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A.R.P. LESSON NO. 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY

SPARE MOMENT PAGE

What To Do In An Air Raid

AIR Raid on Hongkong!

What would you do what can you do to protect your home from the peril of gas and explosive bombs ? Last time we didn't have to do anything we were too far away, But in the next war Hongkong might be one of the first-places to ex-

the pertence

horros of war from the air.

In this article the third of a series based on an offelal booklet issued by the Home Ofce to all alr rald volunteers, the Telegraph advises that typically Hongkong family, the Carringtons what to do.

ino" the

You will be in commnd of your household. Mr. Carrington, the ment you receive warning of actual approach of hostile niveralt,

We have dealt up to now with the practical side of air rald precautions. It is not their only speet. That horrible word psychology enters in- to it.

You must remember that your re- fuge room may be the safest in your suburb but it will avail you very ttle if you are careless enough to leave one light burning or the smallest sky-light open.

So make a quick tour of the eight rooms, close all doors and windows to reduce to a minimum the amount of gas which can get into any part of the house.

Wo will assume that it is a winter evening that you have two res nicely burning when the alarm given. sources of danger. They cause cur- rents of air which many draw in gos from outside. You will need exercise coolness here, Mr. Carring- ton It may be a temptation to throw buckets of water on the binz- Ing coals but don't do it! If you do you will all the house with irritant fumes, Smother them instend with earth or sand or salt.

Put them out, for they are

Mr.

You nak about the light, Carrington? Turn the gas off at the] meter in case the pipes in the house get damaged and begin to leak. Do not use gas light or parafin lamps in the refuge room and, to avoid using up oxygen, if you use condles do not

There must be no indecision, no confusion-minute may make all the differener. You, remember, will be acting in co-operation with bun- dreds of pher householders all over burn more at a time than is neces- the colony who, too, have studied sary. this elementary, but highly effective, method of home defence.

We will assume, Mr. Carrington, that you are in your home when the warning is given that on air raid is about to begin.

BASEMENT REFUGES

You and Mrs. Carrington are alone. You have wisely acled on the advice given in yesterday's article and sent John, Michael, and Sylyla to your

It will be good idea to All the bath with water as a supply in ensej of fire and also all available buckels, cans and basins,

Your house, Mr. and Mrs. Carring-i ton, is of the size which would describe as easily protectable from the A.R.P. point of view,

Had it been larger. I would have suggested that someone should stay outside the refuge room-elther on an

3, 1938+

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LOVING CUP

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Boxes filled with earth will protect the window of the refuge room from bomb splinters or the blast of explanines. This illustration-from the official handbook issued by the Home Ofice to A.R.P. volunteers—shows that all sizes of boxes can be used.

will

friends well nway from the Colony or upper floor or in trench or dug- to a school in Australiu or New Zeu- out as a "look-out" for the insidious land. Bruno, the dog, has gone, tou. Incendiary bombs, The "look-out" You may be tempted to smile at in this case, of course, should carry that, but actually it is a most im- his respirator ready for instant use. porlant point. All pets must be You, Mr. Carrington, as the com- brought into refuge rooms otherwise mander of your household,

be they may come into contact with gas the last to enter the refuge room, and and spread contamination.

It

must

before

close the door-it may be you be remembered also that animals will for 12 hours, remember-malte cer- help to use up the supply of air in tain that the sealing serangements the room.

everywhere are intact.

Now what?

In

be

Your first duty, Mr. Carrington, is I have said in a previous article to morahal nil members of your that the refuge-room should household into the refuge room. regarded as your first line of de- your case this will be simple. But fence. Well, you are safely within not so simple, as the A.R.P. realise, that defence remarkable, Isn't it,

in large blocks of flats where a hun- Mrs. Carrington, how easily you dred or more people may be sharing have converted that sunny, airy, open large basement "refuges,"

breakfast-room into a darkened cell of safety!

Here the psychologienl aspect real- ly does play a part. The man - pointed to be head of such a house hold will require all the qualities of real leadership; qualities that will inspire confidence in all these people that they really will be safe in theh "refuge."

BARRICADE WINDOW

Long ago, of course, Me. Carring ton, you made your wife responsible for the checking of all articles need- ed for the refuge room. Sue will be

You may think, then, that you) have now taken all possible pre-t cautions; that what you do in this! refuge-room really doesn't matter. RELAXATION

да

If you do, you make D mistake. The A.R.P. experts regard-shall I call 117-refuge-room retaxation so important that they have issued list of rules of what to do which they urge should be "closely observed."

Here

nre:

doing that, quietly, emciently while keep rably lie, down

you are making sure that the room la properly sealed against gas, the fire put out, and the chimney blocked And don't forget to dampen the Up. door blanket! It makes a great deal of difference.

Yesterday I told you at length how to protect Dio retuge room from ns. But what of explosive bombat Un- less a window is barrleaded with sand-bags it is not easy to prevent the glass of cloned windows being shattered by the blast of an explosion even at soine distance away.

But you can prevent splinters of glass being blown into the room by covering the inside of the window panes with at least two sheets of the transparent, non-inflammable mater- int now commonly used for wrapping purposes.

Your refuge room is ready, Mr. Carrington! You have a few minutes now; a few pll important minutes in which to make sure that your homa at any rate shall not be the larget which will jeopardise the safety of the hundreds.of.other homes that surround you.

Sit, or

and keeping warm with blankels of other coverings;

Don't smoke and don't "light fres; Don't go out, unless you must, un-i til you hear the "raiders pasesd" signal. Be very caullous even then. The danger of gas may not be over although the ale rald may have ended. Only one member of household should go out first to in- vestigate, and he should be wearing his respirator;

the

Pass the time reading, writing, sowing, playing cards or quiet games, leutening to the wireless or gramo- phone. Avold exertion. Don't let the children romp about, as they will only get exhausted;

Do not put on your respirator un- less the room is damaged, unless you have to go out, unless you actually smell gas. Remember, too, that a respirator affords no protection against ordinary coal gas,

Do not eat food that has come into contact with gan.

In to-morrow's article I shall tell you what to do if the house is damaged, how to avoid injury from mustard gas, and what to

do If fire breaks out;

"I resolve, by the magic of lighting, selection, and arrangement, to find the plotures hidden in common things,”

ONO tradition demands that overyano resolve, at the begin

- ning of a new year, to turn övor aļ

now leaf, perhaps noverat now Icaros. If this is a good tden for ordi- nary people, it la a still betior idea for us as photographers. Even the best of us make mistakes that wol could avoid if we would only tako a Arm stand-and nothing can help so much as lo work out a codo and then stick to it.

Here, then, is a sot of Now Your's Rosolutions for Snapshot Qulkif members, Chock them over and soo which once apply to you. Add any others you think of. Then paste tho whale Hot in your photographic nojo. book and abide by it in the twelve- month ahead:

This year I resolve-

1. To think always botoro I shoot,

3. To remember that a camera has no brain of its own, only an eye, and will only take pictures of the acosas and subjecta 1 nut in front of it,

interesting a picture must have a contral idea, a pleasing arrangement and lighting which is suited to the idea the platuro is to oxpress,

I further resolve-

1. To try to neo the "hiddon ple

tures" in overything and to nsit myself, not "in this a good ple- turo subject" but rathor, "How can I, by the magic of lighting and arrangement, bring out the picture or plctures thilo subject contains?”

6. To experiment with lighting and pictorial arrangement so that my

eye will becom trained to woo the plcturas In- heront la common things.

6. To study my mistakes and note down what I did that was wrong and remember not to make the sama ofror twico. And I rasoivo that whenever I mako error, I will try to do the pleturo over the right way, so that its louson will be more pointed.

5. To bour in mind that my ple tures to be good must bo in torosting to other people ne moro and bettor pictures. well as myself and that to be

In other words—I rosolvo to mako

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