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IGH in the sky the silver bombers come at all hours of the day and
- Perfection 1 night. Only clouds keep
them away.
THE YEAR'S
When they come at night you don't often see them because the searchlights
STUDEBAKER usually fail to pick them out;
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"You can't wear out a Studebaker."
"Costs less to run."
but in the day they are in- nocent, like leaves, and no bigger, twisting and turning in a high wind, which you can't feel.
Mostly it is the prowling fighters which tumble about the
"Lends in roominess und in miracle-sky; the bombers, in arrow-
ride comfort."
heads of three, like to fly straight across the cities they
"I can drive it hundreds of miles have come to wreck. Then they
and never feel fatigued."
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The
acem to move more slowly than any aeroplanes have ever moved before.
Article On
Probably--almost certainly-- they are travelling at no less Tel. 27778-9. than 200 miles an hour, those Junkers and Heinkels and Capronis and Savolas. But to look at them, knowing that you dwell beneath their wings, yna wouldn't think so.
Thongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MArch 28, 1938.
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Air
A. R. P. have become
the
Raids
most-talked-of initials in Hongkong. Against the menace of air raids, which the younger generation have never suffered, we are now taking precautions. This article tries to tell you what air raids feel like- from the point of view of the man literally in the street.
تام
I have seen
WHEN first you experi- ence an air raid and don't know what is happening, it is irresistible; you want to go out into the street and stand with upturned face staring at but worse than those was the metal drawn only by gravity population unmercifully ma- If Mr. Chamberlain, Britain's those tiny wheeling shafts of smell. It was so bitter and so than it is to be struck by a piece chine-gunned from German Prime Minister, has not exactly light, which contain (only you strong that you felt it was tear- hurled at you by high explosive. Heinkels. They power-dive on solved the problem of foreign can't believe it) men who are ing the lining out of your nose. One of the oddest things about mean streets; and sound a whole policy to the satisfaction of talking to one another; and con- The acroplanes dropped a lot exploding bombs is that when lot worse than they are.
tain, too, high explosives which of bombs almost simultaneous- you hear a sequence of explo- They sound worse because al- everyone, by his reiteration of those men, by pressing a switch, iy. By rights, because they sions you always think that they though they fire their steel-coat- the country's determination to can drop somewhere upon the were flying in a straight line, the are coming in your direction. al bullets with astonishing go to the aid of France and land below them--somewhere bombs ought to have fallen in This is because each explosion rapidity, they are travelling so Belgium in the event of their near where you are standing. the same way; but they didn't, subsequent to the first adds to fast that they hit about once invasion, he has at least given If the bombers are right over They fell all over the place. the volume of sound, making it every twelve feet. If you hap the required reassurance which your head you are pretty safe,
louder all the time. After a bit pen to be somewhere near that will make these two nations because bombs don't drop per-
you don't worry about things twelfth foot, it's too bad. It more than ever inclined to co-leased from their racks they are
pendicularly when they are re- UP to now it had been like that.
was too bad once for a little girl I saw. interesting; but after-
When I saw her die so operation in every sphere. There already travelling forward at wards, when we went across the
suddenly I was frightened for will be some who will want a 200 miles an hour; and in their square to help drag what Was I DON'T remember how the first time; and always after- reciprocal pledge from France flight they lose impetus, so that left of human beings from their
many air raids I've wards I was frightened. for assistance in the event by the time they reach the ruined homes, it was horrible. been in during the last twelve That's how it is with air raids. of British possessions being ground their downward speed is Bits of people, dead only a few months; but I would remember Your imagination doesn't work threatened by any power or greater than their forward, minutes, are no joke.
if I had ever seen panic, I never until you've seen something When I saw my first air raid And the time that we were have. I have seen old women horrible; and after that it works group of powers. Actually it is Ernest Lough, etc.
I saw a bomb crash into the side digging and scrabbling in the twisted with consternation, and too hard. not necessary. In pledging her of a house, about half-way up, dust and ruin, the fighters play- frightened; old men, too, and self to the defence of France as though someone had thrown ed about in the sky above us, so young for that matter; and I and Belgium, Great Britain in it from the opposite side of the high that they sometimes dis- have seen children cry. It seem BUT even so it is easy Complete descriptive catalogue sent on request.reality is doing nothing more } square.
appeared into the haze. They ed to me that the children cried
to overrate the dan- than safeguarding her own Before the bomb burst, the were beautiful.
because they were puzzled and ger and the horrors of air bom- security, for
cold com- her defensive outside of the storey where it It was only afterwards, after knew, only vaguely, that some- bardment. That is
fort for the scores and hundreds strategy has long been based had hit, dissolved, like an aspirin it was all over, that there was thing was wrong.
in water. You could see it time or inclination to be afraid.
who have died assumption that
a child, walking and thousands powder, and you heard no noise. Between your first air raid down the street with its grand- and left not enough of them-. Franco-Belgian borders are her
Then the bomb exploded and and your second (if you have mother, blown iu smithereens, selves for burial: it is cold com. Chater Road. own European frontiers. In this after that-or rather, simul- time to ask questions, which The grandmother was unhurt, fort for those who have lived day of aviation power, when taneously with that I dis- isn't always the case) you learn She screamed like a woman in and seen' their homes in dust.. nations are only hours apart, it appeared. I'm glad I did. Bits a lot of things.
the last agonies of pain; but But it is true. is obvious that Britain is re-and pieces rocketed through the You learn that if an enemy when they told her that what Many times I have sat in the latively safe from attack as doorway where I was standing; bomber is coming at you down- she was doing might upset other darkened cities of Madrid and Valencia and Barcelona and long as she has a superior sea
wind, you are safe; because all people, she stopped; and her have heard the faint drone of force and an air force at least order to avoid dangerous fric-wind. In that way, they can
the best people only bomb up face became dull and empty.
That's what bombing does to enemy aeroplanes flying uninter- the equal of any possible adver- tion. Mr. Chamberlain, how better control what, after all, is people mainly. It makes them rupted across the sky; and sary, and as long as French ever, recognises that there is anot, and never can be, an instru- dull and empty. And when it's heard, too, the muffled crash of
point beyond which it would not ment of precision. and Belgian frontiers are FOR
over, angry, be wise to retreat in matters of army any
of in-diplomacy. There
You learn that if, by chance, It's easy to get frightened by justifica MADE BY JOHN CURTIS, MALBORA, U.S.A.vasion. The guarantee that notion, too, for his refusal to you should be raided while you bombers, but it's easier to go to out to look at the damage, I such army can march into either precisely define the last line, so nat to look at the aeroplane, be in bed; because, the truth is, material damage has been slight; are in the country, it is better sleep if they come while you're have found no holocaust. The SUEDE
of these states without meeting to speak, beyond which his their combined resistance al-Government cannot be hustled cause human faces show up so they make you intolerably tired, but never has the damage to
The uncertainty should have the,
well against the dark ground; if they never leave you alone morale been visible.
From such tribulation, MOST COMFORTABLE ready exists. On the sea Britain effect of deterring aggressive and you learn that it. is a good for more than a few hours at a
is still supreme. In the air, if nations, and at the same time thing to resist the temptation to time.
nobly borne, we might ourselves ALL SIZES
she has not already built to Britain's obvious sincerity in run to what looks like a safer Aeroplanes sometimes loose well take some heart for the fu- ture which we seem to dread so numerical equality with other seeking for a pence-preserving place, and to lie down. There off something much more powers, she soon will have formula should have the effect seldom is a safer place. frightening than a bomb that much. reached this point in the rapid of lessening antagonisms and the bits and pieces fly upward, storey house; and that's a ma- When a bomb hits the ground, will strip the side off an eight- expansion programme now in keeping the way open for hand. As a matter of fact, with negotiation.
not horizontally; and it is better chine-gun bullet. the fastest fighting aircraft in Meanwhile, having. looked to to be hit by a piece of jagged the world, she is in a position his frontiers, Mr. Chamberlain to take care of herself at this is attempting to bring Labour moment against any but the into line for a speeding up of strongest combination of Con-production in the armaments tinental states: and no such industry; and the indications combination threatens her. Nel-are that he is succeeding. This ther is she alone; for she has is one of his greatest problems;| the sympathetic support of at and he has shown foresight in lenst half of Europe and the tackling it at this stage, before Assurance of active co-operation the necessity is immediate, |from powerful neighbours. Bri-] arriving with real danger. There
tain is easily the "safest" is no doubt of his ability to rally Tt Adinival who recently relin- nation in her immediate sphere; the whole nation in the face of naval forces in the Far East hos and, with the backing of the actual peril: for the nature of called attention to the feverish acti-
When the world-war ended, Great Empire, the mightiest state on the people assures him of their vity talking place in Japanese duck-
Britain and the United States had under construction the mightiest earth, both in man-power und full support. But in his pro-yards under the closest secrecy.
battleships over contemplated, and material resources. It is natural gramme of preparedness the have pledged themselves to unnounce an. For if Japan pursuen her pre- must countries were prepared to Whereas most of the naval Powers likely to be equally concerned later it was not perhaps surprising that that the British Government full collaboration of Labour is to one another details of their naval sent polley of secret naval building agree to some sort of limitation when should take the lead in tho also vital, as much so as in time construction each year, Japan, oy other Powers with Erstern interests the obvious alternative was a costly campaign of appeasement which of frightening emergency. A refusing to algn the last Navy Treaty, will have to take account of their navel race, involving the expendi the advanced thinkers of the victory on the "home front" has kept hemelt free to build war-position and build ships, in order to ture of vast sites of money, but country are unanimous in sup- I would vastly increase the Gov- ships as she chooses, and without maly restrictions have always sirength of the British and United some sort of superiority. leading to nothing but the greater porting; and it equally ornment's influence abroad, re of her plans.
any obligation to inform the world
been Irksome to Japun, not so much states navies, apparent that because
of assure the Empire and give the Although world attention is main because they limited her daval her own security and her British people that feeling of ly concentrated upon
But at the Washington Conference. the war in building, but because, it has been confidence in her own great confidence that only comes with China, various Admiralties are con- hurtful to the pride of the Japanese of 1022 the Japanese delegation ex- strength, she should be the closest unity and understanding cerned about what is taking place to have to accept an inferior post-pressed their dislike of that, whole, first to offer compromise in among all classes and parties,
In the dockyards of Japan, and tax-tion in naval strength in relation to plan of naval Imitations. They said payers in a bod many countrier äral other countries
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