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THE HONGKONG⠀ TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1938.

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Air Raid Precautions-5

Constructing A Home Dugout

EVERY householder must couple--and I'm wasting my time if want to make his home you're not-you may decldo on both. Now for more "extra precautions." as safe as possible:

The Hongkong A.R.P. Com- SANDBAGS mittee obviously cannot submit The sandbags still takes some individual defence schemes for beating, and If you are determined ali types of homes. But they do to make your home as safe as possi- recommend "extra precautions" ble you will be advised to study the best method of utilising the sandbag A.R.P. people the real "old stager" of defensive for really keen who are in a position to adopt werfare.

Sandbags outside are them.

protection if your walls are not thick enough to resist splinters, and they are also very effective for window openings.

the best

the

of

this article-fifth of a series In based on the ometal booklet issued to all air rak volunteers-I tell how Mr. and Mrs. Carrington (they are If you can completely close

opening with a wali really Mr. and Mrs. Yap) can con- window

refuge aandbags (which should overlap tho struct a dug-out instead of

Or. If they are really wise, walls each side by about a foot) you ollernative air raid necom- wil prevent the glass from being broken by the blast of an explosion. modation

have assumed for the purpose of You will also keep out splinters.

But that you chose

the window must still be. the early articles your pleasant breakfast room as the scaled Inside against gas. A sand- refuge that you, being very fond of bag wall part of the

room.

have

ปร

way up D

room, "put your foot down" window will keep out spitulers from when your husband suggested that the lower part of the room but will

nul save the glass. 1 should be utilised as a refuge.

Remember that a wall of sand- HIDDEN BY SHRUBS

bags should be broader at the base than at the top and should be in contact with the house walls round the window opening.

Suppose you suggested to him that be might construct a trench or dugout in the garden, knowing how mach he likes to "potter about" in the garden on fine week-ends.

SIMPLE AND CHEAP

I have said before that simpltelty You may not realise it, Mrs. Car- rington, but you have bit on a de- and cheapness are characteristles of finite proposal of the AR experts, all air raid precautions. And They classify the trench or the dug experts do not become extravagant

the

when they suggest "extra precau

out in place of a refuge room as an tions." "extra precaution," realising that it may not be possible in the case of

What for instance, will the trench

the thousand of people who possess or the dug-out cust? Nothing, suve a te labour by you, Mr. Carring- small gardens.

ton.

Onc of the reason why You

It Is not impossible for you. Any baga or sacks, including pa- bought the house in Kowloon Tong perde for sandbags. But if they are large, do not 11 them right up or was because it had a nice garden, you won't be able to carry them. and you could construct a dug-out

If ΣΗΤΕΙ cannot get sand, use without Interfering

earth Instead. Is will serve just general lay-out,

as well. Why, touch

with the

you could even give it iL If you haven't not sandbags. i of the picturesque, What wall of boxes filled with earth will about a scheme for concealing It do instead. The box-wall with shrubbery or rock flowers?

not be less than 2ft. Gin. thick, if

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"Ourselves And Germany"

Cope, 1910 by Tillad Festare

Ear,

The Bee. U.S. TAL DR—All rights reserved

Lord Londonderry, Germany,

And The Jewish Question

THURSDAY, February 8.--We set

should out in General Goering's machine But whatever you do make sure the boxes are large, fill them in for Einrink, Hitler's private airfield that you build your dug-out or position und ram the earth well

as down.

trench

as for

from the house

for Berchtesgaden.

We found everything in the high- est state of efficiency.

is no doubt that General

and Guering by determination lavish

expenditure of money

There

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has

possible. It provides excellent pro- You ask me. Mr. Carrington, what lection against the effects of a burst- happens in the case of a basement ing bomb, but you do not want to refige? You're thinking, no doubt. run the risk of falling debris if your of that friend of yours who has a house is struck or affected by an room in a defenceless boarding house turned the air force into a real corps explosion some distance away.

near the ferry (and so near the d'ellte.

We It is a little difficult to assess the railway station. which will almost

drove to General -Goering's respective defensive values of the re- certainly be a bombing objective) home in the mountains about Berth-

tesgaden.

If the window of your refuge room is above the ground here is the way to protect it from the blast of bombs. Sandbags are stacked round the window frame, the illustration on the right showing a sido view, Sketch from the official Home Office A.R.P. handbook.

П

of his TN to-day's instalment

book.

Get- "Ourselves and many," Lord Londonderry quotes frank letter about Germany's treatment of the Jews, which he wrote to Herr von Ribbentrop (then Herr Hitler's Ambassador- at-Large) on returning from visit to Berlin in February '1930. He gives further extracts from his diary of this visit:

a

General Goering. 1 acquired a great PRIDAY, February 7-Snow fell dent of useful Information, but on FRID

heavily, but we motored to the the other hand, on my return I have airfeld and flew to Munich.

realised that I have not very clearly After an excellent lunch we pro- in my mind your definite opinion in eceded by car to Garmisch-Parten- relation to your desires in Europe. kirchen, where we spent a delightful itself, nor have I come away with weck in the surroundings of the a very clear knowledge of the actual Olympic Games, which had at reasons which control your internal tracted a vast concourse of people, policy in relation to the Jews and who thoroughly enjoyed the wonder also in relation to religious bodies.

ful spectacle which the competitions Now you may be sure that I ap- prosch these subjects with the great- est difdence.

in the Winter Sports Section pro-

vlded.

Here

the

we again met both

I am most unwilling that any Fuchrer and General Goering, and country should Interfere

or find

we

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were again struck by the en- fault with those matters of internal thusiastic welcome which

ench re- policy

which and administration ecived on every occasion when they affect solely the citizens of another appeared

country, but I should be wrong it minimised in any way the anxiety which is felt here in relation to your T the conclusion of the Games We policy towards the Jews for there is returned to England by air, and the feeling that we do not like per- I think I cannot do better than end secution, but in addition to this there this chapter by quoting from the is the material feeling that you are letter which I wrote to Herr von taking on a tremendous force which Ribbentrop a few days after my is capable of having repercussions be nothing but antagonistic toʻsome of Londonderry House,

your most proper and legitimate 06- plrations.

fuge room and the dug-out. The und -if war does come-would arrival in London: refuge room is excellent in the case share the basement refuge

with

of gas; not so good when R comes other occupants of the block of flats.

to explosive bombs. The dug-out is The window of that basement good protection against the effects of opens on to an area which cannot be a bursting bomb, but not so effective covered, GO I against gas.

the

they suggest that should build a wall of candbags of If you decide on the dug-out and boxes of earth round the top war does come, never go down to brea the boltom of your garden without Here is a tip for you, Mrs. Car

a respirator. Although the risk of rington. Save any small sacks or

concentration of gas

great you must not

A

heavy

not

chances.

is cloth bags or stout paper sacks you laka may get. Even a few will be use- ful. Also collect wooden boxes er The trouble is that all the time large cardboard cartons.

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As I told you, I have no great af- you how grateful I was for the fection for the Jews. It is possible charming and friendly manner in

to trace their participation in most quile un-

of those international disturbances which you treated my omeial visit to Berlin.

which have created so much havoc

different countries, but on As you know, I came to study at

the first hand those problems which are other hand one can find many Jewa uppermost in your minds, which we strongly ranged on the other side in this country know about but which who have done their best within the wealth at their disposal, and also by for many reasons we find it very dif- flcult to appreciate.

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When I had that charming inter look at the door of a communal re- there is also feeling that the Ger-

with the Fuehrer, you were A foot of earth spread over cor- fuge corridor which had to be used man nation during the years since Viow rugated iron, or boards, wlil do. The frequently. unprotected part should be dug

the War have not had, to use our well aware that I had come to listen I was particularly unwilling An air-lock is simply two gas slang little deeper to keep the covered end proof doors or curtains 4ft. or more but on the other hand, the news of felt. very strongly that in my wholly

phraselogy, "a square dear, and that

to rale argumentative points, as dry. And, of course, Mr. Carrington apart, with a space between them I know that you would not be so sealed like a refuge room.

rearming and the suggestion unofficial capacity, in your

Which the 1 England coupled with water-logged ground.

in recolving me, it was not for me mitting gas provided they close the totally different Well, I leave it to you to decide on first door or curtain when they are which seems to us in many cases to but I shall hope to give myself the to enter very much into controversy; the trench or refuge room question. Inside the air-lock before opening be the negation of freedom and in pleasure in the future of returning it by now you are a keen A.R.P. the second.

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