10
Added
Attraction
HONG KONG
and PENINSULA
THE BEST
FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT !
1937
1938
QUE
- announcing
POPULAR
SEASONABLE
Carnival Festivities
HONG KONG HOTEL
Christmas Evo
Boxing Night
Now Year's Eve
HOTELS
New Year's Night
*
Midnight Follios
Under The Direction
of A Volsky
-and
SZITA
till 3 a.m.
23.03. 30.m.
2 3.m.
and Special Tea Dances in the Roof Garden Christmas Day & New Year's Day 57.30 p.in.
PENINSULA
HOTEL
Christmas Evo
tilf 3 a.m.
Christmas Night New Year's Eva
New Year's Night
2 a.m. 3 a.m. 2 a.m.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL Christmas Evo New Year's Eve
till 2 a.m. 3 a.m.
and
&
ANIS
Fancy
or
Evening Dress
-
SPECIAL TEA DANCES Christmas Day and New Year's Day 4,30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Roservations can be made by 'Phono HONG KONG HOTEL PENINSULA HOTEL REPULSE BAY HOTEL
-.3028! 5808!
27775
The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The estimated expenditure for carrying out the Society's work among the children during the Inancial year ended 31st Octo- ber, 1938 i
$30,000.00
The Society is in urgent need of funds and asks for donations from the pubile
towards this expenditure.
Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. D. BLACK, GA,
eo Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming,
Des Vorux Road, Central.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'indo China,
Hongkong.
December 4, 1937.
THE
HONGKONG
LECTURER TELLS OF PRECAUTIONS IN AERIAL RAIDS (Continued from Page 5)
amount originally put in, to make up losses.
Sandbagging
You can use single and broken stone In the same way and cut your minimum thickness to 24 inclics.
In the unlikely event of mild steel plate being available in quantities, 1 M.S. plate will also serve.
You can also use any form of backing or casing that will give you
TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY,
not be built on upper storeys except in altogether exceptional buildings of very strong construction. The weight of all the extra protection would be too much for any ordinary floor. Thus we are almost certainly Ilmiled in our choice to ground floors unsements or cellars.
Cellars Good Shelters Cellars innie good shelters us they have the earth all around them and often have concrete roofs.
The drawbacks are that cellars are harder to clear of gas should is once enter bomb nearby break a water main. and they may be flooded should a
If a local cellar remains dry during
typhoon rains it is probably
enough.
11
good
the same thickness of earth or shingle. Boxes Alled with
A basement would make thl
Lood material and built up would do und
shelter but would have to have its half windows protected as we have I have even seen a traverse made of described, Also remember what has 4 gallon kerosene ins filled with
heen said earlier about blast effects. earth. Pults to be watched are to bulld up your walls so there are no
Do not choose a room that gives onto amalt courtyard, narrow alley be cracks, i would probably be better
tween high buildings or into on air- to increase your thicknees somewhat,
well. A bomb falling in a confined say by 20 per cent, to 25 per cent
space like this may have a blasting Should sand bags be available, the effect concentrated there and do same thickness laid in sandbags would do. Sandbags are normally possible, the ground wutside should more damage thun Il otherwise would. only filed three quarter full of be soft rather than hard, c.t. grass earth and are then beaten out until they measure about 20 inches long probably not be possible to obtain rather than rondlways, but this will 10 inches wide and five inches thick.
outside the residential areas. They are Inid like bricks (always Joint) in alternate layers of and stretchers as in "English" bond. Lay with mouths and seams on the inside as these are the first points to burst or rol.
The advantages of sandbags are! that they are laid quickly and you con make difficult "pinns" more easily. Drawbacks; they are apt to rot and allow the contents to escape. Strengthening Walls
It is not easy to use with hard materials as you cannot hammer them flat or they get cut on the stones Inside. If you have to use them with hard materials such as shingle or ballast, try and use smaller sizes than you would use between shuttering.
Strengthening walls such nx We have been describing the bags can be tard to put around existing walls of whose strength you are not sure, or to close openings in walls which are of themselves good enough. It for the former purpose keep them away from, the wall to be protected (say nine inches or a foot) as, if you **** are doubtful of your wall it is prob able that it is not strong enough to carry the thrust of the mass of earth bearing up against it and may bulge Inwards and collapse.
Upper Storeza
This protection must be curried up to at least five feet above floor level of the room inside, eight feet is better and to at least the height of any door er window openings or better, to above this level.
If put 1:1 front of doorways it i should be carried at least as far be- yond the door on each side as the traverse is itself, away from the building. These walls or traverses should be carried far enough to each side of the opening so that splinter cannot enter.
All that we
have been saying shows that shelters in buildings can-
K
Ilinis for Safety Other hints for selecting the room to be converted to a shelter are; it must not be near
stocks of in- dammable material that might start a fire; it in a cellar it should not be under machinery or heavy stores that might come in on you.
An Inside passage way will make a good shelter if you can close off the ends. The outer walls of the building will act us protection to the ber of traverses and protecting walls walls of your shelter and the num-
can probably be reduced, provided of course that openings in the inner and outer walls do not come opposite one another and allow a clear path for blast and splinters.
So far we have hardly mentioned the flour above. Il is not so im- portant, as the chance of a direct hit is so small. It must, however, be strong enough to hold up should the storeys above collapse and part of them fall on the roof of the shelter below.
DECEMBER
21, 1937.
To shelter any number of persons c.. workmen from a factory, a re- nutar trench system will be needed. This is best laid out in a series of: trenches parallel to each other but in a zigzag formation. If trenches are straight, in unlucky hit may cause damage all up and down its length. Trenches arc themselves made as narrow as possible, two feet nt the bottom and seven feet deep; and to house the occupants the trenchi Is widened to three and a half feet or four in lengths of 15 fect and fitted with a sent in the recess thus formed. Such a recess will hold 12 to 15 persons. The recesses should be on alternate sides of the trench and each recess should be at least ten teet from the ones on either side. Zigzag Trench
Thus one arm of your zigzag trench can be 50 feet long, viz: five, pasange; 15 recess; len passage; 15 recess; Ave passage 30 feet in all.
If possible an entrance should be provided at the end of each trench. Al the most three such trenches should share a common entrance. No part of one trench must come within 20 feet of its neighbours right and left and it is better to have 30 feet or more.
There must be a travel trench or communication trench connecting the ends of the trenches so that people Anding one trench full may move on to the next. People once under- ground, show considerable reluctance to come out again and so may stay in and overcrowd one such shelter when the next one has plenty of room. If the trenches are more than four or five "arms" long there should be another travel trench across the far ends of the shelter trenches and really big systems when the trenches night be many "arms" long. would have connecting trenches nt intervals up and down their lengths. Such (Continued on Page 11.)
'INCURABLE' INDIGESTION RELIEVED IN 5 MINUTES I
By Dr. Scott, M.D., Paris.
You may have suffered so long that you regard your Indigestion as in- curable. But try 'Bisurated Mag- Sandbags or earth spread on the nesia after your next meal-you'll door above are likely to reduce the get wonderful relief in 5 minutes strength of this floor by overloading 13y preventing fermentailon, and and this should not be done unless instantly neutralising excess ncidity the floor above is also the top floor which cuuses practically and you are afraid of incendiary stomach trouble-Bisurated Mag- bombs. It may be, well to lay annesia stops pain at once, and restores normal, healthy digestion. Bisurated" extra thickness of fluor boarding and
Magnesia is sok! by all Chemists and to strut the beams or joists but such work is better not undertaken except Store Doctors and Hospitals the on expert advice.
world over use and prescribe it for all forms of stomach trouble,
Shelter Trenches
When suitable buildings are not available, cover can be goi by trenches. In fact the cover sv obtained is perhaps safer than that in buildings. The difficulty is that there is rarely room in a crowded town. Trenches are also much more difficult to make comfortable habitable. You may have to stay some time under cover.
and
i
The Won- dar Boy
of Songi.
BOBBY BR BASIL R
HAKEAWISH
RKO RADIO
Picture
XMAS SALE
Soo
Bright
In the
Хтая
Party!"
Buy your-
Dresses, Shirts, Ties, Braces, Dress Sets,
here !!
A New Assortment of
Gent's Outfits
JUST ARRIVED !
MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS EARLY !!
LE BEAU
ENTERTAINMENT BLDG.
.D'AGUILAR ST.
FROM
magnetic male
Call in and Inspect vur ssorted election
gifia suitable for men.
to
*
•
magnificent
KENT Hair Brushes'
in special leather pre-
sentation cases.
SIMPSON Pure Badgert Hair Shaving Brushes.
YARDLEY Complete, Shaving Sets.
RAZOR SETS by.— 'ROLLS'
'WILKINSON'
'GILLETTE'
'AUTOSTROP
make some
'VALET'
and 'KROPP'
Gift FORALLY
Irresistible Gifts
PERFUME
SPRAYS
IN CHROMIUM, CUT
GLASS AND PASTEL SHADES OF GREEN, BLUE AND PINK.,
POWDER BOWLS
''MERITOR'
for Lovely Ladies
VANITIES
'COLONIAL
THE LATEST CREATIONS
OF
Ifro, Caron, Chanel, Worth, Lantheric, Coty, Houbigant, etc.
YARDLEY, 4711 and RHINEGOLD LAVENDER WATERS and EAU-DE-COLOGNES
-also
A fine selection of talcum powders, soaps and bath salts to suit every taste.
DAMES'
HOLLYWOOD MAKE-UP CREAMS, VANITY KITS AND MANICURE SETS
'CUTEX' and
LÁ CROSS'
NAIL SETS
MAKE-UP
MIRRORS
'TAVERN'
CANDLES Etc.
-AND
Joss
ATTRACTIVE GIFT PACKAGES
1, 2 & 3 LBS.
FROM $4.50
A BOX OF
Chocolates
WINES TO ADD TO
XMAS CHEER
SPECIAL HAMPERS CONTAINING CHAM- PAGNES, WINES.
WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, SHERRIES, PORTS, CLARETS.
VERMOUTHS; ETC.
At $50.00, $60.00, $75.00
DEWARS
WHITE LABEL WHISKY In Special Presentation Boxes of
3 Bots 6 Bots 12 Bots $16.50 $33.00 $65.00
WATSON'S
FAMOUS "E"
BRANDY BURNETT'S DRY, OLD TOM, & WHITE SATIN GINS
And a wide selec- tion of finest
queurs.
Page 10Page 11