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FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1938.
BETTER LEFT UNSAID
But what, major, if the bomb explodes?
NOTICE
the
that scientific experts have been striking a rather. cheering note of late in regard to the use of gases and certain kinds of bombs in modern warfares.
Professor J. B, S. Haldane told us the other day that "mustard gas used against men protected. by masks is the most humane weapon ever invented."
Only one per cent. of mustard gas casualties die as a result of being gassed, he declared, and not more than two or three per cent. of the others are invalided for even six months.
And now comes Major Stuart Blackmore, of the Home Office, with much the same news.
Speaking of the three kinda of bomb likely to be used in air rais-the high explosive, the incendiary and the gas bomb he affirms that "gas, in spite of its extraordinary dangers to an untrained population-evidence
That persuaded me that it is the method into execution, and household practises in advance it does not seem "comparatively the art of picking up bombs on only an exceptional man who shovels with six-foot handles not only knows how to stop u simple” to me.
and tipping them into the coal- runaway horse, but who can do scuttle.
Major Blackmore's advice is us follows:
coal
50.
Then there is the famous If you have handy a
HIS ADVICE is, no
doubt, good for those counsel as to how to avoid being of which we had recently in scuttle or a stout bucket in which Abyssinia-if we have a proper there are two or three inches of who could carry it out. I could stung by a wasp. "If a wasp degree of training and equip sand, and a scoop with a handle tot help thinking when I read it, settles on you," the sages tell us, of about 6ft. it is possible to put however, of the advice once given "hold your breath. So long as Mr. Sun Fo's rather startling ment, is the least duigerous of the bomb into the receptacle and to me as to how to stop a run- you hold your breath the wasp
take it outside.
away horse. "You throw your cannot sting you." the three."
self at the horse's head," said The advice is excellent, if the No, it is easy enough in most my friend, "and with one hand wasp flies away before you have coal you catch hold of the reins near burst a blood vessel; but, if the houses to get hold of a scuitle or stout bucket, but there the bit, while at the same in-
wasp chooses to remain long are few houses in modern cities, stant with the other hand you enough it seems to me to be I fancy, containing a coal scuttle catch hold of the horse's tongue. about as practical as the well- or stout bucket in which there No horse can move when you've known counsel as to what to do are two or three inches of sand, got hold of his tongue.” when attacked by a lion: "Push
SO FAR
so good. But Major Blackmore's good news is not confined to gas- bombs. He also tells us of cer- tain ways in which danger from incendiary bombs may be con- siderably diminished.
Tais difficulty would be got over,
many stories about rescuing BUT EVEN if there are
remarks in Singapore yester- day, to the effect that Japan wanted to "step into" Hong- kong, must not be taken too seriously. Mr. Sun Fo may be lieve that this is a part of Japan's ambition, but his whole
however, if every householder Among my dreams at that your umbrella down its throat
a good and then open it." interview smacks rather of pro-
Incendiary bombs, intended kept a little store of sand up-lime-fur I had read paganda and something of bud to produce widespread conflag stairs for emergencies.
beautiful girls whose horses had
really effective me-- taste. It would be unjust to rations, are admittedly danger- The chief difficulty would arise run away with them-was the thods of lessening the danger charge that he has deliberately ous, but it is some consolation when the householder approach- dream of stopping a run-away from certain classes of bombs, I doubt whether these would set himself to stir up trouble to know that "because of their ed the bomb with the scoop with horse.
the six-foot handle. I cannot great weight, they have no pene believe that even in time of peace
But, some time afterwards, I greatly diminish the danger If a war broke between Britain and Japan at a trating power, and will, general- it is an entirely easy thing for an aw
a runaway horse between from air ralds.
out and human beings found time when relations are not en-ly speaking, be found in upstairs elderly man to pick up an object the shafts of a car tearing up that they could easily defend
street towards me. The -from-the-floor with an instru- the tirely satisfactory, but-it-is-rooms and attics."
ment resembling a warming-pan horse had flashed past me be themselves against gas bombs and incendiary bombs, some na- undoubtedly a fact that such The moral of this, you might or one of those old-fashioned col- fore I had time to decide to put tion would be sure to say sooner
he has made imagine, is that during an air- lection plates on long poles.
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or later: "These bombs are statements as
tion.
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Nor did anyone else attempt enemy morale. Let us concen- attic.
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free from inflammable incendiary bombs can be made they all rushed back to the pave- material, he outlines a plan for generally effective unless at ment even more hastily than dealing with incendiary bombs least one member of every they had left it. which makes it almost neces- sary that someone should stay' in an upstairs room or attic dur- ing the raid.
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For instance, to say bluntly
Major Blackmore does not go that China's resistance depends so far as to advise this how- upon the munitions which she is
after On the contrary, obtaining from Hongkong is surely 1403 exaggeration. The ladmission, moreover, would al- most certainly have an im- mediate reaction in Toko-if it were not recognised as an at- tempt to mislead. Believing such
"THE METHOD of deni- a statement, Japan must surely
ing with incendiary to cut Hongkong's com- bombs," he assures us, "is per- move munications with the mainland fectly simple." Well, I have of China. That should not be tried to imagine myself putting difficult though it might be
It would seem from his re-
costly. It would seem that Mr.go to war to keep the Kowloon- Sun Fo wants Japan to make Cantón railway operating. such a move. Therefore the assertion that Hongkong plays so vital a part in China's scheme of things loses weight. It com- mences to sound unconvincing on repetition.
From his remarks in their sum total, it would appear that Mr. Sun Fo would very much like to see Britain take alarm over and possibly take a hand in developments in the Far East
the
marks that he suspects Britain may be contemplating the eva- cuntion of Hongkong. On that point he can be swiftly cor- rected. It has been stated peatedly in
House Commons that Hongkong, and any other portion of the British Empire, will be defended with all the forces at the disposal His Majesty's Government
Robert Lynd
EXAGGERATED IMPORTANCE OF THIS GAME OF GOLF
"AS an exercise, golf is fallaci- well-
his assertion.
says
By
Douglas A. Scott
to vigorous health.
Watch those golfers making their
Stay. Let us be just. It has an way to the nearest golf course. They
a53ct, # mental one. It golf "fans" They are either too brightens up the dull man. creep along, these middle-aged elder other fat, or long, lean, and round-shoulder-
now ceases to lounge hopelessly about the house. He gets into the garden, either to practise pulting or try experiments with a ball at the end of a string.
ous." So known osteopath. I agree with him. The exaggerations about
Either that, or he goes to his golf the health-giving properties of
a pleasant interlude, a break. It is course, if he has time. Instead of golf are immense.
One has only to study the average not for them a pretended royal road being subjectless as regards con- versation, answering other people's golfer to see how gross they are. If I laugh when golfers of any age talk with vague monosyllables, he ever there was a "crawling ermy of tell me of the miles they have "walk- now unproaches friends with long. individuals, it is those to whom golf ed" during their rounds. My dear, high-coloured tales of what he did has become an obsession.
good, honest souls, you don't walk at the eighth tee or the ninth hole. Of course, there are young players You just wander along. It would Golf has lifted this lifeless man into It is true that he who, naturally, do not come within do you as much good to stroll round one of vilailty. this category. But the
averago the town with your hands in your probably becomes a bit of a bore, re- goes in for golf because of its health!-
middle-aged or elderly person who trouser pockets.
but Kolí has certainly taken him out of the rut into which he had fallen. of neat in
Is a living denial of the truth of One More Bore
But these facts are no excuse for the claim that golf is a really healthy exercise. It is a lopsided sort of re- creation, exercising come muscles out of all proportion to others.
Golf has a devastating effect upon Take, for instance, tho male who
people. One cecs on any cd. They arc mostly animated has reached middle-age in a quiet, come
sort of way. He course the most childish exhibitions if examples of the old musle-hall joke, unadventurous
which he is of temper by grown-up men. I have Thank goodness, I've got my health enjoys a safe job,
Incidents. mechanical routine. that is not a part of British
motion film of the well-known ad- faithfully to a
I do not play bridge for.one reason. vertisement, "Every Picture Tells alle contents himself daily by passing policy. As for the isolation of
Story."
between home and office. He has have watched dear, good-natured no particular enthusiasms, not even friends fail Into such fiendish tem- . Hongkong, which Mr. Sun For
for his work. Then a friend per-] pers with each other over the bridge- sundes him to lake up golf. He table that I long, long ago determined fears, the effect upon China's
game which would imports, whatever their variety,
I exempt the young man from this docs so, but half-heartedly, even that it was accusation because they get exercise though his wife, Anding him a bit never entrap me. And golf is a can be no affair of ours. It will doubt, had been better left her weys. They walk, play of a nuisance about the house, urges worse temper-ralser than eards have
ever been. be lamentable. if, through a unuttered. His words could cricket and football, dance a great
Ile is heavily humorous about the Any so-called sport that causes tuch deal, probably climb, go in for hoc blockade, Hongkong and China very easily stir up suspicions inker, ice-skate, and indulge in other matter for the first month or so unseemly demonstrations ought to be That sports. It is these recreations that Then the recreation gets into his removed from the lat of legitimale- lose commerce, but Mr. Sun Fo unimaginative
keep them fit, not golf. They are blood. When he gets home from the recreations. Imust not think that Britain will would be deplorable,
sensible enough to look upon golf as office on a summer's evening, he
of
fconflict. It is safe to say that the necessity ever arises. That and strength." They are chiefly required to do nothing but adhere seen friendships broken over golfing
does not sound as though any retirement were contemplated.
Mr. Sun Fo's remarks, though '
made in all sincerity and with-
.notive, out any hidden
minda.
no
Only An Interlude
him oni.
Douglas A. Rooli