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·THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1938.
SPARE MOMENT PAGE
"TELEGRAPH'S' FAMILY GUIDE TO A.R.P.
No. 2-Simple Way To Seal Door & Window
INTRODUCING for the
second day the Carring tons, the typically Hong- kong family, who are learn- ing how to protect their home in the event of an air rnid.
Everyone wants to know: "What should I do under the Air Raid Precautions scheme?" In this article--the second of a series based on an official book- let issued by the Home Office to all air raid volunteers--the "Telegraph" supplies the answer for the Carrington family.
Hend this advice carefully, for their family is your family.
On Saturday the Carringtons were told of the "things to do now," They have wisely acted on the advice and selected a "refuge" room Kowloon Tong house,
11 their
To-day they are told now to pre- pare and equip that refuge room and lessen the danger of fire from In- cendiary bombs,
FACE FACTS
You, Mr. and Mrs. Carrington, have always faced facts.
You could never afford to do other- wise, and to that perhaps you owe your home and your happiness.
And so, I am aure, you will face the fact that if war does come your home--and the hundreds of other almilar homes which form the re- aldential areas of your city-will be the target of the enemy bombers.
Do not be alarmed, Mrs. Curring- ton, as tell you the things you must to if war should come. The Govern- ment will inform you when, if ever, you should take these precautions. All I ask is that you should rend them carefully and see how to apply them to your own home.
You are the proud parents of three children, John (12), Michael (10), and Sylvia (7) You have often thought how lucky you were to have those relatives in Australin, New Zealand who are only too pleased to have the young Carringtons to stay if you'd only send them down there.
And no, if you should over re- ceive the warning that war ihren- tens, pack your children off to those relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Car- rington. The two Aŋlipodean na- tions, besides being the most ealthy in the world for children.
will be the most "healthy" when that next war comes to the Empire. It may not be pleasant, but the Government hope that if the Invaders do come to Hongkong they will And It manned, as far as possible, by adult populations. The Government also suggest that all elderly members of households should seek the safety of
"F in all cracks and crevices with putty or a pulp made of sodden newspaper. Poste paper over any cracks in the walls or ceiling. Fil in, or paste paper over, the cracks between the itoor boards; or, better still, paste sheets of paper over the whole floor."
You tell me, Mrs. Carrington, that the breakfast room floor is already covered with a carpet. If that is so do not take it up, but pay attention to any cracks or joins there may be,
You pride yourself on your eye for detail? Well, watch out for cracks round the skirting boards or where the pipes pass through the walls.
If you don't fill them up now, for goodness sake do so the moment you receive the warning that wer threatens.
You must remember the speed at which modern bombers can travel. You may not have much time to convert this plenannt breakfaat room into a real refuge.
All ventilators in the outside walls
of the house, including those below the floor level, should be stopped up with rags or paper.
PLUG KEY-HOLES
You have a large, very picturesque red-brick Breplace? It looks very charming, but it may be the weak link in your home defence. Stuff the chimney with paper, rags, or sack and seal the front of the replace with a sheet of plywood and adhesive tupe. "It
doesn't affect you, but had there been a sink in your refuge room, I should have told you to fill that also.
Fill everything through which air muy come, for that may mean poison gas. Plug key holes, waste pipes, or overflow pipes.
By Paul E
HOW IT BEGAN Berdanter.
ELEPHANT
WHEN FIRST INTRODUCED TO ELEPHANT LABOR IN INDIA, THE ARABS, WHO USED OXEN FOR THEIR OWN 'AGRICULTURAL POWER, ÇALLED THE NEW ANIMAL "ALEPH-HIND" (OX OF INDIA). FROM THIS WE DERIVED THE NAME "ELEPHANT,"
All windows of your refuge room must be scaled. Don't be frightened: that you will be unable to breathe. As told you yesterday, five people will be able to live for twelve hours OUR SPELLING bee in your refuge room without ven- tilation.
You ask, Mr. Carrington, the best way of seating the windows, You must wedge them firmly to keep them tightly Oxed in their frames, and then seal all round with a gummed stripi or pasted paper.
Be ready to reseal the window openings it the glass gets broken, and för this purpose have some stout materials to hang or fasten over them.
You ask how to seal the door
Here's A
Real Test
For You!
against gas? This is how the ATHE spelling bee is buzzing all cxperts tell you to do it.
over the English-speaking world.
Everyone listens to the broad- casts at Home. Nearly every one finds them too easy.
DAMP BLANKET
Nail a piece of wood, padded with felt, to the floor to that the door when closed presses tightly against it.
Strips of felt may also be nailed Here are 20 words which are not round 'the Inside of the door to ex- so easy. Just try them out on your father, mother, Musband, wife, sweetheart, brother, sister, or who ever happens to be near you while you are reading this.
Illustration of the correct way to scal up a door-a blanket held in place by strips of wood, and strips of felt nailed round the inside of the door and along the floor.
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See how good they are and then don't chenthand them the "Tele- graph" telling them to turn this page upside-down and test you on the 20 words they will and there.
Is your companion ready? Right, here are the words:
1. Supersede.
2. Obellsk.
J. Resistant,
4. Occurrence.
5. Sent-free.
G. Machiavellian.
7. Pronounceable.
8. Sycophaney.
9. Pneumonic.
10. Umbrageous.
11. Succlnetly.
12. Assimilatiye.
13. Sapient.
14. Vitrescence.
15. Curmudgeon.
15. Steadfastness,
17. Vertiginous.
18. Desiderate. 19. Exacerbation.
20. Asymmetry,
Now hand over the
paper
and
loss dangerous "parts of the world, clude draughts. Fix a blanket out-prepare to answer the 20 similar and your wits and family will almost side the door if it opens inwards, or tests of your ability when they are Assuredly become refugees.
Inside the door if it opens outwards, The A.R.P. exports in Hongkong with strips of wood. The top of the read out to you from below. alm for a darle oliy of silence. With blanket should be fixed to the top of! this object in view they have con- the door frame. oldered every detail-even to the barking of Bruno. Panic is caused by
the most trivial things, and panie
must be avoided at all costs. :
Now, Mr. and Mrs. Carrington, you want to know how to prepare your refuge room against gua You chose wisely, Mr. Carrington, when you selected this house. There are few discernible cracks or crevices in the white plaster of the breakfast room. You proudly tell your friends that it is almost draught-proof.
But don't be too sure, Mr. Carring- Cracks and crevices have
Tenst
a
habit of appearing in the places you expect them and it is, through them that the deadly polson goo, walled by draughts, will seep in lo render the most carefully prepared refuge room ineffective.
WATCH FOR CRACKS.
:
I cannot do better than quote the A.I.P. exports who have Examined all types of houses before broadcast- ing this advice to take. If war como:
One side should be fastened down
SECOND SECTION
Here, upside-down, is the spelling test for the person who rend out the
These words are all correctly spelt.
the whole length of the door frame, list above. on the side where the hinges are, by a strip of wood halled to the frame. The other side should be secured not more than two feet down, so that a flap is left free for going in aud out. Arrange the blanket so that at least 12 inches trail on the door to stop alt from blowing underneath it.
If the blanket is kept damp dur- Ing an air rald It will give better! protection.
And now, Mr. and Mrs. Carring- ton, if you are not safe from gas, the ARP, experts and I will be very much surprised.
I would remind you that there to no need to carry out all these pre- cautions now. But it might be a good idea to give them a trial when you have a few hours to spare. "
To-morrow 1 shall describe the action you: would; need to take as soon as you received warning of the approach of enemy aircraft.
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Holland Pioneered
Commercial Flying
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NE of the chief curiosities of TOLLAND itself, though so small Europe complex network of liver, y ver it in International transportation is the half an hour, is a vignette of rare Importance. In the air, of that tiny loveliness which seems made to be country, which we obdurately con- gazed upon from 'above. More than tinue to call Bolland despite its own any other part of the world
know. efforts to popularise the name Nether- including Cuba's palm-saturated Oriente Province and the skerries of Holland. was a noinble plonce in the Battle, including also the gran- its K.L.M. deurs of the Alps, it lends itself to commercial flying and (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatscha- such inspection. pil) is now the unquestioned dean of the world's air companies, having It is an artificial country and looks been organised the year after the it, so one can only conclude that the Armistice. Its central booking office patterns devised by raun benefit more in the Leldscheplein of Amsterdam by the perpendicular gaze than do
is the oldest in the world and its the tumbled Immensities of nature. chief airport, Schiphol, is definitely The provinces of North and South better cruipped than any other on Holland are like an intricate spider- this air-minded planet.
web of great proportions, the silver-
One cannot fall to be impressed gray threads, which are canals, bc- by the vision, courage and tennetty ing woven upon a base of lush green which bave given to a Lilipution polder land. The villages and toy country, largely wrested from the towns caught in this web are quite North Sea, a virtual air equality with unconvincing as communities of full- the great powers which surround it, grown hunun beings.
Last summer, following a preced-
ent established in earlier travels, I
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leoped Into the air on Holland's THEY must certainly be clever wings at a place called on my ticket illustrations from a.children's Weenen, and flow many hundreds of pleture boolt. Some, like Naarden, miles in central and northern Europe. are many-legged Dgglomerations Weenen,
you have guessed, is clutching their emerald mat of earth Vienna (all rent cities submitling to with all the tenacity of a star fish several alluses in the world's langu- clinging to a clump of seaweed, sge patchwork).
Others, like Brock-in-Waterland, wander for miles along a gleaming canal, unwilling to leave its banks WE
WE Americans, who need seventeen at all. The whole complicated laby- hours to cross our own vast coun- rinth, conceived and executed by try by nir, are always amazed at the mon, makes us proud of the human compactness of Europe amazed also race. A soggy marsh has been re that its various countries, bristling made to serve a man's natural needs ominously in the headlines of the and yet the whole thing might have American press, manage to live to been designed by a genius in lande. gether at all, crowded as they are cape effects solely to please gazers Into one irregular container with from the sky.
many sharp angles.
Weenen, the huge capital of a ltte If the season is not for advanced, country which is a perpetual source brilliant colours illumine in startling of worry to Europe's politicians, is patches this green and silver web, scarcely an hour distant by the Blue They are the colours of hyacinth, Danube Air Expresa from "Boeda- tulip, mladiolus and
other blooms pest," capital of a kingless monarchy which furnish glamour, and in good and from Progue, capital of a Great times, wealth, to the Low Lands. Experiment, Amsterdam, central From Holland these heartening nest of Holland's mechanical birds, colours are exported, often througli is within two hours of half a dozen the alt, to most of the countries of grent capitals, including Berlin, Paris Europe--By Sidney A. Clarke in the and London.
Christian Science Monitor.
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ACROSS
I The weapon suggests a kiss in
error (11).
This
direction seems here (4).
wrong
10 This may make a thin ent sec
(11).
11 This age gives one an idea of
the extent of land (4),
14 How things may be seasoned, a foreign cheesć perhaps (two words, 3).
17 A humble akodo (5),
18 Not the beat of words this (5), 10 This mange does dogs no harm,
but they seldom get it (5).
20 Bird (5).
21 Part or port of New Zealand
(8)
22-itollan
musical
composer,
lenighted in England (5). 23 Flinch (5).
24 Unexpressed (5)..
25 Features of music and poetry
(7).
20 This flower appears on
stage in "The Tempest" (4),' 32 Uncouth (11).
33 Buildings
than
somewhat
Deroa (4)
the
better
[twa
34 Plants in times of drought may
be this in the country words 4, 7).
DOWN
2 The dishy part of 6 down, (4). 3 "Deserted at his utmost--by those his former bounty ted" (Dryden, "Alexander's Feast"). (4):
4 Stage direction. (4),
Fresh-water or sea fish ̈(5), :
0 A primitive weapon (B).
7 Sangfold (11),
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# These bushes in a wood need not necessarily be stunted (11). 12 This skilled craftsman should be able to måke himself heart- leza (11),
13 Excess of concorn...due to a batsman's dislike of the bowl- Ing? (11).
14 People often like portraits that
this, it is not so rough (7)
16 Famous violinmaker of old (5).
10 "Costers" (anag) (7).
10 A military cap (5).
26 Handle (5).
27 An inhabitant of S India per
hups (5).
20 Was the appearance of this Derby winner regarded as a bit of a mirario? (B).
30 3 down is an anagram (4); 31 Old advice from the end of 32
across (4),
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