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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1938.

Europe Takes Precautions To Protect Civilians Against Air Raids

LESSONS OF THE WAR

IN SPAIN

The Spanish Civil War has shown that non-combatants will suffer as much as saldiers in the next war. Almost every nation in Europe takes it for granted that civilian populations will be bombed from the air. The following dispatch tells how European governments are pre- paring to protect their civilian,

By Joseph Grigg, Jr..

United Press Staff Correspondent

London.

Every civilian will be a target for death from the air in the next war, and when the sirens sound the warning men, women and children will seek safety in everything from prehistoric caves to the most modern bomb-proof, gas-proof rooms.

All European nations-even peace-loving little Holland-are devising means of protecting non-combatants from the fate that has overtaken so many women and children in Barcelona and Madrid

In Poland It is called the Every Thursday noon there is the į batunts.

The air-Lopp," which was formed three scream of a siren in Paris. ruld alarm system is being tested. years ago and now has 3,500,000 mem Not that the inhabitants of the French bers. "Lopp" has un oficial in almost

American film star Marguerite capital need

any reminder that death every household in Poland, who is

be to from the sky is something

Churchill who by means responsible for the construction of a

of feared, because almost every drug bomb shelter and for instructing the modern make-up ins obtained store has gas masks for sale and members of the household In the use

this exotic appearance

when people think no more about it than of gas masks.

playing in a recent film. persuns In the United States do of seeing sandwiches

sale on Pharmacies,

In

Berlla's problem is acute because I would be impossible to shelter civilians in the subway system during

Subway's there Lights go out periodically in all an air raid.

are too 10 the surface to frontier elles of the Soviet Union and close

provide the population

through the adequate protection. Last September notions of escaping enemy bombers. Germany had a "dress rehearsal" for There are curious red posla on an air raid. Strens shrieked, lights Berlin

street corners-rupilens of were darkened and grim-faced men in aerial bombs in which Germans drop overalls moved through the streets

marks as their con- clearing away debris and extins plennigs and

fires. real and tribution to the Reich air protection ing Jeague.

Every owner of a house in London is urged by the government to dig a trench in his back yard where the family can crouch and avoid flying

fragments during the next air raid.

Gas musks now sell for as little as 147 in Rome,

EUROPE'S FEAR OF DEATH

And so it goes in

Imaginary

WOMAN FINDS A ROYAL ALBUM

HIDDEN IN RUBBISH HEAP FOR YEARS

"CONFESSIONS"

dend and wounded were! carried away and any person who QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S refused to join in the game was threatened with ine or imprisonment. The Germans took it seriously because they know an air attack would be a seriates thing is a nation where 65 per cent. of the population lives in large cities.

After being hidden for years in a pile of rubbish, a book in which King Edward VII, and. Queen Alexandra collected the autographs of Victorian has Jus! Mrs.

Italy, committed to the theory that und Edwardian families

of come into the possession the best defence against air raids is a A. F. Verey, of Bognor Regis. every nation strong offensive by tallan planes, has Fear of death from the air covers installed anti-serial sounding equip-| It is the size of on exerelse book, Evrope ke a blight. Every man

anal knows that within 24 hours after warment which would warn Mussolini's with a morocco leather cover.

famous numes

Rutland, is declared his home and his family air force that the enemy was on the such

Malmesbury, Stanhope, S1, may be under an attack as deadly ash and from which direction it was Bristol.

Albans and Newcastle appear in it. that being ruined on front-line troops.comune.

Even Holland, which escaped un- Apart from the autographs, It con- The average European living in a large city must be prepared when scathed in the World War, has sent tains the views of King Edwardt and out instructions on how and when to Queen Alexandra, written by thein- war comes to leaves his home, aban- don his possessions and go on andurken cities and the government has selves on a wide variety of subjects. hour's notice to some distant village. Placed ordern for enough gas innsks Decentralization of populations during to outfi! every person in the nation-uccording to this book. air raids figures in the defence plans of almost every nation. France Is widening and improving the highways that lead from the gates of Paris,

The English, crowded together on a spall Island and remembering how the zeppelins came over in the World We have made the most elaborate All of anti-air rald preparations. man's ingenuity has failed to improve upon the ancient caves in the seaside cliffs as u protection against enemy aircraft and that 15 where the residents of Brighton, Margate, Dover and Southend are planning to go when the sirens scream.

rald

including babies.

GIRLS ARE BECOMING. SHORTER

The average girl of 1938 is shorter. weighs less, but hus a more womanly figure than the girl of Ave years ago.

Miss 1938 welcha, оп the averace, six pounds less than Miss 1933, yet her bust and hip mea- Burements Arc slightly blager: her shoe size is larger too.

King Edward's favourite moito,

was ""'ich Dien," which he used when Prince of Wales. Queen Alexandra's favourite name was that of her husband.

While King Edward was an admirer of Nelson, Hyron, Raphael and Macaulay, the Queen's hero, poet, painter and author were Marl- borough, Shakespeare, Rubens and Dickens. The King's favourite flower wus the rose; the Queen preferred the humble forget-me-not.

the

FAVOURITE VIRTUES Another entry suggests that one thing which Queen Alexandra could not tolerate was slander. King Edward had no use for cowardice or avarice. Honesty and charity were the King's and Queen's brighte

virtues respectively...

London, most vulnerable air target of all the great cities, is busy prepar- ing her defences. The government is trying to enroll 1,000,000 persons in the "air raid precautions" organiza-

Queen Alexandra remained loyal tion. From them will be chosen air

This table shows how girls have to her native country by choosing wardens, each of whom will be changed in five years:

Dagomar of Denmark as her favourite for several hundred responsible

Queen, but she voted Grent Britain families. The wardens must see that

Miss 1933

us her happiest place of abode. Height...Sft. 5in) every person has a gas mask that Height 5ft 4in.

The book is signed "Albert Ed- izes Weight.7at. 111b. itsmasks are made in several

ylzes

Weight.Est. 31b ward" and "Alexandra." .36in. Hips

.35tn. at children

as young as two years. Hips

.342in. Bust Babies will be placed in bags out of Bust

.G which

lead tubes attached to Shoes

Shoes pumps. Mothers, wearing their own maalis, will sit besides the bags and

to

wilit

39 1938

This is the conclusion drawn from

.34in. Mrs. Verey stated that the book .5 came into her hands only recently,

and that she had little idea of origin. "It is undoubtedly

relic of the days when confessions were fashionable." she said, "and I have no doubt that the 'confessions' of King Edward and Queen Alexandra are authentic."

pump air through alters into their an analysis of Hollywood citorus girl.

children's lungs. The Home Office has announced that Great Britain now line 30,000,000 gas masks in storage and eventually will have 50,000,000. Almost every nation has some sort of organization to proteet non-com-

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Australia's birth rate during the |E. Jones, director of the University of last complete discal year was 17.13 California Institute of Child Wel- per thousand, the highest since 1031 fare, revealed in an article written A total of 58,709 marriages advanced for the American Journal of the marriage rate to 8.68 per thou- Psychology.

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