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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1938.

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IR SAMUEL HOARE is busy recruiting a million men and women as voluntary Air Raid Precautions workers.

No doubt you are wondering whether your duty lies that way; wondering, too, how sound and sonalblo, how effective, the proTM Raid Precautions Air gramme of the Home Office is likely to be.

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For some time now I have been nctively associated with the work of "AR.P." and I recently made A thorough investigation of the almline "panic defence" measures of Paris and Berlin.

What I found out there, and what I know of our own organiza- tion may help you to-day. Here it 18-

First, in both France and Ger- many, it is now widely regarded as fantastic that these precautions should be necessary. But, all the same, they go on: fear and mis- understanding are their impulso.

-When you envisage air raid pre- cautions you have to consider the whole nation: towns and villages, people of the cities and the coun- industrial and farm tryside, workern, food supplier and flocks and hords.

Never in history have plans to cover such an enormous number of people and things been neces- Bary,

No wonder, then, that we have hesitated to prepare against nl- But France and Germany tuck. have hesitated, too.

N the technique of this Oer- grim business

the has hud many longest period of experiment be cause she was for so long deprived of the right to an air force and had to concentrate on defence.

passive

France began to think about the

Gubernatorial

Powers

Columbo

An Order-In-Council empowering the Governor of Ceylon, by a message addressed to the

act us "Governor's ordinancesch

legislative menures as he may con-

slder necessary in the interests of public order, public faith or other essentials of good government is pub- Ushed in the Gazette to-day.-

Reuter,

your Family

By Dr. HADEN GUEST

M.P. for North Islington

subject in 1931, but did almost nothing until 1936.

In some

parts of France and Germany precautions on the scale contemplated by Britain simply do The authorities have not exist. not adequato fundo avallable.

The air raid precautions budget for this country is officially orti- But even mated at £32,000,000.

this num does not take into account what must be spent prl- vately: for the protection of Indus- trial undertakings, municipal pro- perty, offices and homes,

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total will bc caror £100,000,000 it £32,000.000; than

And Germany may well be more. and France, with greater areas to nafeguard, have less to spend,

The main differences between France and Germany are seen in the respective plans for Parts and Berlin.

to evacuate France

propuser 2.000.000 people from the inner part of Paris, leaving fewer than one million to carry on essential proposes Lo Berlin services. mobilim almost the whole male and female population-but to are for keep them where they passive defence duties.

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far In Paris organisation has bern concentrated on plans

and

the evacuation IDT

provision of emergency shelters

on

by a survey of cellar accommoda- tion followed by the allocation of there collare to groups of build- inge.

In addition, two large shelters, capable of holding some thousands of people, have been constructed do the Paris underground rail- way, and more are contemplated. The evacuated population will bo spread over the country with- in 50 miles of Paris. The city has been divided into arcas cach with an exit road for motors.

And it is calculated that, with available transport, this central area could be evacuated in two Journeys by each vehicle.

People left behind would in- And al- clude the Government, ready' each Ministry has provided itself with the necessary under- ground shelters where its work could be carried on.

Paris is

for the remarkable thoroughness of its air raid warn- ints. I saw extraordinary arrange- ments for stopping trains on the underground.

A

T times of danger a red Hght would show and

sound stren

in every station. And, within a few would bo minutes, every train brought to a stop at the nearest convenient station.

France plans n Passive Defence Army of perhaps, 1,000,000 men

MYSTERY OF RAJAH'S VANISHING RUBY

New Delhi.

GREAT are the possessions of His Highness Ruknuo-Daula, Nawab of Bahawalpur, in the Punjab. Many are his jewels. One of the fairest of them, a ruby which cost £40,000, vanished from the treasury at his palace two weeks ago.

Four goldsmiths were suspected. To-day they were arrested at Lahore Station.

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and women. Germany already has one-four times as strong.

Germany's Air Defence League classca, wcar members attend uniforms (which they must pay for themselves), dril and have their own magazine. It is a volun- tary, organisation in name only. Built on semi-militarist lines now it would be virtually part of the army in time of war.

The weak part of this organisa- over- tlon la possibly in its contralisation; the strong part is In the education it provides.

In Berlin every man and woman will have his or her job to do. Every one will be mobilized in the event of war.

the up ET me Bum differences between Ger- France and Germany has created a Britain, vast well-instructed, semi-military organization.

created Franco has

great system of evacuation of popula- other Lion from Paris and threatened areas with shelters for the civil population remaining.

Britain has completed one year ot preparatory work in the in- struction of the population and the building up of a series of in- dependently functioning

A.R.P. schemes under the control oi county and municipal authorities. The British scheme is the most flexible and adaptable. Individual authorities in one place can adopt evacuation and in another the stand-fast system. But Britain hard it her will need to work organisation is to catch up with the stage of development reached by her neighbours.

Both France and Germany ast: their civilian populations to pro- vide themselves with gas-mask» and at their own expense, France has a list of recommended makers, but sales are comparatively low for purchase 14 entirely optional.

Germany, too, relles on private sale but makes purchase virtually an obilgation and the distribution of maska is already considerable.

But the method of private sale Masks need special care in maintenance Sold individually they are expen- sive.

is in any case a bad one.

The British system of accumu Inting suppites in all centres of population and under conditions which assure their continued effectiveness is infinitely the best.

We

E have much to learn technically from France and Germany. But it

is at least comforting to know that our own air raid precaution plans are as good as any other.

It would be more comforting f we would realise that the need for this defence against aerial attack has brought French and German people to a clear understanding of the high folly and futlilty of war.

The one effective air raid pre- caution would be frank discussion with these countries and others of the political and economic methods of co-operating for peace.

£1,000,000 For New Hospital

Cape Town.

Sir Patrick Duncan, the Governor- General, to-day opened the new Groote Schuur Hospital here. It was built and equipped at a cost of nearly £1,000,000.

Sir Patrick said that the hospital was a monument to the foresight and public spirit of the citizens of Cape Town.

New

Police Uniform.--At the official opening of Parliament on Feb. 11, the South African police will for the first time wear the new uniform. The khaki tunles will be open- necked and will be worn with khaki- collar and tie.

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