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are not likely to be made in Hong- kong for lack of room.
by.
Kain and Gas
render
the
To keep out rain and to these trench shellers gas proof, the part that is occupied is roofed in. The root also acts as protection against splinters of bombs and fall- bricks etc. from buildings near- The roof is simply made of tim- ber or timber and corrugated fron covered with earth to a thickness of about two feet six inches. If top six inches to nine, can be made of brick rubble, broken, stone ΟΣ other hard material, so much the better. This roofing should be car- rled out on each side of the trench for at least two and a half feet and small drain should be dug along the edge of each roof to catch water from the surrounding land that might run in under the roof And thus into the trench. Roots would only be put over the parts of the trench occupied and their connect- ing passages, leaving the travel trenches at the end open. Thus where each of the shelter trenches comea into a travel trench there would be a length of passage trench longer than the usual length between recesses, day up to 15 feet long, to At gas curtains in and make a gus lock.
Drainage Essential
that
The drainage of rainwater might find its way in through the roof and the drainage from the small channels at ground level has to be carried away. This is probably best done by one of the cross travel trenches, preferably the one farthest from the buildings from which the occupants come and so less likely to. be used. It will have to be dug
the than deeper
other Trenches graded to a
all
and fitted with "duckboards" "so that the water may run away beneath the boards to some outfall downhill or inte a waler drain.
storm
This water must run away some- where and you cannot arrange this the site is not suitable for a trench system. It will be full of water in the summer and unfit for use,
Such a trench system should have electric lighting if at all possible us
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The Won. dar Boy
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VIGNETTES OF LIFE
By J. NORMAN LYND
DO YOU THINK AUNT SUE
WILL LIKE THIS?'
WELL IF SHE DOESN'T
SHE KNOWS WHAT
SHE CAN DO !*
WHEN THIS HECT)/* VJEEK IS OVER, IT MIGHT BE A GOOD
IDEA TO GIVE SOME.
LESSONS IN TYING UP PACKAGES TO OUR WIVES SWEETHEARTS, SISTERS, AUNTS AND COUSINS.
THEY WANT EVERYTHING. IT WOULD BE MICH SIMPLER TO GIVE FATHER
CHRISTMAS A CATALOGUE OR TWO AND SAY, "GIME. THE WORKS. *
THE SELF SATISFIED PERSON WHO HAS ÁLL. HER SHOPPING DONE - AND YOU REALLY
HAVEN'T GOTTEN STARTED YET.
BETTER HURRY AND PICK OUT YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS
BEFORE ALL THE ONES WITH THE SWELL, SENTIMENTS
ARE GRABBED.
/NORMAN LYND?
| MO÷YOURE. TOO LATE.
TO CATCH THE.
MAIL TO CHINA THIS CHRISTMAS, BUT YOURE IN LOTS OF TIME FOR INEXT CHRISTMAS.
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IT'S THE SENTIMENT THAT COUNTS!
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