Second Section
Hongkong Telegraph.
Magazine Features
MORNING
Photographs on this page were taken at a recent de- monstration by the South China Morning Post Air Raid Precautions Squad on the roof of the Morning Post Building.
Fourteen members of the staff have passed the Hong- kong A. R. P. examination, Mr Lam Yung-fai (centre lower picture), who is in charge of the Squad, having qualified as L.A.R.P.S., and thirteen others having pass- ed the House Wardens ex- amination.
SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1941.
POST BUILDING A. R. P.
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The lower picture includes those who have qualified to- gether with others who are at present undergoing the course, it being intended to bring the number of the per- sonnel up to thirty.
The pictures at the top of the page show burning shay- ings and paper, previously saturated in oil, being quick- ly extinguished by using foam and chemical extin- guishers and stirrup pumps.
Other members of the staff are qualified to ad- minister first aid.
The Germans further state
BOMBS ON LONDON
By OSWALD DUTCH
normal
pressure,
this psychological effect had completely By the beginning of February tons of bombs dropped on Lon-
been achieved and the fear of during the raids too, especially 1941 German planes had been don, 825 tons_on_Brimingham,
the unknown overcome, look-out as the day-light raids have been plastering London with bombs 657 tons on Southampton, 552
posts on the roofs proved suill reduced to minimum propor of every calibre for exactly six tons on Coventry and 178 tons
cient to keep the workers at tions. months.
on Bristol. Total quantity drop-
Forty- their machines, despite the From September 1989 until The raids have gone on day ped on Great Britain during this more than 2,000, and the injured number of buildings destroyed within three weeks.
eight hours after the most sirens. Shelter was not sought January 1941-that is, during to not more than 3,000.
hardly reaches five figures..- and night. Even though there month, 6,747 tons.
The most interesting figures, violent of these attacks, produc- until the plane was right over the first 17 months of the War have been short interruptions Throughout the whole of Eng- This would bring the total however, must be those for loss tion at the factory was only head.
-approximately 26,000 people especially recently -one
can land 1,588 people were killed by casualties-not deaths only, but of production. Here estimates 30 per cent. below normal. The clearest proof that this in great Britain have been killed safely say that the British bombs in November, so that
The greatest danger for system has not unnecessarily by bombs but in that same killed and injured for the of about one percent have been capital has been subjected to a about T1⁄2 tons of bombs were constant bombardment for six necessary to kill one man, whole of England to less than given. Mr Morrison, the Home British production lay in the ex- imperilled human life is shown period some 14,000 were killed that the workers by the month-to-month decline in road accidents. Unhappily whole months.
60,000, or approximately 1% Secretary, once stated that the pectation
England. Now, what are apparent and that in November alone some 5 per thousand of the population. material necessary for replacing would not leave their shelters 1 air-raid casualty figures in the percentage of women and children who have lost their intrinsic results of this six- million bombs (including incen- If casualties in London are damaged machines and factories for the duration of the raids,
As a matter of fact, during In September there were 6,954 lives in raids is alarmignly high the first days of the raids, when killed and 10,615 injured. --about 10,000 women and more months random bombing of a diaries) were strewn over the reckoned at a much higher rate, amounted to only a quarter of
heard tho were The London Chamber of Com- the sirens great city? The resulta might city on the Thames. Making they will still be hardly more one per cent.
1 than 3-4 per thousand.
In October there were 6,334 than 3,000 children. - be drawn up in the form of a a conservative estimate for a
killed and 8,695 injured."
The figures showing the balance sheet from the most im- six-months basis, this would
In November there were 4,588 direct cost to the Germans of portant figureg.
correspond to at least 20 million
their raids over Britain are From August 1941 until the bombs.
No statement has yet been merce has about 9,000 members workers did stream into their killed and 0,202 injured.
In December there were 3,7098 interesting. end of January 1941, London had One would imagine that after
From the outbreak 'of war more than 450 air raids, lasting this bombardment the greater made on the number of houses in all branches of industry, air rald shelters and most of for about 1,250 hours. Accord- part of the city would be a heap in London destroyed or damaged After the air bombardment had them did not return to work un- killed and 6,044 injured. ing to the official German war of ruins and that a high pro- by bombs, but Churchill's des been going on for some months, til the all-clear had been sound. During January the air raids until the end of January 1941, the Chamber had been notified ed. But they very soon got considerably slackened in inten- about 3,100 German planea in communiques; some 100-600 portion of its 84 million inhabi- cription still stand to-day: If by only 20 firms that owing to used to them. They realised eity so that the number of all have boon shot down. Thus tons of bombs were dropped on tans would have been killed. you go to the top of Primrose damage to their premises they that the raids by no means en casualties has been naturally some 8,000 German airmen have each night of November. Tak- But now comes the astonish Hill or any of the other edifices had been compelled to move into tailed that enormous danger much smaller still. But no com- been put out of action, being ing the minimum of 100 tons ing fact. From August to the of London and look round, no other quarters. But in every which had been feared.
plote picture can be drawn from either killed or taken prisoner. these loss figures without men. The official British, commu- per night and limiting the num- end of December only 22,744 one standing there would know case these frms have been carry Above all, it became clear to, tion of the fact that more than niques, however, only take into bar of raids to 150 nights, we people were killed bij bombs and that any harm had been done to ing on production uninterrupted
16,000 of bombs seriously injured. And
them that with each alarm, only 30 percent of these human sacris account those planes anil airmen have about imum) dropped on this set er eldom gure but in our city. Even after the bulld. ut their new addresses. quite a small part of the city or fices was due to night attacks, killed or taken prisonar, that fire
Ings burnt in the Great City For example one factory was of the surrounding districts was the number of dead and injured either shot down over -An official Berlin report gives Figures for January. have not fire have been added, the total actually bombed eight times really endangered. Just when during the day being small to or scen to fall into the the following detalls of the quan- yet been published but it can be
vanishing point.
has happened repeated to-day is: proceeding at almost * Continued on EN
London
the whole of England, de
tity of bombs dropped on great taken that the number of fatal HALF YEARLY BALANCE SHEET work in the factories the offers German Experta ah
This official
Britain during November: 8,187 casualties: will not amount to