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August 19, 1940,
I have been through-
A HUNDRED AIR RAIDS
BY BERNARD E. STERN
An Englishman who was in Belgium during the Nasi Invasion
ONG before the Nazis went, found that they were astonishingly blitzkrieging over their light, though numerous. Western frontiers, we in Belgium were apprehensivo about air raids,
When zero hour finally came, | indeed, many of us were on the
verge of pinic.
I am not trying optimistically to minimise the dangers of air raids. I am not trying to gloss over the number of deaths that have resulted
and will result.
But, after days in which it seemed But when the thing we had that the planes were trying to get feared finally happened-well, me, personally and particularly, All units of $1500 and over in value for most of us it was almost an can say that the damage is never so carry the Hongkong Hotel Garage | anti-climax.
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THE prenx "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the "Bongkang Telegraph" to Indicale news which in strictly copyright zunder the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1930. Buch newe ni bears the indication "UP** is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Autocistians, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication. either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
Law-Makers
I have heard scores of terrlile ax- Before I managed to escape to
few minutes. They England, I had experienced at least plosions in
table in the room where I mai, All
u hundred nir-raids, big and small, have been so near, so loud, that I have sheltered from Hitler's Kisses have been bounced off the bombers in strong cellars, in ordin- the windows have been smashed to ary houses, and I ditches. I have smithereens. The house itself has been in crowded areas strufed by rocked as if in an earthquake. big bombs, little bamba, and
For A.R.P.-Cigarettes machine-gun fire.
And Jumpers
When it was over, we went out ex-
And I can honestly say that I was more frightened before the bombers came thon I ever WAS when they pecting to and death and disaster all round the town in which we had were overhead.
been caught.
Fear Followed
By Heroic Rescue
Hitler tries out his speedboats
BY SIR HERBERT RUSSELL. KRE.
The eminent naval wrlier
DURING the last few days we have read a lot about German
motor torpedo-boats, which have been darting about the consts of Belgium and Northern France.
Two or three of them have been sunk, but we have yet to hear of any success on their part.
Any suggestion that the Germans have produced a new type of naval craft is quite wrong.
During the fighting in Holland British motor torpedo-boats
penetrated into the Zuider Zee, They can be run by a very small and with their light guns did complement. useful work.
With a swarm of British warcraft-
The fact is that the destroyer has strung out between Boulogne and Zeebrugge, all fitted with the deadly tion. She has developed from a tor- entirely outgrown her original Kunc-
submarine-detector devices, the U
boats are keeping clear of those pedo croft Into a small; very mobile,
Jight cruiser. waters.
Our destroyers of the "Telba!" Possibly the German High Naval class carry just twice as many 4.7in. speed torpedo-boats may have more carry fewer torpedo tubes than any Command hopes that these high- gunia they do torpedo tubes. They
their submarines have cruiser in service on the outbreak of
the present war.
luck tann met with.
Their one asset is speed. They' The gun, in short, is their primary are virtually hydroplanes.
weapon and their chief work is con- voy escort, submarine hunting, and Down to the time when Germany the sort of fobs they did so splen- ceased giving any information on didly at Narvik and in rounding-up her naval building programmes, it the Altmark, and are now doing at
the Channel ports. was known that she possessed
The motor torpedo boat offered a seventeen of these boats, all of the "S" class, ronging between 44 tons simple and practicable means of re- and 70 tons, with a credited speed verting to the original conception of which the destroyer was born. Be- bulld-heavy machine gun, one pumpom motor torpedo bant might co-operate cause of her extraordinary speed the
of 35 knots and armed with
and two torpedo tubes.
ont
Instead, we found that nobody had been hurt-unless you count two people slightly cut by flying I was not alone in this attitude, glass-and that not a single Nearly everybody with me experi- ing had been directly' hil, enced the same feelings.
This was a mirnele, of course. But One man was almost fainting with it was also in a town with no nir- fcar when
To the German naval mind, con- the first warning raid shelters, no anti-aircraft guns,
The Royal Navy possesses m.l.bs. which have exceeded 50 knots on silent through the years in plotting sounded. Yet In the midst of a ter no balloon barrage.
"all out trials, so we may conclude to destroy the maritime trade of That experience, udded to all my that the latest German boats in this Britain, the type appeals as possess rific raid he ran out into the blazing
with the seaplane; she would cer tainly form a very clusive target for nny bomber.
sirect to bring into safely some chit. others; encourages me to say that category will not be interior to, cur ing qualifications for piracy of the
dren who had lost their mother.
were in
popular Nazl sort.
Bot the failure of
the U-boot
naval
the odds against any single person town in motor power. in London getting killed, even in
What is the war value of such Anuthier man, in a cellar with my a really big air raid on the capital craft? They are manifestly designed campaign has resulted in a steady
purely for torpedo attack,
Flashing deterioration of German Having disposed temporarily self and six women, talked wittily must be at least 10,000 to one.
through the water in a mother of polley. Provided that is, that everybody spray they might count upon gel- all the time the bombs were falling. of the evacuation flood it seems
Motor torpedo boats dashed about out Inte ting a torpedo horne against a big in He kept everybody laughing. His stays indoors. If you go
the Kattegat when Naz troops that the newspapers are now to
the street. I must reduce the odds adversory and escaping from her were being transported to Norway, calm was amazing."
very considerably. Most
gunfire by violent manoeuvring the of
bul our destroyers reported that be the vent of another torrent of
But 1 hatt; seen, him before the bodies 1, saw, in Belgium
No navad man would try to set their speed exhibitions were all public bewilderment, criticism bombers came, and then he had the open.
mit to the possibilities of such devoted to keeping out of their way,
and complaint on another prob-been trembling uncontrollably.
A final word. Even though bomba extraordinary speed.
The Germans used motor torpedo aren't so terrifying as your imagina-) The British Admiralty experi- boats during the Great War. They lem presented to us by the Even if the house in which you tion may paint them, the noise ofmented with the type for a con- built a little batch of these craft, siçierable time before adopting it as electrically controlled from the Government War Taxation. are sheltering falls down or catches un air raid can be nerve-shattering a definite naval unit. For the past share, and capable of travelling some
As an air-raid veteran, I would four years the 1st Not, let it be stressed, upon the fire-I have had both these expert-
Motor Torpedo ten miles. sny,
fact, What if anybody's Boat Flotilla has been attached to These were set loose against the morale cracks under the strain, the the Mediterranean Fleet and, in the British monitors patrolling the Bel- tax itself, which is accepted as ences-you are so busy saving your-
self and others that you have no indescribable die, rather than the language of commerce, given gion coast and causing extreme in- necessary, but upon the con-
"complete satisfaction. room in your mind for fear.
danger, will be responsible.
convenience to the right flank of the struction of the Ordinance which
The little vessels have proved German Army with their ponderous __So_I_am_not..being brave_when_1_I_prescribe_a_le_cottonwool themselves excellent seaboats. They guns.. has been drafted presumably by
rald In the ears. say that, it yet another the best legal brains at the alarm sounded while I was writing That, and perhaps a cigarette Government's command, and is this, I would be less nervous than smoke, or a jumper to kalt. now being read in two or three I would be if, say, I were sitting in different ways by their brethrena dentist's waiting-room, next on
of the local Bar. Why this the list of patients.
air
One terrible night in a refugee
should be so would priss compre- hension but for the fact that the train
cured me of anticipating
same thing happens to almost dangers, and of letting my imagino- tion picture all kinds of approach- ing torments.
every Ordinance
drafted- chiefly, of course, because of changing circumstances but painfully often because of imper- fect phraseology, an overdoso of crudition
Bullets And Bombs Cure Hysteria
The carriages were packed. Babies were crying, women were fainting. and verbosity, h
Men were sweating and cursing-all scrupulous regard for writing afraid of air raids. things that mean something
amended, we are told, in order to make it clearer to the public that they will not have to pay what they should not pay. To a cumvent this fecund theme with Inyman reading the Ordinance it the reservation to include it in might well Beem that an our war alms, to return to a pica
But when finally wc were else as well, and an inability to machine-gurned again and again, foresee, all contingencies that when our own shrapnel was falling any now departure will evoke.upon us, when every carriage had The present Ordinance is to be its casualties from bullets or Tying all the glass-well, then nearly hysteria vanished. And when we came to count our casualties, wo
A
economy of words would effect that Hongkong laws made (not financial economy as well of the people, by the people) but aaving paper, Legislators' time for (or against) the people, (about which one must not be should seek to present their sarcastic these days and law-objects clearly to lawyers at yers. One is tempted to go into a least-if not to the framers tirado here on the crying need thereof and the sufferers there for simplifying the English law under. Until the. proposed so drastically that the man in amendment of the Taxation the street could himself, learn Ordinance is created it would be where he stood in the simple playing with words to comment routine of business life without on the alleged iniquities con planging into the respectable talned in the present Ordinance, but expensive maws of Ordnance for the ambiguity at the moment analysers to assure himself that is such, that the responsible every innocuous step was not a people concerned are quito fatal one.
We reluctantly eir-divided on what they mean.
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have very respectable cruising radius at economic speed, althougli The monotony of blockade to their fuel consumption is high when much relieved by watching the
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