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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1938.

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says J. B. S. HALDANE

KNOW of no subject except sex on which more nonsense is written than air warfare. The reason in both cases is that our emotions are strongly aroused.

Many people are terrified at the mere

Hongkong Telegraph. thought of air raids. And, personally,

MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1938.

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after seeing the children of Madrid reduced to rather dirty cats' meat by German bombs, I have nothing but contempt and hatred for those who either practise or defend this form of murder..

*Nevertheless, if we are to avoid war if possible, and to de- fend ourselves if attacked, we have got to think about this dis- gusting business as unemotional- ly as a good doctor thinks about cancer or a good lawyer about rape.

AN N airman can use four ***** weapons against peo-

"The main

result of bombing Madrid has been to unite Government Spain in a way which seemed impossible."

respirator, though he does not would draw the gas up into the air actually die for some hours or and disperse it. Hence a mixed raid

would probably fall. days.

So I shall not be afraid of a gas Or di-chlor-ethyl sulphide, an rald once we have respirators for oily liquid whose vapour is called babies and every one has been shown how to use a respirator. Until then mustard gas, may be dropped in we have not get really thorough pro- bombs or released in a spray. tection.

with this danger, though in a rather half-hearted way. +

I

It is gratifying to British people to rend reports and see evidence of the business capacity and foresight of their leaders in commerce. It is particularly pleasing to Britons in the Far East, almost all of whom at some time or other have had

MANY people believe The liquid remains for days, un- It is otten said that. incendiary direct contact with the concern,ple on the ground, namely, high

that's war can be won less it is washed into the sewers bombs could set a whole town alight; to learn that the Peninsula and explosive bonibs, incendiary by a knock-out blow with bomb with a hose or destroyed with and steps are being taken to dr Oriental Steam Navigation Com-bombs, gas and machine guns. ing airplanes at the enemy's chloride of lime.

can also launch torpedoes capital.

think that this peril, too, is pany, whose interests are so He

Its vapour is not so quickly closely bound up with the Empire against ships."

Airplanes can be brought The experience of Spain and fatal as phosgene, but it can exaggerated. In the first month of air raids on Madrid only high ex- in the East, continues to prosper down by other airplanes, by anti- China has disproved this theory: blister the skin, even if the lungs plosives were used. The main use and progress. And this in spite aircraft guns, or by hedges of Franco hoped to terrify first and eyes are protected by a of incendiary bombs will probably of troubled conditions in Spain moored balloons. They can be Madrid and then Catalonia into mask. Fortunately the blisters be to cause enough Bres to light un a town during a night attack, so that even the second relay of bombers can see and China where the old ship-detected by searchlights, micro- surrender. He has succeeded in are hardly ever fatal or

Government Spain permanently disfiguring. where to drop their cargoes.

high Unfortunately,

explosive ping company has done much phones, spies, and other agencies. uniting

Finally people on the ground against him in a way

I do not believe that any much business in the past and will do

can-be-protected by bombproof seemed impossible a year ago. deadlier gases have been or will bombs are a far greater danger, and -have-no-protection against them. in the future.

shelters, gas masks, fire engines, The Japanese hoped that a few be made. Mustard gas was first The quarter-ton German bomb gees At the centenary meeting of smoke screens, and so on.

raids on Nanking would smash made in 1886, and nothing worse riuht down to the basement of an We must now ask how we can the the directors, Lord Craigmyle;

Chinese Government. If had been discovered up to 1918, ordinary house before exploding, and best spend the hundreds of mil- they ever take Nanking they though Lewisite, an arsenic com destroys the house completely.

In n ferro-concrete building recently spoke: "We have some-lions of pounds available for will have to take it with infan- pound, is about as bad. And it times heard it said that British these purposes.

penetrates five or six doors before try.

is pretty certain that no new bursting, but the explosion seldom What is the proper balanes be- The theory is held that a huge vapours or gases will go through brings the whole building down. could not imagine any state-tween attack and defence? Our fleet of British bombers will so a good respirator. Some smokes Unfortunately, there are London

ferro-concrete buildings in ment more unsound. Its only Army is given not only artillery terrify other Powers that they will do so if very strong, but al- and few of them are used as sleep- foundation is the short-lived era and tanks with which to attack, will not dare to fight us. I be- though the effect is painful, it is ing quarters.

For those who live in brick houses, but machine-guns, apades, and lieve this is a dangerous illusion, not dangerous to life. of high freights which war barbed wire to defend itself.

In the event of another Anglo- Fortunately gas penetrates which can be knocked down by the brings with it owing to the

blast from a bomb bursting In the Are we tackling the problem German war, which I hope and very slowly into houses, even street, there are scarcity and diversion of of air warfare as a whole, or are trust will not occur, Hitler will when the rooms are not special evacuation to the country and bomb tonnage. But, as the Great War we arming in a one-sided man- pray for a few good British air ly gas-proofed, and the experi- proof shelters. proved, even the shipowners ner? who gain for the time-being

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and

which

raids in which German women ments recently reported by tho

IF, then, our bombers can neither prevent nor

two alternatives:

I do not believe that half the pro-

a future war we must look made. There is still no respira- ing a ton.

tor for young children. And the deep, with several layers of concrete

likelihood of war.

and children are killed. They Government should allay exag- ple of London could be evacuated in a weck, let alone a few hours. So stand to lose far more than they wage scales can operate less would unite the German people gerated fears. Unless a gas shelters will be needed. have won in the aftermath of expensively, has made great in against Britain as no amount of bomb actually bursts in a house

propaganda could do.

there is very little danger parti- TN Valencia, there are shelters. dislocation and, depression which roads on what was formerly the

for most of the people who cularly if respirators are worn.

stay there at night. Some of these follows....The greatest In-profit of British merchantmen.

But two criticisms can bo would not stand up to a bomb weigh-

Othera terest of British shipping is not Much is heard in these trying

are thirty feet war. It is peace. It is in days of the necessity of a big win separably connected with the and modern merchant fleet in the

as well as earth above their steel to our defences.

experiments with mustard gas roofs. What Valencia has done in growth of peaceful trade, with

Our first line of defence is in were made on animals, not men. war time London could do in peace. friendly foreign relations, and event of an emergency. It is a

fact, well-informed quarters the air. Unfortunately, we are

To satiary critics they ought Even if nothing is done I do not be- with the prosperity of the world

assert, that the British merchant neglecting our fighters and dou: to be repeated on mean wearing lleve that London would be wiped out. But I think a big series of raids as a whole."

navy is not sufficiently large to ble-purpose 'plants in favour of respirators, An ex-soldier skill might kill fifty thousand people is a Lord Craigmyle told the meet-feed the Empire under war con- long-distance bombers.

ed in anti-gas work has written week. And if the survivors thought ing of "proprietprs" of the ditions. There is some truth,

Our second line is anti-aircraft to the Daily Express offering the Government had let them down

there might well be revolution. the statement that success of the company in too, in

I may be optimistic, and until we artillery. The defence of Lon- himself for such a test. He is incks the numerous rebuilding faster than the actual Britain state of the fleet required. They skilled ship-builders of other don is in the hands of Terri- sure that he will be quite safe. have shelters sorue desperate dictator I am quito may throw his whole air force into had foreseen a rise in the cost days. She has the quality still, torials well below strength, and I am not so sure.

A proper system of shelters would of building, and ordered new but not the quantity of trained at least in part armed with guns willing to stay with him for an attempt to wipe us off the map.. which were originally designed twenty-four hours in a house make this quite impossible, and thus ships. Canacquently such hands for her yards. Replace- in 1913, and hastily adapted for which has had some mustard gas greatly lessen vessels as the Strathmore cost mont of merchant vessels falling anti-aircraft use during the last oil sprayed on ita walls and roof. only about half what they would victims to a submarine campaign

Our respirators will save our

Present our air defence- in three different bands. to-day. The "Stratheden; and might well be difficult. It be

eyes and lunga. But I shall not The Air Force provides fighters, the Strathallan were also "economy" hooves the British people, then, Even if our first and second be surprised if we get some nasty Army artillery, and the Home Onice vessels, built before they were to think of their merchant lines were adequate, which they blisters.

an air-raid protection service whose man duty seems to be to order peo EURASIA AVIATION CORPORATION actually required, and the same ships as something more than are not, some bombers could get can be said of the Canton, now machines of private gain. They through, and we should have to

AS is not very effective ple about. unless it can be scattered I cannot brileve that do under construction. But it must are truly a national asset; and rely on the third line that is to also be said that under the their officers and men are us say, defence for Individual citi- over the whole of a big area. In be found better qualified than chief existing conditions, with now necessary & section of the zens. For even if enemy bomb- March 1910 an area of twenty square constables to direct this immensely miles near Cambral was rendered important service while offerrs: and ORAVKOBUSUKOOI and bigger and faster ships Empiro's defensive service as are ers are aiming at military objec dangerous with mustard gas. But men of the old Special Brigade, with Arst-hand experience, of gas, are constantly coming into competi- the sailors and soldiers of His tives they will be far too busy this took 150,000 German shells. tion with the P. and O. fleet, Majcaty's permanent forces. It dodging fightera and shells to To do the same to central London vainly applying for posts as air-raid

wardens,

If I were Air Minister I should in especially on the Far East run,would be well if British com- aim accurately. So most of would probably need reveral hundred

I airntanes flying in formation and let that the problem of air defence. that even the advanced building mercial people particularly re-their victims will be civiliana.

alming: accurately. I do not think

should be tackled as a whole and that policy of the company maycognised this fact and gave

this at all likely, as our chasers and at least half of the huge rums being ONE of two kinds of gas anti-aircraft guns would keep them require further stimulation If support to British steamship freight and passenger accounts companies wherever possible. will probably be used too busy. And a few gas bombs spent on it should be devoted to the to the ordinary man, womun. and are to be maintained and new Let that be the British answer in air raids. A bomb may be dropped at random would do little one thing which gives full protection harm compared with high explosive. child, namely, the bombwornet phelter. business gained. For foreign to foreign Governments sub-dropped which instantly roleuses high explosive or Incendiary And If my colleagues in the Cabinet shipping, especially that which aldies, even if it costs a little a dense cloud of gas such as bombs were used with gen, houses told me that this was impossible, ta-subsidised by Governments, more, for in the long run auch phosgene, which can poleon a would no longer be gar-proof. On should take them to Bhain to make indi

man in a minute, unlosa he has a the other hand, the fires produced advice of Honor. Negrth. for which by reason of lower a policy repays the patriot.

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