1935-01-26 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935

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The British soldier of to-day, who prefers tea to beer and rames to philandering, has added a new joy to army life. He has become an explorer and a sightseer.

In Jerusalem, where the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment is now stationed, con-

ducted sight-seeing tours are a regular and popular part of tha men's life.

CIVILIANS UNDER GAS ATTACK

FANTASTICAL NOTIONS

EXPLODED

GAS-PROOF BUILDINGS ONLY REAL MEANS OF SAFETY

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(By Major Paul Murphy)

London, called upon to assist the military THE basis of any successful authorities in gas defence, or who These tours, in which the office s

system of defence is an in-may have to carry on their own take a great interest, in no way telligent avoidance of unneces- special duties during and after resemble route marches. They arvsary exertion in order to concen-gas raids, will require to be sup- conducted in £ free and easy trate effort on the things which plied with data about gas te fashion.

really matter. It is vital to bear levant to their own problems. Visits to the Field of Blood, this in mind in considering the There has been much confusion where Judas Iscariot hanged hit-problem, of defending the civil of thought about the actual belf, the Pool of Siloam, where all population against gas.

methods which should be em-

the vegetables supplied to Jeru- The possibilities of attack ployed in civil defence, salem are now grown, the Tomb of cover, so wide a field and involve Absalom and the other sights of so many people, that to guard the Holy Land, have stimulated against all of them is not prac Bible reading among the men. ticable. Nor is it necessary, be

To-day, the Royal Berks knows cause in war there are

drastic its Bible better than any other re-limiting factors which reduce in- giment in the Army.

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ROYAL WORCESTER

numerable attack possibilities to one or two reasonably certain probabilities. Against these counter-measures have to be de-

It has been suggested that huge bomb-proof, gas-proof dug-outs should be constructed. into which the civil popula- tion could retire during gas- raids. Such a method is im- practicable, and, even if it was not, it is fundamentally un- sound.

The idea has also been put for- ward of issuing respirators to Such a

The first of the Worcester por-vised and organised. celain works-the latest company To begin with, it is too often the entire population.

From that day the word "Royal"

to bear the name is to be wound and too readily assumed, as a wholesale issue is not only un- up was founded in 1751 by a Dr.matter of course, that aerial gas necessary; it would be ineffec- Wall and a few friends.

attacks will be concentrated attive. The mere issue of respira- This Dr. Wall was somewhat of the outset of war on the crowd-tors is in itself no solution. The a man of mystery. He never died centres of civil life, with the wearers must be trained to use closed how he learned the secret object of terrorising, creating them, and for certain sections of of porcelain making.

panic and causing casualties; in the population such training is It was a Battersea engraver who short, that all the protocols and impossible. stipulate that any agreement first introduced at Worcester the treaties forbidding the bombing These rather fantastical con- should be registered at Geneva as method of decorating porcelain of civilians and banning the use ceptions are based provided by the Covenant? The with transfer prints.

on false of gas have no value whatever. analogies drawn from the war- league may be in advance of pub- Many Chelsea painters went to

time problem of protecting troops lie opinion, but that is no reason Worcester in 1770 when the Chel-

What Happens In Wartime

against why Governments should

gas in the fold- notea factory closed down; They take a step in advance and rise to quickly exerted

Such a view may be correct, Whether or not, in districts an influence the observance of its practical the style of the Worcester porce for the eventuality.

on and it is necessary to be prepared peculiarly liable to attack, an What are the facts of this rules, among which the registra-lain.

But it is attempt is made to provide Charhar business ?. One might tion of treaties is one of the most)

more likely that the breakdown respirators or some kind of ex- After the death of Dr. Wall the of such treaties, if it occurs, will ternal gas-proof, bomb-proof think that we were back in the juseful. History shows that works passed to Thomas Flight be not an initial deliberate viola-shelters as ancillary methods of lays following the occupation of secret treaties and clauses are and his two sons. Mukden, when the sorely tried most dangerous

tion, but the result of the irresis protection, the main line of de- weapons:-it King George III. and Queen tible pressure of war.

fence must be based on the pro- journalist would compare one was, Ar instance the secret Charlotte visited the works in cable with another in a vain at-clauses of the Triple Alliance 1788.

An air attack on a military vision of gas-proof accommoda- tempt to give his readers a re-that led to all the trouble in

objective may involve the civil tion in ordinary buildings. liable summary of the news, and Europe. And the reason is on was added to the title of the

population, and so lead to re-

Englishman's Home His Castle end up with the sole conclusion the surface. Nobody can be call-company.

taliatory measures, with the To meet the menace that as the places mentioned cd.in to arbitrate on the meaning

result that the distinction raids, the Englishman's home of gas were always a little bit North of of an agreement that cannot be

between military and the places mentioned the day be- divulged, and the interpretation

civil will again become his castle... targets may ultimately dis Home. in this connection, means fore, there was some sort of an rests with the stronger party,

dwelling place, office, factory, or, advance going on.

Again, a country hard pressed, for those who are caught out in The first Nor can any Power receive the First Urchin: My father's ad cable one reads gives certain in-support of public opinion if some Second Urchin: "That's nothing. well resort to the use of mustard building. On the effective pro-

photograph takem.”

with its armies in retreat, might the streets, the nearest adjacent formation: the next two or three agreement is broken of which father's "ad 'la Angerprints took." create a doubt whether the first the public has never heard.

gas from the air or by means of tection of these citadels will was correct; after reading all the After the Mukden incident Tokyo

artillery shells to render evacuat-stand or fall the success of civil Compliment available news and consulting an issued a "plece justicatif" in Wife: "Selentists claim that

ed areas unoccupiable, and so to anti-gas defence. atlas one can only conclude that which several secret agreements average person speaks 10,000 words delay the pursuit. In conse something is happening but no-were quoted, mostly about Rail- Husband: "Yes, dear; but remem- become general.

quence the use of gas might in support of this contention. Many reasons may be advanced body knows what. What with way, matters, and the Lytton ber, you are far above the average."

It will be realised that the from the fact that after a severe One of the most important arises censorship and propaganda, add-Commission quite rightly ruled ed to the usual difficulties of the that it could not take any cog-

acceptance of this second view-gas raid many hours might Different Groups special correspondent who is re-nisance of them because though congregation has turned the corner. disadvantage on

Warden (to Bector): "I think your point imposes a definite military elapse before it was safe for tained at the base and is expect-both Powers were members of we're getting a better class of button against which aerial gas attacks buildings. If, for instance, the the country people to leave their gas-proofed ed to describe what is going on at the League they had not regis-in the collection than we used to.” the front, the impartial enquirer tered them, and had not taken

are treacherously made at the streets were badly contaminated has to resign himself to waiting the prescribed procedure for arbi-

outbreak of war. It will be on with mustard gas liquid, this sub- until the incident has retreated tration.

the defensive, and some "He's been sitting there all day,

time stance would have to be attacked "How do you know?" doing nothing but wasting his time." would elapse before it was in and destroyed by clearing-up

position to reply in kind.

squads In such circumstances it is devices before it would be pos armed with special essential that this adherence to alble to set outdoor life and traffic international agreements in the in motion again.

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cause of world peace and co- operation should be accompanied by the maintenance of air forces

into the past and some enterpris Agreement or no agreement, it ing young writer gives, his re- is clear that Japan intends to ex- miniscences in a book, published plain her. protectorate over all in London.

territory to the, North of the The most obvious fact of all is Great Wall. "The advance," we that in spite of all the Japanese are told, "will continue as long as protestations that the expression it meets resistance."

What s Puppet State" is a misnomer, beautiful formula for a con- Quarantine restrictione and offensive to official sensibili-queror. It is so straightforward been imposed against arrivals from at a strength which will dis ties, the operations in what is a and comprehensive that we won- Holbow on account of smallpox. question of boundary between der Mr. Hirota did not formulate

We are in receipt of a copy of Manchukuo and Northern China it in his recent review of his have been handled by Japanese policy. In that again he repeat. Tables of Conversion, regarding troops, with same slight supported the tactics that we have come weights and cubic measurements. from Manchukuonn auxiliaries. to expect. He announced adher-This book is on sale at Messrs. The Very well then; let the pretence ence to the policy of disarmament Brewers Bookshop Ltd, that Manchukuo is a separate en-and then abrogated the Naval tity be dropped. We are quite Treaty which was the one success- prepared to believe that the new ful result of the post-war nego-

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courage and reduce the numbers and efficiency of such aerial gas attacks, and by the raising of the anti-gas defences of the country to the highest possible level. Co-operation Of Civilians

The dissemination of accurate information about chemial war te not only important bat urgent It is not a process which can be carried out swiftly in the event

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Ataggerated statements which have ese girls have completed a novel of emergency. The grossly ex-Nineteen, young and pretty Japan- been made about the potency of course of study and are now in the poison gases can be refuted easily market for husbands. enough, but in destroying the They are the first of a group of myth it will be necessary to be Dairen girls of marriageable age to ware of going to the opposite be graduated from a local academy.

Tokyo had no control in the ter-"advance as long as they met re- What is claimed to have been the extreme of belittling the very styled "The School of Life," but ritory of the new State, can be jaistance." excused for being alightly an

Brat talking picture programme real menace which does exist. more popularly referred to as "The We do not think, for the rea- given in a high-speed aeroplane In brief, it will be necessary Brides School." moyed.

sons already stated, that anybody recently.

to give the facts, a difficult task diplomas from the school, all these Having received Another line of enquiry would else in called upon to interfere A film of the King and Queen at in the case of so vest and hetero- girls have to do now is to get rear. be, what was the subject and the though the Soviet Government result of the negotiations car can hardly fail to be interested in the launching of the Queen Mary genous an audience. If such in- ried and have a chance to apply. ried on in Nanking on the subject a movement which brings Japan was shown while the plane was formation is not provided, panic their theories: of Charhar? Is it true that the on to her own flank; but it is im dying at 140 mph. 5,500ft. above would be inevitable in the event The academy was organised ear Japanese right to that region was possible not to note that the Hertfordshire, Utta

of any kind of gas attack, howly last year under the auspices of recognised, and that the local methods adopted lead to a maxi- Half an hour before the machine ever slight Then, since the in the federation of local women's commander either refused or demum of suspicion when pacific hid arrived from Belfast, carrying telligent co-operation of the civil clubs and with the support of the layed to obey orders? Was there purposes are expressed.

2,000lb, of mails. The mall was re- population la essential to any South Manchuria Raliway Co moved, armchair seats put into the could hope to succeed

young women should prepare them scheme for its defence, no plan It was felt by the sponsors that cabin, and the talking film ap rextending for 20 peratus Installed by an et of Main Line Of Defence selves for marriage and help stay

arrang In addition to this general in what was considered the deterio loved the test coniunction with formation, all those civil bodies rating tendeficy of mod

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