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GAS ATTACKS FROM

THE AIR

By "NEMO"

Hongkong Telegraph.sportsmen, so the honour which has been educating her populace. these blisters will cause death.

on him will be At

TUESDAY, JANUARY, 3, 1932.

all

The Very Idea!

MELBOURNE TEST By Edward Kally, M.CC Now that you know that Bradman is going to play in the Test Matches, despite the Writer-Player ban, we hope you're satisfied. We know it all along..

Only our special organisation

can provide you with the facts auch as the following ball by ball resume of the play in the second Test Match, now proceeding in Melbourne.

shake of the pan, took his block.

Tho

Larwood was the bowler.

first bail was pitched high, and in characteristic fashion, Bradınan edged two sentences to fins leg. Ho snicked the next ball past third man for a parenthesis, and then slogged the last ball of the over through the covers for a complete

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basket and then, with a Inte cut,

scored his first half column in an many minutes.

Jardine tossed the ball to Voca.

The sensation, however, camo ́lu the next from Bowes. Bradman

the

"Sing us another one, Don," came from the barrackers on the ILDI.

in which we are happy to join, shouting and there rained a ghastly tect him from being bombad.

"Heard the heavens fill with there was no power that could pro- will be showered on Sir William dote

The same warning holds good Shenton, honoured in the New

From the nations' alry navies 'againat mustard but it la un Year List with a well- deserved grappling in the central blue." necessary to dinaminate it by knighthood. Having figured so

-LORD TENNYSON. means of bombs. This deadly prominently in the public life of

On November & the question was weapon is, in spite of its misload the Colony in recent years, raised at Geneva as to whethering name, a yellowish, olly quid. rendering valued services to the measures of protection against In the same way as arsenic

slightly heavier than water, and is Government and to the com- chemicnt warfare should be. en- munity, Sir William was marked courged. On November 10 Mr. prayed from aeroplanes over orchards to exterminate insects, out as a man upon whom Royal Baldwin, speaking in the House so can mustard gas be sprayed favour was most likely to fall: 0 Commons on

aerial warfard, over cities. It is claimed that The honour which he has now and that in spite of the Geneva this method, which has actually received does not, therefore, Continent were being taught the expert, would be immeasurably fountain pen over hie shoulder, Bradman was opening bat. The Protocal of 1825, people an the bean suggested by an American youthful champion, with his come as a surprise, Still a com- necessary precautions to take more ellcacious, since it Is paratively young man, of bound- against the use of gas attack from silent as a light slower of rain ing room, and after a preliminary as strode majestically from his dress- less energy and enthusiasm, it is the air. He would not pretend and covers an infinitely greater difficult to realise that he has that we were not taking our pres are far more evenly than la pos- spent nearly a quarter of a cautions in this matter. We had sible by bombing. century in Hongkong, but such made our Investigations much The properties of mustard gas is the case. Until some few more quietly and without any are commonly unknown in this

publicity.

country, and are much more dand- years ago, however, the calls on his professional life made it cautions in these Isles are

All active and practical pre- ly than its name would lead one con- to expect. The liquid is a very impossible for him to take that fined to the Army, the Navy and stable compound, known to the deep and lively interest in public the Air Force, which carry on chemists an dichlorethysuphide, affairs which he has since so independently of the politician; and was Introduced in the War phrase. consistently manifested. Apart but while almost every other coun- by the Germans in July, 1917. | from the time and energy which try in Europe is teaching its elvil Even though it was only fired in ho has devoted to his work on population the

Bradman was not quite so com- necessary rudi- shells-aeroplanes not being used

por fortable facing Bowes, and ho the Executive and Legislative ments of defence against air gas--it was responsible for 80 Councils and on various Govern-attacks, strangely enough the cent. of our gas casualties from blocked the rat two balls of the over with non-committal con- ment committees, Sir William British public is kept in utter that time onwards.

The liquid will penetrate any monts. Then suddenly he lashod has found occasion to lend his ignorance of the most elementary

jordinary clothing, however thick: out and put a beautiful paragraph support to innumerable organisa-

measures of unfoty.

even rubber and oilskins will not right over the pickets. Two com- tions, the varied activities of Poland has a travelling "circus" withstand it for more than a few mas and a semi-colon came from which bear testimony to his of demonstrators, who tour

hours, and have to bo decon- the next three balls. from taminated, it at all tainted, be- Larwood again. Bradman drop- catholicity of interests and, at town to town with apparatus and a fore further use. While lying ped his first into the wastopaper the same time, his practical "talkie" cinematograph, lecturing on the ground It gives of vapour concern in all useful aspects of on the methods of protection. in the same way as water, but life in the Colony. In all his France has had rehearsals of air much more slowly, services, whether of a business raids in which whole districts have The actions of both vapour and or public character, he has dis- are brigades, Red Cross workers, fold. Any contact of the liquid The Australian Wonder, however. been darkened, and troops, pol.ce, liquid on human beings are mani- played a freshness of outlook stretcher-bearers, doctors, nurses, with the skin. In however small appeared to relish the change, for and a capacity for real hard Boy Scouts-all in gas masks- a quantity, will cause a

two work which is characteristic of have co-operated with the

blister hu immediately banged off elvi which becomes septic and takes Router cables and an Our Own the man.

Sir William, also, islans. Even Switzerland, with from three weeks to three months Correspondent in quick succession.. one of Hongkong's most popular hor natural protective barriers, to hoal; a sufficient number of, Then with a wristy shot that Bernard Shaw might have envied, Berlin two The vapour itself, if sufficiently he lifted an epigram right over acclaimed in practically

air concentrated, sham gas attacks from the

has exactly the frat man. walks of life locally.

havo been recently staged. Each same effect. It can disintegrate Shenton, herself a daughter of alarms, and when the attacks were death by

Of Lady was accompanied by organised the lungs to the point of causing suffocation, it also former well-known and highly over, cycliats rode through the cause8 temporary blindness. respected residents of .OVERCROWDING

the streets advertising the fact, while Even in very small quantities it got well under the first, and lifted Colony, it may be said that men in complete protective cloth can result in conjunctivitis of the it for a limerick right into she has enjoyed equal popularity chloride of lime or a

members Stand. ing with hand-carts Most big cities, as we know with her husband, having, oy her

spread eyes, or kill the victim by suptle, That was a cute litio rhyme. to our cost in Hongkong, have natural charm of manner and

cheaper,pneumonia of the lungs. imitation, on the streets,

The two most nightmare pro- their slum and overcrowding her easy grace, won friendships held in Rome, when the city was sation whatever is felt for a period In September a rehearsal was 'perties, however, are that no sen- problems. In a recently-issued on all hands. The whole Colony effectively darkened and the elvi- of at least four hours, so that it "New Survey of London Life will unite in the hope that both tians carried out instructions with can be ignorantly carried about and Labour," covering the east Sir William and Lady Shenton surprising obedience and In-on clothing in "quantities large In the next over, Jardine ern area with a population of may live long to enjoy the Red Cross men and other cmor. Moreover, it is a persistent poison, balled for splitting an Infinitive. telligence. The fire brigades, enough to infect numerous people. brought in Hammond, who was no- gency corpo co-operated with and in calm weather can lo

on Bradman seized the opportunity. to areat precision, and men clothed the ground for over two weeks send it over third man for a lead- in ollekins from head to foot and still be as deadly as ever at ing article. Not cantant with that, spread neutralising chemicals in the end of that period. Unless, Bradman slipped a fresh shoet in- the streets-notably round the therefore, the public are properly to his typewriter and tossed off a

educated against it, childen might, letter to the Editor. (come home from school s fort- The nature of these rehearsals; night after A famous London publishing the fact that the citles chosen are enough dichlorethylsulphide been reduced. As an instance. home, which issues cheap all far from the frontiers; the their boate to incapacitate the Ing a sturdy defence, but scoring it is stated that the persistent editions of the classics, has oxidising chemicals used to disin- whole family. housing shortage has greatly | compiled significant lists of the fect the streets; the type of cloth- retarded the rate of decrease of most popular books of this type. Ing worn-these all indicate that Five bomber aeroplanes could' a writer. At the same time it wa overcrowding. "The grim fact Among adults "David Copper- the measures are obviously to pro- carry enough mustard gas to spray illiterate school he was doing his remains," says the survey, "that field" is first, with Dickens in vide against the use of mustard over the whole area of the City best. one in ten of the human being general definitely the favourite gas from acroplanes.

of London; and one 'plano could who inhabit the eastern survey author. In 1931 "A Tale of Two is unprepared against any such vourable wind, and bearing in London, though its population paralyse Whitehall. With a fo-

After the tea adjournment area and ons in seven who Cities," "Oliver Twist" live in Charles Booth's East "The Pickwick Papers" were these

and warfare, is no more immune than mind the persistent nature of the Bradman, with airy nonchalance. Continental cities. Mr. liquid, the gas could be released dashed off a succession of Bulls London were found at the time especially big sellers. With Baldwin, in the speech already several miles from London at a and Inners, and then settling down of the investigation to be sub-children "David Copperfield" is referred to, stated that a bomber high altitude and would drift over to the job ho flicked a nent ject to conditions of privation relegated by "Robinson Cruson" would always get through, and the city, so that the attackers Legislative Council report over the which, if long continued, would to second place, while "Kidnap said it was as well that the man could eliminate the necessity of heads of slips. deprive them of all but the ped" is also very high up on the in the street should know that meeting our anti-aircraft guns. necessities and cut them off list. These facts throw an in- from access to many of the structive light upon one of the material and cultural benefits of most important social questions modern progress." Not far of the day. Most close obser- from half these persons owed vers are agreed that it is desir their condition to unemployment able that children should eco on or under-employment, it is re- the screen only such films as corded. What is truc of Lon- are suitable for them. To this don, is true also of many of the end it has been frequently sug- big industrial cities; indeed, gested that special children's the conditions are common to all performances should be given slum areas. The problem is an and that films definitely designed Immenso one, and it is difficult for children should be made by to solve, since the sheer force the various cinema companies. of economics has to be taken As a matter of fact, such films into account: even were better have been produced from time to accommodation available, the time, with this unsatisfactory plain fact is that it would be result, according to the reports beyond the means of those who of different social survey couri- suffer most from the exist- cils, that children havo often ing conditions. Unfortunately, heartily disliked them. It has whilst the evil persists, the Gov- often been the case that child- ernment. In its anxiety to ren have preferred films made "economise," is, cutting down chiefly for adults to those manu- severely on most of the social factured especially for them- services. Amongst the latest selves, Surely it is obvious proposals put forwards in this from this that children do connexion is the ending of the not like to be played down to. housing subsidy, a reduction in They (probably unconsciously) the slum clearance subsidy, a appreciate the compliment of cutting down by half of the aged having something put before peoples' subsidy, greater dis-them that really exercises their crimination in regard to mater- thought. This is a fact of nity and child welfare centres, which the producers of chil and a tightening up of Poor Re- dron's films should mover lose lief. It has well been maid sight. If they are to succeed, that "the fatal destiny that as everyone wishes them to makes human misery eternal is succeed, they should remember no longer of nature, but of that one of the most certain man." A recognition of this ways of losing the favour of point should spur people every-children is to treat them where to the task of lifting the childishly.

tilles imply.

their

new

Entertainment for Children

two and a half millions, it is distinction which pointed out that while there has been a substantial Improvement in conditions since Charles Booth undertook his original survey, nevertheless there have been counter-influences at work which have appreciably slowed down the rate at which poverty has

Ministry of Defence.

·

An

nir-raid with

"We would still be engaged, if he hadn't suggested we bought

each other furniture for Christmas,

on

Woodfull, whe-opened the Inn- Ings with Bradman was maintain-

slowly and regret was expressed on all sides that he, too, was not

admitted that as one of the old

Came now the fireworks. An- other loose ono WRI pushed through the covers for n "Voritas" football tip. The next ho con- verted into a Day By Day; the next into a Salesman Sam.

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The crowd were in ecstasies. "Edgar Wallace had nothing un him!" roared someone. "What about Shakespeare now?" screech- od a woman. At which the oldest inhabitant shook his beard and said: "If only he had the foot- work of Milton!"

As if he heard this comment, Bradman opened his shoulders and Ufted a Beauty Mint Into the World of Women, and then settled down in real earnest to a serial story.

Five minutes later Jardine successfully appealed against the light. It was too dark to dia- tinguish between a colon and a full stop, so a halt was called for the day..

The scores were:

Woodfull no. 27. - Bradman (to be continued) 18 pagos, 7 cpla, 4 paragraphs,

NO SANDWICHES.

Men who broke into a railway station refreshment room recently, lighted a gaa-ring. made some tea and cooked eggs and bacon.

The fact that a pile of sand- wiches was left undisturbed s hold to support the theory that the intruders wero in search of food, and not bent on sterling' objects of antiquarian interest.

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