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ADMIRAL SIR DUDLEY POUND, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE BRITISH NAVAL FORCES.
MAKING YOUR HOMES
SAFE FROM BOMBERS
Monday,
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December 4, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
KANIB BUSÄMILI
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Amazing Instruments Are Almost Human BRITAIN BEATS NAZIS IN SCIENTIFIC WAR
By IAN MACKAY
RANGETOWN.
FOR the past two days our little party of British and Dominion journalists have been whirled from one great arsenal to another in the incessant clamour of anvils and electric hammers.
Our ear drums have been shaken by the roar of great!
SPOTLIGHTS
ON
GERMANY
No Tea, NO
Tene flames; our flesh parboiled by the outrageous heat of No Coffee,
furnaces.
NAZI BOAST instruments
No Smiles
To-day, after our sojourn in those infernos, we emerged into the blessed peace and sunlight of a scientific heaven.
For to-day, we visited the in- spectors who test the scientific I HAVE just returned from a
without
Germany-the which trip through modern warfare would be a most bewildering and depress- feckless affair.
ing journey I have ever made. We looked, in short, over a great; As a neutral I had no difficul- optical instrument factory which is working top-speed, fashioning the ty in obtaining a visa to enter eyes of the Fleet, the Air Force and Germany. the Army.
FAILS
Planes Not As Fast As They Claimed
THE airplanes are warming up. Air raid alarms and air recon- naissances have spread to the hitherio strangely undisturbed arca, the British sector of the Maginot Line,
But the best bombing weather nlready has gone. For eight weeks the Nazi pilots have en- joyed the ideal "six-tenths" conditions which are the dream of bombers.
I should explain that the "tenths" are units of the sky space. Six- tenths of this area have lately been cloud. This cloud is the bombers' friend. They can approach behind 1, emerge, from it, and retire into it like trench raiding party popping out"of their bomb-proof shelter.
Now these conditions have changed.
FLEET STREET-Earth, gravel or shingle, scrap timber, masses of old books, and pieces of old linoleum are the materials The autumn harvest of the bomber used by the Ministry of Home Security in its model types of in- has gone by. Henceforth in winter he will operate under increasing dis- door or outdoor shelters which Londoners will presently be able abilities. to inspect: They have been constructed to illustrate the leaflet We can congratulate ourselves on recently distributed to householders “Make your home safe now.” At 260, King's Road, Chelsea, boards supported on rafters, covered visitors will see the surface "pill with linoleum, and earth piled on top. These shelters give protection equal to box" big enough to shelter four that of the Government steel garden people where the ground has shelter, and the timber for each costs only a few shillings. An emergency been excavated to a depth of two covered trench just under 4ft. In depth feet, and a low wall built round) was built by three men in one dus, it of boxes made from planks or short lengths of old fluor-boarding filled with earth. The fourth side of the shelter is the brick garden wall.
Window Protection
this. For the German warplanes still outnumber ours, though in Apced tey are inferior. Recent bombing visitors to our stores withi a boasted speed of 250-300 m.ph barely achieved 200 m.p.h. At this vac our parsult planes must throttle back if they are to keep under their fire the enemy gunner behind the pilot.
them,
This slowness of the German bom- bers makes it equally hard for their A large room in the house had been own Aghters to accompany Thicker planks support the boxed chosen to show three types of window protecting them like destroyers pro- teet a battleship. For the escorting) age book case imao potret with lighters must held themselves back protection, one window protected by a
order to carry out their convoy duty two feet of old books, second by boxes of earth or shingle or of sand- while our owns fighters can sing ten bags piled on a table, and a third themselves against the whole armada
window was protected by a shingle at top speed.
earth roof, and linoleum protects this
from rain.
M
ber-covered trench shelter for
In the same mrden is a scrap tim people, the trench dug four feet deep in the earth, its roof formed of old mattress. Wire netting was nailed Across the window frame Inside and
KING'S
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THE SENSATION
OF THE HOUR
125400000
GIRLS
on
PROBATION
ARE THEY THE MARKED WOMEN OF TOMORROW? ...
Denned by Wala Mečena i Okhart Besar Par Set Croma
Training In Canada:
out, old linoleum placed inside the The break up of flying weather netting, and the space between it and favours us in a second sense. the window glass filed with shingle.gives us time to train more pliots.
the most pilots will win this wur,
It
Kirothcodalytes
It would be idle mockery for me to pretend that I understood
Neutral newspapers I had with me were confiscated, at a railway station near the frontier.
I was handed my traveller's ration hundredth part of the things I saw. cards containing vouchers for about But you will not wonder at that 21b. of bread, 2b, of meat, and 50z when I tell you that many of the} of fats and butter. skilled workers who produce them.)
or the highly-trained soldiers, sallura Troops Go Home · and airmen
who use them, know
AT Freiburg, the first station In- very little about these astonishing | Instruments.
mediately behind the Siegfried Line, Among the many marvels which the train was Invaded by hundreds of we saw, but failed to understand, troops in full war kit. were:
Five East Prussians entered my Predictors which tell you in compartment on their way home for nivance where
an acroplane is, fortnight's leave. But their one noing to be, thus enabling the shell idea seemed to be to get some sleep. and the acroplane to arrive at the I was told that more trains were same place at the same time; following and noticed that troop Kinetheodolytes, which film the trains going in the opposite direction passing planer and never let them were quite as numerous
of sight.
But it seemed to me that while Epidiascoper, which throw on foreign reports stressed the constant enormous natural flow of fresh troops, westwards, they coloured
photographs of anything might have overlooked the fact that nou place inside them and van de- these were, in the main, reliefs, prid test forged banknotes:
that the eastbound trains were by no Telescopes which look round means empty. corners;
Gunsights which enable you to sec behind your head, and
the
Ersatz Coffee
A comic-looking padert—which : THE Frankfort hotel at which 1 should be in every schoolboy's stayed was practically empty. And knapsack-which will work out it was here I first sampled the food mathematics!
Sum or problem which the Germans now have to cat. instantly.
Coffee was, coffee only in name. It was brewed from a mixture of acorns, barley, und synthetic coffein.
The predictors not only record the future movements of enemy aircraft, but actually make allowance for the wind.
"A Little Knowledge.
The machine is worked in close co-operation with the anti-aircraft gun. but the gunners are not en- couraged to know how the predictor works.
Often during my journey I heard German women, normally so proud of their rich brown coffee, excialm, "I is not to much the lack of meat and other things I mind, but what wouldn't I give for a real cup of coffee!
Tea-This was even worse. Bread. What it was made of 1 "A little knowledge is very dan only a small proportion of wheat
don't know. It certainly contained gerous in a thing like this," my ömeer guide said, “and we think it Butter. I received two tiny pats in better they should not know any-[exchange for a oz. ration voucher thing about it."
was passablo." Then there is a new height-and-j Sugar was greyish in colour. "I was
tures of the approaching plane..
Marmalade.A frugal ́ helping- The man at the controls turns a was quita goed. handle and when the two pictures meet the exact height is recorded on Nobody Smiles
The coal vault beneath the pave. is very likely that the Power with range-finder, which records two pic-glven three minute lumps for my ten. mcnt, with its strong vaulted roof, takes from six to 12 months to train and the escape openings into vaults pilot. The supreme value of on either skle made a very good shel-Canada at the manent is that she ter. The Ministry considers tant while a room with a small window can provide the training grounds."
and thiek outer wall gives good pro-
tection, a basement passage with two
walls us protection an either side and
two means of exit is still safer.
KIDNAPPED YOUTH
The basement passage at No. 50, Chong Chung-Fai Returns Abingdon Villas, Earls Court, a house
To Hongkong Unharmed
of more expensive type, was strutled
with timber, a task not requiring
skilled Inbour. A ginss window had
Son of a wealthy Chinese in Hong-
a chart at the back of the indef.
A Ministry
WHAT struck me most was the of Supply spokespon told me our Instruments are de-complete absence of mirth. Nobody flaltely better than Germany's
smiles, The Germans have forgotten "unless they have something wo how to smile. They have become
stern and worried. know nothing about."
In the Inspection department we Throughout my stay in Germany 1 saw a new, wide-eyed type of anti-was haunted by a feeling that the aircraft binoculars which work wight civilian-and even more so the for-
}elgner-la an intruder, as weil
day,
Even the Germans themselves aro At the optical works we saw
been painted with a special clear patat keng and brother of Cheng Kwok-lenses, glasses, cine projectors and conscious of this, and only the netive as protection against shattering, and yau, Cheng Chung-fal, 17, who was all sorts of visual instruments being Nazis seem immune from its depress- there was on earth wail protection reported to have been kidnapped turned out by the thousand, for a semi-basement window.
from Hongkong, was traced to Poklo,
No. 12. Charlwood Road, Wands Walchow district, and rescued in à worth, was a less solidly bullt semi- Calnese Police raid. detached house where a small kitchen f
The boy returned to his parents at
A Wonder Lons
Ing effect.
forms.
Everywhere there are men in uni-
All cinemas, theatres, concert hulls,
The star product here is the new night clubs, and other places of but owing to
at the end of a passage had been 7a Morrison Hill Road on Saturday lens which the RAF is using in the amusement are open, chosen as the most suitable "safe" and is recovering from the effects of reconnabsance Bights over Germany, the shortage of money they are not room and ils windows filled up. The his experience. Cheng told Its This has a wido field of vision (well frequented. front door wad protected against blast parents that he had not been mal-which enables the airman to photo- by a wall of carth...
treated by the kidnappers.
graph in small detail an nera of 40. When the police raided the house square miles from 20,000ft. in Poklo, it is reported, Cheng was You will appreciate what this found with n man named Wang wonder lens can do when I say that DEFENCE BONDS Cham, whe allegedly hnd enticed him 40 square miles is exactly 40 tlines
away and who described himself ns the area of the City of London. Cable and Wireless, Limited, are a mechanic of the Ping Kee radio It can photograph · accurately and among the large firms assisting their arm of Gloucester Road, Hongkong. in detall everything in the area be staffs to purchase Defence Bontis and when arrested Wong were with two tween lighgate and Streatham, and National Savings Certificates. Ar girls and all three are at present in Poplar and Bayswater. rangements have been made by the the custody of the Chinese Police al It consists of five different kinds of Company for Cable and Wireless Peklo.
glass, and it took two years to work Staff throughout the world. to have
The boy was not interviewed, yes out the mathematies of the thing. facilities for investing in these new terday as his relatives said he was If you want one, they will let you Government courfiles.
not in a condition to receive visitors, have it for £300.
Landmark To Be
Museum
KANSAS CITY,--The original Wyandotte county court-house build- Ing has been bought by the, Women's Chamber of Commerce here and, will be used to house a historical museum. Mrs. Fannie Blog, president of the chamber, said the building would be restored as nearly as possible to its early-day appearance..
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