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Cable your Christmas New Year Greetings

REDUCED RATES TO

THE

BIRD THE Via Eastern

BRITISH EMPIRE TEN WORDS

$325

Four More Days

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

LECTURER TELLS OF PRECAUTIONS IN AERIAL RAIDS

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are not likely to be made in Hong- kong for lack of room.

by.

Kain and Gas

render

the

To keep out rain and to these trench shellers gas proof, the part that is occupied is roofed in. The root also acts as protection against splinters of bombs and fall- bricks etc. from buildings near- The roof is simply made of tim- ber or timber and corrugated fron covered with earth to a thickness of about two feet six inches. If top six inches to nine, can be made of brick rubble, broken, stone ΟΣ other hard material, so much the better. This roofing should be car- rled out on each side of the trench for at least two and a half feet and small drain should be dug along the edge of each roof to catch water from the surrounding land that might run in under the roof And thus into the trench. Roots would only be put over the parts of the trench occupied and their connect- ing passages, leaving the travel trenches at the end open. Thus where each of the shelter trenches comea into a travel trench there would be a length of passage trench longer than the usual length between recesses, day up to 15 feet long, to At gas curtains in and make a gus lock.

Drainage Essential

that

The drainage of rainwater might find its way in through the roof and the drainage from the small channels at ground level has to be carried away. This is probably best done by one of the cross travel trenches, preferably the one farthest from the buildings from which the occupants come and so less likely to. be used. It will have to be dug

the than deeper

other Trenches graded to a

all

and fitted with "duckboards" "so that the water may run away beneath the boards to some outfall downhill or inte a waler drain.

storm

This water must run away some- where and you cannot arrange this the site is not suitable for a trench system. It will be full of water in the summer and unfit for use,

Such a trench system should have electric lighting if at all possible us

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The Won. dar Boy

of Song!.

BOBBY BREEN

BASIL RATHI

MAKEAWISH

RKO RADIO

Picture

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1987.

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HONG

KONG

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Value $2.-

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HONG KONG

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

By J. NORMAN LYND

DO YOU THINK AUNT SUE

WILL LIKE THIS?'

WELL IF SHE DOESN'T

SHE KNOWS WHAT

SHE CAN DO !*

WHEN THIS HECT)/* VJEEK IS OVER, IT MIGHT BE A GOOD

IDEA TO GIVE SOME.

LESSONS IN TYING UP PACKAGES TO OUR WIVES SWEETHEARTS, SISTERS, AUNTS AND COUSINS.

THEY WANT EVERYTHING. IT WOULD BE MICH SIMPLER TO GIVE FATHER

CHRISTMAS A CATALOGUE OR TWO AND SAY, "GIME. THE WORKS. *

THE SELF SATISFIED PERSON WHO HAS ÁLL. HER SHOPPING DONE - AND YOU REALLY

HAVEN'T GOTTEN STARTED YET.

BETTER HURRY AND PICK OUT YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS

BEFORE ALL THE ONES WITH THE SWELL, SENTIMENTS

ARE GRABBED.

/NORMAN LYND?

| MO÷YOURE. TOO LATE.

TO CATCH THE.

MAIL TO CHINA THIS CHRISTMAS, BUT YOURE IN LOTS OF TIME FOR INEXT CHRISTMAS.

AS I ALWAYS SAY, IT ISN'T WHAT A PRESENT COSTS

IT'S THE SENTIMENT THAT COUNTS!

DOES THAT MEAN THAT IM GOING TO GET A CHEESY PRESEUTHIS CHRISTMAS TOO ?*