1938-02-28 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG

FEBRUARY TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

28,

1938

BRITAIN'S BARRIER OF 500 GUNS

Belt Of "Safety" Sky Lit By 3,000 Searchlights

THE Anti-Aircraft. Divisions pom-pom cyprohe two pound

́of the Territoriul Army are 20,000 short of their established strength of 50,000 officers and men. most intensive recruiting campaign in Territorial Army history is to take place shortly to make up the deficiency.

It is not a "panle" campaign. Re- cruiting la improving every month, but the War Oftee feel that the best safeguard against alr attack la to make our defences complete without delay, writes the Sunday Express military correspondent.

Responsibility for the air defence of Great Britain rests on the Air Ministry, but the machinery of de- fence is a partnership between the fighter squadrons of the Royal Air Force and the guns, scorchlights, and signals of the Territorial Army.

·ANTI-AIRCRAFT DIVISIONS. "Two anil-aircraft divisions of the Territorial Army have been organis- ed-the first covering London and the South, and the second with on area extending from Northampton to Northumberland. Further north still are certain Scottish units.

The 20,010 shortage is not so bac as it seems. The first division was not formed until December 1935. and the second division a year later. Expansion has been соп- continuous.

BELT OF LIGHT

being produced.

Finance is a big problem in the organisation and equipment of the T.A. Anti-Aircraft Divisions.

costo

It costs £250,000 to equip an anti-aircraft battery of elglif gunn. A searchlight company

£100,000. New headquarters, built or buliding, are responsible for further £3,000,000.

Although the Territorials who man the searchlights and guns have only a limited time for training, their standard of efficiency is extremely high-certainly not lower than that of Regular Army units trained to do the same work overseas.

Every unit has its battle station in the event of hostilities, and the whole defence system could be brought in- to operation in a vrey short time.

An invention which has revolu- tionised anti-aircraft gunnery is the "predictor," a highly complicated and technical Dre-control instrument. One is supplied to each pair of guns.

It requires a crew of six men, and calculates the speed and course of the airplane and time of flight of the shell.

REDUCES ERROR

It reduces na far as possible the error in aiming the gun so that shell and airplane meet in the air. The cost of a predictor is several thou cand pounds.

The predictor does not estimate the height of the target. This is done by two men working a "height and While the gap between establisher," which solves the problem by

means.

JAPANESE TROOPS crossing a river, in North China, an extremely, hazardous operation when guerilize

are in the vicinity.

ESCAPE-PROOF GAOL PLANNED FOR WOMEN

Tougher "Cases" Than Men In U.S.

An escape-proof prison, as formidable as the feared Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, is to be built by the United States Government for hard-boiled women

ment and strength is wide, the War one searchlights have their "gad- convicts and gangsters' "molls."

Office is confident that this year's big push will go a long way towards solving the problem.

When the two divisions, are at fall strength there will be a barrier of more than 500 guns and 3,000 searchlights stretching from North umberland to Sussex.

The searchlights will be al inter- vala of two miles, forming a belt of illuminated sky deep enough to give our fighting 'planes room to man oeuvre and attack the enemy, "

The latest pattern searchlights will be able to pick up an airplane five and a half miles ligh,

As for the guns, the new 3.7 inch model-the best of, its kind in the world—now coming into produc- tion has an effective range of more than 30,000 feet, higher than any bomber files during an air raid.

There is another and heavier gun, the 4.5 inch, which will also cause

ralders a great deal of trouble.

POM-POM GUN

There is no denying that produe- tion of these new guns will have to be speeded up if the air defence sya- "tem is to be made effective. At pre-1 sent the Territorial Army is training with the old 3-inch gun-not in the same class as the new model.

The get, too. This is the sound locator, un instrument which picks up on alr- plane long before it can be seen.

With the locator giving an approx- imate position it is much easier for concentration of searchlight beams

to have effect.

.

TRACKING RAIDERS

Picture an air raid of the future. As the enemy aircraft approach or cross the coast they will be picked up by trained detachments of the Ob- server Corps, a band of civilians, trained by the Air Ministry and sworn in as special constables, who

will flash the news to the RAF.

fighter squadrons.

EMPIRE NEWS

RECORD PROSPERITY

ON RAILWAYS

Cape Town.

On the eve of one of the most pros-

America hus nul as yet a guol for confirmed

crooks, though women police and G-men believe a womati who has gone 10 the bad is n tougher "case" than a man, says the Daily Express.

Edgar Hoover, bend of America's G-men, James Bennett, director of the Bureau of Prisons, and Attorney- General Cummings all agree that a gaol fortress exclusively for women must be bulil-and quickly.

CROWDED OUT

The women's gol at Alderson, West Virginia, has for more than a

perous Christmases Cupe Town has year been crowded out. Although i ever known, with the heaviest spend-is supposed to house only 600 wo-

RADIO BROADCAST

“Famous Love Letters" And Other London Relays

BOCCHERINI CONCERTO ·

Radio Programme Broadcast by

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12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe- dral.

12.30 Songs by Lucienne Boyer. En Se Regardant (Bayle-Delettre); Chez Mol (Feline-Misrak!); Son Re- card (Jamblan-Emer).

12.40 Orchestra Mascotte.

Ballroom Memories-Waltz Pot- pourri (arr. Carl Robrecht); Greet- ings To Vienna-Waltz (L. Slede);

Donauwellen-Waltz (Ivanovici-arr.

Gotz Hohne); Souvenir De Mona Lisa-Waltz (Schebek); Idylle Pas- siannelle Waltz (Georges Razigade),

1.00 Time and Weather. 1.03 Patricia Kossborough (Piano) and The Mills Brothers,

Hot Dog

Contorter). Patricia Rosaborough, Solitude (Ellington, De

These will take the air in order to get above the oncoming ralders.

are ten men to port of the general manager of the prisoned there. light crews-there

President Roosevelt recently ro- each light-will come into action. As south African railways referring to the sound of the rafiers is picked up, i another record-breaking year of pres commended appropriation of £300,- the searchlight beams will pierce the perity and expansion. The Adminis000 to start the building of three new sky, trying to light up the enemy tration have had to take steps to cope gaols. One of these

with a situation "unparalleled in the women. Bombers escaping the British fight-history of the railways."

The sound locators of the searching recorded, comes the annual remen more than 700 ore usually im- | Rhythm (Winge, Mills); London

for our own airplanes to attack.

18

ers will be engaged by our anti-

Total earnings were £31,892,000, aircraft guns, p nssisted by search-

previous year, and £20,000,000 lights, and, as a final barrier, there compared with £30,000,000 in the

1933. will be the balloon barrage.

All branches of the

Services will

For the period Jan, to Oct., 1937; be needing recruits this year, but the War Omee, realising the supreme im- the export malze trame had increased portance of air defence, intends to by 072 per cent. compared with the spare no effort in making the safety same

will be for

It will probably be in Eastern

architect Kentucky, and the

pro-

with dynamite and a machine-zun uses "not even a female Houdini will ever escape from it."

Inventions period last year; manganese

The counter low dying airplanes, belt of guns and searchlights com- ore for export increased by 138 per sent to attack towns with machine plete, fully equipped and fully man- cent, and petrol by 18 per cent. Re- guns and gas, a lighter gun of the ned.

;

Fewer Cadets Co-Respondent

For Cavalry

reduce

To Pay £1,250

Court to Mr. Dennis Harvey, a fac-

In 1038 Mrs. Harvey left home. She refused to return and Mr. Harvey alleged that adultery was committed at a Bournemouth hotel in October

venue from road motor services shows a 15 per cent, increase.

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Mills Brothers, Going Greek-- Selection; Gangway Selection..... Patricia Rossborough; Shoe Shine Boy (Chaplin, Cahn); Rhythm Saved The World (Chapin, Cahn).

Milis Brothers; Broadway Melody Of 1930-Selection; Please Patricia Teacher!-Selection.

Press, Rossborough,

The

and Announce

1.39 Reuter and Rugby Weather Forecast ments

1.40 GBbert and Sullivan Ex- cerpts.

"The

Yeomen Of The Guard'

To Overture. Light Opera Orchestra

Wipe Out Armies

of

Fleck had, at a minimum of

Amed their"

his death and he disco

cond. by R. D'Oyly Carte--When Maiden Loves, She Sits and Sighs. Nelle Briercliffe (Contralto); Tower Warders, Under Orders, .... Henry Millidge and Chorus; When Our Gallant Norman, Foca. Gill and Chorus.

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1.56 New Danco Records, Fox-Trots-The Cross-Eyed Cow- boy On The Cross-Eyed Horse; Sil- very Moon and Golden Sands. ....

2.16 Close down.

8.05-11.0 Chinese Programme. 5.0 Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Root Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel.,

a) The Big Apple, b) What will I tell my Heart?, e) So Rare, d) Vieni, Vieni.

dance

5.15 Interval of recorded muzle from Z.B.W.

music from Z.B.W.

Languages in South West.-A slute- (Continued from Page 6) ment issued by the Administration of South West Africa shows that only protection

civilised countries. 9,032 of the total population of 30,- Nothing else can stop the modern 077 Europeans of the South West aeroplane fleet.... speak German us their home langu He recolled that

in simultaneous age. Of these 6,244 are South Afri-experiments on the Lake of Geneva Roy Fox and His Orchestra; Foggy can or Brush subjects. Afrikaans and in England in 1931, the mechan- Day In London (Alm 'Damsel in is spoken by 18,000 of the population lem of a

Destress'); Nice Work If You Can Result of Reducings agreed at £1,250 were as their home language. English is 100

been

completely dis- Get It (Damsel in Destress'). spoken by 2,395.

organised by the impact of high Jack Harris and His Orchestra; How Number Of Horses

fory manager, of Warwick Road, A Cape Town Rembrandt-A pic on to say that it may well be that the

frequency rays. Mr.

Rhodes went f Many Rhymes Can You Get; Rumba Mapperley Park, Nottingham, who ture, "The Taxidermist," hanging infection of such an invention will His Orchestra... Jack Harris and

"SI, COMPARATIVELY few cadets at petitioned for divorce on the ground the Michaells Gallery, Cape Town, save civilisation from complete an-

the Royal Miliary College, Cam- of the adultery of his wife, Cather-, has been identifled

Dr. Brendius, nihilation. In this way a death ray berley, have elected to join the cavaline Minnic, with Harold W. Hodg- of Holland, as genuine Rembrandt.

will truly be turned into "Ufe ry. The Army Council decision to kinson. The case was not defended. Hitherto the picture has been regard-

the famous scientists who the number of officers'

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey were married cd as the work of De Gelder,

have chargers is largely, if not wholly, in April, 1914, and had one child.

energies towards Mlue Accident — A rock weighing the discovery of rays able to re

Tender responsible for the decline in the According to the husband's case Mr. number of candidates for commis-Hodgkinson, whom they had known half-a-ton fell on the roof of a cage mechanism useless was the late descending the Randfontela Estates Senatore Marconi. He was working Bions in that branch of the Service. for some years, visited their house.

Mine this morning, killing seven na- on the problem to within a Artillery officers whose units have

tives and injuring three.

time of been mechanised have suffered the

some of his experiments to the King 5.20 a) It's the natural Thing to withdrawal of their chargers, writes

of Italy and Signor Mussolini. It is do, b) Remember me, e) Slap that a Daily Telegraph special correspon-

known, however, that ho

ho was not Bass, c) Yours and Mine. dent. The cavalry has remained un- of that year,

satisfied with its researches even 5.35 Interval of recorded dance affected so far, but the original of Mr. Harvey a decree nist, with costs, Mr. Justice Henn Collins granted deel.

though he managed to kill rats at a sion to reduce the establishment

distance of some feet, and had 5.40 ) She's a Latin from Man- horses

in defiance of the recommen- and directed that Mr. Hodgkinson

achieved some success with devices hattan, b) Boo-Hoo, c) Stompin' the dations of the committee appointed should pay the damage into court

for stopping acroplane

Blues away, d) My te Gruss to consider the question still stands. within 21 days.

British capital is concerned in an achieving in this direction is What Germanne engines.

succeeded in Shack.

nol 5.55 Interval of recorded dance agreement reached here yesterday in clent, Stories are constantly coming music from Z.D.W. the two-year-old dispute between the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission through from that country concern- 0.0 a) All the way from Ireland, and three Quebec power companies ing powerful rays, and when General b) A Song to Your Heart, c) When concerning certain electriclly power Geering was asked by a journalist It I grow Too Old To Dream.

he Imew that many people belloved 16 Interval of recorded dance contracts.

Germany had such an invention, he muste from Z.B.W The agreement was announced by smiled enigmatically and pointed out 0.20 ) Bluca Serenade, b) The Auckland. Mr. D. R. Hogg, the chairman of the that every Government had its Girl With The Droomy Eyes, c)

cannot Part of the first cargo to be carried Commission, who revealed that the technical secrets. "I

say Mabuhay. the new agreements will replace those whether this one is among Ger- the subaltern rightly regarded these by air from New Zealand

0.30 For the Children. as part of his emoluments. If they United States will be a fine rug of cancelled by legislative action in 1935. many's," he added."

Medley of Shirley Temple Songs from flm 'Poor Little Rich Girl. were curtailed or withdrawn he was New Zealand wool, a prezent from

Henderson Twins with Orches- entitled to some form of compensa- Mr. Savage, the Prime Minister, to

President Roosevelt, tion.

tra; Allce In Wonderland"; "Tis the Many scientists are of the opinion voice of the lobster: Beautiful Soup: He held the view that fathers who This cargo will be carried by the Deauharnols Light, Heat and Power,

"Samoan

the Clipper,"

Maclaren-Quebec | that death rays will be of more use had served in the cavalry or Roval Pan-American

Queen of hearts; They told me you

Frank Luther Artillery would no longer encourage which landed here on Sunday at the Power Company, and the Gatineau as methods of defence rather than at had been to her..

the Christopher Robin Is Saying His Join the Army If they end of a trial fight from the United Power Company at $12.50 per horse- tack. The drawback to using

power, compared with the old rate rays for attack is that they must be were denied faciles for hunting, States-Reuter,

Prayers (from 'When We Were Very generated in large stationary power Young-Milne and Fraser Simson). of $18.-Reuter, polo and racing.

plants. Itence they are likely to be

Turner Layton (Vocal and revenue for the first eight months of fratne value in surrounding cities Plano).

by impenetrable barrages rather than £72.000.020 distributing along

6.48 London Relay-Monio Hall. n nghting line. Increase of £11,440,000 over the This, however, supposes that it will conducted by Cliries Shadwell,

With the B.B.C. Variety Orchestra corresponding period last year. London.

never be possible to project the rays

7.45 Closing local Stock Quotations.. The argument is also advanced A cut was rescued from a 45-1001)

Arello Berearch Blafton pra-over long distances like wireless

7.50 Violin Bolos, that in the French and Germaer or quarry shaft, on Idle Moore, Brod posal that the Government should beams,

Malaguen Danse Espagnole mies officers are given every encour- ford, where it had been trapped för build and maintala`a scientific'slation But, the achievements of selezies | (Pablo de Saranate); Habaner agement to continue hoten riding; 18 months. The cat had been kept somewhere near the centre of the are so marvellous that it would be Dance Espagnole (Pablo de Barnante), exorciaca in the ballet that in- no alive by people who threw down: Arctic Archipelago is under consider foolish to say this will never be done.

Hand Menedettt with Maurice other way can they keep ft in this scraps of food. It and also caught allen by the Departments Mines If it does come to pars, then the rays Faure at the Plaito age of mechanisation.

*mlee tram the disused workings, and Resources.

could be used for offence.

(Continued on Pape 8.)

One of the arguments for retaining chargers ย that the average aubal- tem in a cavalry regiment of the Royal Artillery joined because ho knew that in addition to his pay he would receive his chargers, forage, stabling and a groom.

PART OF EMOLUMENTS

A senior cavalry officer stated that

their sons

The point generally made is that while officers appreciate the value of the machine in war, they do not think the motor vehicle affords them the exercise exrential for the main- tenance of physical fitne88.

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