COLONY LEARNS TO FIGHT GAS IF WAR COMES
HONGKONG CIVIL LEADERS
ATTEND FIRST LECTURE
The China Fleet Club Theatre was packed yesterday for the first of a serles of lectures on air raids precautions arranged to Instract representatives of the civilian populace on the means of preparing in peace time for the exigencies of war.
In an earnest and concise manner, Licut.-Cmdr. B. M. Douglas, of the Naval Dockyard, outlined the programme of passivo defence by which residents could avoid the panic and much of the destruction of high explosive, incendiary and poison gas bomba launched from the air.
Ho added that when the present course of lectures was completed, it was hoped that representative people would under- tako a specialised course and would then become Instructors to their own employees and others in the principles of passive defence.
The lecturer sald;
This talk in more introductory than anything and the points I shall make about de-contamination, high explo- sive bombs, elc, will be gone lato in more detail Inter.
and prevent the whole of the build- ing catching fire,
EFFECT ON MORALE
In come European countries they have compulsion to clear the attics and top stories of the buildings. In some places they have gone-to für as to have a inger of sand but I do not advise that in this country because it would be a very happy hunting ground for cand Hies and Various other insects.
THE HONGKONG
JAPANESE RAID INTO SHANGHAI
Independent Action In Settlement
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Shanghal, Dec. 0 {4 p.m.). Japanese consular police, in two autombiles, raced from Hongkew up Noniing Road, disregarding traffic signals, and raided the Great Enstern Hotel behind the Wing On On Department Store. The Japanese ar- rested four Chineze, Including one woman, who were taken to Honglew, but released an hour later.
The
TUESDAY, DECEMBER
Work For Children Of The Colony
Protection Society Stresses Malnutrition POOR GIRL'S GRATITUDE
The Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children will hold In annual meeting at the Helena May Institute on Monday, December 13, at 5.30 p.m., when H. E. the Governor and Lady Northcote will be prezent, in their capacity of patrons.
The eighth annual report, eovering the perlot from November 1, 1030, to October 31, 1937, has been issued. PROTEST TO CONSUL Shanghai, Dee. 8 (10.21 p.m.).
It shows that the Society has In- International Settlement vestigated and dealt with 1,539 new Council has protested to the Seniorenses during the year, affecting the Consul against the raid. The hotel welfare of 3,600 children. belongs to the Wing On Company, a British registered concerned owned "Tuberculosla" appears with by an Australian-born Chinese: The tressing frequency in the Inspectors raid was carried out 12 Japaniere consular police, armed with rifles and case reports, which reveal the extent pistols, who acted independently and to which their living conditions ex- without warning the International | pose the poor children of Hongkong Settlement police.
The charges against these arrested to the disense's ravages. It are not-known. The woman was not therefore, a cause of satisfaction to given time to dress and was taken the Society to learn from the Hon. away clad only her underclothes. Dr. Li Shu-fan, at the August meet- Kcuter,
1937.
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I.K.T.
12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.
12.30 Tchaikowsky.
Eugen Onegin'-Waltz .....Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent Garden. Cond: Eugene Goossens; Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71A; (a) Miniature Over-
ture: (b) March; (e) Dance of the
dis-Sugar Plum Fairy; (d) Russion Dance; (8) Dance of the Flutes; (h) Dance: (e) Arab Dance; (f) Chineso Waltz of the Flowers......Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Or- chestra.
was,
It is belleved at the Japanese ining of the Executive Committee, that this way intend to establish a pre-
11:1 Anti-Tuberculosis Society had cedent for Independent arrests
of been formed in Hangkong, and it is Chere in the Settlement. The hoped that members of the Society Sillement authorities, are investiga, for the Protection of Children will do ting the incident.—United Press,
what iles in their power to co-operate In the measures contemplated by the Anti-Tuberculosis Society to protect these unfortunate children.
THE YOUNG IDEA.
MIS-SHOOTS
In war time, airports, railway factories and dockta will become legitimate targets of the enemy, for these are engaged in work of na- tional importance and must go on us long as possible for the successful prosecution of the war. Since the last war, flying has developed 50 much that we must be prepared for up all round your fire engines clang- she wrote on the fly leaf, "With these points to be attacked from the|ing through the streets and people the author's compliments."
running from one
of
air and by every possible that can be used by aircraft. We must also be prepared, in spite our defences, for some, If few, of the ralding aircraft to get through. The active defence against these air raid- era consists of anti-aircraft guns, in- terceptor machines, balloon burrugen and things like that which do not materially affect these lectures.
The effec! of these incendiary bombs on the morale of the popu
luce in enunaous.
(Continued from Page &.) received the present, of a Bible with repair You can imagine inscription in it, so
what she thought was an omission,
yourselves, Bames and fires feuping
struct
to
✡
burning weapon
to another. In the last war it was mainly high explosive bombs and
As the child heura no many verkal torpedoes, One heard of an explosion a long way off and
one #trange, abstract theological terms. beard later that was "John Bull's" it is not surprising that confusion or somebody else's office. Unless one sometimes results. A little girl had relatives there or shares in the had just joined the Sunday school, frm one was not particularly In and the teacher asked her if she terested. Now, if you saw all these had beenth yes, she places on fire I thinit you would begin to get on iden of "Canton more far!" said, "I have been baptized three The next form is the high explo-times, but it hasn't taken yet." sive bomb and this can come up to a 1880-1, shell. The two that burst
On the other hand, we must have an organisation on the ground to en- sure the safety of the workers and the safety of the materials and the Jobs they are doing, That organisa- tion is called "passive defence" and It will be organised by your Air Raid Precautionary Committee. This pas sive defence” organisation needs lot of preparation and training and you cannot wait until war is declared before you do the training. There- fore, we are not preparing for war but we are preparing the organisa- tion which, should war come, will be able to carry on with the minimum
amount of inconvenience,
A
PANIC AND CONGESTION
That is the reason why you repre- sentatives of big firms have been neked to come here to-day. We hope to get you sufficiently air-minded that you will, after you have taken a course of lectures, specialise in few_more_lectures and become in- structors to your firms,
This story also illustrates how some of the time-honoured phrases Nanking Road, Shanghai, on that used in church baille the child's A little girl, in "Black Saturday" were 500-16. each understanding. and you will remember the appalling church for the first time, heard the
they tragedies that
caused. The minister announce the bangs of number of casualties
was, granted, mainly due to the fact that they were marriage, concluding with, "This evacuating over Garden Bridge, and is for the third time of asking." that only points out to us that we With a natural feminine curiosity must do everything we can to avoid she puzzled over this phrase for a such a congestion of people in streets of the Colony. The risk of a direct mot tin, and then she asked her, mother, "Mummy, how did the bit of these high explosive bombs is minister know how many times the one we must accept-the odds arc about on n par with that of being man had asked her?"
which do not hit us. If it hits us we
MALNUTRITION
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.
1.03 London Flano-Accordeon Bard and Bam Browne (Barliono),
The White Cliffs of Dover (Leon and Towers); Log Cabin Lullaby (S. and G. H. Byrne and Schuster).... Piano-Accordean Band, I'm Situn' High On A Hill Top (film "Thanks a Million'); My Shadow's Where My Sweetheart Used To Be (1lda and Carr)....Sam Browne; Six Hit Med- ley (No. 2); Hoppy, I'm Happy: Wine Song (Alm
Pinno- Caravan').. Accordeon Band.
1.23 Reuter and Rugby Press; Local Weather Forecast und An- nouncements.
1.40 Retay of the Rotary Timin Speech from the Root Garden of the Hongkong Hotel, Speaker: Rev. J.
Subject: D. MacLean.
"Housing and Citizenship.”
estovani and
A Malnutrition Research Com- of miltee, under the chairmanship Professor Ride, the other members being Professor Nixon, Dr. Uttley, Dr. Les and Mr. F. H. Loceby, ng
2.15 Close Down. representatives of the Society, has
4.00-7.00 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7.00 Dance Music, now been appointed. The wide-
Fox-Trot-In A Little English Imm; spread existence of marasmus, which is malnutrition in its extremest form. Waltz-Sailing Home With the Tide among the younter babies, is a pro- Jack Jackson and His Orchestra; islem that is faced by this Society. Fox-Trois-All Alune In Vienna
Billy Bissett Unfortunately, marasmus is only one Ev'rything You Do. of the manifestations of malnutrition and His Orchestra: Everybody Dance which is prevalent in the Colony, and (from the film); When
The
Poppics is in-
Jack Payne Violin Bloom Again..
and evidence of malnutrition creasingly found in pregnant women Band; Slow Fox-T
Fox-Trot-Oypay and nursing mollers. The problem Tango-Caramba is not economic and not a matter of 111s Tipica ride our Window;
Waltzes Throw polished or unpolished rice, and the malnutrition among the pregnant Espana Waltz.....Sydney Kyte and women in the Colony requires atten- His Piccadilly Hotel Band.
the 7.30 tion by Government and by
Closing locpl Stock Quota- lions ond charitable, even though for the mo-
Hongkong Exchange Mar- kel Report. ment assistance cannot be selentifie
The only permanant cure for the
7.35 Varlety. Vocal-I Want To Be A Nudist; poverty which has called into being The Wedding Of A Gigolo (Poin,
ΟΙ the Protection the Society for Children and other organisations Nesbitt and Walker)....Eddie Pola which approach the poverty pro- with Orchestra: Dance Orchestra- blem from different angles, would be Favourite Favourites, No. 3-Fox- some radical change in the economic Trot Medley...The Ballyhooligans; conditions of Hongkong, the report Duet A Little White Room (Flood- declares.
light-Nichols)....Frances Day and John Mills; Vocal-Artificial Flowers (Floodlight-Nichols)
.....Frances Day (Soprano); Organ-Popular The Society has continued Its sup Melodies-No. 3....Harold Ramsay.
8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather port of the Children's Hospital at tion of the Chinese Sisters Samshulpo, which is under the direc-Report and Announcements,
of the 8.03 Turner Layton (Vocal and Precious Blood, and the opening of Plano). the new building on June 5 was a When My Mommy Smiles (M. cause for satisfaction to all those who Hodges); I Feel Like A Feather In have felt uneasy about-the-need-of-The-Breeze (film-The-Charm- more beds for Chinese children in the School'); It's Great To Be In Love Colony's hospitals.
Again (Kochbler and Mellugh); A The undergraduates of the Univer- Waltz Was Born In Vienna (Crocker
and Loewe).
8.15 London Relay-Wheels',
SOCIETY'S WORK
struck by lightning. On these occn- The Freudians, who are so adept alons people within 100 or 200 yards at discovering unconscious motives the were very severely damaged so we and desires behind slips of the effects of high explosive bombs heads over this story. Two boys must make some protection against tongue, would probably shake their need not worry about it. (Laughter). were arguing about the compara- tive advantages of their fathers BOMB PROOF SHELTERS,
respective-professiona,-"-father- Some people have gone in for is a doctor." boasted one, so I can The problem of the defence of the bonib proof shellers. That means six be ill for nothing." "That's noth- civilian population of this Colony is feet of reinforced concrete which is ling," retorted the other, not to be very large, mainly due to the con- obviously an uacconomical proposl-joutdone, "My father is a clergy-sily's Education Department have centration of the main bulk of the tich. They have to be very big ones man, so I can be good for nothing!" populace round military objectives, and you rather have all your eggs in the densely populated areas, narrow one busket so to speak, besides which Janes and the tenement type of dwell- | many people have got to get in-and Ings, and the streets being too narrow to get in quickly, Therefore
this for fre engines and ambulances. country is now swinging round and and if you face the wind when you Finally, the large and ever-changing we are going in for small shelters are out of it, it will blow away and
no more harm will be done. native population is very lable to which will, to the best of our ability pants and the problem of discipline | by sand-bagging and transversing, be in air raids and maintaining morale made a safe as possible against the is more complicated by the literacy splinters flying glass and pieces
caused by the bomb. of the poorer classes.
Air attacks on this Colony would bo made either from sea-borne air- craft or from a shore base-perhaps in North China-and those air raids could be expected in the very early part of the war. In fact, It is quite conceivable that the rald would come first and the formal declaration of
war would come afterwards. (Laugh- ter).
a
We
ATTACK BY GAS
J. H. C.
LETHAL GASES
for some time been running a free night school for poor boys, where all services are gratuitous, Pro- fessor Forster is responsible for this. Among the children attending the above school are boys belonging to the clubs of the Boys Club Association ("Street Boys' Clubs")
Hon. Secretary of which Mr. J. Middleton Smith is
smell but you get a raw feeling at Nose gas is inevitable and does not the top of your nose and start The Lien Yuct Slen Creche, in sneezing and vomiting and are gen-memory of Mr. Li Po-chun's mother, The bomb whlets fell in the Newerally uncomfortable. That cannot was opened on July 29 by Mrs. N. L. World at Shanghai about the same sound a dangerous result
creche In but the Smith. This
Clarence time as the others, resulted in people whole reason of these two gases is Terrace can accommodate 40 infants, being found dead without a mark on
managed
by the Conadian to get you in such a panic through and is their bodies within a radius of 75 sneezing or vomiting that you will Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels. yards. They had been killed by the not have fine to get your respirator Eleven boys have been maintained concussion or the blast of the bomb.
by the Society during the year at the on before they put over another wave I do not know whether any of you of lethal gus. That is the third type two Salesian Industrial Schools, one saw those pictures al the Queen's of choking gas.
at St. Joseph's College, two blind of the bombing at Shanghal, but they showed the effect
Choking gas is a lethal gas and if boys nt the Haw Par Hospital of of blast on the you inhale that you die of internal the St. John's Ambulance Associo- TEN MINUTES WARNING bulldis. In our bagging we must drowning, more or less. The best tion, one in connection with the | protect against that. It is hoped known of these two types of choking Hongkong Benevolent Society, one Information as to these ralds is eventually that we shall have these gas are phosgene and chlorine, which at the Street Boys' Club and one at received from naval vessels on patrol, splinter proot and blast proof shel-
will be etc., and warning signals
were used to a great extent during the Tai Po Rural Orphanage. Two ters round the town, made. The warning signal has not
the last war.
girls are being kept at the Convent yet been finally decided upon. You
The fourth and most important of the Sisters of the Precious Blood, Iknow we bad
type is blister gas of which the best two at the Victoria Home and two test last week which
The Inst method of attack is gas, known in mustard and you will hear at the Canossian Institute. was a flop and, this morning Nearly ali big nations have signed a more detailed account of that ut a tried another one on a similar scale
an agreement "that they will not use inter lecture. - broadcast gramophone record of
gas unless it is used against them,
These bilster gases are heavy oily sirens and bells which has possiblli-
but gas is a very effective weapon; liquids and when they splash you, ties. That is being gone into and it is easy to produce and compara-you get a burn. which you will be informed what the signal
eventually tively cheap. Therefore, it becomes a burns into a blister. At the same is when it is finally decided upon. grent temptation to any nation with time, the liquid vaporises and you
When the warning signal comes
its back to the wall.
ket a breath of it, when it Becomes you will know you have 10 more it was used, you will remember, a choking gas which will in due minutes at the very most before the
Food SUCCESS in Abyssinia course also burn you. Mustard as first bomb, will realise there. is not to mop up the country. Therefore is a very important one and is a much time and that everything must we must be prepared to fake such
uch form of gas which if any was used bo organized in peace time so that anil-gas methods as may be neces- Is I think, the one that would be everybody knows what to do and sary. I grant you the main danger chosen. It gets into wood, brick and where to go without traffic conges- to this Colony may be from high curth and soaks into everything tion.
explosive bombs
and
Incendiary except highly polished surfaces such The attack can, or might be made bombs but as gus is less known about as on brass or glass. Once you have by three methods from the air: (1) and requires more training and got mustard into you, it takes a long [ of hungry bables, the medical care high explosive bombs, (2) Incendiary labus of lectures that a large per- out quickly because all the time tile of children and the relief of destitute knowledge you will and in the syl-time to get it out and it must be got centage of them is devoted to anti-there it is giving oft this poisonous children. The Incendiary bomb is, I should gas work. I will just give you a vapour. consider, very likely indeed. The rough outline of the types of gas that DE-CONTAMINATION SQUADS Incendiary bomb, of which you see may be used.
The ondote is a black powder one here, is a 2-lb. one so you can The gas can be either pure gas, and a number of special squads will imagine how many carry. They penetrate the ordinary These can be divided into two types, and how to get rid of this mustard big bomber can liquid or a solid in the shape of dust. be trained in the use of this powder Chinese tiles and burn afterwards so persistent and non-persistent gases from roads, walls and steel works Intensely and give out so much-heat which do not last so long. They can that you cannot get near them. be divided again on the effects they lamination Squads."
etc. They will be called "De-Con- Neither, water, and nor patent fire have on the human body; eye gna As to the way in which extinguishers will put them out. The which is tear gas; noan gas; choking gases can be used: arstly, a gas shell only thing to do is to wait until it gns and blister gas. burns out and then get busy and put
fired from outside, which I do not Tear gas harmless but very un- think is particularly likely because out the fire it had caused. For that comfortable. Your eyes start run-a shell does not hold much gas and you Joust have fire patrols in the ning as it they had been rubbed with If you are going to use anells you upper storeys of your factories and
an onlon and you cannot see any-may as well put high explosive in offices in order to cope with these thing and wink hard. Otherwise them, Secondly, gas clouds released ares immediately they have started there is no injury to your eye sight (Continued on Page 4.)
or fire bomba, (3) polson gus,
with
theat
The
AN INTERESTING CASE Since 1934 the Society has main- tained at Victoria Home a girl whose mother was killed in the gas
CX- plosion of that year. This year sho has received a sum of $300 as com- pensation from the Gas Company and has offered this to the Society. offer has
been accepted, "but the money is carmarked for the girl's training as a nurse at the end of her school period, for which the Society continues to pay.
The work of the Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children falls Into three main groups--the feeding
The
A programme by Jonqull Antony ...and ever goth the whole about Production by Pascoe Thorn-
ton.
8.45 Studio-Puccini recital by Francesca Deales (Soprano) accom- Panied by Luba Shaftain (Piano).
1. 'La Boheme-Donde lieta; 2. 'Gianni Schlechi Omlo babbino caro; Piano Solo by Luba Shaftain: Danses Espagnoles (Granados); 3. "Tosca-Vissi
d'arte; 4. 'Manon Lescaut-In quelle trine morbile.
9.15 London Relay Stars of Variety.
0.30 London Refay-The News. 0.50 Light Symphony Orchestra, Mannin Ween (Haydn Wood): Shepherd's Son; Rondel; Mina; Like To The Damosk Rose (Elgar. Haydn Wood); Homage March; Con- cert Waltz Joyousness" (ilnydn Wood).
10.15 London Relay-The B. B. U. West Of England Singers.
In Traditional Songs and Folk- Songs of the West Country. Richard of Taunton Dene (arr. J. Williams). No John; Strawberry Fale (arr. Vaughan Williams), Widdicombe Fair (Trad.). High Germany (arr. R. O. Morris),
10.30 alon..
London Relay-Intermis
4.
A programme of novelty numbers and solo pieces. The BB.C. Variety Orchestra; Lender, Frank Cantell; Conductor, Charles Shadwell; Com- pere. Bryan Michle,
10.55 London Relay-Oxford Cambridge.
A runninst commentary on the Inter-University Rugby Union Foot ball Match by II. B. T. Wakelam from Twickenham. (By courtesy of the Rugby Football Union). 11.45 Close Down.
BAVENTRY PROGRAMME 7.20 nm. The BIC Empire Orchestra:
conductor, Erle Fagg. 0a.m. Made in Great Britain; York-
whire Chocolate.
Society makes it its business to see that no chilld of whom it has cognizance shall die of starvation, and that each one shall be given a
the community as it is for the child." chance of escaping that handicappodare Time Signal adolescence which is as dianstrous for
Elusivo Fish Hunted
Chardon, O
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030 6.m. Bernard Stien, with his Danlo. 0.40 0. The News and Announcements, Greenwiel at 8.45 am.
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