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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 16, 1940.

LONDON

FIRMS

ATSONS IN BASEMENT

WATERS

PURE

DELICIOUS WHOLESOME

COMPLETE FIRE-FIGHTING organisations, manned voluntarily by their own staffs, are being trained to safeguard the premises of the bigger firms in the City. This move follows quickly on the order of Sir John Anderson that all premises in which more than thirty persons are employed must have a fire watcher on duty at all times.

Unilever House, Blackfriars, has been perfect- ing its scheme ever since war began, Mr. J. F. McCartney, the firm's chief A.R.P. officer, told a reporter.

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Four pilots of a Polish fighter squadron of the R.A.F., which played such an important part in the defence of London in September, were yesterday decorated with the DFC by the Air Officer Com- manding

the Fighter Command, Air Marshal W. Sholto Douglas.

A

Afth D.F.C. was awarded posthumously to the pilot who had been killed in action.

Altogether these five pilots have destroyed 44 German aircraft and severely damaged others.

tish

"The

He is responsible for the safety of 2800 people.

As a first line he has 80 mem- bers of the staff, fully trained in fire fighting.

As a second line, a hundred women and girls from the first- aid parties have been taught to deal with incendiary bombs. The fully trained men are clerks and a few junior members of the management.

Nine-Floor Night Patrol

By day they attend to their led- gers, make out their accounts and

so on in their boiler sults. Thus they are ready for action at any

moment.

At night, and through the week- end, 16 of them are divided into

four squads of four men each.

They patrol the ning floors of the building all the time. chief, is always on duty.

Mr. McCartney, or his deputy

The squads are changed, but there are always 17 men on the watch.

They are equipped with stirrup pumps, small hose, standard hose, foum extinguishers, hatchets, lamps, ropes, anti-gas clothing, steel helmets and service respira- torst

Ready For Oil Bombs

"The foam extinguishers are for dealing with any oil drums the enemy may send down," McCartney said.

if one

Mr.

QUICK-CHANGE CAMOUFLAGE COAT

FOR AEROPLANES

A new lacquer ena- mel which will enable Q quick change in camouflage for mili- tary aircraft has been developed by a firm of American paint

makers.

The enamel can be washed off quickly with a special solvent. Camouflage colours may thus be changed daily to conform to the terrain over which the 'plone is to fly.- Associated Press.

"SAFE"

PETROL OF

QUALITY

America

Claims are made in that the research laboratories of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics have produced a safety aviation fuel which is as efficient as the high-grade fuels now in use.

'It is further claimed that, pro- vided the demand is big enough, this fuel can be commercially.pro- duced at about the same price as ordinary fuel.

This is the first occasion a Po- lish squadron has received Bri- decorations for gallantry. The pilots have also been award- high- ed the "Virtuti Militari"

"We bought them the moment we heard of the first oil drum fall-fuel was est Polish award for valour.

Air Marshal Douglas, addressing on London and we believe that descended on Unilever ing the squadron, said: RAF. is proud to have its Polish House we could deal with it.

"Our water supply is contained comrades, whose deeds are known throughout the whole force. I

in tanks holding 90,000 gallons. We have hydrants on each floor. hope your squadron will do well In the months to come, I look "To keep our fire fighters in forward to the victory of our

practice we make them put out, cause and to a free independent

from time to time, small fires mado in the basement. Poland."

"They get them out in a matter of seconds."

During September the 'squa - dron shot down more than 100 German aircraft.

British Wireless.

NOCTURNAL PARIS INTERMENT

In the American experiment the infected direct under pressure into the cyclinder, where it was fired in the usual way. The carburetter was dispensed with. Characteristle of these new fuels is their high flashpoint. Where the vapour of most aviation petrols ignites or flashes at temperatures as low as 30deg below zero, the new safety fuels are so made that they will not Ignite or flash until temperatures reach 100, 134, even 164dog F. So that the firefighters should *British scientists have been have a good breakfast, four of the familiar with fireproof aviation giris volunteered to sleep on the fuel for many years. Not so long premises, to be there to cook itago one big air line advertised for them.

that the fuel used on their mis- Two of the girl telephone opera-chines was fireproof in the sense tors also volunteered to stay all that in a crash widespread fre night in case of emergency calls. I would not occur.

R.A.F.'s Eggs Spoiling Hamm

THE NAME OF HAMM, and the "eggs" the The remains of the R.A.F. drop on it so frequently, causes a certain Duke of Reichstadt, son of amount of humour in Britain, but it is far from be- Napoleon I and the Em-ling a joke to the German High Command. press Marie-Louise, which

Hamm has the distinction of possessing the have been transferred to most frequently-bombed target in Germany — the Paris from Vienna, were largest and best-equipped railway marshalling yard placed next to Napoleon's in Europe.

tomb in the Invalides in A dozen Clapham Junctions an elaborate midnight, could be lost among its vast net of ceremony, according to work of tracks, sidings, engine- the German-controlled are copat of dealing with and. Paris radio yesterday. dispatchin more than ten thou-:

'The coffin (arrived at the Gare: de PEst escorted by German soldiers beating torches late on Saturday evening, and was taken to the Invalides on a gun-narri

age..

Anti-aircraft guna «fined a alute while German guarde

houses and repair sheds, which

Band wagons every 'twenty-four hours.

Its 'importance as a target lies not only in its unrivalled working Capablilty but also in ils geogra❤ phical position at the eastern en- trance to and exit from Germany's greatest industrial and manufac furing centre, the Ruhr,

The Nerve Centre

In Germany, all goods train ser

or

Hamm is thus the nerve centre

German rail transport.

Dislocation...whích' (occurs every time British raiders attack the yards, spreads like paralysis. throughout the country and Ƒbes yond. "Congestion at shlà attend yo overtaxed yard makes ittarit fost among Giṛman ermina at the Channel ports, and In 500 to 1:000 factories: and works – In Germany,

Apart from the great congestion caused by alarma, immense dam- age has also been caused to traċies, switches and sidings, as well as to supplies waiting in the yards.

.to

earried (the coffin to the, on- trance whore, at 1 a.m, the German Ambassador formally Smade, sit zover to Admisel Dar-

lan, representing Marshal Be-vices are based on and regulated. It would need an army of track-

by the work of the marshalling.|"layers" and salvage sunkera yard on which wagons, loaded and clear the lines and repair (the empty, converge from all parts of permanent way after each attack, the system to be made up into but next night the raiders come trains and despatched to their over again and congestion builds various destinatións: nem

up anew,

tain..

French Municipal Guards then carried the coffin into the chapel and draped it with the tricolour at the root of Napoleon's tomb. AND HEAım

Router.