THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28,
1938.
BRITAIN'S BARRIER
OF 500 GUNS
Belt Of "Safety" Sky Lit By 3,000 Searchlights
E Anti-Aircraft Divisions | pom-pom type, fring a two pound
Tof the Territorial Arms are mell, is being produced.
20,000 short of their established Finance is a big problem in the strength of 50,000 officers and organisation and equipment of the men. most intensive recruiting T.A. Anti-Aircraft Divisions. campaign in Territorial Army history is to take place shortly to make up the deficiency.
It is not a "parfe" campaign. Re- cruiting is Improving every month, but the War Ofice feel that the beat safeguard against air attack is to make our defenees complete without delay, writes the Sunday Express military correspondent.
Responsibility for the air defence of Great Britain rests on the Air Ministry, but the ranchinery of de- fence is partnership between the fighter squadrons of the Royal Air Force and the guns, scarellights, and signals of the Territorial Army.
ANTI-AIRCRAFT DIVISIONS
Two anti-aircraft divisions of the Territorial Army have been organis- edthe first covering London and the South, and the second with an area extending from Northampton to Northumberland. Further north still are certain Scottish units.
The 20,000 shortage is not so bac as it seems. The first division wa not formed until December 1935 and the second division a year later. Expansion has been con continuous.
BELT OF LIGHT
While the gap between establish- ment and strength is wide, the War Office is condent that this year's big purh will go a long way towards solving the problem.
When the two divisions are at full strength there will be a barrier
of more than 500 guns and 3,000 searchlights stretching from North- umberland to Sussex.
The searclights will be at inter- vals of two miles, forming a belt of illuminated sky deep enough to give our fighting planes room to mua- oeuvre and attack the enemy.
The latest pattern searchlights will be able to pick up an airplane Ave and a half miles high.
As for the runs, the now 3.7 inch model the best of its kind in the world-now coming into produc- tion has an effective range of mort
than 30,000 feet, higher than any
bomber flies during an air raid.
There is another und heavier gun, the 4.6 inch, which will also cause raiders a great deal of trouble,
POM-POM GUN
There is no denying that produc- tion of these, new guns will have to the air defence syɛ- be speeded tem is to be made effective, At pre-| seal the Territorial Army is training with the old 3-inch gun-not in the same class as the new model.
The counter low flying airplanes, seni to attack towns with machine guns and gas, a lighter gun of the
It costs £250,000 to equip an anti-aircraft battery of eight guns. A searchlight company costs £100,000, New headquarters, bullt or building, ́are responsible for a further £3,000,000.
Although the Territorials wie man the searchlights and guns have only
limited time for training, their standard of enclency is extremely high-certainly not lower than that of Regular Army units trained to do the same work overseAV.
Every unit has its battle station in the event of hostilities, and the whole defence system could be brought in- to operation in a vrey short time.
An invention which has revolu- tlonised anti-aircraft gunnery is the "predictor,"
highly
complicated One is supplied to cach pair of guns. and technical Are-control instrument,
enlculates the speed and course of It requires a crew of alx men, und airplane and time of flight of the shell.
REDUCES ERROR
Il reduces as far as possible the error in aiming the gun so that shell and airplane meet in the air. The cost of a predletor is several thou- sand pounds.
The predicter does not estimate the height of the target. This is done by two men working u height and 1er," which solves the problem by
optical means.
The searchlights have their "gad- get," too. This is the sound locator, an instrument which picks up an air- plane long before It can be seen.
With the loentur giving an approx- imate position it is much easier for concentration of searchlight beams to have effect.
TRACKING RAIDERS
Picture an air raid of the future. As the enemy aircraft approach or cross the coast they will be picked up by trained detachments of the Ob- server Corps, a band of civilians, trained by the Air Ministry and sworn h us speciul constables, who will flash the news to the R.A.F. lighter squadrons.
JAPANESE TROOPS crossing a river in North China, an extremely, hazardous operation when guerillas
ESCAPE-PROOF
are in the vicinity.
GAOL
PLANNED FOR WOMEN
Tougher "Cases" Than Men In U.S.
An escape-proof prison, as formidable as the feared Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, is to be built by the United States Government for hard-boiled women convicts and gangsters' "molls:"
EMPIRE NEWS
RECORD PROSPERITY
ON RAILWAYS
Cape Town.
RADIO BROADCAST
"Famous Love Letters" And Other London Relays BOCCHERINI CONCERTO Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Frequencies of 845 kc.c.'s, 0.62 m.c.'s. per second. HIC.T.
12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathic-
Amerien has not as yet a gaol fordral. confirmed women crooks, though police and G-men belleve a woman who has
Gone to the bad is tougher "ease" than a man, says the Daily Express.
Edgar. Hoover, head of America's G-men, James Bennett, director of the Burenu of Prisons, and Attorney- General Cummings all agree that a gaol fortress exclusively for women must be bullt-and quickly.
CROWDED OUT
The women's guol at Alderson, West Virginia, has for more than year been crowded out. Although I supposed to house only. 500 wo- men more than 700 are usually im- prisoned there.
re
12.30 Songs by Lucienne Boyer. Chez Mol (Feilne-Misrakt); Son Re- En Se Regardant (Bayle-Delettre);
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12.40 Orchestra Mascotte. Ballroom Memories -Waltz Pat- pourri (arr. Carl Hobrecht); Greet- ings To Vienna-Waltz (LA Slede); Donauwellen-Waltz
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1.00 Time and Weather.
1.03 Patricia Rossborough (Piano) and The Mills Brothers. 'On the eve of one of the most pros-
Hot These will take the air in order perous Christmases Cape Town has
Patricia Rossborough; Solitude
Dog (Clair-Carter). to get above the oncoming raiders.
ever known, with the heaviest spend-is
(Ellington, De Lange, Milla); London The sound locators of the search- ing recorded, comes the annual re-
Rhythm (Williams, Addison)..... light crews-there are ten men to part of the general manager of the
The Mills Brothers; Golag Greck President Roosevelt recently cach light will come into action, A South African railways referring to the sund of the raiders is picked up, another record-breaking year of pres commended appropriation of £300,- Patricia Hossborough; Shoe Shine
Selection; Gangway--Selection. the searchlight beams will pierce the perity and expansion. The Adminis-000 to start the building of three new Boy (Chaplin, Cahn); Rhythm Saved sky, trying to light up the enemy titlen have had to take steps to cope gaols. One of these will be for our own airplanes to attack.
for The World (Chaplin, Cahn)..... with a situation "unparalleled in the women. Bombers escaping the British fight-history of the railways."
Brothers; It will probably be in Eastern Melody Of 1930-Selection; Please Broadway ers will be engaged by our antl Total earnings were £31,892,000, mises "not even a female Houdini Rossborough.
Kentucky, and aircraft guns, assisted by search compared with £30,000,000 in
the architect pro- Teacher-Selection. lights, and, as a final barrier, there previous year, and £20,600,000 with dynamite and a
1.30 Reuter machine-gun will be the balloon barrage.
Rugby Press, will ever escape from it."
Weather Forecast and Announce ments.
1933.
the
All branches_of_the_Services_will. be needing recruits this year, but the For the period Jan. 1o Oct., 1937, War Office, realising the supreme im- the export muize traffic had incrensed portance of air defence, intends to by 972 per cent, compared with the pare no effort in making the safety same period last year; manganese belt of guns and searchlights com- ore for export increased by 130 per plete, fully equipped and fully man-cent, and petrol by 18 per cent. Re- ned.
venue from road motor services shows a 15 per cent, increase.
Fewer Cadets Co-Respondent For Cavalry To Pay £1,250
COM
Inventions To
The Mills
and
Patricia
1.40 Gilbert and Sullivan Ex- cerpts.
Yeomen Of The Guard'
.......- Light Opera Orchesira cond. by R. D'Oyly Carte,-When
"The Overture.
Wipe Out Armies Malden Loves, She Sits and Sighs.
(Continued from Page 6.)
of civilised countries. slop the modern
Nellie Briercliffe (Contralto); Tower Warders, Under Orders. Henry Mildge and Chorus; When Our Gallant Norman Foes. .... D. Gland Chorus,
Languages in South West—A state- ment lesued by the Administration of South West Africa shows that only protection 9,832 of the total population of 30,- Nothing else can
1.56 New Dance Records. 677 Europeans of the South West aeroplane feet.
Fox-Trots The Cross-Eyed Cow- speak German as their home langu-
boy On The Cross-Eyed Horse; Sil- age. Of these 6,244 are South Afri-experiments on the Lake of Geneva Roy Fox and His Orchestra; Foggy
He recalled thut in simultaneous very Moon and Golden Sands. can or British subjects. Afrikaans and in England in 1931, the mechan-Day In London
(film
'Damsel in
be
roy."
His Orchestra.
2.15 Close down. 8.05-11.0 Chinese Programme. 5.0 Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel
Result Of Reducing
is spoken by 18,000 of the populationism of a clock had, at a minimum of Destress Nice Work If You Can Damages agreed at £1,250' were awarded in the London Divorce spoken by 2,305.
vere as their home language. English is 100 yards, been completely dis- Get It ('Damsel in Destress'). Court to Mr. Dennis Harvey, a tac- Number Of Horses
organised by the
impact of high Jack Harris and His Orchestra; How lory manager, of Warwick Road,
Rhodes A Cape Town Rembrandt--A pic- frequency rays, Mr. Mapperley Park, Nottingham, who ture, "The Taxidermist," hanging in
on to say that it may well be that the -Say
at the Many Rhymes Can You Get Rund NOMPARATIVELY few cadets at petitioned for divorce on the ground the Michaells Gallery, Cape Town,
Harris perfection of such
an invention will the Royal Military College, Cam of the adultery of his wife, Cather- has been identified by Dr. Brendlus, save civilisation from complete berley, have elected to join the caval inc Minnie, with Harold W. Hodg of Holland, as a genuine Rembrandt. nihilation. In this way a death ray ry. The Army Council decision to kinson. The case was not defended. Hitherto the picture has been regard-
into a turned
"ite vill truly reduce the number of officers* Mr. and Mrs. Harvey were married cd as the work of De Gelder.
Among the famous scientists who chargers is largely, if not wholly in April, 1914, and had one child.
have turned their energies towards responsible for the decline in the According to the husband's case Mr.
the discovery of rays able to render number of candidates for commis-Hodgkinson, whom they had known
mechanism useless was the slong in that branch of the Service. for some years, visited their house.
Senatore Marcont. He was working Vieni. on the problem Artillery officers whose units have
to within time of his death and he disc been mechanised have suffered the withdrawal of their chargers, writes
Rome of his experiments to the a Daily Telegraph special correspon dent. The cavalry has remained un- affected so far, but the original deci- sion to reduce the establishment of
In 1936 Mrs, Harvey left home. She refused to return and Mr. Harvey alleged that adultery was committed at a Bournemouth hotel in October of, that year.
Mr. Justice Henn Collins granted Mr. Harvey a decree nisi, with costs, horses in defiance of the recommen- and directed that Mr. Hodgkinson dations of the committee appointed should pay the damage into court to consider the question still stands, within 21 days,
One of the orguments for retaining chargers is that the average subol- tern in a cavalry regiment of the Royal Artillery joined because he knew that in addition to his pay he would receive his chargers, forage, stabling and a groom.
PART OF EMOLUMENTS
A senior cavalry offleer stated that the subaltern rightly regarded these as part of his emoluments. If they were curtalled or withdrawn he was entitled to some form of compensa-
⚫tion.
He held the view that fathers who had served in the cavalry or Rayat Artillery would no longer encourage their cons to Join the Army if they were denied facilities for hunting, polo and racing.
The point generally made is that while officers appreciate the value of the machine in war, they do not think the motor vehicle uffords them the oxercise essential for the main- tenance of physical fitrices,
PREMIER'S GIFT TO
MR. ROOSEVELT
Auckland.
the
of
Part of the first cargo to be carried by air from New Zealand to United States will be a fine ru New Zealand wool, a present from Mr. Savage, the Prime Minister, to President Roosevelt.
"Samoan
the
Cupper
This cargo will be carried by Pan-American which lended here on Sunday at the end of a trial fight from the United States-Reuter.
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London
Aline AccidentA rock weighing half-a-ton fell on the roof of a cage descending the Randfontein Estates Mine this morning, killing seven na- tives and injuring three.
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6.30 For the Children.
Medley of Shirley Temple Songs from film 'Poor
Rich Girl'. Little Henderson Twins with Orches- tra: 'Alice In Wonderland': "Tis the
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Revenue Increase. rovenue for the first eight months of by impenetrable
of greater value in surrounding cities Turner Layton (Vocal and
barrages
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never
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645 Landon Rotar-Munte Ilall. conducted by Charles Shadwell,
With the D.B.C. Variety Orchestra 7.45 Closing local Stock Quotations. 7.50 Violin Solos. 24. Malaguens Danae Espagnole (Pablo de Sarasate); Habanera. Dance Espagnole (Pablo de Sarasate); Rene Benedetti with Maurice Faure at the Plana, PIEZMAN MEGANE (Continued on Roge:5}
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