1938-02-05 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1938.

BRITISH AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS School-Children To Be Armed With Respirators

'AULD LANG SYNE' AT BADMINTON CLUB

Closed After 61 Years

The Badminton Club, Piccadilly, closed at midnight one night re- cently, despite last-minute efforts to save it. A farewell dinner, at-

DANGER OF GAS ATTACK

VETERANS RETURN

Camps to which children should be evacuated TO FRONT

in case of an air gas attack are suggested in a cir- cular on Air Raid Precautions in Schools issued by the British Board of Education to all the school

authorities.

It is also proposed that all the children should tended by more than 100 members, carry respirators with them to and from school.

was held at the club, which was founded 61 years ago. As mid- night struck "Auld Lang Syne” was

sung.

An official of the club said: "The club is closed for the time being owing to financial troubles. ther it will ever be resumed or not I do not know.

Whe

"A staff of 53 has been dismiss- ed. The majority will go to other positions, some in clubs."

It is understood that several thousand pounds would have been required to keep the club going.

According to "Clubs, 1937," the Badminton had a membership of 1,000. The entrance fee had been suspended. The subscription varied between two and 12 guineas.

The circular says that the pro- blem of the protection of school- children during an air attack has been considered by the Home Office Air Raid Precautions Department and the Board.

It is pointed out that the north country are less and west of the vulnerable than the east and south, though no part is beyond the range of an air attack.

First consideration would have to be given to those places where the risk is so great that it would ¡not be justifiable to collect children in large numbers in a school, and it would accordingly be decided to close the schools: during the whole in which raids might be period expected.

The short period of warning seven to ten minutes being all that is anticipated would not

Paul Muni's Fine Acting At The Queen's

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enable the children to be sent

With special badges pinned on their uniforms, large numbers of Chinese front line veterans, having completely recovered from their wounds, are leaving base hospitals in and around Hankow every day to return to active service.

home, and the primary i Most of these fire-baptized soldi-

ance of their safety would mand that they should be kept at home to share the protective arrangements designed for the public.

REFUGE IN It adds: "In those areas, especially expos- ed to danger, the ideal solution would be to evacuate the children not all of whom will be of school age to safer. districts, preferably in the country where they could be

in private houses dispersed public buildings or possibly small camps."

KREME COUNTRY.

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ers have located the whereabouts of their original units and they are on their way to rejoin them, while others, cut off from their old regiments, are being organised into new battalions.

In either case, these fighters, who have survived aerial bombs, shells and infantry onslaughts during the past few months' hostilities, are de- corated with pink badges to dis- ordinary tinguish them from the run of old-timers or fresh recruits.

Known as "honour soldiers," they front In places where it was decided are marching back to the to keep the schools open apart lines to bolster the morale of their from those used as first aid posts comrades, especially that of new- or decontamination centres-steps (comers who can learn much from would have to be taken to guard these veterans. against the unlikely event of a raid.

· PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS

During the past two or three "'honour "All school-children will be pro-weeks, at least two such vided in an emergency, by the Gov- battalions" of 500 men each have ernment with respirators which been formed out of soldiers dis- they will carry with them to and charged from local and neighbour- from school. They will have op-ing convalescent homes. Every one Once again Warner Brothers and accused of treason on astonishing-portunities to become familiar with injured on the battlefield has Paul Muni have enriched the screen ly flimsy circumstantial evidence, them under arrangements made for given a step up in rank.

deported for the other members of the family, with a literate and distinguished court-martialed and

and it is not desirable that any pre- Like servicemen in other coun- drama. Their "Life of Emile Zola," life to Devil's Island.

to school|tries, Chinese soldiers have a great which was given “an elaborate gala Zola's championship of the un-paratory instruction

children in peace time should be deal of sentimental attachment to performance last night at the fortunate Dreyfus is related in a Queen's Theatre, is a fitting succes- succession of stirring episodes: his undertaken which might have ad- their original units, each of which "The Story of willingness to sacrifice his career verse psychological or other effects has its own history probably dat- sor to last year's Louis Pasteur," and easily takes its and reputation by an alliance with [on them or the public." place as one of the most impressive what was considered a lost cause; his writing of the famous productions of the year.

"J'Accuse," the open letter to the President of the Republic; his own for libel with its judicial trial travesty, its devastating and far- reaching political explosions finally, its aftermath that establish- ed Dreyfus's innocence.

It is superbly acted by Mr. Muni, whose characterisation of Zola is the finest of his career, a sensitive and penetrating study of the fam- ous French novelist whose cause whose passion was justice and truth.

half.

wealth

ST. JOHN - AMBULANCE

Home Nursing and,

ACCURACY TO FORE of Skilfully utilising a

The re-enactment of the Dreyfus material, the scenarists tell their

with its prejudices and story against a vivid background | affair, of French politics during the latter antagonisms, its nightmare-in- part of the Nineteenth Century. The trigue and confusion, has been ex- pertly contrived in the matter of picture traces Zola's career from

both adaptation and direction. It his days as a

starving idealist in a Paris garret to the days of his brings in not only Zola and Drey- courageous fight in Dreyfus's be- fus, but also such names as Major Esterhazy, Major Henry, Colonel Piquart, Anatole France, Georges ALL SO FASCINATING ·

Clemenceau, Colonel Sandherr and Incidents of his early life-his others, all represented with repor- frienship with the painter, Cezanne; [torial accuracy. his compassion for the down It is Mr. Muni, however, who trodden; his determination to write dominates the entire production, what he saw without compromise, whole Zola remains the make a fascinating pattern. Here is figure against backgrounds shown the manner in which he came might conceivably have over- to write his various novels, the prin- Ishadowed another actor, whose cipal sequence being devoted to his make-up and mannerisms all bļend writing of the book "Nana," which into a remarkable portrait.

ed to fame and wealth.

Excellent, too, is his supporting And here is shown also how he cast, a large and able company was roused from the complacency that includes Joseph Schildkraut, that came with success by the af- as Dreyfus, and Gale Sondergaard, fair which was to stir up not only Robert Barrat, Henry O'Neill, John France but the entire world as well. Litel, Vladimir Sokoloff, Charles The trial of Alfred Dreyfus, cap-Richman, Louis Calhern, Robert tain of the 14th Artillery, who was Warwick and Gloria Holden.

central -that

been

ing to the early years of the Chin- ese Republic or to the days of the successful Northern Expedition by the Nationalist Troops in 1926-27.

As a result, whenever possible, Lectures they always insist on returning to their own regiments no matter how Dr. Parrin Ruttonjee M.B.B.S. far away these units may happen will commence a series of lectures in to be. If necessary, they walk

there. Home Nursing on Thursday, Fe bruary 10 at 5.30 p.m. at St. John Ambulance Headquarters, Tai Hang Road.

It is essential that those wishing

The R.M.S. “Empress of Russia” to take the course be present at the is due at Hong Kong from Vancou-

ver on March 10. first lecture.

Those who know....

Insist on

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