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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1938,

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Article On Air Raids

Frobably almost certainly--. they are travelling at no jess Tel. 27778-9. than 200 miles an hour, those Junkers and Heinkels and Capronis and Savolas. But to look at them, knowing that you' dwell beneath their wings, you wouldn't think so.

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1938,

WALKING WARILY

WHEN first you experi- ence an air raid and don't know what is happening, it is irresistible; you want to go

out into the street and stand

A. R. P. have become the most-talked-of initials in Hongkong. Against the menace of air raids, which the younger generation have never suffered, we are now taking precautions. This article tries to tell you what air raids feel like- from the point of view of the man literally in the street.

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with upturned face staring at but worse than those was the metal drawn only by gravity population unmercifully ma- If Mr. Chamberlain, Britain's those tiny wheeling shafts of smell. It was so bitter and so than it is to be struck by a piece chine-gunned from German Prime Minister, has not exactly light, which contain (only you strong that you felt it was tear- hurled at you by high explosive. Heinkels. They power-dive on solved the problem of foreign can't believe it) men who are ing the lining out of your nose. One of the oddest things about mean streets; and sound a whole policy to the satisfaction of talking to one another; and con-

The acroplanes dropped a lot exploding bombs is that when lot worse than they are. tain, too, high explosives which of bombs almost simultaneous- you hear a sequence of explo- everyone, by his reiteration of these men, by pressing a switch, ly. By rights, because they sions you always think that they though they fire their steel-coat- They sound worse because al- the country's determination to can drop somewhere upon the were flying in a straight line, the are coming in your direction, ed bullets with astonishing go to the aid of France and land below them somewhere bombs ought to have fallen in This is because each explosion rapidity, they are travelling so Belgium in the event of theirucar where you are standing. the same way; but they didn't. subsequent to the first adds to fast that they hit about once invasion, he has at least given If the bombers are right over They fell all over the place. the volume of sound, making it every twelve feet. If you hap- the required reassurance which your head you are pretty safe.

louder all the time. After a bit pen to be somewhere near that because bombs don't drop per- will make these two nations

you don't worry about things twelfth foot it's too bad. It more than ever inclined to co-leased from their racks they are

pendicularly: when they are re- UP to now it had been like that.

was too bad once for a little girl interesting; but after-

I saw. When I saw her die so operation in every sphere. There already travelling forward at wards, when we went across the

suddenly I was frightened for will be some who will want a 200 miles an hour; and in their square to help drag what was I DON'T remember how the first time; and always after- reciprocal pledge from France flight they lose impetus, so that left of human beings from their

many air raids I've wards I was frightened. for assistance in the event by the time they reach the ruined homes, it was horrible. been in during the last twelve That's how it is with air raids. of British possessions being ground their downward speed is Bits of people, dead only a few months; but I would remember Your imagination doesn't work threatened by any power

greater than their forward. minutes, are no joke.

if I had ever seen panic. I never until you've seen something Or When I saw my first air raid And the time that we were have. I have seen old women horrible; and after that it works group of powers. Actually it is I saw a bomb crash into the side digging and scrabbling in the twisted with consternation, and too hard. not necessary. In pledging her- of a house, about half-way up, dust and ruin, the fighters play- frightened; old men, too, and self to the defence of France as though someone had thrown ed about in the sky above us, so young for that matter; and I and Belgium, Great Britain in it from the opposite side of the high that they sometimes dis- have seen children cry. It seem- Complete descriptive catalogue sent on request.reality is doing nothing more square.

BUT even so it is ensy appeared into the haze. They ed to me that the children cried.

to overrate the dan- than safeguarding her

Before the bomb burst, the were beautiful. own

because they were puzzled and ger and the horrors of air bom- security, for her defensive outside of the storey where it It was only afterwards, after knew, only vaguely, that some- bardment. That is cold com-

fort for the scores and hundreds the assumption that powder, and you heard no noise.

a child, walking and thousands who have died Between your first air raid down the street with its grand and left not enough of them- Franco-Belgian borders are her Chater Road.own European frontiers. In this after that--or rather, simul- time to

Then the bomb exploded and and your second (if you have mother, blown to smithereens. selves for burial: it is cold com- ask questions, which The grandmother was unhurt, fort for those who have lived day of aviation power, when taneously with that-I dis- isn't always the case) you learn She screamed like a woman in and seen their homes in dust. nations are only hours apart, it appeared. I'm glad I did. Bits a lot of things.

the last agonies of pain; but But it is true. is obvious that Britain is re- and pieces rocketed through the You learn that if an enemy when they told her that what Many times I have sat in the latively safe from attack as

doorway where I was standing; bomber is coming at you down she was doing might upset other darkened cities of Madrid and wind, you are safe; because all people, she stopped; and her have heard the faint drone of long as she has a superior sea force and an air force at least order to avoid dangerous fric wind. In that way

the best people only bomb up- face became dull and empty.

they can the equal of any possible adver- tion, Mr. Chamberlain, how-better control what, after all, is people mainly. It makes them rupted across

That's what bombing does to enemy aeroplanes flying uninter- the sky; and sary, and as long as French ever, recognises that there is anot, and never can be, an instru- dull and empty. And when it's heard, too, the mulled crash of

point beyond which it would not ment of precision.

bombs not far away. and Belgian frontiers are be wise to retreat in matters of closed to

You learn that if, by chance,

And when later I have been army of in-diplomacy. There is justifica-you should be raided while you bombers, but it's easier to go to have found no holocaust. The It's easy to get frightened by out to look at the damage, I U.S.A.vasion. The guarantee that no onely define the refusal to are in the country, it is better sleep if they come while you're material damage hus been slight; such army can march into either precisely define the last line, so not to look at the aeroplane, be- in bed; because, the truth is, but never has the damage to of these states without meeting to speak, beyond which his cause human faces show up so they make you intolerably tired, morale been visible. their combined resistance al-Government cannot be hustled. well against the dark ground; if they never leave you alone

The uncertainty should have the MOST COMFORTABLE ready exista. On the sea Britain effect of deterring aggressive and you learn that it is a good for more than a few hours at a nobly borne, we might ourselves

From such tribulation,

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ia still supreme. In the air, if nations, and at the same time thing to resist the temptation to time. she has not already built

well take some heart for the fu- 10 Britain's obvious sincerity in run to what looks like a safer

Aeroplanes sometimes loose ture which we seem to dread so GREY and BROWN numerical equality with other secking for a peace-preserving place, and to lie down. There off something much more much.

powers, she soon will have formula should have the effect seldom is a safer place.

frightening than a bomb that reached this point in the rapid of lessening antagonisms and the bits and pieces fly upward, storey house; and that's a ma- When a bomb hits the ground, will strip the side off an eight- expansion programme now in keeping the way open for hand. As a matter of fact, with negotiation.

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the fastest Oghting aircraft in Meanwhile, having looked to to be hit by a piece of jagged I have seen part of a civilian the world, she is in a position his frontiers, Mr. Chamberlain to take care of herself at this is attempting to bring Labour moment against any but the into line for a speeding up of strongest combination of Con-production in the armaments tinental states; and no such industry; and the indications combination threatens her. Nei-are, that he is succeeding. This ther is she alone; for she has is one of his greatest problems;| the sympathetic support of at and he has shown foresight in lenst half of Europe and the tackling it at this stage, before assurance of active co-operation the necessity is immediate, from powerful neighbours. Bri-arriving with rent danger. There tain is easily the "safest" is no doubt of his ability to rally THE Admiral who recently relin- nation in her immediate sphere; the whole nation in the face of naval forces in the Far and, with the backing of the actual poril; for the nature of called attention to the feverish acti-

When the world-war ended, Great Empire, the mightiest state on the people assures him of their vity, taking place in Japaneze dock-

Britain and the United States had earth, both in man-power and full support. But in his pro- Whereas most of the naval Powers likely to be equally concerned later it was not perhaps surprising that

under the closest secrecy,

under construction the mightiest batueships even contemplated, and material resources. It is natural gramme of preparedness the that the British Government full collaboration of Labour is to one another detalls of their naval sent policy of secret naval building agree to some sort of limitation, when have pledged themselves to announce on. For it Japan pursues her most countles were prepared to should take the load in the also vital, as much so as in time construction campaign of appeasement which of frightening emergency. A refusing to sign the last Navy Treaty, will have to take account of their naval race, involving

each year, Japan, by other Powers with Eastern Intereats the obvious plternative was a coally

the expendi the advanced thinkers of the victory on the "home front" has kept herself free to build war-position and build ships, In order to turo of vhat sums of money, country are unanimous in sup-‡ would vastly increase the Gov. ships as she chooses, and without] maintain some sort have always strength of the British and United of superiority. Iending to nothing but the greater porting; and it is equally ornment's influence abroad, roof her plans.

any obligation to inform the world,

not so much states navics.

quished command of the French

East hos

By

Walter Whitman

A Trenly restrictions

irisome to

Prestige First.

but

apparent that because of assure the Empire and give the Although world attention is main because they limited her naval] her own security and

her British people that feeling of ly concentrated upon the war in building, but because it ins been But at the Washington Conference confidence in her own great confidence that only comes with Chine, various Admiraltics are gone to have to accept an Interior, post-pressed their difake of the whole con- hurtful to the pride of the Japanese of 1022 the Japanese delegation ex- strength, she should be the closest unity and understanding in the dockyards of Japan, and tax- ilon In naval strength in relation to plan of hávál limitatio

cerned

hey said first to offer.compromise in among all classes and parties. þayers. In a good many countries are other countries,

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