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Hongkong is to have another Black-out exer- cise, commencing this evening. The Black-out is becoming a subject of great controversy among the war experts. You know most of the arguments in its favour so, here, one of its most distinguished op- ponents presents the case against it.
February 26, 1941.
Is the
the Black-Out
By
Any Use?
Captain Bernard Acworth,
D.S.O., R.N.
COST. HIGH RESALE VALUE THERE is a tendency against military objectives transport slow-up.
INTO EVERY CHAMPION.
Without obligation.
we will give you
in' most of us to ac-.'
was given as an excuse 'for its continuance.
It is now being claimed, and with some justice, that the im- penetrable gloom is forcing us
prevent "a ed bombing" ally, is handicapped through the all back to a quiet life at home, or in tubes and basements, and that, in this respect, good is Be- such as railways.
Shopkeepers, and particularly ing extracted from evil, the small ones, are hard-hit, and cept without question But our own bomber
But here again the black-out muny have been ruined.
is performing a service-if it is any environment, good pilots, over an even blacker
Thousands who depend for servico! which has nothing to or bad, to which we are Germany-if anything can their livelihood on providing in- do with the purposes for which
be blacker than Britain!- nocent and necessary entertain- it was invented. accustomed.
reach blacked-out Berlin un- ment are in desperate stralis. The fact that the German In earlier days, for ex- failingly and, by the light of In short, the black-out harms black-out is richer and deeper than our own is sometimes cited ample, a shocking infant their great parachute flares, and hinders every business...
except looting. The smash-and- as an argument for its retention, HONGKONG HOTEL mortality or the hanging of bomb their military objec-
human beings for sheep tives unerringly.
done for him, so he need only stealing was accepted with- out question until someone asked-Why?
a convincing demonstration.
GARAGE
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The
EXPLODED!
Sir John Anderson's sole In a period of four years justification for the black before the war a road casualty list of 25,000 dead out, planned and organised by the Civil Service before and 700,000 maimed was ac- the war, has thus been ex- cepted with resignation,
Thongkong Telegraph. though such wholesale ploded by war experience.
Wednesday, February 26, 1941.
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015
THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" In use by the "Hongkong Telegraph to under the provisions of the Telecomment- Calins Ordinance, 1938. Such news as bears the indication "Up" is received in Rangkong on the date of publication by the United Frese Associations, who re- servo all rights and forbid republications either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement
indieate news which is firfetly copyright
THREE SPEECHES During the last few days there has been an overflow of words from Messrs Matsuoka, Mussolini and Hitler.
an
slaughter in peace time was
Indeed, the reason recent inevitable adjunct of ly given for continuing, and modern transport. ·
deepening, this monstrous gloom was that "the people" So to-day, when we are would not tolerate the re- told that we are all "in the
lighting of our cities. firing line," millions are crouching in an inky dark-
In other words, the Black-
grab man's smashing is now and its deepening, here.
grab and disappear in the black- BE NATURAL!
out.
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But why should Britain copy Hitler?
Partly because of this, threatening us with a curfew at victory, and a gesture of con- Bureaucracy is now netually Would it not be a portent of
temptuous challenge, if, having o'clock. bombers, silent rond casualties tion of the populace into quiet sent the "non-belligerent" scc- Before the arrival of the noisy due to the black-out were sour rest of us who claim to be "in and safety in the country, the ing. These, it is true, have the firing line" showed our dis- decreased since the Luftwaffe dain for Goering's Luftwaffe by cleared the streets, and for this lighting up at least London? life-saving activity we have to thank Hitler.
But the black-out was not in- vented to co-operate with Hitler in saving thousands of lives on
And I do not mean lighting it up with a few annemic street- lights,
I am talking about the heaven- the roads, and it would not be ward directed beams of our ness that can almost be felt out officials, who do not in- tolerated for a day longer if this cities' natural brightness!
and they are doing so clude Mr Churchill-who without a thought of ques- said he was ordering the re- PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE tioning why Hitler's crac- lighting of the streets-are kers" must be endured in trying to shift the respon- Stygian gloom.
FOUR QUESTIONS
own
sibility from their shoulders to those of the long-suffering public.
But if anyone will ask his What
they have said can do nothing to shake the belief of Britons
Mr but
in their cause and in Churchill, their leader, what they omitted to say con- firms studied observations of weakness and vacillation in the enemy camp.
another Japanese declaration of
But if the wit of man can
WE
THE
MEET IRON DUKE
Be
of the black-out?" he will tion for this unnatural neighbour, "What is the use find no technical justifica-
To-day's extract from the utes, I mean ten minutes. certainly get no satisfactory gloom, it takes little wit to diary of a journalist-turned-on time. In fact when I say detect technical reasons for soldier describes how he ten minutes, I mean five min- abolishing it:
ceases to be a recruit and becomes a full-fledged sol-
answer.
Does the black-out stop bombers finding London or the other big cities?-No.
LIGHT v. DARK dier. The spirit of man shines
that fervent and worried nation bombs, the flashes and fire in day-light. too much already and that over-reflection in the sky, and zen! may cause her to withdraw thus the nerve-racking ef
from the collaboration which
fects?—Yes.
utes..
We are there in three minutes. The Lad from the Elepliant and Castle says: "Nobody could cell me a coward. Dul Sarnt-Majors makes We me blood run cold."
"They're terrors," says Ginger.
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He has the unmistakable air of the Sergeant-Major; the man who knows exactly what is what.
Does it stop the bombs in the light and wilts in the Whave passed out.
have been tried in the Hitler said nothing to force falling, or exploding?-No. dark, as anyone can see who furnace, and found, passable. watches the unconcern, in-stick of hair, scoured of hand, Does the gloom and still- deed the enthusiastic inter-tittivated like ballerinas, tricked policy against the democracies.ness accentuate the din of
At this point a dreadful, silence Does-he-feel-that-he-has-pressed-the-guns,-the-crunch-of the when bombers are overhead picked our dainty way over the offer appears a grims figure, the sight est, of the man-in-the-street up in our best battle-dress, we falls upon the face of the earth. Againġi—the binek openlig of the damp grass to the grey square, of which strikes os dumb. It is the But, apart from this wide-and awaited the C.O.'s Inspec- man they call the Iron Duke, the
Company Sergeant-Major. ly recognised fact, powerful tion.
Rough weather and the strain of artificial light, if cunningly We marched and wheeled perpetunt shouting have coloured his both sides have verbally em- Does the dismal darkness used, is a shield against left and right; sloped arms, gleam like eyes: his eyes gleam like Ince cyclamen-red. His brusses braced? It would seem so, es-impede salvage and rescue bombs, or gunfire, rather tralled arms, secured arms, brasses. pecially since Germany still has work, and the locating of than a snare.
piled arms, presented arms, not recognised Nanking, an act time-bombs ?--Yes.
changed arms, and saluted. On several occasions our which would cut her off from In view of these four own bomber-pilots have We untied knots în otr Free China but would give the simple and sensible ques- broadcast that German tongues and answered questions, as if only he didn't diallite the look Japanese much more confidence tions, and their inevitable searchlights impeded their feeling that the end had come of us—and speaks. in their support of the Axis. answers as given, ought we operations more than the and we were damned forever as Russia too, escaped mention. Hitler not to ask ourselves, and barrage--and anyone who, dozy oafs. and Stalin probably understand each the black-out champions in at sea, has been compelled The commanding officer's face other belter than any two statesmen Whitehall, what purpose to face a searchlight beam was sad. His voice was thought- real training. Right. Do your best... in power to-day despite the fact that this dangerous and depress- can readily believe that.
ful. His brow was dark. We ing black-out serves?
trembled. We were without and nobody'll interfere with you." A high Air officer, with years hope. Last winter, when the air experience of flying over lighted attack was in suspense, the cities, as well as blacked-out That was a terrible, timeless attempt to represent the ones, recently emphasised to me hour. The clock went mad.
that the powerful flares with black-out as a safety mea- which our own pilots, like the Then: "I think they will do,"
they have never met. Between those
two, acts alone count; words have
been spilled loo freely.
Hitler's confidence in his terror striking devices to suppress resist ance within his own orbit in shown by his admission of fanaticism, which
the Oxford Dictionary defines as a sure for the civil population, Germans, illuminate their target said the C.O. state of being filled with excessive for which it was originally areas are rendered more illu-
and mistaken enthusiasm. He boasts
that he has discarded and persecuted designed, was abandoned.
reasonable people because he wants)
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nation filled with homely love of a Sir John Anderson, when
common object, the Fatherland.
Our chests swelled: we would minating against the opaque have sighed if we had dared. background of the black-out.
Furthermore, in this blackness
faced with questions in Par- human-beings can do nothing| liament, fell back on the but crouch and shrink. plea that the black-out would
With light at our command we could use it very effectively
to mental labours in the castle of her ns camouflags, and great open overlord.
He looks ut us as if he would ent
"
"If you're in any kind of trouble," he says, "come to me. We'll see what we can do to help.
"Now you're going to start some
That's all we nsk.
"Work hard and behave yourselves,
Play up, and you'll get trod on.
“Nobody's going to lead you about like sheep here. Every man will read the Detail in the morning, and look. after Himself,
.
"Every man will go about cleanly and properly dressed. After duties. you may go out. Every man will keep within bonds and behave like. a 'gentleman.
"I should be sorry to see any mom in my Company who didn't give his seat in a bus to a Indy or an old And now we have marched person, or who didn't help an old per- into camp. day.
It is still a lousy son or a lady on to a bus.
"Remember, you're soldiers now
and are expected to behave as such.
A ginger sergeant, enormously Be courteous, Muck in and help one
It would seem that the false hopes he imprinted on his countrymen that Britain would not fight, that the war would bo over in a year, that Britain would be occupied, that Ber- lin would never be bombed-are coming home to Germans and that now, having committed them to the struggle, the Fuehrer is striving to carry them along with him blindly which was withdrawn before it could traps for a large percentage of if we represent the sum total of home. And remember always--it on his own Inspiration backed by by grasped. He made a suggestion London's bombs,
all he has ever hated the sight there's anything you want advice
Mr Matsuoka It appears, has made spaces, such as the London tall, is glowering at us from another.
a blunder. He made an approach parks, could be converted into under the peak of a soft cap, as "Now go-and make yourselves at
of mediation without inspiration. justification or sincerity. With tain angered at the crass boasts of southward expansion at any cost, America plunged into defence, by Tokyo'n avowed intention of sup- porting Axis policies, Mr Matsuoka has title to show on the credit aide of his short termi
WORK SLOWED
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So much for the technical case against the black-out.
relteration that such a course is the only
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left. Mussolini did face the truth. Like Churchill he has promised his coun- tryinen toil and sweat but unlike the British
tish people, the Italians can see no reason for accepting this unpalat- able dict. They can only see that they not retain their pride and Independence of coco if Germany Only, another political "crisis" can wins because already they have nifect a substantial change in Japon's Its effect on transport and taken their place alongside the im- direction and although Prince pressed Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, Konoye may stay at the helm, more communications is known to all
and Danes in Nazi faci by virtue of his silence than his of us, tories, not in the sullen role of sentiments, it would appear that the
What of its consequences on our war effort?
of.
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about, don't sit and mope, but come straight to me.
At his order we slope arms.
"Platoon, SHUNI Move to the He says three words: "Tut, right in threes Right TURN! Dis- tut, tut," and calls upon his MISS!" Mnker.
We turn right. He names a
The Lad from the Elephant blinks Biblical charactor, and raises his twice and mutters: secms to be cyca to heaven.
almost 'uman." "The
sergeant-mayor," he The Kid from Widnes, sticking hie Work in aircraft and other with you. Be outside the office in
says, "la going to have a word name-plate on the drab wall over his bed, says: "Somebody lend me a slaves as yet, but on the humiliated next move In Tokyo is more likely factories, and in business gener- ten minutes. When fody ten min-We are at home again. ̈ ̈
Ing?" and impoverished cousin consigned to be internal than external,
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