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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1935.

THE FAILURE OF THE

SEARCHLIGHTS

Fast Raids At High Altitude

Portsmouth, Aug. 14.

THE SANITARY

BOARD

Applications Turned

Down

Three, applications for eating house licences were turned down yesterday by the Sanitary Board

was held at the Board Room, Post at their fortnightly meeting which Omce Building The applications were rejected by the select com- mittee on the grounds of the premises being unsuitable.

light technique virtually in-effec- The full tale of last night's attire. As bombers capable of speeds tempts on the part of 50 search- 80 miles an hour in excess of those of last night may be operating by lights within this area to get on

the end of this year, the question terms with 21 bombers coming in at various heights and from all of adapting the methods of detec- directions against the Dockyard. tion and prediction to meet a wide and the barracks and the docks at range of speeds at a great variety Connaught Road Central, ground ar of heights is obviously of first im-Noor (side door), No. 82. Po Kong Southampton is chiefly one

Road. ground floor and No. 719, failure and disappointment.

These are the lights on which

Nathan Road, ground foor.

the

portance.

EFFECT OF THE MIST important centres in and

On the evidence of last night's around Portsmouth would depend experiences, the complaint that for protection in time of war.

the standard searchlights are not Anti-aircraft guns are posted at powerful enough might be well Gosport, and at Tangmere, near maintained. The mist. which Chichester, but neither can work caused no inconvenience to the at night without the help of pilota, almost completely defeated. searchlights. Last night not more the searchlights. It may, of course, than one raid in 10 could have be open to question whether any been opposed.

type of searchlight at present In the earlier stages one was available to the War Office could

The addresses were. No. 144

The rest of the business were of a purely routine nature with the exception of a letter which was laid on the table. The letter was from the Government signify; ing the approval of the Legislative: Council to the amendments to the Scavenging and Conservancy By-Laws which were passed by the Board on June 2

The meeting was presided over

disposed to make allowances and effectively penetrate such patches by Mr. C. J. Carrie and others

of mist as hung over Portsmouth and the Solent last night. If that

excuses, The searchlights were be tug asked to deal with faster air- craft than they have ever had to shoul! indeed be the case, then the catch before. "The aircraft were anti-aircraft defences will find dying high and were taking crook-themselves compelled to adopt and ed courses. There were strange perfect some other form of aerial strips and patches of mist which illumination. It might, for exam- night here cut the beams short ple be possible to apply star shells and there let them through al-th this altuation. Patrolling air- most up to the starry sky. There craft might be able to render some was a food of moonshine to absorb assistance by dropping parachute and diffuse the insubstantial rods flares At all events, a demand for of light which stretched upwards in all directions. The task of the searchlight companies was certain- ly not an easy one, but it was of exactly the kind they would have

In all these considerations it is to undertake in war, and the final advisable to bear in mind that the opinion arter a long night of bb-whole of the units operating the 50 servation is that they were not equal to the task.

the

ing

improvement in this side of the anti-aircraft defences based on this exercise would be almost un- answerable:

present were the Hon. Mr. E. H Williams, Dr. G. W. Pope, M.O.EL, Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson, Mr. M. K. LO. Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto, Dr. Li Shu Fan and Mr. Im Ping Tseung, Assistant Secre- tary.

MEN FOUND ON OILER

Two men Cheung Tai Leung and Tam Kwan, were fined by Mr. W.. Schofield at the Central Magis- tracy yesterday, for trespassing on board the RFA "War Bhrata" which was lying alongside the west wall of the Royal Naval Dockyard.

The first defendant was fired. $25, in default, one month's hard labour, Mr. Schofield remarking that he seemed to be the ring- leader, and the second defendant

searchlights are Territorial ones which have mostly been in canip Towards dawn the handicap of for only a week. They may be

mist and the

moonshine capable of better things than they diminished. The disadvantages did last night, but the main weight associated with high altitude fy-jor evidence suggests that their was fined $10, in default, three

weeks' hard labour. wore lessened because the troubles were due more to con-

First defendant said he was bomber pilots. finding that theditions over which they could have formerly employed on the ship, searchlights were not getting any no control than to inadequate fair measure of practice, came training or want of experience. lower and still were able to drop The Exercise is being continued their bombs almost unmolested. throughout the hours of darkness In the better visibility they should to-night and to-morrow" night, but have been caught and held fre- on these two remaining "nights t quently by the lights. In fact, they is not devised to test but rather to were caught less frequently as the give practice to the searchlight night progressed, though reports units. from the posts of the Observer Corps continued to reach the

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operations room well in advance ONE PASSENGER

of the arrival of the raiders One

of the most surprising things of all was the repeated fallure of the. searchlights to pick up an aero-. plane after it had fred its green Verey light to denote the release For its bombs,

SOUND LOCATORS

transfer.

A

KILLED

Steamer Strikes Rock

terrible disaster befell the

8.8. Kwong Sal, which is owned by the Yuen On Company, Hong Kong. It appears that the vessel WES on the return run from Canton, when she struck a sub- merged rock near Taishan at about 3 m. yesterday morning.

A still more ominous feature was the

the apparent inability of searchlight companies to Co- ordinate the sound locators and the lights. This is a matter of the most vital importance. Hitherto it has often been possible to align the scund locator onto sounds of aeroplane engines, to read off the bearing and "elevation, these to the searchlight and find. on switching on the light, that it was accurately lald on the distant aircraft In the whole seven hours of searchlight work last night no case of this sort came with'n my knowledge. That might be ex- plained by inefficient operation of the sound locators or by slowness in laying the searchlights. With 50 searchlights under test at the 3, am, she struck the rock near some time, neither explanation can❘ Taishan, which badly holed her

be accepted as generally applicable. A much more serious matter ap- pears to be at the root of the trouble. The higher speeds of modern aircraft have intensified the possibility of error due to the time lag.

With her bows badly holed, the steamer commanded by Captain J. Acock arrived in port yesterday morning assisted by a tug. A re part stated that the ship had. struck a submerged rock about two hours steaming from this port,

The Kwong Sai. lefc Canton at 4.45 p.m. on Monday with a full cargo consisting chiefly of Pumelos and Chinese Moon Cake. She was steaming slowly and at about.

bow3.

The crew immediately set to work with pumps, and the life boats were in readiness in case of necessity. Due to the unceas- ing efforts of the crew the vessel was got under Way and she reached Castle Peak under her own power when the tug went out and assisted her into" port."

SWISS CONSTITUTION

(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally

"press" (Copyright),]

When aircraft are fying at heights above 8,000ft. an interval: of more than eight seconds must pass betwen the opening up of engines and the hearing of the sound in the receivers of the sound. locator. During that time the aeroplane will have moved more than half as far again as used to be the case with the old and slow.

Geneva, Sept 9. Virginias, on which most of the

The proposed fundamental rev:- searchlight practice has previously been done. Last night the Heysion of the Swiss constitution was fords did the greater part of the rejected by an overwhelming ma- duty. Some of them were

at1ofity of over five hundred and ten 11.000ft. All of them were moving to about one hundred and ninety more quickly than heavy bombers three thousand ÿctes in the plebis- have moved in previous Exercises cife he'd on Monday,

The principal supporters of the The result of laying the search- Light according to the old system révision were eighty thousand re- was that the aeroplane was out-presentatives of new political or side the area of the beam and ganisations, such as the National could not generally be found by Front and Young Liberals who took traversing. From this it is to be the view that the constitution 6!: concluded that a difference or 40 1874 is no longer suited to modern miles an hour in, the speed of the times, and consideration must be

given

to "postwar political deve- target may render existing search-

and yesterday he remained on board the vessel with the inten- tion of going to Singapore. Second defendant also said he went on board with the same purpose.

It was stated in Court that the vessel was an oller of the Royal Fleet Auxilary, and that the first defendant had never been employ- ed on the vessel before.

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