1936-09-19 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936.

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(Regd.)

A pleasant aromatic application 'which repels attacks from mos-

quitoes, sandflies, etc.

It possesses antiseptic and sooth- ing qualities for treatment after a bite,'

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In handy-size sprinkler containers. 50 cents, $1.25 & $2.00

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

The Hong Kong Dispensary.

NEW REX RECORDS BY, SANDY POWELL & OTHER POPULAR ARTISTS.

.Sandy Powell & Company,

8810 Sandy the Farmor

8801

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880Z

Lost-Fax Trot

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8803

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HOME

DELIVERY

of the

now

1937

Vauxhalls

Make Your Homes Gas-proof

THE Home Office has asked for Preferably a room with a north- A basement £887,000 as a supplementary cast aspect, in estimate to provide the British should be selected. In a two- public with "perfect" respira- storied house it can be on the tors. These are to be distribut- ground floor, in a three-storied ed, not to members of the house on the first floor. public, but to certain headquar- Certain gases have power of ters and centres from which they impregnating bricks and mortar. (can be obtained in the event of Although all windows may be

emergency..

closed and gas-tight on the

For a population of 40,000,000 south-west side of the house, (and that of the British Isles is such gases as mustard gas If you are going home on leave, slightly more) the sum demand might seep through the brick-

this will interest you.

You can arrange now to stop ashore at home and drive away in a new Vauxhall,

ed will allow for respiratora at work. In the northeast (or roughly, sixpence apiece. How north of cast) corner the inner the "perfect" respirator can be wall will give additional protec- produced for this price is matter of speculation.

stion.

It is some consolation,to know

We assist you in this connection | Recently I purchased a gen that when the wind blows from

eral service respirator for without any trouble or complica-experimental

the north-east or north the pos- purposes. The tion to yourself. ... delivered model was practically identical sibility of a gas-air-raid is unlikely. These, winds, being to you at home and subsequently to that fasued to the troops generally gusty, will quickly In Hongkong.

to-day. If anything it may have distribute the concentration into been slightly better, as the con- the air and render it innocuous tainer was larger and would re-

Catalogue & Full Particulars from

Hongkong Hotel Garage

Stubbs Rd.

the

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The room being chosen, the

main effective longer. The price through dilution. was over £3, and it is fair to assume that the manufacturing cost must have been in the preliminary precautions need neighbourhood of at least £1 not prevent its being used for

its everyday purposes.

There are two stages in the

10s.

On this basis the present Phone 27778/9. supplementary estimate would construction of a gas-proof provide for roughly 600,000 room. First, the manufacture general service

respirators, of certain home-made fixtures, Perhaps the money is required and the insertion of screws into wall with wall - plugs. to equip factories to make box the respirators. But the equipment Frames, the matter of a few the hours' work by a handy man

be made. These will last inde- finitely, and have only to be as- The authorities must not only, sembled In the event of a sudden provide adults with a respirator; emergency. It should take less

Casant Club Orchestra. Hongkong Telegraph. of a factory does not provide thy about the house should also

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8822 Piano Medley No. R.19

S. MOUTRIE

York Building.

Primo Scala Accordeon Band.

.Charlie Kunz.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19, 1936.

NEW ASYLUM NEEDED

be necessary.

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what is even

more essen- tin! is to Apart from the erection of a instruct new Central Market, neces- them thor- in sitated by the partial collapse of oughly

making their the building, no new major work

houses (or is to be undertaken in the Colony portions of during the coming year. It is their houses) much to be regretted that by rea-gas-proof. It son of financial stringency it has is impossible not been found possible to make to keep a a start on the much-needed Men-in a respira- young child tal Hospital. In 1932, the tor for any building of a new asylum was length of mentioned

of several time without urgently necessary projects, but its fidgeting and trying to it has had to be postponed year after year because funds have not been available. But very many years before 1932 was the need realised; in fact,

as for back as 1924 the present build- ing was described as a disgrace to the Colony. The description applies with even greater force

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Co., Ltd. to-day. Actually, the Mental

Chater Road.

Hospital is no better than a pri- son. Its inmates are...herded together behind iron bars under conditions which must greally mitigate against their recovery. The facilities for out-of-door exercise or recreation are limited to a forbidding-looking pound,

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COMPLETE TABLE SUITES MAY BE HAD, OR SINGLE PIECES AS REQUIRED.

ONE OF OUR DESIGNS ALWAYS KEPT STOCK.

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PAPER STUCK ON WINDOW

CLASS OF WINDOW

WING

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WAR ~NETTING

By JOHN G. P. HUNT.

would suffice, but only tempor- ford be protected either by a arily since it will dry with the board or frame of chicken wire heat of the room and tend to to prevent its being broken. by fall away.

bomb splinters. This can be. The doors should be protected fixed by driving into the bricks by anti-gas union cloth, like or window frame four project- blankets may, in ing bolts, preferably with a oilskin, but

be used instead, thread pointing outwards. right-angled frame, may be clamped tight, but not down to the floor. Nail the against the window, with the aid: material to the frame, and cover of butterfly nuts. Thus in three the door. If there is time a or four minutes the outside of similar arrangement on the in the window will be splinter- side of the door will help, and proof.

energency, Make a

It

than ten minutes to apply these precautions, and in most cases the household er will have much more than ten minutes' warning of a possible raid. The carpet 01 linoleum should be WING taken up, and all joints between the various floor boards and the shirtings should be filled in with putty or paste and then varnished. In addition, a cer- tain amount of putty, plasticine, Er or similar material should be kept available to close up cracks when the windows are shut.

It is always possible that n the newspapers themselves will Adhesive tape, as is used for high explosive or gas bomb will afford an additional protection jolning electric wiring, is also burst outside, shattering the against gas. helpful. If nothing else is glass of the windows. The out- The windows -ready-paper-pulped-in-water-sido-of-the-window-must-there-proof and shock-proof. You must

GAS PROOF WINDOW

BATTEN

NOTES OF THE DAY

PHRASEOLOGY

Despite a lengthy discussion at last Wednesday's meeting of the

which is so small that when the women inmates make use of it, the men have to be kept indoors, and vice versa. Criminal lunatics, although segregated, are often in sight of other inmates, and at times Europeans, male and female, are

tear the mask from its face. accommodated in the same wards

Therefore the real domestic as Asiatics. The whole atmos- solution of the gas-air-raid

in depressing phere is

the

problem is to set aside a room extreme, the general conditions for this particular occasion. being such as to throw unrea- sonably heavy burdens on the stoft. In the modern sense of the term, the institution cannot be regarded as an asylum; so far from contributing to the recovery of the inmates, we can imagine few places more likely to conduce to even greater insanity.

From time to time, there have been various tentative plans for the erection of a new bullding, at least two sites for which have been car-marked. in Kowloon. The last of these was the

originally

aside .set for the new Central 'British School, near the Kowloon Hospital. It is, however, un- certain whether this will be the final choice, as the suggestion has been made that it would be better to locate the asylum in the New Territories, where there would be ample space for garden- ing, etc. But wherever the in- stitution is placed, there can be no question of its urgent neces- sity. It seems also clear that provision will have to be made for a specialised staff, including occur when neither of these at least one-alienist skilled in the signals is hoisted. Yet, by reason treatment of the various types of of the language used in the Or- dinance, shipowners would still be insanity. Should the financial position of the Colony improve Hable for damage caused under such conditions. A far simpler and more effective form of words,

suggest, would

area

during the coming year, it is to hoped that be

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the material should be smother- Another danger arises from bomb ed with glycerine, fat, or even concussion. Although a water (but not with inflamma- bursting 100 yards away

may tory oils like paraffin) to bind its break your windows by the fibre together.

actual contact of its flying splin- The chimneys are a possible ters or permeate your house with the danger. They should be blocked its gas, the very shock of by stuffing a pillow into the blue, explosion may break the glass. impregnated with such alkaline The only remedy for this is the solutions as soap-suds or hype burglar's expedient of pasting if you are a photographer). layers of newspaper on the glass, These will probably neutralise the preferably on the inside. Thus, gases, especially the acid ones, even if broken, the glass will be as they seep down the chimney. held in position much as safety glass withstands concussion, and

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After hearing the Government's į Lettuce-growers have gone out Budget plans for tempering the on strike in California. Lettuce wind to the shorn lamb, the Legis- hope the endive it will soon be in lative Council appropriately turned view. Its attention to typhoons last- Wednesday.

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Next winter's feminine fashions are to be more backless than ever.

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"The fashion in Manila shares Hope they won't give affront.

for to change like that ladies hat," says a brokers' 'week- 1 report. The price of both usually depends on the gold-dig

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The Government, we notice, is to introduce 13 "wired wireless" service. This, we presume, will be flexible.

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Legislative Council on the question of lability of shipowners for damage caused to ahore works by vessels during bad weather, no member was able to suggest a alternative for the satisfactory rather cumbersome phraseology of the proviso contained in the Or dinance. This proviso is to the effect that owners shall not be llable; in the absence of negligence by themselves or their employees, "if the damage was occasioned just the cutest little things. through stress of weather condi tions at a time when day or night increase) or No. 10 (wind of signala, No. 9 (gale expected to

typhoon force expected) are dis played by the Royal Observatory." It is quite, however, conceivablo that wind of typhoon force might

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. made, by way of supplementary dam aus, was vocasioned through

vote if necessary, for a start on stress of weather caused by wind this essential public service.

of typhoon force."

Newspaper Production."

hending: "Peak Some of them are

0 * 0 Probably the Kowloon express han been named the "Flying Ar- the row" because it darts into tunnels.

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are splinter-

now make them gas-proof. The quickest and handiest way is by ia device such as you have used. on the doors-soaked anti-gas. union cloth or blankets nailed to the window-frame, as far possible blocking every source of inrond.

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The final preparations before: the family retires into the gas- proof chamber need only take a few minutes.

You must have a store of cold provisions, water for drinking, water for washing, certain Įdomestic utensils for sanitary purposes, towels, etc.-and pre- ferably books and games to occupy the minds of the younger | people.

There should be electric tor- ches available in case the elec-

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The Hon. Me. Paterson, during tricity supply fails-not candles, the Council discussion on typhoon food should be kept in an or as they consume oxygen. The risks, said the English language dinary biscuit tin, scaled with scenied Incapable of coping with jadhesive tape and possibly kept the situation. He seems to have in a waterproof wrapper. missed a chance of trying out

In no circumstances must Gaelic,

there be smoking in the gas- circum- protected room, in no stances a fire. With the chim- to-ney flue closed, gas-fires, oil- Now istoves and charcoal fires will bring death more quickly than the polson gas itself.

The typhoon predicted for day seems to have filled, up. we can go and do the same.

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An air-tight and gas-tight. Hongkong's aight-life this win room such as this, with 100,

to be brighter-square feet floor space, will sup

port a party of five for 12 hours without the air becoming objec- tionable or poisonous.

ter promises Neon plus ultra.

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The season is again here when

Our safety must be lie in our people on the mafnland are apt to

own hands, and, apart from aco stripes before tho

eyes, respirators, it is the individual especially adjacent to the reser-duty of all to make sure that

there is a place of retirement.

At present the authorities only

Old residents say this is the volr. hottest September we have had this year:

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Jaffa orange-growers want the request that these simple anti- Arab strike ended so that they gas measures be adopted. But- can export their crops, but at the unless the public becomes gas- There appears to be a curious same time are assisting terrorists minded, sooner or later they... belief that the dollar will go up. with money. They give us the must seek powers to enforce

Ipip. Not up the spout, we hope.

them.