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A great deal of the unrest in Europe to-day can be laid at the door of the Treaty of Versailles -that unfortunate document
out of here alive, and I'll never touch the d-d stuff again."
It was about one o'clock on the morning of March 18 last. and we were down In the base- ment bar of the Ritz Hotel in Cortes Street, Barcelona. The raiders had just passed over the city for the eighth time in twenty-four hours. The All Clear had not yet been sounded.
Eight raids in twenty-four hours were too much for the Merchant of Death. For the first time in his carrer he found himself at the receiving end of the business instead of the de- livery end.
By
William Forrest
the During the fourth raid Ritz itself had been hit by a wrecked the bail- bomb which
had been bad room. That enough, but it was the sixth raid that really gave us the fright of our lives. We were finishing lunch when An carshattering
5. Bombers make off
pursuit planes at tails.
6. All Clear sounded. Popu- lation goes about its busi-
neys.
Now if there is an air raid on London its object will be to create panic. Therefore, it is the technique of the Silent Ap-- proach plus High Explosive that A.R.P. in London must be pro- pared to meet.
"The beginning of all A.R.P. wisdom consists in realising that the Defence is faced with a. psychological danger. The At- tack has devised a weapon which can stop the population from. functioning like rational human beings.
"The Dofence must maintain the rationality and the activity of its population, or be defeat- edi,"
To meet this psychological danger Langdon-Davies offers some excellent suggestions.
Nerve-shattering noises must be reduced to the minimum. Why keep up the anti-aircraft barrage long after the raiders
News Chronicle War Correspondent, who returned recently from Government Spain
an initial have gone? Instead of the with bomber, rising to
siren-in their height of 30,000 feet, would glide moaning
itself a over a hundred miles while fall- direct attack on the nerves—let ing to a height of 10,000 feet." us have "a few sharp musical notes associated in everybody's mind with useful action, a bugle a snatch of a popular call, or melody." Against the noise of High Explosive let us have car protectors and sound deadeners.
In the Barcelona air, raids Silent Approach was combined with High Explosive. What are What happened in Barcelona, the effects of High Explosive?
Well, if that bomb which brought our lunch to an abrupt
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The whole building shook. The this: walls seemed to be caving in, und as we stampeded for the exit the floor heaved like the deck of a ship in a gale.
We were all sure that the hotel had been hit again, but we were wrong. The bomb had fallen about 300 yards away.
Silent Approach aims at creat- ing mental chaos through Bus- pense.
1. Bombs were heard drop- end at the Barcelona Ritz had
fallen in Piccadilly Circus near ping,
the Cafe Royal this, according later: to our author, is what would . The strain of suspense "can warn have happened:
be lessened by giving everyone useful work......Everybody Most of the Piccadilly Hetel should have his appointed task later:
and the buildings opposite would opened have been
2. Fifteen Acconds
sirens gave air raid ing.
seconds 3. Fifteen
anti-nircraft guns fire.
street.
later:
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the diplomats concerned with a singular lack of appreciation of the lessons of past history. The harvest of their puerile dis- regard of psychological facts is being reaped in the events to-day in Central Europe. Ger- many, which it was intended to render harmless, has again be-] Mr. John Langdon-Davies come a power to be feared, and has written a book about that her people under Adolf Hitler bomb. I agree--and I have no doubt the Merchant of Death is are not allowed to forget the with me in the matter that facts of their humiliation not so our bomb deserves to have many years ago. Every youth book written about it, of that land is familiar with those hitter clauses of that treaty. The treaty signed in Vienna in 1815, nearly as selfish in its aspects, cost Europe some
R new air terror, for which ed? "The bombers rise from thirty years of restlessness orthodox A.R.P, is not prepared. their base to a great height and fares would have been blocked to, on the other hand, stood up before its provisions were aban-This new terror is the technique then glide with engines shut off with debris sown with corpses to repeated raids without flinch doned. Consider some of the of Silent Approach combined until their objective is reached. and injured sufferers,
provisions of that unfortunate to Orch.creation of 1919, and try
understand the sentiment that must have prevailed in the hearts of the German people!
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According to Langdon-Davies, that bomb made A.R.P. look silly. It was the harbinger of
with High Explosive.
raid on these lines:
and
4. Twenty seconds
Passers-by in Regent Street, raiders were in full flight, the Cireus, Piccadilly, Lower Re- beyond the barrage, but gent Street and Shaftesbury barrage continued
Avenue would have been killed." terror continued also.
Every window frame doorway within 200 yards would have been blown in.
6. Ten minutes later: bar
rage ceased.
6. Varying time later:
Clear sounded.
All
How is Silent Approach effect-
and
The fronts of all buildings for at least 100 yards would have collapsed into the streets.
At least three main thorough-
But the suggestion which I most heartily endorse is the evacuation, "at the very first moment," of all the children and many of the women.
In March many of the Bar- cclonu workers left the factories
in order to escort their fami- lies to safety. For two days. work was paralysed.
The metal workera of Sagun-
ing, because their families had
In Spain the most deadly of the totalitarian terrorists have been aimed at
their women and children.
Thus sound detection becomes High Explosive "opens the already gone.
to gas.. Orthodox A.R.P. anticipates a impossible. The distance the door and window
bombers can glide is dependent Dreams of gas-proof rooms are blows
dissolved." 1. Approaching bombers de- on various factors....A possible
tected by sensitive instru- best performance for a medium- The March raids in Barcelona the Republican fighters through
weight bomber might well be to were an experiment in totali- glide at 120.miles an hour at a tarian terror. "The aim was Population gliding angle of one in thirty. not casualties but the creation
This would mean that such a of panic.”
ments.
2. Alarm given.
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3. Curtain of air barrages
sent
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Germany must pay reparations to the value of 132,000,000,000 gold marks (about £6,000,000,000), plus the amount of the war debt of Bel- Ger- gium to the Allies. many is forbidden to maintain air forces.
Germany re- nounces all rights to cables CHATER ROAD. | Germany's naval strength is
limited to six small battleships, beyond the borders of the coun- six light cruisers, and twelve try, is fast creating a situation torpedo boats, etc.," and so on dangerous in the extreme. through a forinidable list of Therefore, unless the diplomats kindred provisions.
of the present day tread more Consequently, the aftermath warily than did their predeces- of the last war, has been bitter sors the problem of minorities, indeed. Those nations which which is so perplexing, may suffered under the peace treaty breed a calamity worse than have become now dangerously that born twenty-four years ago, potent. The now political con- | Central Europe, as in 1914, is sciousness of the New Germany the centre of all diplomatic in-j under Herr Hitler Is formidable,terest, and Czecho-Slovakia and and the attitude adopted by the its Sudeten problem, regardless Nazi party has been one which of all the efforts of conciliation has neither forgotten nor for adopted by Lord Runciman and given the wrongs done at Ver-the Czech President, Dr. Benes, snilica. They hold that might may yot turn out to be a second makes right, that the "mailed Sarajevo. What must be re- flat" is more effective in 1988 moved are the fundamental than it was in 1914. Germany causes of this unrest and ill-will. by adopting as her role that of War is no remedy. But, unfor- protector of all those citizens of tunately, all nations do not sense German blood who are resident this truth.-F.P.G.
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