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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1938.

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MONDAY, MAY, 2, 1030.

A.R.P.

VERNON

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THE main deck of the

T

boat was covered with

with hundreds of deck-chairs supporting an

an

A.R.P. The letters are be-excessive number of Chi- ginning to take on the same im-nese passengers. The boom protecting Canton had only portance as did D.O.R.A, be-

been opened the day before tween 1914 and 1919. Behind and many people who had those letters is the weight and been caught in Hongkong purposefulness of a Government. by its unexpected closing A.R.P. constitute a warning, an were hurrying home.

The first-class accommodation admonition, and an urgent re-

was almost empty-half a dozeń quest. To many they are the English or American mission- key to the future preservationaries, two hospital nurses,

American financier, two Ger- of life. We hope they are right.

man newspaper men, a dozen To others the letters signify a Chinese in long dark blue robes, We lay around on mighty misrepresentation, a de- and myself.

chaises longues and watched the lusion. We

pray they

calm waters of the Pearl River. After the war D.O.R.A. Yesterday's traffic had been wrong. made England the laughing intercepted and in great part

turned back by Japan- stock of most of the world-cer-

ese gunboats. It seem tainly of the Continent, which ed both impossible and that our amusement inevitable

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we

I was lunching with the so that A little later we steamed had little red warning flags some fussy little Japanese officer through a very narrow gap in hanging from their shelters and Governor of the province-the manner. The letters mean much should board her to examine her what looked like some sort of the gates of the Anglo-French former mayor of Shanghai- fishing net that ran from bank concession, a long, narrow area when the worst raid was threa- more than government curtail-papers.

flanked on one side by the river tened. We might, he suggest- to bank.

and on the other by a canal, were ed, adjourn to his dug-out in the ment of social life, which was

gurden. This was the boom which is

closed. BUT no other ship was

to be seen except a to prevent a Japanese attack on

For the next half-hour But the alarm period was al- few junks and the four or five Canton by sea. We were, rather

I found a European situation and drank. technical advisers are right, the other Canton-bound steamers regretfully, out of reach of ad- most over, and inside the quiet, continued our discussion of the difference between life and that huddled as close as they venture; and the subsequent spacious concession death. This never be a could in our wake. The great discovery of a lot of hulks sunk football match in progress be- our tea in a concrete but com- catuary, with its dozens of across the deepest channel was tween British and French sailors fortable cellar some forty feet a river, no consolation to our thrill and half a dozen tennis matches below the surface of the soil of laughing matter, and only the falanda, narrowed to

in play. complete failure of Air Raid Pre- with the Borca Tigris forts to expectant eyes. cautions can place them in the protect it. category of ridicule which be- came the legacy of the Defence of the Realm Act.

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Air

Raid Precautions

next

China. A few anti-aircraft shells burst near the aeroplanes. A few bombs burst near the rail- The landscape was so peace- ful that, had it not been for the

THE Japanese were busy way that connects Hankow with

Hongkong. by morning are presence of occasional pagodas and the absence of gramophones terribly necessary, and impracor portable wireless sets, I breakfast time. In groups of ticable though many of them should have been ready to swear seven their machines bombed

UT without that deter- BUT The drawback about A.R.P. is

may appear to be, it is just as that I was on the Norfolk the outskirts of the city. No aeroplane and very few anti-

ring knowledge that that they lack logic, like necessary for the public, no less Broads.

aircraft batteries came into ac- people in remote countries like D.O.R.A., and their acceptance in Hongkong than elsewhere, to Until we reached Canton! I tion against them, for Canton is Great Britain or the United by the public therefore very accept their import and to effect had never imagined so great a still far from the fighting and States have not entirely lost

material is needed else their ability to feel indignant ... largely depends on concentrated their instructions. A.R.P. must variety of river craft as met us war

most conspicuous whore.

over brutality these narrow propaganda; the type of pro- not be taken lightly, but must be here. The paganda which simply drives accepted as an urgent.duty, for, were the great ferry boats with

But one weapon more power- streets of little, tumble down, homes might the public into acquiescence. It as has been often emphasised, sterns like Spanish galleons and

bows like Insignificant tugs, ful than you in Europe yet wooden Chinese has seemed essential for the their neglect by one citizen mayThe most, active were the junks realise, prevented the frivaders have been aflame and thousands to indulge in mean the death of a dozen. The that fought for the first places from doing much damage-the of people might have been killed

propagandists

wars in Spain and China have to unload our cargo. "frightening" tactics.

Fundamentally there is no revealed more emphatically than contesting the sense of doing hundreds, of lectures the abso-' what one can to protect against lute necessity of precautions the threat of death, particular-against Incendiary bombs. As

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There are serious and respon-

anger of international public or wounded."

the earlier The dug-outs are more numer opinion over bombardments of Canton and ous than I had expected, but you the atrocities committed at Nan- cannot supply four hundred and forty million people with accom- WOMEN in black jackets king.

modation underground. and trousers, some- Only a little of the rape and ly as in this case, wholesale yet neither war has provided times with children still strap murder that have taken place in slaughter is likely to be involved. similar lessons of the same ped to their backs, did marvels, Nanking is yet known to the sible foreigners here, who are What can be questioned are the urgent demand for regulations with great boat hooks. Small methods of such protection, and to protect against poison gas girls and boys were really with outside world. Foreign doctors convinced that Japan will quite courage to stay on there when paign to exterminate as many it la here that opponents of attacks from the skies. But wickerwork fenders. Children and missionaries who had the deliberately carry out a cam- been the experts have told the world 80 small that they could hardly the armies had fled tell a story Chinese as possible so that they 18 they have

run pulled splendidly at the oars to which there is certainly no may find a little room for their evolved, make themselves con- enough for it to know that gas of the sampana that hovered on parallel in the atrocity-blacken- own colonists in the crowded, spicuous. But, it is afgnificant warfare from the air is no idle the outskirts. And as I watch-

ed history of the last 24 years, but fertile, Yangtee Valley. That that these opponents have pro-threat for the future, and what-led I imagined the ghastly And their story has helped to sounds improbable. But what duced no alternative antidote to over the public can do to mini-slaughter there would be if the bring about the removal of Gen is so probable as to be almost. aerial poison attacks, save that mize the effects, must be done, Japanese were to bomb the eral Mataul from the Japanese certain is that the horrors of

Army command and the saving Nanking will be repeated else. S of abolishing all war, which, no matter how ineffectual those place. under existing circumstances, is mensures may appear to be from purely idealistic, and begs the a theoretical point of view. was an 8.A.G. qucation at issue.

A.R.P.,

To my surprise, I found there so far of crowded cities such where unless there are enough air raid alarm. The as Canton from the horrors of of us in other countries to speak.

up against them. steel-helmetod traffic policeman intensive bombing.