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THE main deck of the
boat was covered with
with hundreds of
The late Mr. Chan Fu Shan's family deck-chairs supporting an wishes to thank all friends and excessive number of Chi- sions of sympathy in their recent nese passengers. The boom sad bereavement also for forul protecting Canton had only been opened the day before and many people who had been caught in Hongkong
tributes so kindly sent.
Hongkong Telegraph. by its unexpected closing
MONDAY, MAY, 2, 1938.
A.R.P.
A.R.P.
were hurrying home.
The first-class accommodation was almost empty-half a dozen English or American mission- aries, two Hospital nurses, an American financier, two Ger- The letters are he-
man newspaper men, a dozen ginning to take on the same im-Chinese in long dark blue robes, portance as did D.O.R.A. be and myself. We lay around on tween 1914 and 1919. Behind chaises longues and watched the those letters is the weight and calm waters of the Pearl River.
Yesterday's traffic had been purposefulness of a Government.
intercepted and in great part A.R.P. constitute a warning, an turned back by Japan- admonition, and an urgent re-ese gunboats. It seem
inevitable that our own ship should re- ceive the peremptory order to churn up the peaceful yellow waters
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CANTON
We
anti-aircraft China. A fow shells burst near the aeroplanes. A few bombs burst near the rail- way that connects Hankow with
key to the future preservation of life. We hope they are right. To others the letters signify a mighty misrepresentation, a de- lusion. We pray they are
I was lunching with the by reversing engines so that A little later we steamed had little red warning flags wrong.
After the war D.O.R.A. some fussy little Japanese officer through a very narrow gap in hanging from their shelters and Governor of the province-the mayor of Shanghai- made England the laughing should board her to examine her what looked like some sort of the gates of the Anglo-French former atock of most of the world--cer-papers.
fishing net that ran from bank concession, a long, narrow area when the worst raid was threa- to bank.
flanked on one side by the river tened.. We might,, he suggest and on the other by a canal, were ed, adjourn to his dug-out in the This was the boom which is
closed.
garden. BUT no other ship was
to be seen except a to prevent a Japanese attack on
For the next half-hour But the alarm period was al- We were, rather restrictions. few junks and the four or five Canton by sea. A.R.P. are scarcely likely to go other Canton-bound steamers regretfully, out of reach of ad- most over, and inside the quiet, continued our discussion of the I found a European situation and drank down to posterity in a similar that huddled as close as they venture; and the subsequent spacious concession manner. The letters mean much could in our wake. The great discovery of a lot of hulks sunk football match in progress be- our tea in a concrete but com- more than government curtail-estuary, with its dozens of across the deepest channel was tween British and French sailors fortable cellar some forty feet to our thrill and half a dozen tennis matches below the surface of the soll of islands, narrowed to a river, no consolation
in play. ment of social life, which was with the Bocca Tigris forts to expectant eyes. the chief effect of D.O.R.A. They
protect it.
The landscape was so peace- mean, if our government and its
ful that, had it not been for the technical advisers are right, the difference between life and of abolishing all war, which, presence of occasional pagodas under existing circumstances, is and the absence of gramophones. death. This can never be a
bombed purely idealistic, and begs the or portable wireless sets, I breakfast time. In groups of laughing matter, and only the question at issue.
should have been ready to swear seven their machines that I was on the Norfolk the outskirts of the city, No
BUT without that doter- complete failure of Air Raid Pre-
few anti- Air Raid Precautions are Broads.
aeroplane and very
ring knowledge 'that cautions can place them in the terribly necessary, and imprac-
aircraft batteries camé into ac- people in remote countries like the United Until we reached Canton! I tion against them, for Canton is Great Britain or category of ridicule which be- ticable though many of them came the legacy of the Defence may appear to be, it is just as had never imagined so great a still far from the fighting and States have not entirely lost material is needed else their ability to feel indignant of the Realm Act.
necessary for the public, no less variety of river craft as met us war
over brutality these narrow The drawback about A.R.P. is in Hongkong than elsewhere, to here. The most conspicuous where.
they lack logic, like accept their import and to effect were the great ferry boats with
But one weapon more power streets of little, tumble-down, their instructions. A.R.P. must sterns like Spanish galleons and D.O.R.A., and their acceptance not be taken lightly, but must be bows like insignificant tugs, ful than you in Europe yet wooden Chinese homes might. by the public therefore very accepted as an urgent duty, for, The most active were the junks realise, prevented the invaders have been aflame and thousands largely depends on concentrated as has been often emphasised, that fought for the first places from doing much damage the of people might have been killed propaganda; the type of pro- their neglect by one citizen may to unload our cargo. paganda which simply drives mean the death of a dozen. The the public into acquiescenco, It wars in Spain and China have revealed more emphatically than has seemed essential for the hundreds of lectures the abso- propagandlats to indulge in "frightening" tactica.
that
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and trousers, some-
THE Japanese were busy Hongkong.
next morning by
4
anger of international public or wounded. opinion over the
The dug-outs are more numer- earlier bombardments of Canton and ous than I had expected, but you. the atrocitics committed at Nan- cannot supply four hundred and forty million people with accom WOMEN in black jackets king.
Only a little of the rupe and modation underground. lute necessity of precautions times with children still strap murder that have taken place in There are serious and respon- against incendiary bombs. As ped to their backs, did marvels Fundamentally there is no yet neither war has provided with great boat hooks. Small Nanking is yet known to the sible foreigners here who are contesting the sense of doing similar lessons of the same girls and boys were ready with outside world. Foreign doctors convinced that Japan will quite out a cam- what one can to protect against urgent demand for regulations wickerwork fenders. Children and missionarica who had the deliberately carry
courage to stay on there when paign to exterminate as many the threat of death, particular to protect against poison gas so small that they could hardly the armies had fled tell a story Chinese as possible so that they ly ns in this case wholesale attacks from the skies. But run pulled splendidly at the oars to which there is certainly no may find a little room for their slaughter is likely to be involved. the experts have told the world of the sampans that hovered on parallel in the atrocity-blacken- own colonists in the crowded, What can be questioned are the enough for it to know that gas the outskirts. And as I watched history of the last 24 years. but fertile, Yangtse Valley. That methods of such protection, and warfare from the air is no idle ed I imagined the ghostly it is here that opponents of threat for the future, and what- glaughter there would be if the And their story has helped to sounds improbable. But what as to be almost bring about the removal of Gon- is so probable A.R.P.,
been ever the public can do to mini- Japanese were they have
to bomb the eral Matsui from the Japanese certain is that the horrors of evolved, make themselves con-mize the effects, must be done,
place.
Army command and the saving Nanking will be repeated else spicuous. But it is significant no matter how ineffectual those that these opponents have pro-measures may appear to be from
To my surprise, I found there so far of crowded cities such where unless there are enough duced no alternative antidote to a theoretical point of view. was an air raid alarm. The us Canton from the horrors of of us in other countries, to speak.
up against them. aerial poison attacks, save that S.A.G.
steel-helmetod traffic policeman intensive bombing.