1937-04-23 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937.

GAS CAN WIN 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 easily 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, compiled by the Cambridge Scientists' Anti-war Group after experiments to determine the ellency 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

CIR Malcolm calculates that the

development of air attack has made it possible to drop 1,000 tons of bombs on 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

of the Great War. four years

"I do not desire to be thought a bird of ill omen, but I cannot help some- times trying to visualise what would happen in London if war came sud- denly and caught us unprotected as we are. First would come hundreds of aeroplanes-not just a few ns in the last war—each carrying up to a thousand small tucendiary bombs. These would be dropped at the rate of one every five seconds, and enchi machine would leave a string of fires In ita wake.

"If all the Are-fighting appliances in Great Britain were concentrated in one place, they could not cope with a tenth of the fires. Even if they could, on the heels of the fire-raisers would

of come frets

bombing machines, and then aircraft to drench the flaming ruins with poison gases.

MILLION CASUALTIES "Unless the people could take re- fuge in safely below ground, the casualties in a city like London must. amount to a million or even more. while the material damage would be simply incalculable."

The meastires taken by the British Government are vigorously attacked. Although the Govern- ment is having gas masks made for the elvil population, Slr Malcolm claims that it is useless to store these,

-as-the-people-would

SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL

Tesis showed that assuming the air. outside contains enough mustard gas to kill a man in an hour, an average man could remaln alive in a "gas-proof" room for three hours. Only comparatively small areas cold be decontaminat- ed in this time, the writers stale,

not. obtain -of-the omelalgas mask to be not know their use in time of issued to civilians, the

scientists be emergency. He suggests issuing tested a type they believed to spare masks to each family for similar. This gave protection against instruction.

probable concentration of chlorine

4. Although they could

Gas protection measures also are for several hours, but it is pointed criticised by the Cambridge scientists. out 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

WHAT OF CHILDREN to, gos.

NO ACCOMMODATION

Healthy adults with sound lungs

INCENDIARY BOMBS

Protection ngainat Incendiary bombs is another problem to which the. committee devoted itself. "This ปริ how people would act if they followed the Instructions of the Home Omec," they say.

"On hearing the air-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 caught by gas, or stay inside and be roasted alive under the burn-

The

tists found by experiment

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 Loudon,

A LONG SENTENCE

New York, Apr. 10,

that two pounds of thermite in a tin box when ignited penetrated two inches of sand and a tongued and grooved floor. When placed In il Webster Moody, arraigned in Magistrate's court on a charge of bucket of water it merely burned calling his wife names, was sentenced to 60 beers. Moody admitted through the bottom of the bucket he drank and didn't want to quit entirely. Magistrate Nicholas As burning thermite cannot be extinguished by any known chemicals 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,

-it will even burn without an air supply the Home Office holds out Bttle hope of preventing Incendiary bombs from starting fires, and the minimum defence is stated to be a Sin. concrete roof.

UNDERGROUND SHELTERS

Sir Malcolm Compbeli suggests the most practicable solution is the con- struction of huge underground car parks, made reasonably bomb and gas-proof, which in time of

pisice would go a long way toward solving the problem of street congestion, and if war should reme, cach would

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shelter thousands of otherwise un-IMPERIAL CROWN AS A protected citizens. Although the car-parks-would cost a lot of money DISTINGUISHING-MARK- he claims they might be almost decisive in time of war.

are

Many firms and individuals already building their own shelters, he says.

In fact, Sir Malcolm has built a shelter for his own family and staff in his garden. Str Malcolm whence he considers the danger

will come,

by and a cool head will use a gas-musk

They quote statisties to show that, successfully: not many old people in the first place, one million people will be so fortunate; and for children

useless," the scientists conclude.

of the population of England and under five the gas mask will be Wales do not possess a room that could be set aside for gas-proofing, und that, secondly, 7,000,000 under would have to live crowded conditions If one of their rooms were set aside as "gas-proof."

mare. over-

The difficulties of attending to bables are stressed, particularly the possibilities of psychological and physical damage, quite apart from the danger of gases,

stales Plaiuly

INNOVATION IN ENGLISH

HERALDRY

From A Special Correspondent.

London, Apr. 10.

At the College of Arms, Queen Germany. "During | Victoria-street, last night I saw the

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

competent #uthorities that Germany spent between £859, 000,000 and £1,000,000,000 armaments a colossal sum Indiced it concerned a solvent, pros- perous country, but only to be described as astronomical in the case of one which is virtually bankrupt, as Germany is to-day?" le writes.

King of the new arms of the Duke of Windsor, now being recorded at the College.

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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 perpendicut- |lar extensions, depending from it. Now on the centre "point"" is a small Imperial crown.

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

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

King George VI, when Duke of York, bore a blue anchor on the cen- tre point. The Duke of Gloucester carries a St. George's Cross on cach of the two outer points" and a red llon of England on the centre. The Duke of Kent has three blue anchors,

CORONET WITHOUT CAP

The Coronet, too, ́ls that worn by the younger sons of a King. As In the King's Crows, the circlet is sur- mounted by four crosses patee 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 lege of Heralds that the velvet cop turned up with ermine around which the Coronet is worn was not shown.

On the heads of the passant llori, which is the Duko's 'erest, and the guardant llon, which is one of the supporters, are Coronets which also do not show.the.cap.

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