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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 raid.
to know: Everyone wants "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.
Read this advice enfofully, for their family is your family.
On Saturday the Carringtons were They told of the things to do now." have wisely acted on the advice and Uzeir selected a "refuge" Kowloon Tong house,
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To-day they are told now to pre- pare and equip that refuge room and lessen the danger of fire from cendiary bombs.
FACE FACTS
Mrs. You, Mr. and have always facet inets,
its-
Carrington,
You could never offord to da other- wise, and to that perhaps you owe your home and your happiness.
And so, I am sure, you will face the fact that if war does come your home and the hundreds of other similar homes which form the re- sidential areas of your city-will be the target of the enemy bumbers.
Do not be alarmed, Mrs. Curring- ion, s I tell you the things you must do 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 read 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 Australia, New Zealand who are only too pleased to have the young Carringtons to stay if you'd only send thern down there.
the
"Fill in all cracks and crevices with puity or a pulp mode of redden newspaper. Paste paper over any cracks in the walls or ceiling. Fil in, or paste paper over, the cracks between the floor 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 carpot. If that is co do not take it up, but pay attention to any cracks or joins there may be.
You pride yourself on your eye for uctall? Well, watch out for cracks
where
round the skirting boards or the pipes pass through the walls,
If you don't fill them up now, far goodness sake do so the moment you receive the
that warning threatens.
war
You must remember the speed at which modern bombers can travel. You may not have much time to convert this pleasant breakfast 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 regs or paper.
PLUG KEY-HOLES
You have a large, very picturesque red-brick fireplace? It looks very charming, but it may be the weak
defence. link in your home
Stuff
the ghimney with paper, rugs, or sack and seat the front of the Areplace; with a sheet of plywood and adhesive
hape.
It doesn't affect you, but had there Leen a sink in your refuge room. I should have told you to fill that niso.
Fill everything through which air may come, for that may mean polsun gas. Plug key holes, waste pipes, or overflow
low pipes.
All windows of your refuge room must be sealed. Don't be frightened that you will be unable to breathe. As I told you yesterday, five people
By Paul F
HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier
ELEPHANT
WHEN FIRST INTRODUCED TO ELEPHANT LABOR IN INDIA, THE ARABS, WHO USED OXEN FOR THEIR OWN AGRICULTURAL POWER, CALLED THE NEW ANIMAL "ALEPH-HIND" (OX OF INDIA). FROM THIS WE DERIVED, THE NAME "ELEPHANT.”
will be able to live for twelve hours OUR SPELLING BEE in your refuge room without ven-
tution,
You nsk, Mr. Carrington, the best way of sealing the windows. You must wedge them firmly to keep them tightly fixed in their frames, and then seat all round with a gummed strip or pasted paper.
Be ready to reseal the window openings if the glass gets broken, and for this purpose have some stout materials to hang ΟΙ fasten Over
And so, if you should ever re- eclve the warning that war threa tens pack your children off to those relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Car- rington. The two Antipodean na- tions,
them. besides being the most healthy in the world for children, will be the most "healthy" when that next war comes to the Empire, I 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
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ABOUT 200 B.C., SEVERAL VERY WEALTHY ROMANS CORNERED THE SUPPLY OF OLIVE OIL, THEN A BASIC PART OF ROMAN DIET, FIXED PRICES AND FOR A WHILE CLEANED UP LARGE PROFITS. THIS WAS THE FIRST O/L TRUST OF ANY KIND.
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Holland Pioneered
Commercial Flying
ONE For You!
lands.
NE of the chief curiosities of HOLLAND itself, though so small Europe's complex network of that its silver rocs fly over it in International transportation la, the half an hour, is a vignette of rare importance, in the air, of that tiny loveliness which scens made to be You ask how to
country, which we obdurately con- gazed upon from above. More than seal This is how the ArTHE spelling bee is buzzing all tinue to call Holland despite its own any other part of the world I know, against gas?
Cuba's over the English-speaking efforts to popularise the name Nether- including
palm-saturated experts tell you to do it.
Oriente Province and the skerries of world. DAMP BLANKET
Everyone listens to the broad- Ifolland was a notable plancer in the Baltic, including also the gran- commercial flying and its KL.M. deurs of the Alps, it lends itself to Nail a piece of wood, padded with casts at Home. Nearly every-Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatscha- such inspection, felt, to the floor so that the door one finds them too easy,
pl) is now the unquestioned dean of
It is an artificial country and looks when closed presses tightly against it.
the world's air companies, having Strips of felt may also be nailed Here are 20 words which are not been organised the year after the it, so one can only conclude that the round the inside of the door to ex-iso easy. Just try then out on your Armistice. Its central booking office patterns devised by man benefit more father, mother, husband. wife, in the Leidscheplein of Amsterdam by the perpendicular gaze than do sweetheart, brother, sister, or who is the oldest in the world and its the tumbled immensities of nature. ever happens to be near you while chief airport, than any other on Holland are. Uke an intricate spider- Schiphol, is definitely The provinces of North and South | better
this air-minded planet.
web of great proportions, the silver- One cannot fall to be impressed gray threads, which are canals, be- by the vision, courage and tenacity ing woven upon a base of lush green which have given to a Liliputian polder land. The villages and toy country, largely wrested from the towns caught in this web are quite
Illustration of the correct way to seal up a door-af. blanket held in place by strips of wood, and strips of felt nailed round the inside of the door and along the floor.
you are reading this.
See how good they are and then don't cheat-hand them the "Tele- graph", telling them to turn this page upside-down and test you on the
20 words they will find there.
here are the words:
1. Supersede.
2. Obelisk.
the air
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Is your companion ready? Right, North Sea, a virtual air equality with unconvincing ns communities of full-
the great powers which surround it, grown human beings.
Last summer, following a preced- ent established in carlier travels, I leaped into
on Holland's THEY must certainly be clever wings at a place called on my ticket illustrations from a chlidren's Weenon, and flew many hundreds of picture book. Some, like Naarden, mites in central and northern Europe. are
many-legged agglomerations Weenen, na you have guessed, is clutching their emerald mat of earth Vienna (all grent cities submitting to with all the tenacity of a star shi several aliases in the world's langu- clinging to a clump of seaweed. age patchwork).
3. Resistant,
4. Occurrence.
5. Seot-free.
6. Machiavellian.
7. Pronounceable,
8. Sycophancy.
9. Pneumonie.
10. Umbrageous.
11. Succinctly.
12. Assimilailyc.
13. Sapient,
14. Vitrescence,
15. Curmudgeon.
16. Steadfastness.
17. Vertiginous.
and
18. Desiderate. 19. Exacerbation. 20. Asymmetry,
Now hand over the paper
the prepare to answer loss dangerous parts of the world, clude draughts. Fix a blanket out-
20 slmliar and your wife and family will almost side the door if it opens inwards, or tests of your ability when they are inside the door if it opens outwards, assuredly become refugees.
The ARP exports in Hongkong with strips of wood. The top of the read out to you from below. aim for a'dark city-of silence, With blanket should be fixed to the top of
SECOND SECTION this object in view they have con- the door frame. sidered avery detall-even to the
One side should be fastened down
Here, upside-down, is the spelling
barking of Bruno. Panle is caused by the whole length of the door frame, lest for the person who rend out the
the most trivial things, and panic must be avoided at all costs.
Now, Mr. and Mrs. Carrington, you want to know how to prepare your refuge room against gas. 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,
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But don't be too sure Me; Carring- ton. Cracks and crevices. Jinvo habit of appearing in the places you least expect them and it is through them that the deadly polson. BOJL wafted by draughts, wül scop in to render the most carefully prepared refuge.room Ineffective,
WATCH FOR CRACKIJAN
I cannot do better than quote the ARP. experts who have examined all types of houses before broadenst ing this advice to take if'war came:
on the side where the hinges are, by a strip of wood nailed to the frame. The other elde should be secured not more than two feet down, so that a Sap is left free for going in and out. Arrange the blanket so that at least 12 inches troll on the floor to stup air from blowing underneath it.
If the blankel is kept damp dur- ing an air raid !) will give beiter. protection.
And now, Mr. and Mrs. Corring- ton, if you are not safe from gas, the
A.R.P. experts and I will be very much surprised.
I would remind you that there is no need to carry out all these pro- cautions now: But it might be a good Iden to give them a trial when you have a few hours to spare..
To-morrow I shall describe the nation you would need to take në soon as you rooolved warning of the approach of enemy (alroraft:
list above,
These words are all correctly spelt.
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Others, like Brock-in-Waterland, wander for milles plong a gleaming canal, unwilling to leave its banks 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 air, are always amazed at the man, makes us proud of the human compuetness of Europe amazed also race. A soggy morah has been re- that its various countries, bristling made to serve man's natural needs ominously in the headlines of the and yet the whole thing might have Amerleaf press, manage to live to been designed by a genius in lands- gether ni 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 little If the season is not far 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 Express from "Bocda- tullp, gladiolus and other blooms pest," capital of a kingleos monarchy which furnish glamour, and in good and from Prague, capital of a Great times, wealth, to the Low Lands. Experiment Amsterdam,
Holland central From
these heartening nest of Holland's mechanical birds, colours are exported, often through 1s within two hours of half a dozen the air, to most of the countries of great capitals, Including Berlin, Paris Europe.-By Sidney A. Clarke in the
Christian Science Monitor, and London,
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ACROSS
1 The weapon suggests a kiss in
error (11).
This direction seems wrong here (4).
10 This may make a thin cat sce
(11).
11 This age gives one an idea of
the extent of land (4).
14 How things may be sensoned, a foreign cheese perhaps (two words-1, 3).
17 A humble abode (5).
18 Not the best of words this (6). 19 This mange does dogs no hurm,
but they seldom got it (5),
20 Bird (5)..
21 Part or port of New Zealand
(B).
22 Italion
musical
composer,
knighted in England (5),
23 Flinch (5),
24
Unexpressed (5),
26 Features of musle and poetry
(7),
20 This flower appears on the stage in "The Tempest" (4),
32 Uncouth (11).
33 Buildings Bomewhat than 17 across (4).
better
34 Plants in times of drought may be this in the country (two words-4,-7).
DOWN
2 Tho shy part of a down (4).
3 "Deserted at his utmost-by those his former bounty fed" (Dryden, "Alexander's Feasi"} (4)
4 Stage direction' (5);
4 Fresh-water or son Ash' (B).
0 A primitive weapon (5),
7 Bangfrold (11).
CROSSWORDS
8 These bushes in a wood need not necessarily be stunted (11). 12 This skilled craftsman should be able to make himself heart- Iesa (11).
13 Excess of concern...duo to ปี batsman's dislike of the bowl- ing? (11).
14 People often liko poriralis that
this, it is not so rõugh (7),
15 Famous violinmaker of old (6). 10 "Costers" (anag.) (7). 10 A military cap (6).
20 Handle (5).
27 An inhabitant of S India per-
haps (8).
of this Derby winner regarded us a bit of a miracle? (5).
20 Was the appearance
30 3 down is an anagram (4). 31 Old advice from the end of 32
across (4),
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