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AIR RAID WARNINGS
• Some people have heard them almost daily others only a few began. Here is
times since war
the
man
who gives the signal.
AIR CHIEF-MARSHAL SIR HUGH DOWDING. Commander-in-Chief, Fighter Command, and his staff are responsible for giving the signal to sound the sirens,
Just me it's his job to tell the anti-aircraft when to open up-to tell the various stations when to send up the fighters to intercept enemy planes.
As boss of the Ministry of Home Security, Sir John Anderson supervises the Nirens and the mun who sound them. But he doesn't give the word for the siren symphony.
Sir Hugh Dowding's Fighter Command is the final deciding factor between you and the wailing warning but the chain starts a long way back and the sequence of links goes on a long way paat Sir Hugh.
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THE first link is the lonely observer Corps--the unsung heroes of Home Defence.
Unseen, enthusiastic whose job is never ended.
Throughout Britain, 113 marshland and moor, men who are usually a bit beyond the fighting age are listening now in improvised hideouts. listening for the well-taped drone of enemy warplanes,
They have to go to desolate places to get the quietness for their job.
man
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But if the raid is in earnest on your part of the country, then the "action" signal $M sent out Bind the warning is REVIE
Is part
of the
The noise Karur Engineere took years. To find the ideal wall. It has 10 be arresting. startling,
-something to make
you The slop, listen, and herd warning.
Factory hooters, lanet whistles, klaxons were all Tried in turn. They sounded Com
like much
the повся we've tuned our ears to.
The siren hus # simple mechanism and costs £10 to £50. It is by private firms to those with authority Tu buy-A.R.P. authorities, police and local councils.
It's like a small beer keg with both ends open. In il IN # Folor. it whizzes round nl high spectů. Air, squeezed Through minute boles, does The rest.
the
in the
THE men of A.R.P. remaining links chain from swerver to you.
The people who work the sirens are the police. A few are operated by air-raid war- dens and some by chosen fac- tory hands.
The siren drum is in some high place unscreened, usual- ly on the roof of a police sta- tion or on a pole beside u
Wires {x
connect police
it to the switchboard below; others take the electric cur- rent from the mains,
the
r('-
In conutry districts siren keg is on a warden's They work the super-tuned
house, in industrial areas on aound detectors--equipment
factory walls. Some are more sensitive than the hu-
motely controlled by a central eardrum, hundred
magnified.
switch many miles away. Lonely times weeks and months the Obser- ver 'Corpa spend waiting and listening in the stillness of the day and night, often planted in the midst of swamps or perched on bleak, windswept hills.
They have phones direct to the local Observer Corps cen- coded tres, from where a flash goes to headquarters.
Flash again and G.H.Q. of the Fighter Command-the Spitfire, Hurricane and De-. fiant boys-know all about it. Up go the pursuit planes and out go the signals sent by the chief of A.R.P. 'stationed at. Fighter Command.
confidential First, it's warning for the firemen, the ambulances and the rest of the groat anti-raid network to stand by. You, as a mem→ ber of the general public, won't hear of these. We may hayo half a dozen of these in one district in a night when our fighters are busy chasing the -tip-and-run bombert.
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The switchboards are in the communication rooms of The stations, or in the police boxes.
Now, the people who work the switchboards have to be there day in and day out in shifts. There's not been second's break since Septem- ber 3.
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Their job is a simple one, ruling out the yawning. On the board are two switches, slightly larger than the aver age house-switch.
Ono sets the siren going, the other the auto-wailer. It's the auto-waller that gives you that sinking feeling. Housed in a separate box, it gives the wailing, intermit
tent note.
They put that switch on only when the signal comes along for "action." It stays on for two minutes. When the raiders passed" is given, only the single siron switch is you don't get operated and the wall,
Basil Cardew
Doctors Have
The Casualty
PHILIP JOHNSON Describes A Medical Revolution
Among the casualties which st- riped at a South Count port during the miruete of Dunkirk 1430 Cheyenne aterard from an English destroyer.
The mrgrona needed only one iance 17 72498 "Hupeleas." they raid regretfully, and turned assay to throne other mea in which bud
least a chance of saving
When, nome hours later, they had to the end of their work, the Chinese steward was still just
They operated
Three days inter the man sat up in bed, and amuiled
I
HAVE told that story be- cause it illustrates a great truth.
Blair is equipped tording to then! with ensualties. whether among the civilian population or othong the Services, in personnel, in skill and In apparatus on a wide undreamed of t the last war
At the great hospital resources of the country have been brought within the Ministry of lienfth'a Emergency Hospital Scheme Many of them have been extended and improveri
The nest onedleal skill of the country, enrolled in the Einurg- ency Medical Service, is at thr comimmud of the Government, fut treating buth air-rak and oil- tary vasualties
O, Mr Surft
Estimates. matters, can be little more that HULERNON, but It is worth while giving the option of ball in sluzman
frrhoa
Kurgerms physleiar l
I have Inker of the with whom subject
Their view was that, if in the war of 1914-1918 we had had the medical service ready to use that we have to-day, and could
New
have ullied to ir skill we have now acquired, our fatal ca- sualties' might well have been less than 40 per cent, of what they were, and injury would bave been robbed Lerror.
مال الof hub
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The nenes of the men und men who LAVE achieved this re volution in our treatment of the Injured
will, perhaps, never be KW They are to be found in The research laboratories and 105- pitals all over the world, Jun parkenbarty in England
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WHEN war broke out ir 1914 ¡N(+ Kaew practically nothing of casualty
irentment In those clays. early
for instance, B0 per of the enses of compound fracture of the thigh, died. By the end of war. the figure had been reduced to about 20 per cent To-day it would be even less.
learned in
זיויזו
All the lessons we The Jast war are now in use. We have not dropped one of them; and a quarter of a century of prac- tee has taught us more.
been
In those intervening years, the history of thousands of cases has
studled And re-studied Selence and technique have been advanced. And then, two years ngo, acknowledged experts in their own spheres, spread the new knowledge among the doctors of Britala in on intensive ccurac lectures and instruction.
It is a commonplace that In the last war shork due to injury WIN a more frequent cause of drath than the actual local 1- Juries themselves.
گروه
Today, the Royal College of
Surgeons has gune à long way to wards mastering
shock
Halved
Lists
We know now that shock musi
be treated at once it treatment is to be successful,
We deal with 11 In the Firat Aid posts by keeping the patient warm, giving him tot drinks, per-
haps treating him with tnotphia. In the hospitals there Are speeini resuscitation wards where those dangerously shocked have been
almost
litrynlly bronaght back to lie.
13N are electricnlly heated. Intricate oxygen plant is available
oxygen has been found to unt of the most important ngents mirentment of stuck--and, tast of all, there is blood transfusion
Even in the Inst few months, the art of blood transfusion has progressed beyond all knowledge Our new technique saved thou sands of lives in France in the early part of the war; it saved hundreds of others al Dunkirk.
Mr. Malcolm MreDonald, the Minister of Health, lifted the veil a little the other day when he told the world of the dried powder made from a constituent of blood which can now be used.
Think of tins of dried milk, und then of the many times greater quantity of liquid it will make
The miracle of dried plasma is like that. Enough of il can be curled in a large sultense for a thousand men. It can be carried to the most advanced posts in the Reid, Men can be treated with
I on the spot.
In
✩ * ADVANCE has been made, tuo, the treatment of wounds by Immobilising them in plaster of parle. This technique is supposed by many people to have originated in the recent Spanish Civil War. But 11 was invented many years ago by Dr. Winell Orr in Ameri- What the Spanish surgeons can claim is Dent, fact
with
numer- us ensualties, they improved and developed the Orr technique.
1 was talking A few works ago the problem al
to a Sister in an emergency hospi- tul. She With a Woman of matiy in me of the years' experiener great London hospitals, and she way that one given to over-state- ment
The Medical
Research Counell established a "Shock" Committee. Is Andings are to be published almost at oner. Already they are being anticipated in practice.
German
By C. G. GREY
of the short
BECAUS the bombing of
German aircraft factories by the R.A.F. has not been so extensive 12H it might have bern.
Fighter
that the
Other information I Germis ore making high-level 100-valled "strutosphere") burn- bers, to cline over here at 35,000 feet or so, where searchlights and Bats are gol likely to reach (or, of any rate, bit; them.
ALL
IN
it
The Heinkel factories Oranlenburg and Rostock, the factories and Messerschmitt the B.M.W. motor factories in Bavaria, and the Daimler- at Stuttgart, Benz factories have not yet had attention.
So far most of the bombs have been delivered to the Focke-Wulff factory Bremen.
near
There the chlef new product is supposed to be a stall mono
pusher plane, which is driven by airscrew (a propeller proper- nearly all airplanes are drawn along by tractor airscrew front).
The pilot sits in front in a sort of pulpit, with six or eight guns round it, which would throw a cone of ire, instead of u converg- of Bre, us do our ing flat plane
eight-gun fighters. *-
It was designed by Mijnheer Slot, in Holland, before war was declared in 1939 It has a Daim-
1800 h.p. ler-Benz motor of Those who have seen it say It is very fast and manoeuvrablo-un- Ilke the fast but clumsy Messersch mitis.
· Mr. glot designed a so-called "fool-proof" light airplane some two or three years ago and brought tover here to demonstrate, but obody wanted it. But he did not propose, then, to make a high- power fighter of it. And if he had done so nobody here would have
belloved him.
From that height their bombing not likely to be at all pecuruto those consolation for great who live or work in their targeta, but not for those who live within From radius of some miles. " that height a couple of miles away would be whal murksen call a "near outer."
been heard for Nothing has months of little General Udet, one of the world's best fighting and aerobatic pilots, who was put in charge of German technical de- velopment two years or more ago. The faction in power before him had ordered a lot of big four-motor nunoplanes, much like the Ameri can
Boeing "Flying Fortress" much advertised. Udet scrapped the lot, or told the makers to sell them us nir-liners, and went in for high-speed Heinkels, Domiers, Messerschmitts and Junkers.
If Udet has been sacked, perhaps the "Flying Fortress" faction has come,
back and is going in for, plastering from
great because Udet's preference heights, for accurate dive-bornbing and medium level work through ac- curate bomb-sights against definite targets has cost so many casualties,. thanks to our Aghters and A.A. gunners.
to
High-level bombers are going be much harder for 'our fighters to find and attack in the dark. Which merely adds weight to the argu- ment that the best way is to at- tuck 'them at source- our in- came tux attacks us. That has been Lord Trenchard's argument. ever since wer was declared.
than
and see "Come she said to me,
miracle,"
She Jed me to a ward and pointed to the men in the beds,
"Burns," she said.
I asked where, for, to my un- trained eye at least, there was no Mijn.
"That." Fhe replied, a the mirucle
These men, she told me, liud
from rome brick
France
very It was unbeliev severely burned. able that they could live: and if they did live or so it seemed to her-there would be disfigurement which plastic skit would fail to
move.
Yel, here they were, practically unmarked.
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now treatment: AGAIN, the treatment with Lannic acid by methods unknown until recently; and, for the bad cases, burned oll over, saline baths in which warm saline water is kept constantly run- ning over the burned body for hours on end, till the sepsis is washed away, the pain lessened, and the wounds begin to heal al- most as one watches.
It is one thing to restore a limb: it is quite another to restore its use. In the last war Sir Robert Jones started centres for the treat- ment of fractures and similar in- Juries.
To-day, were he alive to see it, ho would scarcely recognise his work, so great is the development that has taken place.
In England to-day the Ministry of Health has nineteen main cer- tres in which to tench soldiers, sailors and airmen how to regain the use of their maimed limbs, and 70 or mora. smaller centres where the work is equally well prac- tised.
SPECIAL units have also been set up by the Ministry for the treatment of chest and head injur les-some of them mobilo, no that there may be no need to move man with Injury to both 'head 'and chest, when to do so would prove fatal,
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