1936-08-27 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1986.

REVOLUTIONARY PLAN TO SAFEGUARD CIVILIANS

Local Authorities Envisage Mass "Displacement" Of Population. In Event Of Air-Raid

'750,000 PEOPLE WILL TAKE

TO THE HILLS"

TEN-YEAR DEFENCE SCHEME MAY

HAVE TO BE ADOPTED

"Telegraph" Staff Reporter

·HAT is being done regording anti-gas measures in W

Hongkong?

Three months ago, the "Telegraph" exclusively fore- cast the steps contemplated by the local Anti-Gas! Committee for the protection of the Colony against gas warfare.

Since then a veil of secrecy appears to have been drawn over the activities of the Committee,

This Committee, which includes persons front' practirally every walk of life in Hongkong, meets once a month to formdate its plans.

The "Telegraph" understands from an authoritative source that the question of publicity, was discussed at the last meting and it was agreed that this branch of the Committee's activities should be immediately undertaken.

Although almost a month has elapsed, nothing appears tol have been done to put the recommendation juto vffért.

Highly important decisions regarding the protection of Hongkong are, 1 understand, almost finalised.

As a result of enquiries I am able to reveal to-day that in the event of an air raid on Hongkong, one of these decisions calls for a temporary "displacement" of population on a scale unprecedented in the history of warfare.

Advantage will be taken of the natural tendency of to aerial bombardment--to the masses-subjected vacate the crowded city areas.

Only the police and mophers of the public manuing essentiat services will be mucouraged to remain in the city in the grent of an air raid.

Three quarters of a million people will be accommodated in the hills surrounding Kowloon. They will be senttered far and wide, in amall communities,

Food and water will be provided : by the authorities. Plans for this important adjuncle the main scheme have already been drawn up, it is learned.

It should be understood that 'i this revolutionary plan is adopted, it would be put into operation only In the event of an air raid, ample warning of which would be forth, coming.

At the same time, the authorities will render the entire Colony us gus proof as possible under conditions of modern warfare.

One of the most vital plans of the Anti-Gas Committee's plan provides

i

Be fully equipped, come under the same category as those provit- Thus regular army. cul for the civilians may qbtain full protection; by Joining the Volunteers,

MUSTARD GAS MENACE Mustard gas sand its allies are

in gas, warfare entert menice Mustard gases are so persistent that they can affect people for days after

they have been scattered,

Chloride of Lime is the main chemical agent used for sealing mustard gas deposits, and negotia- tions are proceeding in Hongkong for the accumulation of a vast deposit of this chemical,

for the selection throughout the The military authorities in Hong Colony of suitable

buildings where; kong, however, du not intend to wait the people engaged in maintaining for an enemy to bomb the Colony

as electric before retaliating. essential services such lighting, waterworks, transportation. gasworks, telephones, etc.-would be safe from gas and bombs.

Efforts are also being made by the Committee to ensure that:

The first and

Becond floors

ot

certain public and private buildings are earmarked for rapid conversion info gas shelters;

Water and food supplies are ren- dered safe from infection.

Recognised signals may be given to the population in the event of a audden attack:

Ambulance services, doctors and fire brigades are familiar with their special duties; and

Effective gas masks, within reach of the pocket of every inhabitant the the Colony, mu«i—as "Telegraph" has repeatedly urged -be made available.

LOCAL GAS MASKS ' Negotiations are,

I understurid, still proceeding with local rubber factories for the manufacture of gas masks at a price that wit be within reach of every inhabitant.

During the past twelve months there has been feverish activity in defence circles, which are raphilly completing a defence plan formu

lated two years ago. Throughout the Colony, and especi- ally in the New Territories, anti- irreal guns mountings are being pinced in all strategic positions.

P.W.D. PLANS

Although the authorities cantern-

plate instructing owners of property in the Colony on the methods to be Ar or employed in making the

Saved By Royal Friend

Local Man's Remarkable Escape From Death In Air Crash

leture of Priner George Galitzine at the bedside of his pirman friend. Mr. Vere Harvey, whom he rescued in Wigtown Bay after a long swim

when Mr. Harvey's Aeroplane fell into the sea..

"As I made for the shore I saw Prince George Galitzine swimming

towards me.

in Hongkong, had a miraculous escape from death when his MR. VERE HARVEY, formerly of Far Eastern Aviation Company 'plane fell into the sea near Gatehouse, in Wigtownshire, recently.

He was saved from death by Prince George Galitzine, his friend and follow-guest at week-

"Hut for him I might have bee! end mansion of Captain Gregg. drowned. I was completely pyland-

Prince George Galitzine, who led wina de reachd nie." was born at Tiflis in 1916 and is an Oxford undergraduate, is the

of Prince Vladmiri i sreund son

Galitzine, who lives at Dalwich, S.E.

CARRIED UNDER

Price George Gälitine sant: " was near the shope in the Jenoplane et into the bea ubunt

mile out. The put wing collapsed When Mr. Harvey crashed Into the and Mr. Harvey was powerless. sea, Priner George made a mile-lonst; was card under th water as the swim to the oating machine..

setine anks and hi to smash the 1lass of the cabin window while th

oby was sinking.

t

This is Mr. Harvey's story of the crash and subsequent acarVer

" was Aying about 1,000 for

WOR the time, when the

became uninvited.

DOOR JAMMED "Mter matvavring the mach away from the rocks I tried, tu apra! the roof-door-as-the plane plunged but was unable to do s

RADIO BROADCAST

Dance Music From- Hongkong Hotel·

ZE.K. PROGRAMME

From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles);

5 p.m. Tel Dance in the Hongkong

Hotel Roof Garden.

7 p.m. The Hi Bies.

The Sunset Trail; Susanna from Alabama; The 11 Billy. Band; Little Mountain Cabin.

7.13 p.m. Tunes of not-so-long Carroll Gibbons and his agó hy Boy Friends.

I. Can't we talk it over; 2. Now that you're gone; 3. Life is just a hawl of cherries; 4. Sleepylime down South; 5. According to the moon- light: 6. Stars fell on Alabama; 7. Jurty

d. Smoke gets in your eyes;

B. You've got to admit.

7.30 9. Closing Local Stork

Quotations.

7.43 p.nl.

"Aldershot Command

Searchlight Tattoo," 1935 played by. the Massed Bands of the Aldershot Command.

8

Time; Weather and An-

noils.

8.03 pan. Chinese Stadin Concert.

11 pm. Close Down.

8.05-10

p.nl. European

Jiro-

gramme from Z.E.K. on a fre

quency of 640 kilocycles,

8.05 p.m. A Concert,

Pianoforte Solos-La Danse D'Olaf (Riccardo Pick); Si Oiseau J'Etals, A to je Volernis (Bird Study); En route (Concert Study) (IIenselt)..... Elleen Joyce: Sonts-1 Wait for you: Tralce...

Walter Glynne (Tenor); Glow Worm Idyl Orchestra-The Orchestra; Songs-The Drums are un Parade (Neville); Tramping through the countryside (Allison)....Peter Dawson (Bacs-Baritone); Violin Solos The Phantom Mriody (Ketelbey); Algerian Seene (Ketelbes)... Alberi Sandler.

Lincke); Nola (Arndt), Salon

8.12 p.m. Band.

The BBC. Military

Golliwog's Cake Walk (Debussy): Vanity Fair-Overture (Fletcher); The Crusader March (O'Donnel): Silver Jubilee Murch (Letts),

p.m. News and Announcements from London, 9.20 p.m.

Yariety and Dance

Music.

Instrumental Dinal. Eight Ensemble; Fax-Trot--I've

"I noticed him swimming fairly strangly, but, realising he would Plano

soon collapse, I took off my jacket found a new Baby....Clarence Wil- and shoes and swam half a mile flams and his Band: Song-Just a out. Inding him nearly exhausted, catchy tile tune: Love, wonderful Gracie Fields; Fox-Trot-- "He was suffering from, cuts and love.

Someday

Roy's brukes on his aim, and legs and a sprained ankle.

It was remarkable Belove that he escaped."

"weetheart.mcntal.

...Kanui and Lula:

"I hit the water about 85 miles per hour. The machine struck the bot-Ased to an eye-witness. Mr. Fox-Trol-At your service Madame tom and then began to float. But for Tom Campbell, the machine plung s Bob Crosby and his Orchestra: that I should have been trapped and into this 300 sorts from the Vocal-The drowned.

shore.

RUSSIA PLANS PURGE

OF TROTSKY ELEMENT

Moscow, Aug. 26.

contemptible

executed.

A countrywide purge of all followers of Leon Trotsky is expected to follow the execution of M. Zinovieff and other leaders who were sentenced to death for plotting the murder of M. Stalin and the overthrow of the existing regime.

thrice The entire Soviet press demondswhich their investigation into all people in lend-chieftains

have been ing Soviet institutions to "exposeRenter.

Seerel police have arrested Kurl hidden enemies,"

Pranda says only the leaders haveRadek's secretary, M. Tivel, in con- been destroyed, but the treacherousnection will the alleged plot against rampants of this band, skilfully the state by Trotsky sympathisers.--- masked, continue their activities, for-United Press.

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

No

Mr. W. A. Butterfield was amongst the passengers who arrived by the

ALL DICTATORS Air ABOUMZA.. second storeys of buildings gas-proof, A PERFECTLY NORDIAL CAN FAKE IT

quiries elicit the strange intern-ON SELF TO BULE A NATION - Empress of Asia to-day."

cost of

tence. masks will probably be actured under the same condi tions as those manufactured in Eng land, fe, first clays and absolutely

ONLY TATORIALLY, tr

BECAUSE THE

M

Desert Song....Edith

and Robert Naylor; Tango- Day Love's Loneliness.... George Bou- langer and his Orchestra; Vocal—. Songs everybody should know.... Stuart Roberson, Waltz-Grinzing

Ray Noble and his Orchestra. 10 p.m.. Big Ben from London.

Close Down.

GIANTS CONTINUE TO WIN

CARDINALS FAIL

TO RALLY' BROWNS BEAT YANKEES

New York, Aug. 24. While the New York Giants con- tion that the Public Works Depart-VANITY OF THE NOTATAL MALE IS NOT After allegedly tuying attempted tinued to forge ahead in the National ment, when passing architects plaas CAPACIA ENOUGH TO ACTEPT SUCH

to burgle a house in 38 Bonham League, the former lenders, St. Louis for new buildings, has not been em- SUPREME RESPONSIBILITY.-John Gun-Strand, Lau Yuk-tong 28, was ad- Cardinals, whom they displaced, Inil-

Insist that provision ther

Imitted to the Government Civiled to recover their form and fell be- powered to

Hospital for treatment. to injuries fore Boston. should be made for protection against gas. No plans pussed in recent

Leung Yuen, employed as a coolle received when he was assaulted by

Giants beal Cincinnati, six to five, months, it is understood, have;

on board one of the lighters of the his captors, who were shop coolles,

though they were outhit, len to eleven provisions for anti-gas chambers. Kowloon Godown Company, has been

and had the only error of the gante. A fire broke out in an un-numbered Their luck still holds. Au unofficial esilmate places the admitted to the Government Civil

St. Louis, on the other hand, was safeguarding Hongkong Hospital for treatment of injuries hut in Pak Shek Hang village, against the menace of gas at received when he fell from the deck Kowloon City, yesterday, causing unlucky. Three homers, by E. Moore, This of the Tango Maru on the lighter complete destruction of the hut. No Berger and Lee, with seven hits, anly approximately $1,500,000. does not include e

persons were injured. The fire was yielded four runs, and the Braves Cost of on which he was working.

caused by a spark alighting on the scored ten on thirteen hits,, military, naval and ale force le-

A request by Det.-St-Insp. Cun-hut from abonare outside the Though Pittsburgh outhit Brooklyn, ningham for a 10-hours' remand was matshed.

the Pirates were boaten, ten to three. gove the COLONY FINANCES

granted when Chan Kau, allas Chan

Bordagaray and Phelps charged before. Mr. Lee Fook, a sherman, of Wal Dodgers a homer apiece,

Philadelphia lost a double-header, to The finances of the Colony preclude Luk, 38, was protective masks and clothings for the expenditure of this huge amount Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis Hal village, Tai Po, luas been admit- the fighting forces, second class and for some years to come, and it up-tracy this morning with posseselon of ted to the Kowloon Hospital suffer- the Chicago Cubs, two to four, when a revolver and live rounds of aming from severe injuries received euch had hits in the opener, and four for pears that Hongkong will have 10.

to seven in the night-cap when Phillica temporarily protective musks

munition at Pakhal Street on August whilst repairing a well in the com- and adopt a five or ten year plan in essential workers, and third claim to adequately safeguard itself. 25. Pun Chuen, 34, was also charged pound of his hut. He was inside the outhit the Cubs ten to nine, Camilli parily protective mask

masks for Civilions.

Indeed, it appears almost certain together with Chan, with returning well, and a loose plece of large homered for the winners. Ordinary gus maska,

from banishment.

granite fell from the top and struck maska, such as are

AMERICAN LEAGUE" provided for civilians in England, that this is the only step that can be

him on the head.

‚r" the lungs from the Laiten. A five year plan would call

Leung Wal, 28, unemployed, ar- and

Boston trounced. Cleveland fourteen' proteerd gas, but do not

for the expenditure of approximately trested yesterday afternoon in his Mr. H. Highaham, in a report to to one, hitting eighteen times to five. anks and

Chicago won from Philadelphia, six body. Gas masks"

rubber $300,000 per annum; a ten year plun: home, at 20 Bulkeley Street, was the police yesterday afternoon, sinted

motor eyele to three, when Bonura homered, clothing provided for essential ser- would call for the annual

St. Loula Browns beat New York, vices provide temporary protection ture of half that amount expendi-charged with possession of an un- that while driving

known quantity of heroin, and along Hennessy Road, he collided This amount is, at

a rough brought before Mr. E. Himsworth at with two Chinese women, who were five to two, though outhit, eight to maska and clothing provided for eslimate, the minimum required to the Kowloon Magistracy, this mora admitted to the Government Civil nine, and though Crosetil whacked, a

Hospital for treatment. Mr. Canley, home run for the Yankees.

Boston's W, Ferrell held Detroit provide gas masks, decontamination ing. Det-Sgl., Forrest naked for one centres, protective clothing for week's formal remand of the case, who was riding pillion, was hurt on esneniint services personnel and to secure the Government Analyst's the arm, and, received treatment at scoreless, and the Tigers four errork report on the seizures. This was the same hospital, but whshot allowed the Red Sox to score Boven

on eleven hila-Reuter. anti-ras materiais zenerally.

granted and bail of $200 allowed.. dolained.

of

the

Internally and externally, while the

troops provide permanent protection.

It is Interesting to note that the "vanaks provided for the Ifongkong Volunteer-Defenca: Corps, which is

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