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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1948.
BRITAIN
Her Strengths and her Stresses in the field of-
DEFENCE
mu
WAS surprised when the War Office brigadier asked staff to lecture his officers on the mechanism of the atom bomb. But after my talk, when he took me asido for a discussion with his senior men, I quickly realised that, though they had been kept in ignorance of how the bomb worked, they were fully alive to its implications.
On an ingenious model battlefeld, they demonstrated the futility of established methods of ground de- fence for dealing with an attack on Britain, waged"
with the weapons of mass destruction,
new
They had no complete solution to, ofer. But they had reduced to situation to a number of clear-cut
д
;
With air power
assured, Service chiefs
now concentrate on five main weapons
ATOMICS ROCKETS
GERMS
GAS New polson times
SUBMARINES
gares'
speeds of mare Underwater those 30 mp.h, maybe have possible with •How of submarinea which pre
now under research.
With top priority for Progress so far. has kated close second to 1,000 men and materials, been slow, but the atom bombs as deler- efective than 1018 Britain's
for Government's present rents to attack, germ used in plans building up atom huge rocket develop- weapons will in future altered the shape weapons go ahead... ment is taking shape, be given high priority. chemical war.
The Hongkong Telegraph presents today the most comprehensive and carefully checked report on Britain's defence system undertaken by any newspaper since the war. This survey follows Sefton Delmer's estimate published fortnight ago of the forces now at work in Soviet Russia, and the same technique of high-level investigation has been used. Defence establishments have and been visited, Service chiefs consulted scientific reports examined in detail. - Chap- Pincher's advanced training in the
field makes him military and scientific well-suited to compilo
with this report full regard for national security
man
and radar research-wo the world.
still lead
have solved some of the diffculites in tulding missiles by radio. But I believe that,
are generally, wo
We are nicely placed too in the Jitle further ahend. than the Ger- jet fighter field, but valuable time"
has been wasted in our faster-than- mans were in 1945.
It is clear,
however, that the sound (700 miles per hour) de- Government means to pursue this velopments because of a "safety research to the economic limit. A Brat" Government decision. big expansion
More than a year hao of the procabinet. Ministry scientists ruled that
.ago, Supply beca sanctioned by the Australia is putting up money
first fights through for barrier
Should be
a huge rocket, research station and a 1,500-mile range. A recent deef-
model
the
the sound made by robot aircraft, because altempts
sion to hand the bulk of rocket de by volunteer pilots would be too velopment over to industry is another good sign.
".
problems and were working on by CHAPMAN PINCHER veloped to
possible answers, 11 only with models.
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a
1111-
* * * Published reports show that in germ warfare research inter- change with the U.S. is on a 100 the percent. reciprocal basis-and Americans have germ bomba de- an operational stage. Expansion of the British germ war- fare station has been authorised be VERY few weeks Gulliver picks Projects which do not dovetail cause the Chiefs of Staff regard the The brigadier took comfort In his up his brief-cose and toes on with
this plan are getting no possession of germ weapons as a
The Government logical belief that such weapons
This priority.
spent particularly powerful deterrent to tour of disused airfields. would not be available to any
more than £100,000 on developing attack. seems an odd assignment for
Guns, then abandoned big soldier. But Gulliver is an inspec- recoilless for tor of uso.
ago. Now Str fighting vehicles. And them a few months
who invented Britain's front line reserve of lanks Dennistoun Burney,
4 The came argument is behind
the expansion of the long and armoured cars more than them, tells me he has permission
sell the patents to a forelgh Power. 100,000 of them are parked on
the Go- established chemical warfare For orthodox weapons airfields. the runways of wartime
vernment is relying almost entirely tion, where work on nerve on America. Small arms and most must be under way. field cuns are being redesigned to (The .303 inch American calibres. rifle, for example,
friendly Power la quantities enough to warrant their several years.
I soon realised there was another cause for his optimism-the pre- sence in our party of an American
liaison officer.
will be allered
Gulliver knows before he guts
Wherever I go in
Government there what he will find-that a few I and hundred more vehicles have rusted departments defence
rotted into unservice- Americans. The authorities make no and
ability. For there
Is no cover to 300 calibre to take U.S. rounds: 5 effort to hide them.
a tarpaulin sheet-for cartridges will be grooved This "ganging up" of Britain with not
of rimmed.) America is considered
unavoidable most of them.
How are the Ave basle by the Chiefs of Staff.
progressing? Their argument:-
even
He knows, too, that the detach ment commandera will any they
Atomic weapons, guided missiles, are sorry, but there is no labour The atomie explosive
and germ bombs have revolutionised warfare. To produce enough of these armaments to detel possible nggression against the Homeland and the Empire would tie down high percentago of our resources for the next ten years
There
is
one practical promise to produce minimum of armaments here, and to buy them in buik elsewhere in an emergency.
.ก
to grease the guns and engines over.
instead
* *
*
戴
sia-
gases
dangerous.
I warned them then that, the decision,
which was outside the traditions of British alr research, would give the more adventurous Americans a great advantago in the "supersonic" race.
Now, while U.S. piloted
rocket planes have penetrated the barrier with case, the robot project bas broken down.
future
Navy's
DECAUSE of delay in assessing
the potentialities of atomic bombs and guided missiles in sen warfare, the future organisation of Designers the Navy is unsettled. know that, by strengthening super- structures, capital ships can be to o hear miss made to stand up mad
an atom bomb. But the pro- tection of deck crews against gam- ma radiation is regarded as impos- sible.
priority
High-speed submarino research
The ship v. ship possibilities of is chiefly based on the work guided missiles can only be assessed of ace German engineer Rudolph from the results of experimentni Tired of waling for the projects Walther, who brought his original firings.
Flensburg research team to Britain. Supply Ministry station to produce Its scope is secret, but my Washing the results scientists there got no factory to contacts tell me that in this further than
top giving their being built in the Lake District held the U.S. is depending on us
naval rocket ሳ code turn the was ahead of schedule
when I
rather than vice versa.
name-the Admiralty has set up its visited it recently, but it is unlikely It is in the auxillary projects own rocket research station. At the end of what he calls his in my view to produce enough to
With the Army the organization Senseless
within the which must be pursued to make the Survey, Gulliver writes make even one, bomb
that we for the future also incxnet. a long report, urging that unless next three years (Thore is no pos- major weapons effective
Colonel Henry Eurlton, chick of to the airfields sibility of drafted
borrowing any atomic hold our aces, men are our tank
Fast, piloted bombers will be the Military Intelligence 10-the branch reserves will soon be explosive from America. The U.S. heaps of scrap.
Energy
forbids its only means of carrying atomic and which sifts reports on the equip time By the
this has been
bacterial weapons for many
of foreign armies-has given years. ments yet. initialled by the higher-ups.
Gulliver Largely because of administrat (I consider that rockets capable probably, the soundest forecast vot of lifting the four-ton atom bomb Our future ground forces must can do nothing about it. is setting out on another Sense-4 tional squabbles, the guided over long distances will not be consist of small but superbly missiles project has been dis practicable for at least 10 years. less Survey.
appointingly slow. We got few of And that goes for pilotless aircraft the German scientists, and the best 100).
was killed of these, Dr Schmidt,
So the basis of our Atom Age last year. The little equipment we Air Force at least is clear--n highly THE Cabinet clearly Intends to
to be
mobile striking force of fast con- go! proved our Tilmit the dependence on amerien
sabotaged. The basic problems of guiding ventional bombers. 03 much
possible. Apart
Now, in the two factors which pride, there is the fast missiles have proved tougher
than expected. Scientists of the will chiefly determine the success Americans Supply Ministry
rocket stations of this bomber project-Jet-engine
com- hare
Ideas exported
Atomic
export.)
who
Until Australia can be built up as the arsenal of the Empire-a sufficiently project unlikely to be advanced for 20 years--"clsewhere" can only mean America.
work, For this scheme to weapons must be standardised
This U.S. types and sizes. volves continuous linison with from national American technicians in the develop sharper spur that the
will not "play" unless we pay
ment stages.
British, but-
to
In- as
FT also involves putting up with bombs
interference. by Americans purely British affairs.
little
for past
our way. (Britain, with леш to offer yet in the atomic fcid, was not invited-to-the- test explosions of the intest U.S. atom in the Pacific. There was
allowance in no charitable services.)
The Americans know we can- dpllors. So they not pay with
Ideas, To expect us to pay with
will yield discoveries sce which Unes of research
most likely to
and be use give us self-support ful as barter, the Cabinet appointed a committee of scientists and staff all officers, led by Sir Henry Tizard.
The extent to which the. Govern- ment is taking U.S. orders on so called security matters was high lighted at the last Radiolympla ex hibition.
exhibit.
exhip
the
Act
equipped and highly mobile com- bat units, manned by leng-service professionals, he says.
That such an Army is the Ser- vice chiefs ultimate aim is shown. I think, by the rate at which first- rate technical oflcers RTC
being turned out by the Military College of Science.
(COPYRIGHT)
The Catholic Bible Is Being Revised
toiling on one ☛ WENTY Benedictine monks aro of the most monumental scholastic tasks of time, the production of a truo version of the official Roman Catho-
Weeks before the show the Supply Ministry decided to use as its star
a working model of proximity fuse the device which
Their recommendations ara made
flying secret, but their main form is le Bible. bombs
mind clear to the Service-trained ombs possible.
The fuse was a British wartime familiar with the technical Issues mass involved invention which had to be produced in America because our
The
defeat of tho
round
For nearly 50 years now, the specially-trained philogians of the French St Jerome Monastery in
By JOSEPH J. BAICICH
worms, all in Eatin and all dating from the seventh to the 14th cen turies, were carefully gathered by the advance guard of experts. The best documents were found in Italy, but other important ones came from France,
Britain,
southern Ireland and Germany and one from Itussin.
Crows of experts looked over the documents on the spot, The best
electronics Industry was already
From recent events it is equally Rome, have been at their job. The choked with radar contracts. Since clear to me that most of the recom-rst seven books of the Old Testa- scholars of the Catholic Church be- were photographed and the photostat there were no security objections mendations are being implemented. ment have been revised and publish- lieved that it left room for various copies cent, on to the St Jerome
ed in a new edition, for scholars translation errors, which the monks Monastery, The types of defence full details of the fuse appeared in
research a
only. now In operation, or American pulp magazines before the stallons
me that the The monks expect to be at the of St Jerome hope to correct.
Tho scholars The abbot of the monastry, Father
were trained In wor ended a big show-plece being built, convince featuring a postwar British-mado Government's defence plan is built Work 20 years from now. But time
is of no importance to them in their Pierre Salmon, directs the great pro- Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, Ger- 5.20.proximity fuse was prepared,
weapona Ave experimental
library, where Ject. He said the nature of the man and. English, and the Semitic evolved towards the end of the modern book-lined
study of ancient work makes it almost exclusively languages of Arimale and Chaldean, A few hours before Radiolympla last war, and some are now being their laborious
10 12 fully operational biblical manuscripts is so exacting for scholars but, "It is expected to before they set to work. Over the was due to open the Amerleans do brought
the monks future years, some of that they can work only three hours be the cornerstone manded the wi hdrawal of the stare.
scholarly critical editions of the grown old on the job; others have bomb; a day. exhibit on security grounds.
are: (1) the atom
Bible, whether Catholic.or Pro- had to give up the exacting work. U.S.-bull! proximlly fuse, nicely (2) guided anti-aircraft missiles
testant."
and have been replaced by care- and long-range bombarding rockets; sectioned to show the mechanism, should be shown instead,
The work began with a worldwide fully-trained substitutes. they (3) bacteriological bombs;
The great work began about tho
When the work was in its early 4) nerve
guses paralysing turn of the century. Pope Plus XI search for all ancient manuscripts ilquida said to be 1,000 times decided that the oMelal Roman which formed the basis for present stages, the monks used magnifying Such squabbles have led to War more potent than any other poison Catholic Bible-the Latin Vulgato Bibles, including the Clementine glasses to help them read the an becoming the 49th State with- 605;
p.m.
insis cd-and won.
A
Office whispers that Britain is
out
the benefits of the
other 48.
They
(6) long-range submarines fitted But the men at the top, who know with a quick getaway unit.
Just how gravely our defence plans are menaced by economic difficulties, consider these intrusions 白居 pin- pricks compared
Basic things
of any
have
That is
of 1505, which
is the clent manuscripts. But the small- edition, as it is called-needed re-edition
The objective
Vulgato ness of the script in many cases, and was atated currently-accepted
Latin vision. simply: to produce the best possible Bible of the Catholic Church. Not the photostatic inversion of white critical edition, one that would come even the scholars who published the handwriting on black background, as close as possible to St Jerome's Clementine edition had necess to all made eyestrain terrille.
three-hour translation of tho Biblo from the
Information the St Jerome why n
one mari can stan work day is all monastery gathered. that reorganisation of Hebrew,
"We prefer to read with the naked. bencils we set from the link-up. T the fighting services has been
been found, but Old parchment manuscripts, docu- eye, whenever possible," Father Sal- To get just one of these difcul- indefinitely postponed presum tury, has never tics-labour shortago in fine focus, ably until the potentialues of the present-day, editions of the Bible ments written on leather hides, all mon said. "We have learned that. and scrawled in a a magnifying ginas destroys our eye- consider the frus rating job tok a news
ALKO fully originate from 'translations of repro- handwritten
wore variety of script, faded with time, sight after a few years."United certain War Office
Assess-ductions of his work that
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ом
the
solid IIE fact
weapons
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