THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER
18,
1938.
Library, Supreme
FILMS AS AID TO RECRUITING
Admiralty Experiment WAR OFFICE TO MAKE! "DOCUMENTARIES"
of
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The good effect of the Alm "Our Island Nation" on recruiting for the Navy was mentioned by Mr. C. B.
the Admiralty, Coxwell, evidence before the Select Committee cn Estimates which was published recently. The Committee was dis
Estimate for
the Admiral- cussing an
ly of £3,405 on
that the firm had Mr. Coxwell publicity.
been made without any cost to the Admiralty, who had purchased some coples of a smaller Blm than that! exhibited in the cineros. A con- siderable number of retired
naval
ficers had been patriotic enough to round the country giving ad- ressos, in schools and village halls, showing the smaller film to illustrate
was largely due to the cost of send-2
about.
COLOUR CODE
WARNS BRITAIN
"[plans.
Using a secret colour code to give warning that their talks. The expense of £1,500 enemy bombers were on the way, thousands of girl tele- the projector and the Alms phone operators throughout England, Wales, Scotlarid, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, took part re- Replying to Mr. Bossom, a mem- ber of the Committee, Mr. Coxwell cently in a thorough test of the Post Office emergency said: "Until this new little recruit- ing publicity section was started a little over
year ago, we were in A yea rather severo difficulties, not us re- gards the seamen class, because the garab Navy
Is a very popular service and we always get as many boys us we want. Where wo were having an was over the over the increasing difficulty artificer class that is, the skilled
1-think
it is true to mechanics.
say. that the activities of this little sec-
Quickly and without fuss, these girin, on whom Britain's safely 1 will largely depend. flashed thou- sands of messages from 3,475 ex- the British changes throughout Isica.
code message On receiving the euch exchange passed it on to n pre- pared 11st of telephone numbers which included fire brigades, police
tion during the last year have very stations, air raid wardens, military greatly improved the situation."
the With regard
use of Ad-and Air Force units and those in
charge of public warning signala. micnity ships for the making of the
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Four code colours were used. First films, Mr. Coxwell said that merely meant enemy planes were approach allowing a man with a camera to go
the coast; next, that they had nboord destroyer while she reached this country and that an ni- out to sea really cosis the State nothing. The films were made sole-lack was being made.
The third colour in the code meant
fourth "All clear."
ly with the object of stimulating that the raiders had passed and the
recruiting.
WAR OFFICE FILMS
SEALED ENVELOPE
In every exchange the supervisor
sented official
Thieves
Take Wheels
From Dead Man's Car
EASTLEIGH (Hants). A 14-h.p. motor-car stolen some- young time ago while on hire to man, who committed suicide after the loss, was found in the New Forest recently, stripped, and with its wheels missing.
EMPIRE NEWS
FOOT-AND-MOUTH
IN SOUTH AFRICA
CAPE TOWN. Precautionary measures on a large scale, to combat foot-and-mouth dis-
havo case,
on been agreed
by the the Union Government and
authori- Bechuanaland Protectorate
iles.
In
the
The Union Veterinary Department will send an expedition to. the Protectorate to co-operate with the
there veterinary officers examination of all cattle.
This will be a gigantic lasic, but it is felt to be worth while in view of the losses suffered from the out- break in Northern Natal, which occurred in June. In that outbreak and 19,634 sheep were destroyed, and the total compensation paid was £50,470.
14,690 head of cattle
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It is not stated whether a general policy of inoculation will be adopted Bechuanaland In 1932, 1st Southern Rhodesia, 185,388 head of cattle were inoculated.
flame
Reserve Proposal. The Government has refused to provide £10,000 to turn the end of the Cape Peninsula, running down to Cape Point, into a game reserve, AUSTRALIA
DEFENCE SECRETS
BILL
CANBERRA,
The Federal Government's Defence Secrets Bill, which has been intro- duced, imposes heavy penalties for the publication of secret defence Information by newspapers, broad- casting stations, or through any other medium.
The Minister for Defence, Mr. Thorby, emphasises that the bill will not be widespread in its application not be as widespread in its applica- tion as the British Official Secrets Act. as, however, already been subjected to much criticism, especl- tralian citizens with their eyes, ears,
The War Office, where the ex- penditure on publicity and advertis- ing has grown in three years from between £4,000 and £5,000 to £78,- | hind
The car was hired from a Guild-i envelope, 000, is to have a film of its own. which was ripped open and the in- ford firm by Ronald Meaden, aged Colonel Turner told the Committee structions put into force as soon as twenty-one, u chauffeur, employed nty by cartoonists, who depict Aus- that the War Office was ploughing the first warning was flashed from Ewhurst, Surrey. new furrow when questioned re- garding £6,000 under the head of films. It proposed to make three or four good documentary flims. It was proposed to get the trade to make them.
Sir Archibald Southby suggested the formation of a group of retired Army officers, similar to the retired noval officers under the Admiralty, to go round lecturing, and Colonel Turner said that he would be pleased to have such help.
He travelled in It to Brockenhurst, Hants, to visit his the secret intelligence centre.
Time of the test was not reveal-parents and his flancee. He planned
to be married this month. ed beforehand.
At the Temple Bar exchange, neur On the first night of his visit he There the Covent Garden, this is what hap-drove to Southampton. pered.
car was stolen. Four days later On an offelal Inc came the warn-Meaden was found dead on the rail- ing. "Air raid warning message.
way line. giving the vital secret code colour.
From a locked drawer the woman supervisor took the emergency en- velope. distributed between five or six operators four small slips of coloured paper bearing twenty to thirty numbers.
When it was mentioned that there was a press phtographer employed
All together, and within a minute at the War Office, Sir Patrick Han-
member non, a
of the Committee, or so, these lind been dialled and the asked: "As a matter of fact he does words. "Alr not supply photographs of the passed on. Secretary of State for War to the press?"
Colonel Tumer: No.
Whisky Saves Sheep
Melbourne.
raid
message.
The police believe it was stripped In a garage.
and mouths muffled. JAMAICA
TRAIN DISASTER INQUIRY
KINGSTON.
The Commission which has been The car was discovered to-day in | Inquiring into Jamaica's worst rail- a lonely lane at Chilworth, about way discaster, which occurred on 70 miles 200 yards from the Romsey-South- July 30 near Balaclava,
from here, has published its findings, amplon roud,
A train carrying 200 passengers was wrecked in a deep cutting. One unother engine was pullleg and pushing, and the first engine was derailed, The
engine con- second tinued driving couch after conch into the rocky wall of the cutting. More
જા જા than 60 passengers were killed,
A PYTHON AT LARGE
London.
£130 For A Stamp probably in Hyde Park.
The Commissioners And that the A python is at large in Landou.
cause of the disaster was excessive It is black
speed and that the train was travell- and
yellow and 8 ft long. The
ing at 35 miles per hour when the A handstruck postage stamp,
python vanished recently from the derailment occurred, whereas of
the 1002, the only known copy outside at in Whitehead Grove, Chelsea, permitted speed for the section was
owners Mr. and Mrs, 20 miles per hour. the British Museum, was sold by SW. of its auction in London recently for £130. A. M. Conan Doyle. It had arrived
Arst 11 Was Dockwra's London Penny Post and which had died. AL
A herd of prize sheep at the Chatsworth House ranch, which had it was a stamp used for William there to replace another pet snake NEW · ZEALAND
been exposed to heavy rains nei floods for days. until the animals were at the point of death from ex- the buyer was Mr. W. Foster-Bond, thought the python was up the chim-
haustion, were saved by injections of
a mixture of milk and whisky.
secretary,
好ま the
Society, London.
Postal
History ney, and then it was reported it was
seen in Hyde Park.
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London police are making drive to stamp out careless walking in busy streets. It is an extension of the courtesy police campaign un motorists who break the Highway Code. Traffle police in several Lon- don Areas have been provided with a supply of "Safety First" forms. These they are handing to every pedestrian they see dashing across
મ the road Into a stream of traffic, Jumping off buses in the middle of the street, or doing any careless The things which cause accidents. advice on the form says "You have just bad your attention drawn to conduct which might have proved dangerous the police are doing
all they can to reduce accidents, but safety primarily depends on each in- dividual road user. Please help us to help you.'
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