Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November 11, 1940
BEST AIR-RAID
SHELTER
Success of Ramsgate Scheme
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RAMSGATE HAS, IN THE WORDS OF MR. H. R. KNICKERBOCKER, THE FAMOUS AMERICAN JOURNALIST. "THE BEST AIR-RAID SHELTER IN THE WORLD." TO THIS HE ATTRIBUTES THE LIGHT CAUSALTY LIST WHEN 50 BOMBERS SWOOPED. ON THE TOWN, DROPPING 500 BOMBS IN 4 MINUTES, AND DAMAGING NEARLY A THOUSAND HOUSES.
The experience of this residential seaside town is reviving the controversy about the wisdom or otherwise of deep air-raid shelters,
Many London boroughs, Glas- gow, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Dover, Southport and a host of other authorities tried before the war to get the Gov. ernment to sanction schemes for shelters in business and thickly populated areas which would be so deep that they would give absolute security.
The Home Office declared general- ly against these schemes on the ground that it was Impracticable to provide suffelent deep shelters to which the people would have neccia during raids.
The Ramsgate scheme was twice rejected (when it was first put for ward it was declared to be "pre- mature"), but the council submitted it a third time and pressed it so strongly that the Government ap- proved it in March of last year.
UNE.
Now the shelter is in almost daily It has accommodation for 60,- 000 people (nearly double the pence- time population), has 23 entrances which can be reached in four to five minutes from any of the main parts
of the town.
Three Miles Long
It is nearly three miles long and is cut through the chalk under the central part of the town, its galleries, Bort below ground, are brightly lighted. It has its own generating station
case the town electrical
supply fails, first-aid posts equipped with all medical necessities, and a system of loud-speakers to relay wireless programmes and announce- ments.
Ramsgate owes this shelter to the persistence of its council, who suc- ceeded where other authorities failed, and to its geological advantages which minimised the engineering dimculties.
STOCK MARKET
REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Omrial Summary, issued Saturday says:
The market continues firm with little business passing due to the short session,
Buyers
H.K. Danks $1,225 Bank of East Asta $73
Canton Ins. $180
Union Ins, $387%
Docks (old) $16.25 Docks (new) $15.75 Providents
Hotels $3.50
$4.70
Lands $31 Realtics $3.40
Youniali Ferries $22.25 China Lights (old) $0.00 Chinn Lights (new) $6.50 Electrics (ald) $37.20
Electrics (new $37
Macao Electrics (old) $17.00
Macao Electric (new) $10.00
Telephones (old) $24
Telephones (new) $9.00
Cements $18.75
Dairy Farms $17.25
Watsons $9.00
Entertainments $0.60
Sellers
H.K. Govt. 4% Loan $95
Cements $17
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Ropes $0.70 Vibro Piling $8
Sales
Douglases $135
Docks (new) $IG Providents $4.75
Trams $16.40
Chinn Lights (old) $7 Telephones (new) $9.00
• Cements $17
Fishing
Junks Molested
JAPANESE AGAIN
TAKE CARGO
A Japanese motor boat boarded a Tin junk from Hongkong off Lin Island, took off the cargo and five male members of the crew leaving the five women members to fend for themselves, according to a report made to the Police by Wong Kuen, widow. The Incident took place on November 4 and a fishing bont. brought the women to Tal & the next day.
Robbery Frustrated
Lam Cheung. a foki of a fishing junk, sold a robber junk attacked his vessel off Cape D'Agullar on Novem- ber 8, firing shots which injured him and another foki,
Two other fishing junks approached and the robbers made off. The in- jured men are being treated at Queen Mary Hospital where their condition is reported to be favourable.
British Embassy Staff Changes And Additions CHUNGKING, Nov. 10 (Reuter). The sintf of the British Embassy in Chungking has been greatly increased recently.
Sir Arthur Blackburn accompanied by Lady Blackburn, is expected here by air on Tuesday from Hongkong to Juin the Embussy,
It is expected that the staff will
Le increased to 19 which will make it the largest staff since the removal of the Chinese Government to Chung- king from Hankow.
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, the Am-
រូប
POLES AID BRITISH-Dotormined to fight against Germany somewhora, those Polish youths crossed Syrian frontier into Palestine and signed up with British. They formerly wanted to fight undor French flag, until French decided to discontinuo offective war in East.
THEY HAD BEEN THERE · BEFORE
Guards Fought On
Historic
Battlefields
FIGHTING OVER GROUND WHICH THEIR PREDECESSORS HAD MADE famous in PREVIOUS BATTLES DATING AS FAR BACK AS 1658, THE GRENADIER GUARDS LIVED UP TO THEIR TRADITION FOR GALLANTRY AND FORTITUDE IN THE FLANDERS FIGHTING, THE OFFICIAL STORY OF WHICH HAS BEEN PUBLISHED.
First action in the Guards' history was at Dunkirk in 1658. Then there was Waterloo in 1815, Mons, Ypres, Passchendale and others in the The Guards had their share of fifth column treachery to deal last war, with in the recent campaign.
On one occasion a patrol of the Y battalion on the Gort Line, east of Roubaix, Was offered coffee at a farm. Then the farmer disappeared. Within twenty minutes the patrol was surrounded by the enemy-obviously informed by the fifth-column"
bassador, will be assisted by Sir farmer. Arthur Blackburn and Mr. W. D. Allen, Wing-Commander Warburton, Major Kenneth Millar and Captain Purdes.
There are four cypher Cineers.
But the patrol stood firm, wiped out many of the enemy without suffering a casunity.
Mr. Hall Patch who carne here On another occasion nt Furnes the after a visit to Japan, North China X and Y battalions found themselves and America is expected to leave by under intensive bombardment which air on Tuesday for London.
was so necurate that it was obvious ly directed by enemy agents on the spot.
ARMISTICE
IN HONGKONG
Armistice Day was observed this year without any formal ceremony. public commemoration service milltary parade.
of
A search was made, and a tele- phone was found in a church tower
Trouble Over
nearby.
After fighting separately the three were together on the
battalions
His Excellency the Acting Gover- Dendre on May 18, when a German LL-General E. F. Norton, accom-motor-cycle patrol, headed by a car, panied by Capt. S. H. Batty-Smith appeared on the opposite bank. (Aide-de-Camp), laid a wreath of Flanders poppies the Cenotaph at 0.16 o'clock this morning.
At 0.30 nm. he proceeded to the Chinese War Memorial in the Botanic Gardens, where he fald wreath.
another
Cancer Surgeon LONDON, Nov. 10 (Reuter)-The death has occurred in London of Charles William Morill Moullin, aged 89. He was n distinguished surgeon, whose work for the aileviation cancer had a world-wide reputation.
Hitler Loses £10,000,000 Business
of
Britain Organises To Capture Rayon Trade
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Science Students Spend
Holidays In Laboratory
Scottish science students working for the Bachelor of Science degree are now supplementing the laboratory teaching and experimental work of their laboratories. In the summer holiday they pass from the University-to-the-laboratories-of-big industry where they are free to carry on research and to make experiments.
This "industrial university" is the research laboratory of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd., known throughout the world as makers The commander of one company of watertube steam boilera, and pioneers in the realm of com- knocked out the car with an anti-bustion efficiency. tank rifle. A burst from a Bren:
gun then swept the molor-cyclists,
. In the metallurgical section of ↑
who took refuge in a house. Mor: the laboratory, Scottish selence Fired Gun On
tar fire destroyed the house and
the patrol.
there was no more trouble from 21, when the It was on May Guards were under heavy artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire,. that one of them, Lance-Corporal II. Nicholls, woa the V.C.
Trawler
Seaman Gaoled
students helped to set up last! year's total of 25,000 chemical determinations, the samples ex-| amined including cast iron, car- bon steels, and all types of non- ferrous alloys, from brass and A seaman who went aboard a bronze to alloys of the copper- naval trawler under the influence He ran forward, fring from 'the
nickel-chrome type. hip as he ran, and silenced three
of drink, fired a machine-gun machine-guns with his Bren gun. He also Inflicted heavy casualties on must look to big industry for
Since the science student of to-day during the black-out, and ended alan argument by jamming an massed infantry. He was wounded
cureer;
this link of the student iron bucket over his skipper's four times.
period between the university or technical college and the great indus- head, was gaoled.
More great work was done on the
He was George Read, 38, Hull, who withdrawal to Dunkirk.
trial laboratories is an excellent in- After a long, tiring march, the Z stance of the co-operation that now was sentenced at a Welsh pollee court
fo two months' Imprisonment. Battalion had just crossed the river brings theory and practice together.
Skipper Henry Clarke said that Lys when it had to into action Some notion of the magnitude of Read made the trawler miss the ilde. the laboratory, the largest of its A senior naval officer said that
to destroy a break-through. The ob- jective
was
Merce opposen and heldTM despite i kind in Scotland, may be gleaned Read had held commands of his own. |
once worn.
X and Y battalions made a stand from the fact that no fewer than An application had been made to BRITISH RAYON MANUFACTURERS HAVE NOW OR- GANISED THEMSELVES INTO ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S Furnes to cover the withdrawal. three skilled glass-blowers are kept give him another command, but he There, the Commanding Officer of busy making special glass apparatus liad disgraced. the uniform he had STRONGEST EXPORT GROUPS TO SECURE FOR GREAT the Y Battalion and two company for it. BRITAIN A SHARE IN THE COLOSSAL YEARLY EXPORT commanders were hit by mochine- OF NEARLY 250,000,000 SQUARE YARDS OF RAYON FROM gun fire in the main street while on THE NOW ISOLATED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TO THE REST OF THE WORLD.
Less than one-fifth of this total was exported from, Europe
reconnaissance.
They Stood Firm
A young officer dragged them into in the form of actual plece goods: most of it went out as yarn, a house, despite intense fire, but the but, as each kilogram of yarn finally forms 11 square yards of CO. was dend. cloth, the enormous total is an accurate estimate,
severe
At Furnies there was little artillery Almost three-fifths of the trade was formorly held by Italy.support, and it was here that fifth The Netherlands did an important part of the remainder, shared columnists were, directing
enemy fire. by France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Czecho-Slovakia The enemy launched repeated and
determined attacks, and tried to make
A Bren carrier platoon also went
a: German break-through to the north.
But the Gunvils stood firm and broke up all theso stiseks,
in that order,
This great trade is now open cloth are being thrown open to coma river crossing in rubber boats. to British and neutral compoti potition. There are 37,000,000 yards
to be replaced in Central America o the help of two hard-pressed line. tion, which in effect manns to and Mexico; 6,000,000 yards in U.S.A. battalions and prevented Britain, the United States and,
in and Canada; 25,000,000 yards most powerful of all, Japan, Africa (mainly in Egypt); 24,000,000 now, however, Bufficiently oc-yards more in Australia despite the cupled with her own troubles large trade already done there by Britala and Japan; and 18,000,000 both economically and in regard yards in the Far East, half of it in to raw material.
Far and away the biggest of the new martrét is, British India where
the Dutch East Indies,
The value of this former European
And when they reached Dunklik a divisional slaff officer checking up on the arriving units said as he saw them marching in: "These must be the Guarda,”
It was an echo of the words of Sir
the new cheap yarns which are now output now handed over by Hitler to John Moore in the famous with being specially produced in Great the outside world is around £10,- drawal from Corunna, in 1808: Look Britain will be much needed. 000,000, and the making of the rayon nt that body of men in the distance: In South America no less than would employ more than 60,000 they are the Guards by the way, they 57,000,000 ; #quare yards of rayon workers, for a full year.
nre marching
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