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FRIDAY, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.: THE

APRIL 23,·· 1937.

GAS CAN WIN A A WAR IN TWELVE HOURS Sir Malcolm Campbell's Grim Forecasts Of Future Strife TERRORISED CIVILIANS WILL CALL ON GOVERNMENT TO

SUE FOR QUICK PEACE "If London Were Bombed From The Air By Modern Planes There Would Be 1,000,000 Dead"

"IF we do not make proper provision for protecting the people from aerial attack, we may lose the next war in twelve hours. A war can casily be won by so terrorising the enemy's civil population that it will bring pressure to bear upon its Government to stop the war at all or any cost. It is common ground that this will be the method used by any strong power making war on a weaker."-Sir Malcolm Campbell.

This is only only one of the grim forecasts of the dangers of the war made by Sir Malcolm Campbell, former war-time aviator and dis- tinguished. racing motorist in his book "The Peril from the Air."

Similar warnings are issued in a pamphlet on the protection of the public from aerial at- tack, complied by the Cambridge Scientists' Anti-war Group after experiments to determine the emcacy of the British Government's precautions for the protection, of the civil population. Both books condemn the measures taken by the Government as impracticable.

ONLY SAFETY IS BELOW GROUND

SIR Malcolm calculates that the

development of air attack has made it possible to drop 1,000 tons of bembs un London in a single day and night. That quantity is four times the weight of bombs that fell on the whole of Great Britain during the four you desire to be thought a bird

of the Great War. of ill omen, but I cannot help some- times trying to visualise what would thappen in Landon if war came sud-

denly and

do not

we are. Fus unprotected ns:

would come

hundreds

of neroplanes-not just few as in the lust war each carrying up to a thousand small. Incendiary bombs. These would be dropped at the rate of one every five reconds, and ench machine would leave a string of fires in its wake.

If all the Are-fighting appliances In Great Britain were concentrated In one place, they could not cope with a tenth of the fres. Even if they could, on the heels of the fire-ruisera

of come fleets would

bombing machines, and then aircraft to drenchi the flaming ruins with poison gases. MILLION CASUALTIES "Unless the people could take, re- fuge in safety below ground, the casualties in a city like London must amount to a million or even inore, while the material damage would be simply incalculable."

SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL

INCENDIARY BOMBS

Protection against Incendiary bombs is another problem to which the committee devoted itself. "This dy how people would net ir they followed the Instructions of the

Home Office," they any.

"On hearing the nir-raid warning people will rush to their 'gas-proof' rooms and then, when the incendiary bombs set fire to the upper parts of their dwellings, they will either run out and be

by caught

gas, or stay inside aud be roasted alive under the burn- ing house."

THE ANZACS IN LONDON

A singularly appropriate photograph in view of the Anzac Day celebrations in Hongkong on Sunday. The photograph shows the Aus- tralian military contingent to the Coronation marching through London.

A LONG SENTENCE

New York, Apr. 10. -

Webster Moody, arraigned in Magistrate's court on a charge of calling his wife names, was sentenced to 60 beers. Moody admitted ket he drank and didn't want to quit entirely. Mugistrate Nicholas Pinto told him to go back to his family, drink not more than two beers a day for 30 days and then come back and report how he was getting along.--United Press,

The selentists found by experiment that two pounds of thermite in a tin box when ignited penetrated Iwo Inches of sand and a tongued and grooved floor. When placed in bucket of water it merely burned through the bottom of the bucket. As burning thermite cannot be extinguished by any known chemicals it will even burn without an air supply the Home Once holds out life hope of preventing incendiary bombs from starting fires, and the minimum defence is stated to be a Sin. concrete roof.

UNDERGROUND SHELTERS

Sir Malcolm Campbell suggests the most practicable solution is the con-

New Arms

struction of huge underground car- For Duke

parks, made reasonably" bomb and gas-proof, which in time of

pence would go a long way toward solving

the problem of street congestion, and

Tests showed that assuming the alr outside contains crough mustard gas to kill a man, in any The measures taken by the

hour, an average inan could remain British Government are vigorously. alive in a "gas-proof" room for attacked. Although the Gavern-

three hours. Only comparatively small areas co.tld be decontaminal-

war come,

would ment is having gas masks made for the clvll population, Sir

shelter thousands of otherwise un- ed in this Ume, the writers state. Although they could not obtain Malcolm claims that it is useless

prolected

the citizens. Although to store these, as the people would supplies of the offeint us-musk to be car-parks would cost a lot of money, not know their use in time of issued to civilians, the scientists he claims they might be almost

He suggests issuing emergency.

tested

decisive in time of war. a type they believed to be spare masks to each family for similar.

This wa

gave protection against

Many firms and individuals Instruction.

a probable concentration of chlorine

already building, their own shellers, for several hours, but it is pointed he says.

Malcolm has In fact, Sir built a shelter for his own family. and staff in his garden.

Gus protection measures also are criticised by the Cambridge scientists. cut that as they protect only the face They prepared "gas-proof" rooms in and lungs, they would leave open the accordance with

the Instructions remainder of the body to the attacks issued by the Home Office, but found of mustard gas. that they were far from Impervious to gas,

"NO ACCOMMODATION They quote statistics to show that, in the first place, one million people of the population of England and Wales do not possess a room that could be set aside for gas-proofing. and that, secondly, 7,000,000 would have to live under crowded conditions if one of their rooms were set aside as "gas-proof."

more over-

WHAT OF CHILDREN "Healthy adults with sound lungs and a cool head will use a gas-mask successfully: not many old

people will be so fortunate; and for children will be under five the gus musk useless." the scientists conclude.

The difficulties of. attending to babies are stressed, particularly the possibilities of paychological and physical damage, quite apart from the danger of gases.

are

Str Malcolm states plainly. whence he considers the danger

Of Windsor

IMPERIAL CROWN AS A DISTINGUISHING MARK-

INNOVATION IN ENGLISH HERALDRY

From A Special Correspondent.

London, Apr. 10.

At the College of Arms, Queen

will come, Germany. "Durhir Victoria-street, kust night I saw the

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the past year alone it is estimated original sketch, approved by the

competent authorities that

50 King, of the new arms of the. Duke Germany spent between £850,- | 000,000 and £1,000,000,000 of Windsor, now being recorded at armaments a colossal sum indeed the College. It concerned a solvent, pros- perous country, but only to be described as astronomical in Qe case of onc which is virtually bankrupt, as Germany is today," he writes.

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The shield, crest and supporters differ little from those borne by the Duke when he was Prince of Wales. Then he bore them "differenced with a plain silver label of three points". - narrow band running across the shield with three short perpendicu- lar extensions depending from it. Now on the centre "paint" is a small Imperial crown.

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In the opinion of the Hon. George Rothe Bellew, Somerset Herald, it is the first time that the crown has op- peared on the label on the arins of a Royal duke.

The presence of this charge on the label makes the armorial bearings of the Duka to, resemble those of a younger son of a King of England. It has always been the custom since the time of Edward the Black Prince for the eldest son to carry the label plain and uncharged.

King George VI, when Duke of York, bore a blua anchor on the cen tre polat The Duke of Gloucester carries a St. George's Crois on cach of the two outer points and a red Hon of England on the centre. The Duke of Kent has three blue anchors.

CORONET WITHOUT CAP

The Coronet, too, is that worn by the younger sons of a King. As in the King's Crown, the circlet is suṛ- mounted by four crosses pater al- ternately with four fleurs-de-lys, but It does not have the two crossing. Imperial arches of the King or the one arch of the Prince of Wales,

I noted in the sketch at the Col- logo of Heralds that the velvet-cap. turned up with ermine around which the Coronet is worn was not shown,

On the heads of the passant llon, which is the Duke's crest, and the guardant lion, which is one of the supporters, are Coronels which also do not show the-cap.

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