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'THE CHINA MAIL,' TUESDAY, AUGUST 8; 1950.

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST AN ATOM BOMB

BOMB ATTACK

Taking no chances

Afillions today live under the shadow of the atom bomb menace, This week our Correspondents in Europe and America report on the safety precautions, any, which Governments are talking,

presence of rays, but give some iden of how long workers can re- main exposed to them in com- parative safety. After five or six

service civil defence

Good Morning

"Men of the captured Red

War, of course, makes, a fellow,

From Ralph. Howing, Stockholm. One person in 12 in front- line neutral Sweden is in the be recruited for mobile columns, to supervise ARP work through years Belgium will have enough soldiers are in their teens."

and ever-in-national Civil Defence Corps. Alreadyllable for service as and where out the country,

required.

creasing numbers of civil de- trainees to man the detachments, grow up fast. ¦fence units are being trained.

For atom-bomb-proof, shelters a Liege professor has Invented o cement guaranteed to the estimated shock plosion..

there are 100,000 volunteers ready to cope with the large- Denmark is co-operating with Stock-Sweden in building up her ARP of scale evacuation holm's crowded suburbs.

squads, and she has observors in Britain and America,

More than 459.000 other volun- teors have been train in the latest methods of "cleaning up" After, an atom-bomb attack.

Under the present plans, 60 per cent of Stockholm's popula- tlon could be ovacuated to the country in 10 to 20 days.

Norway lucky

Comprehensive

From Gavin Gordon, Brussels.

Belgium's civil defence plans are perhaps the most compre hensive of any country. Directly they are approved, civil defence will be one of the ways in which

French Assembly withstand "anti-Coca Cola” bill, *f * **= The pass that regresses.

Rude awakening

From John Jarrett, New York.

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passes

"The Englishman has always stood for humanity,"

Especially when occupying an

alsle seat at the cinema,'

Er-and

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From Moray Williams, Oslo,

America Joins Britain and Within a few years one-third young Belgians will be able to do France in doing almost nothing to

their national service.

Stated at the rally that Hong of Norway's all-important electric

protect, her people against a pos- Kong has about 8,000 privato Meanwhile, for those who have power will be produced in atom- Once enrolled in the Civil Do-Russia exploded her

Bibla atom-bomb attack. to stay behind, shelters are being bomb proof plants underneath fence Corps, the members will do bomb the American man-in-the-tax payors?

Until cars. own atom

how many personal built on the basis that three- the mountains. Similar shelters quarters.of an attacking force will house vast oll stocks: might get through.

Norway is fortunate in having many overhanging mountains which provide the basis for ex- cellent shelters.

Already £15,000,000 has been spent on preparing atom bomb proof shelters blasted from solid rock. To shelter urban workers,

DAYS OF DECISION £3,500,000,000 will be needed-

and will be granted.

The free democracies make

ground

the Boden

The best, however, were bult by the Germans during the war and these are being enlarged and made atom-bomb proof.

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street kicked against every civil

a year under canvas-und month each year for every year defence move. of their service with the corps. omeially they will be enrolled for 10 years service.

Two thousand men

will be taken for civil defence training each year, and will help to build up a national mobile force of 8,000 men split into four mobile deluch-

ments,

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afford

While on the subject, # would' Now America has had a rude awakening. In Washington and be interesting to know how many other American cities.

to own the au- taxpayers can theories are dismally "checking" motor cars, the meagre civil defence organisa- tion left over from the last war.

Atom meals proposed. Then America never took her But I'm already fed up with ARP seriously. Today only the the atom. Red Cross is doing anything to

nt tell the people about the effects

was

pushed

Nor are shelters merely in the it a habit of being taken by initial stage. Six types of aircraft surprise in cases of military are already being built in sub-1 When the present quoia of They will be stationed aggression. Now we are begin-rock factorica, Banks have under work is completed there will be strategic points throughout the or atom-bombing and the precau-i

shelters, and steel sufficient shelters to house 20 country, and their chief ning to prepare by strengthen factories and even shipyards al- per cent of the population of the will be to prevent fire and food-ef a national civil defence scheme in a wheel chair.

duties tions they can take. The problem: It is rumoured that Stalin is ing our defences against ready have their workshops| country's chief cities. It sing.

is still "on Alle".

It's time he similar surprises elsewhere, underground. Sweden's key de-] estimated that a further 30 per

around like the rest of us. Line cent of the people would be The detachments will bc Americn is still confident that Britain is to raise her defence fences along

are evacuated.

motorised and equipped with a she can rely on her size and her expenditure to 10 per cent from Finland to Norway

embedded in rock.

Already atom-bomb proof con- special gramma-ray detector iwo oceans to save her from the of her national income, a

trol rooms have been built rendy! which will not only indicate the atom bomb. Agure higher than that of the United States SO far and exceeded only by Russia's 13 per cent and Peking's 43. But it is no less necessary to be thoroughly prepared on the policy side too. Spot de- cisions on this, that and the other question as it arises will not do.

It is necessary to determine what ought to be done in Korea, and to state it clearly and in detail.. An obvious principle is that the future

A-bomb proof

From James White, Copenhagen,

Denmark, began her atom bomb

Rediscovering London--No. 2:

defence preparations thane months66) ngo.

Some 5,000

of the country's

wartime shelters have been de- clared atom-bomb proof, and it; is estimated that these could ac commodate 250,000 of the popula-

tion of 4,000,000.

formed members-50 far some

"Hands off Joe" down

Lambeth

Way

That world-renowned! Lambeth is 4 long, Jean in that little shop, and the missus

Richard

Rose,

Lambeth, tried to poison the Bishop of Rochester. He failed, and was sentenced to death by balling oil.

Italians drink less wine

By Arthur La Bern

Part of the site of the County Hall once belonged to St. Mary's Church, it being endowed to the church by a poor pedlar named Smith, who made a fortune late

in life,

shop.

"My shop was blasted eight times and I never claimed a pen- by piece as war damage compen- ration. But when that couple at 'perishers' came in and told me I'd have to get out I asked them about compensation.

"Compensation," they said 'Oh, dear, noí' But they're prepared to The land he owned was then pay my removal costs. Well, i called "Pedlar's Acre," and he told 'em what they could do with left li to the church on the stipu- that. What is this country coming lation that he should be buried to? Hasn't a man got any rights: with his dog in the churchyard, any more?" and that he and his dog should bd commemorated by a sixdued-glass

So the people down Lambeth window, The LCC paid £81,000 way are behind Jae to a man for the poor perlar's are. The They may ask notorious Admiral Bligh is buried Field-Marshal Montgomery to in this churchyard.

support the petition.

Public-house planists in Lum- Lambeth is indeed obscure. Few beth play the "Lambeth Walk" as

"Harriman talks in Tokyo to solidify policy."

It seems that too many frozen schemes had become melted by the cold war warming up. You know--the I SCAP.

The company is reported to have withdrawn recognition from the Tramway Workers' Union.

Reprisals for Moo's high-handed ettitude to our approach were to be expected sooner or later.

"Tactful use of the atom bomb

Tact is of the essence.

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military

"Footballers attack spectators.** Got in a few free kicks...

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Biggest mystery to a married man is what a bachelor does with his money.

To shelter the rest of the people, theme song of Lambeth was borough, nearly seven miles long and i have built up a good little to support ground and sus surface

At ng

and about half a mile wide. It business there. We've got 800 reaction is the goal of new atom-bomb proof shelters never strictly accurate.

has retained little of its history,gistered customers, and we're will be started immediately the time were things free-and-and Lambeth Palace, of all Lon- taking

planners." £300 a week-and that of that country must be de- Civil Defence Bill becomes law, easy in Lambeth

don's Historical Indmarks, is wants some taking in a little cided by its people, with the In Copenhagen alone combined

probably the least known. underground car Life in Lambeth · har never aid of a special mission ap-shelters and

£12,500,000 have been easy.

Many And as for doing as

people mistake St.

"My little shop suffered a few pointed by the United Na-parks costing been planned.

you darn woll pleasy, a certain Mary's Church, next door, for shocks during the blitz. But that. tions. One of the objectives

Lambeth cook named Richard Lambeth Palace.

was nothing to the shock I got of the Korean aggression was

The Civil Defence Corps, run Rose found out centuries ago that

when a couple of perishers' camo to get in a position to put by the Home Office, gots its uni- It just doesn't work out that way,

in and told me I'd have, to move out to make way for a car-par... pressure on Japan. Another 500 of them--from military con-

employed at was to sabotage the plan of scripts, and within a few months technical and economic co- the 800 will have grown to 1,200. operation in Asia, and es- A further 18,000 members are to pecially to wreck any scheme whereby Japan's economy have been few, furtive, and And boiled in bubbling oil he was at Smithfeld, on April 5, could be dovetailed with the cryptic. There is a contra- 1531-the only recorded instance countries of South-East Asia diction between the policy of such

death penalty being in a manner beneficial to all. of leaning on the Soviet and carried out in this country. The Soviet moved heaven and the more recent warning} earth to smash the Marshall against international inter- Plan in Europe. It did not ference. The wine and water succeed, and it must not, be of the "new internationallam" allowed to succeed in the the euphemism with which similar aim in Asia. On some Peking sought to cloak the issues there may be two sides, "confirmation of Russian rights on sheer malevolent wreck-in Manchuria-and of the ing there is only one side, new "hands, off" nationalism and that is ours.

don't mix. If China wants

What remains of the history ofį Washington has not sent so an independent policy, she

Post-war

of the thousands government taxes important a

as must strive for it and state

a signature tune, and in the Ma- have increased the price of wine, through Waterloo Station every Mr. Harriman to Tokyo to that objective plainly.

rationing the consumption of the day know that the station is built son's Arms, by China-walk, the discuss trivialities. There It would fit in well enough lowly-paid Italian working man. on the site of Astley's famous wall is decorated with murals de

picting pearly kings and queens have been differences in the not only with Britain's broad- And Italy's once-flourishing wine circus.

doing the Lambeth Walk. past over Japan. They have ly-based Asian policy but industry is today facing a crisis.

Last year the country's vine- Astley's equestrians were the

But the people down Lambeth to be settled. There may be also with the fundamental yards produced only 750 million first to perform what has now differences over China, whe- motives of American policy gallons, and production at the become a feature of every cireus way are determined that the au- darp well pleary with Joe Wil- ther one thinks separately of North Korea was armed for beginning of the century wasthe human pyramid on horse- thorities shall not do as

back.

liams and his little grocery shop. Peking and of Taiwan, or of attack and conquest: South double that Agure.

Exports have dropped from

King wit the future of China as Korea for defence. We tolerate 220 million gallons in 1810 to 13 Force d'Hercule" and that is how soon be receiving a petition from

In those days it was called "La So his Majesty the whole. The latter is the only Communist policies inside million gallons last year.

Hercules Road, which runs from "We, the people of Lambeth...." young. Italjons are statesmanlike method of ap the borders of a State: the

Westminster Bridge Road to Lam- "ersatz" wing drinking proach. If the Chinese them- Communists do not tolerate never saw a grape.

which seth Road, derives its name." During the selves cannot think beyond free democratic systents. We war a considerable artificial wing William Blake, poet and painter, their own select circle of follow a live and lot live industry grow up, wine' made lived in Hercules Road, but the saviours, and pursue a petty policy-the Communists do from sugar and favouring. To site a now a block of Corporation

day it undersells the genuine flats. partisan course We must not.

product. make up our own minds If the affairs of Asia are to about the future place of be run by the nations of Asia China, and help thus to make as Mao Tse-tung stated in up their own' minds.

personage

a

Just as

liquor consumption has dropped in some other countries, so Italians are drink- ing less wine, writes correspon- dent Lee from Trieste.

Today

who

Here was Bedlam

pour.

The old Bedlam Hospital for|

Delegations of wine growers Sir Arthur Sullivan was born are petitioning the government to in Bolwell-terrace, and Tradescant reduce taxes on their wines rond derives its name from the the same time hoping young Dutch botanist who was gardenor his last utterance on the Italians will soon tire of the to Charles I. It would be most useful if question-it is surely best to many multi-coloured soft drinks and return to the good red the Chinese, especially in begin at home. In India, for Chianti. Peking, would make a contri-example; by the speedy bution. Certainly they ought settlement of the Kushmir PRECARIOUS DAYS the insane was at the corner of to. It is their future the dispute and the healing of future of the entire Chinese the breach between India For Siamese DOGS St. George's Road. people-which is at stake. and Pakistan. In China, by cats, but little is known about was the scene of bloody battles. You have heard of Siamese Lambeth from ancient times One big and irreparable peaceful negotiations to Siamese dogs. They are quite a But another kind of battle is go- blunder--and that future may settle the quarrel between the subject of conversation in Banging on there today. A grocer's

.battle. be settled in terms of Japan's Communist Party, or the kok. future. A small but vocal People's Government,

It began when and

merchant ob- tained a municipal permit to Once upon a time there' word school of this sort does exist. the reformed Kuomintang. operate #1 dog-meat factory, Three Tailors of Tooley Street It would not be easy for more There were negotiations In, claiming that he was solving the who petitioned Parlament, begin far-sesing people to resist wartime why not now? problem of Bangkok's large stray uing with, the words "We, the Today the primitive urges of this sort The essential basis for such cur population. He hoped to sell people of England."

grisly while Peking offers nothing | a policy would be agreement through Hong duct in China people of Lambeth. are about to petition the King on behalf of Joe but a one-legged, lean-to-one-on an independent foreigni But then objections set in Williams, the dairyman-cum-gro- side posture. The Americans policy, solely concerned with Owners of pedigree dogs feared car of the Kennington Road can hardly ignore the use to the national interests of the ped and end up in a mess of

that their pats would be kidnap- For blue-eyed, grey-haired which the Kremlin has put Chinese people, and a real potage at a chop suey joint, Joseph Maldwyn Williams ha its stooges in Korea, and the Coalition Government to safe Fear mounted when the mer been told by the authorities that way it is getting them to fight guard it, with corresponding ap dogs a day, which made it sees af Britain caro pata, a proposed to "process" some, Httle grocery shop is to be its battles for It

measures in Taiwan. If one obvious that it would not be long Festival of car-park. Peking has been absorbed forces his way through all before every local dog would bave Now Joe is a tough little Welsh in the problems of economie the claptrap which befogs had hiturateurs complete man who became a Londoner at revolution at home. It has the air, it will clearly be seen then restauratours.

the tender age of seven, od of falling trade;- patrona: joat, kryesore thr given singularly little thought that the argument for a na-would not come in, and stand, thu During the Second World: War or opon discussion to the tional consolidation on an chance of being served with de- Jow, lihagabus was blasted, by pressing - issuca - of - Inter- Independent ¦¦ and peaceful villed dachshund or potted poodle, tombegeight, times, but will fåe national policy, References polley is unanswerable. There disguised as something else wouldn't move or close his shop.

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