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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 11, 1939

What Air Raids Would Be Like

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Ninety-Fourth Year of Publication

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The latest Bulletin of the Air- raid Defence League in Lon-. don is likely to make many people sit up. Basing itself on amounts that Germany has spent. on bombing aeroplanes-it es-- timates them at £250,000,000, with an annual maintenance of

7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2 £80,000,000, it concludes that

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Germany must inevitably intend to attempt to win the next war by a lightning stroke. For suf- ficient reasons, which it gives, it. believes that at first the big cen-- tres of population, and particu-- larly London (partly because the. Thames makes it so easy to lo- cate in all weathers), will be the targets.

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The league calculates that in. one day and night 1,400 bombers, arriving in relays of thirty or so at average intervals of half hour, might make successive at-- tacks on London. Assessing our HK$ 9.00 various means of active defence:

without undue gloom and cluding that half the raiders- might be prevented from drop- ping their bombs, it estimates that even so London might suffer 35,000 casualties in twenty-four hours. High-explosive, it believes,. would be the chief weapon, but gas and incendiary bombs must not be left out of account. After a few days, however, it considers that for various reasons the per- iod of lightning mass attack. The Jewish Agency was cold would give place to a "normal" shouldered in the British Govern-period, in which the effects of ment's recent White Paper but air raids could be strictly limited

by our defensive measures.. it is the representative body for Enemy losses, disregarded - by the Palestine Jews and is so re-him in the first furious attack, cognised in the Mandate. It has would be regarded more serious-- now sent its annual report to the machines were beginning to be ly in the second period, when his : League of Nations, just at the needed on the fighting front. time when the League's Man-

THE YEAR IN PALESTINE

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dates Commission is to consider Reporters And

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munity as a minority to an inde- pendent (Arab) State. The re- Once again there has been port shows the Jews of Palestine discussion in the House of Com--.

of reacting to the terrorism of the mons on the reporting Arabs, the political uncertainty, speeches, and this time members and the Administration's policy had nothing but kind things to of restricted immigration with say of the reporters. The gentle- the enterprise and tenacity men of the Gallery no longer re-

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and of rural land were acquired, bers' speeches, But perhaps the most interesting liam Wilberforce had to com-- thing of all is the witness borne plain of this on one occasion,- by Dr. Weizmann to the benefit though he got little sympathy which Palestine has derived from from the House... the "technical skill, initiative, Sometimes, no doubt, members... and experience" that have been were a little unreasonable in their introduced into the country by complaints against the gallery, as refugees from Germany and the in the reported instance of the two countries, Austria and Cze- Irish member who challenged the cho-Slovakia, which Germany has accuracy of a report. He was seized. It is notorious that the asked from the chalf whether he Jews of

Vienna and other places had not said the words reported." had an immense and profitable"I did say the words," he replied, knowledge (for "Germany)" of "but did I say in italics?"

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