation for the were to be provided. The poput world's service, the people of lace were to be instructed in the Hongkong are entitled to as
much protection as can be given, them. They must be inoculated against the ravages of war from the air just as, when an epidemic threatens, they are inoculated against discases. Inoculation cannot be provided by silence and inaction-the people must be told what they are to do and
art
of protecting themselves against a sudden rain of death from the skies.
But nothing seems to have been done yet to show the public how it is going to be protected, or to instruct civilians what they should do.
The public should be told
Civilisation has brought the enemy, even if he is as far away about these things now-when what they are to expect. from the Colony as Soviet there is no fear of invasion, no At present we seem to be look- sur Russia, Italy or Germany, to the likely enemy on the horizon. To ing on whilst the Guy Fawkeses rounding a heavily fortified front, doors of Hongkong or suddenly tell the public of the of 1936-the war pilots-make been Singapore. Although Singapore horrors of gas attack when a gas ready to blow civilisation to bits. Hongkong could have heavily mined at the mere sug- might be attacked, it is hardly attack appears imminent would S. gostion of the approach of hostile warships; the land, because of our topographical features; the air, because of the limited range of
American of aircraft. affairs must know that the only threat to American interests
SHAKESPEARE WAS A
BUSINESS
usher, you can roolise how strong
Ús
MAN
By Robb Lawson
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"Ho
[OLLYWOOD hins passed up lis option on William Shake- and American security which TO-DAY, one aeroplane can
drop several thousands of in-care" So it is announced that the producers have cancelled plans American citizens' fear is that centiary bombs, each capable of for any further Shakespearean ple at the age of 21, and earning a which might come from Japan, starting a fire-centre which tures. After spending an average of
Great Power water cannot extinguish. Even discover "the idea" spells bad bus-must have been the urge when he £250,000 on each production they pittance in Stratford as a school- nearest their neighbour, if one excepts British if, by a miracle of skill, half the nest Canada. Questioned
Somewhere in the Immortal shades, finally elected to take the plunge. on the number of acroplanes in a raid
The moment was unlucky. Then, brought down a per- Shakespeare must be shaking hils subject almost any American were
For the Stratford poet hap stocked. Secretory, Walsingham re
now,
the profession was over to be the most commercial- difficult to keep out of a general the last war-the surviving
Trying to
lo eke out a precarious living, practically a call-boy, he was en- war in which Japan assumed raiders would suffice to burn out playwright of his period.
The City authorities, had chased trusted with copying actors' parts Entering the theatrical profession them out of London and they were from the theatre repertory. So in the offensive than it was to keep essential services, dockyards,
at the age of 22, he achieved the out of the Great War. Mr. water works and lay a ring of raze record of being able to retire compelled to tour. In many miss teligently was the service rendered. Bullitt's speech should at any fires round the city.
at the ag
of 40, on an income of business was so bad the companies that Burbage entrusted him with
had to
their costumes,
the task of bringing old plays up-to rate serve as a wholesome deter-
roughly, £1,000 per annum.
Will shukespeare made for Shore date. Its most memorable Job
Put of City As the eldest son in a family of rent to, any would-be aggressors,
bounds, It
to doctor up Marlowe's"," eight, he started off with the advan- ditch, where, out
for it was
was possible one manager, James Wil must have sobered more particularly as
carry on play-house kept striet eye on the main chance. business a butcher, molisler and performances at we are not indifferent to the what your home would be like
general denler. John Shakespeare state of those countries which if the gas main had been blown was one of the litigious sort and his The Theatre. While he waited he to lure him out of his lodgings, at carry on the great traditions of up, the electricity cut off at the acquaintance with the vagaries of was watching his chance. His own Norton Folgate. John, Aubrey tells
Elizabethan law was extensive and business instinct led him to take up
หะ, Western civilisation." In this ed by the sewers interrupt peculiar. Which may Recount for the casual job of taking care of the keeper. He wouldn't be debauched if invited to, writ: he was in regard, the United States and ed by a few explosions. A son Willorna frequent incursions gentlemen's horses while they en-
modern city is made possible by into the Law Courts.
joyed the two-and-a-half-hour show paine," p Britain stand ON common
at The Theatre hardby."
For two years (1592-1504) playwright was busy working for ground, and in any future threata network of pipes like the veins
of a fragile body. to democracies it scoms certain
Consider how heavily handicapped
threo companies, and as those plays he was in his first attempla to break that they would be found side
Gradually he inured himself into were performed at the Swan, the Against this danger no ade-into the theatrical world. Married Burbage's races and managed to Hose and the Newington Bulls on by side once again.
quate defence by military means at 18, father of a family of three persuade that frascible man to give || ** (Continued on Rago 4.)
will admit that it would be more formance never upproached in and financially successful Parted that over 200 players wore him a job. Prompter's assistant,
Whilst the weapons become more destructive, cities do not
was
and
prefaced by a declaration that become less vulnerabic. Think tage of a training in his father's purbace, to The Curtain and It was always dificult for his friends.
Shakespeare was not a company,