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BIRTH

DE KOK-At the War Memorial |

Hospital, on 19th February, 1038,

to Toni, wife of F, F, J, đỡ Kok, a daughter.

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

Saturday, FEBRUARY 10, 1038.

FLARE-UP IN EGYPT

:

PEACE PROPAGANDA

AIR

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WHICH WAY IS IT POINTING ?

-McRac in the Melbourne Herald

RAID PRECAUTIONS

and the Local Authorities

HE question of Air Rair Precautions is very much in the public eye at present, and rightly so. It is, however, essential that if this protection is to be obtained it should be sought at once-not because it is felt that a war is imminent, but because, should an emer- gency arise, it will then be too late to take effective measures.

On the surface, developments in the government at Cairo raise a constitutional issue of the first magnitude. Young King Farouk Research has shown that the effects of recently dismissed former Pre-air raids can, to a large extent, be nullified mier Nahas, head of the Wafd, and it is up to local authorities, employers the political party having an of labour and to the ordinary house- overwhelming majority in the holder to take advantage of the facilities Egyptian Parliament, and now offered. appointed a new Prime Minister heading à Cabinet from which the Wafd was excluded. This royal challenge received an im- mediato

from the Wafdists who created a turmoil in the Egyptian Parliament and prevented the reading of the King's decree which would have adjourned Parlament for Imonth.

answer

western standards.

nor

The following notes give some idea of the problems involved, and how they have been overcome.

There are three main types of bombs-the high explosive, the incendiary and the gas bomb.

Sectional Drawing

of a

It is reasonable to suppose that in operations directed Civilian Shelter against the civil population the

Defence Equipment

and this minimises the, donger,

non-persistent. This means that either they are sufficiently volatile to dispersé quickly, or they, remain in the state in which they are distri-: buted for some considerable time."

Gasca also vary in their type and are nomally under the headings of:-- Tear Gasco, Throat and Nose

-Irritants,

Lung Irritants, Blister Gases. Perhaps the two, best. known dre

lung irritant, and Mustard Gas which! Is a persistent blister gas.

Best Location

THE "VERY IDEA”

THIS IS NOT JUST OR MEAT

TROUBLE STALKS ALONG

THE MILKY WAY.

By Eddie Kelly, Herdsmmmm

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MEMBERS of St. George's Society will be perturbed to hear that Rinderpest has made its appearance in the cattle herds of the Colony. We have just herd about this monace

Rinderpest is a disease.

It occurs in swine, cows, hoge, dogs, and cats. And yet they say humans can't contract, it

Sheep and gents are also affected by this highly contagious animal disease.

It just shows that If you DWH a sheep'you muston" lake any risks with It.

All the cattle that have died from inderpest in Hongkong have been ncinerated. Naturally, they must .cel all burned up about this epide nic. Nasty incinerations are being made regarding treatment of the dead

Jodies.

Strong mole members of the dairy aerds say it is all bull to be scored of the disease.

But the weaker females want to go to toma udder place whero they'll be safe.

It took some of the more sober minded cattle. all their time to stop wo or three of the younger cows from clearing out straight away. This is vulgarly known as suppress- ing a titter.

Anthrax has also made its appear- ance in some herda,

When they contract it, they just stand plaintively waiting for the end, still chewing their cuds. My cud, but it is awful.

Veterinaries

confess themselves helpless in stemming these diseases.

We think they're all vet.

There's only one way to deal with this outbreak...

You've got to take the bull by the borns, and get

cowcd.

properly

Which is all, we have to say about Rinderpest.

sate, even though it is better to be at an altitude than at ground level.

There has been a certain diver- gency of opinion..as to where an air rald ehrlier should be-whether in a basement, ground door, or on an upper floor.

The ideal shelter should give pro- tection from five dangers-high ex- plosive, spilnters, blast, fire and gos; as mentioned above, a direct hit from a high explosive bomb of consider- able size might well render В shelter uninhabitable wherever it was, but the other four dangers definitely in- diente that a basement, if avaliable, -la-

preferable.

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Any ground floor or upper floor room may be hit by splinters from bomba and the windows are

Therefore, unless there is serious from flooding, basements should

I be used. If there is no base- ments, then it would seem that the best room would be that which is fugs. In other words, a room which

protected most.

adjacent build-

faces on to a narrow space with an- other building near.

by

Filtration System

high explosive bomb will be++++++++||-|||-|-|-|-|-÷÷|||| largely used with a view to ganised by the Government. In large inflicting crippling blows on buildings housing many people the Politics in Egypt, howover, specific objects, such as Power training of fire squads is essential, Phosgene, which is a non-persistent able to blast. should not be judged strictly by Stations and Railway Junctions, As regarda gus, this provides a but the prudent householder als very difficult problem, due to vary- Though

would do well to consider how ing weather conditions and methods the parliamentary forms are best to defend himself against of distribution, but almost completo The word gas is used for all these copled from Europe, they do not this form of attack.

protection can be obtained by the chemical substances, but actually ung of the correct form of shelter and practically all are finely divided function in the western manner,

equipment.

liquids (or mists) or finely divided as a commentator points out in

The problem is also rendered more soilds (or smokes). difficult by the fact that previous ex- This latter group is becoming in- The Home Office has laid down- ឆន American journal, the To combat high explosive bombs, perience of this type of warfare is creasingly Important. It is based on

it is normal in some countries to pro- lacking.

that in an ordinary room or base- Philadelphia Public Lodger,

arsenic and is 100 per cent. per- vide shelters with roofs made of

mant not lled with any special ven- During the last war gas was used sistent. To begin with, Egypt is a vibrated re-inforced concrete about under one set of conditions, viz., in

tilating equipment, the number of cross-roads between East and being, even thicker for

7ft. thick, the walls of the shelter the open and when

Many methods of distributing ganarsons should be limited so that breeze was are available. Certain gases can be there is 75 square feet of wall space protection blowing, this breeze being necessary sprayed from aircraft, and being per person. West. Until recently, it pos- against bombs bursting alongside the to carry the gas cloud from the heavier than als will gradually des sessed neither self-government shelter.

cend to ground level, Luckily the chances of a direct hit Perators to the enemy.

Conditions would be very different a true national conscious- by high explosives are very small in in the case of gas dropped on a city burst on contact with the ground, or Impact bomba may be used which Since the days of the deed, so small that the normal course from aircraft, as here the posionous time bombs which can be set to in this connection is to concentrate fumes would be among buildings and detonate at a predetermined height, Pharaohs, the mass of the on avoiding the dangers due to the streets, and probably calm days thus spraying the gas over a large people, known as fellakeen, had splinters and blast consequent on the would be chosen, resulting in the gas area which would gradually descend explosion of this kind of bomb. hanging about instead of dispersing past the roots of houses into streets, submitted passively to a long) With regard to the incendiary quickly, as did in the last war. series of alien conquerors. Even and burn only for a very short space into

bomb, these are usually quite small

It would therefore not be sufficient The gases used can be grouped to go up to the top floor of a high

two to-day the upper class derives of time.

sections persistent and bullding and expect to be completely mainly from foreign stocks. The As they manufacture their own royal family descends from anthem by ordinary means, and pro- oxygen it is impossible to extinguish Albanian adventurer, Moham-tection is largely a question of at mad Ali, who made himself mas-tacking the fire started by the bomb as soon as the latter has finished ter of Egypt about a century burning, and before the fire has ago. Tho. misrule of his suc-

renched dangerous dimensions. cessors brought English inter- vention. British Interests are still dominant, although by the 1936 treaty Egypt was declárod | == an independent nation.

ness.

Equipment is available for hand- ling these bombs while burning and depositing them in buckets of sand.

Tralol in this work can bo ob- tained in the Training Schools or

BULLS AND INNERS

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examine the

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After many years of research system has been developed which overcomes the disadvantages of what we may call the "scaled-up room" type of shelter, and, not only doesS. this system mako

unnecessary for

the room to be absolutely airlight, but it allows a very much larger number of people to be accom- modated in a given space, and per- mits them to remain there under. healthy conditions almost Indefinitely. This is known as the Gas Filtra- tion System, and consists of supply- ing to the shelter a continuous flow of pure air, in such a quantity that the pressure inside the shelter is very slightly higher than the pres zure of the atmosphere outside.

In this system the air is drawn into the shelter through rposini filtern

actually purer than the move all the which remove every trace of polson gas, and the air inside the shelter ia beth, as the Alfers remove all the very no dusts and many other im purities.

Manchukuo has issued a new lehthyofauna" anys Mr. S. Y.

According to "Stamp Topics" | "Now let us stamp Illustrating the Sinking Lin. We would if we know a growing social unrest latently Residents' Association Building. waere to find one. Whilo Egypt is basically revolutionary in character.

Taey now have a chance of get-{ ._ Mohammedan land, its Oriental Such

During tho

“Air Lock" Entrance. local are the basic factora ting up in the air.

week, character has been profoundly which condition an experiment

aquarists were told that. Grunts. An efficient air lock consisting of modifled by Western Ideas and in parliamentary government

are widely distributed in tem-wo doors la series must be provided for entrance and exit; and ales' ar methods. Economically, it is only fourteen years old. Small some people becoming rich is even heard them on cross-chan- The only thing that prevents perate and tropical scas. We've

emergency exit for use should the bound closely to the West. wonder that thero has been

main air lock become imnarenhle Egypt'a long-staplo cotton is the whole series of political crisco,

this emergency exit belog only a single door oncnable only from the foundation of its modern pron-including three different con-

We also notice that Pluator instite to avald

old ants-crnching perity. Our machine and stitutions, and further compll people have bought blocks of tive by the yellow colour with We hear that some groups of hynchu pietus in made attrac- strucn deep roots, nearlyyed in eated by British I |000 persons being in

Interven tickets in the Derby Sweep, It's saveral rows of regularly ar tion. During much of this a syndicate It that way. ranged spots. Sounds a bit feny Material prosperity is most period the late • King Fund unequal. It in confined chiefly governed autocratically in dia!

| Egyptian" mills and factorles,

a money,

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to the Oriental ruling class and regard of parliamentary majort We aro pleased to learn that

Inel atcamera,

to us.

This in the day to think of a the European colonies. Thoties, much as his young son, King George is encouraging number, double, it, take away nativo maaacs, poor and unedu- Farouk, soomed about to do, British music. Wo doubt how the number you first thought Icated, atill live under primitive when ho dismingod Nahina over, whether Hin Majesty has of, and perhaps the answer will

condition. That has engendered Pasha,

read Eeyore's articles.

be a lemon.

there is any danger of persons being Secondly, adequate tollet accom- medalion must be provided, and if

contaminatet before they can get into the shelter, decontamination

equipment should be lenialled.

A.

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battery-driven wirelere et je

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also an essential feature for raid must be borne in mind that any warnings and "all clear." Finally, equipment which la inalalled: in: a the must be of such a nature that Il con remain idio for a number da years without losing lie silciensy,