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SILENT APPROACH? WILL DEFEAT A.R.P.
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'VE made a fortune in the arms trade,' said the Merchant
plelo job.... Don't stop with polish-of Death, "but now I'm
ing or waxing the body and cleaning dress the tires also
the windowB... with WHIZ WHITE TIRE COATING. Give your car that sought after, amari appearance... that finished look that only white sidewall tires
through. Just let me get out of here alive, and I'll never touch the d-d stuff again."
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1938.
REMOVING
THE CAUSE
All
The Cortes Street, Barcelona. raiders had just passed over the city for the eighth time in twenty-four hours. The Clear had not yet been sounded.
Eight raids in twenty-four hours were too much for the Merchant of Death. For the first time in his carrer he found himself at the receiving end of the business instead of the de- livery end.
By
William Forrest
During the fourth raid the Ritz itself had been hit by a wrecked the ball- bomb which
That had been bad room.
A great deal of the unrest in Europe to-day can be laid at the
that really gave us the fright door of the Treaty of Versaillesnough, but it was the sixth raid We were finishing -that unfurtunate document of our lives.
lunch when an carshattering The whole building shook. The walls seemed to be caving in, and as we stampeded for the exit the floor heaved like the deck of a ship in a gale.
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Now if there is an air raid on London Its object will be to create panic. Therefore, it is the technique of the Silent Ap- proach plus High Explosive that A.R.P. in London must be pre- pared to meet.
"The beginning of all A.R.P. wisdom consists in realising that the Defence is faced with a psychological danger. The At- tack has devised a weapon which can stop the population from functioning like rational human beings.
"The Defence must maintain
the rationality and the activity of its population, or be defeat- ed."
To meet this psychological danger Langdon-Davies offers some excellent suggestions.
Nerve-shattering noises must be reduced to the minimum. Why keep up the anti-aircraft barrage long after the raiders
News Chronicle War Correspondent, who returned recently from Government Spain
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of the initial have gone? Instead an 5. Bombers make off with bomber, rising to
siren-in itself their height of 30,000 feet, would glide moaning pursuit planes at
over a hundred miles while fall direct attack on the nerves-let tails.
ing to a height of 10,000 feet," us have "a few sharp musical
In the Barcelona air, raids Silent Approach was combined with High Explosive. What are the effects of High Explosive?
6. All Clear sounded. Popu- lation goes about its busi-
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We were all sure that hotel had been hit again, but we were wrong. The bomb had fallen about 300 yards away.
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Langdon-Davies has written a book about that bomb. I agree-and I have no doubt the Merchant of Death is with me in the matter that. our bomb deserves to have book written about it.
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this:
Well, if that bomb which brought our lunch to an abrupt
1. Bombs were heard drop end at the Barcelona Ritz had fallen in Piccadilly Circus near ping.
the Cafe Royal this, according 2. Fifteen seconda
later: to our author, is what would sirens gave air raid warn have happened: ing.
3. Fifteen seconds
notes associated in everybody's mind with useful action, a bugle call, or a snatch of a popular melody."" Against the noise of High Explosive let us have car protectors and sound deadeners.
Silent Approach aims at creat- ing mental chaos through aus- репне.
The strain of suspense "can' be lessened by giving everyone useful work... Everybody
Most of the Piccadilly Hotel later; and the buildings opposite would should have his appointed task anti-aircraft guns opened have been deposited into the during an air raid.....!!
fire.
• street.
seconds later: 4. Twenty
Passers-by in Regent Street, raiders were in full flight, the Circus, Piccadilly, Lower Re- beyond the burrage, but gent Street and Shaftesbury barrage continued and Avenue would have been killed. terror continued also.
Every window frame and doorway within 200 yards would have been blown in.
5. Ten minutes later: bar-
rage ceased.
6. Varying time later: All
Clear sounded.
The fronts of all buildings for at least 100 yards would have collapsed into the streets.
At least three main thorough-
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But the suggestion which I most heartily endorse is the the very first evacuation, "at moment," of all the children and many of the women.
In March many of the Bar- celona workers left the factories in order to escort their fami- lies to safety. For two days work was paralysed.
The metal workers of Sagun-
According to Langdon-Davies,
How is Silent Approach effect- that bomb made A.R.P. look silly. It was the harbinger of
new air terror, for which ed? "The bombers rise from orthodox A.R.P. is not prepared. their base to a great height and fares would have been blocked to, on the other hand, stood up This new terror is the technique then glide with engines shut off with debris sown with corpses to repeated raids without flinch- ing, because their families had of Silent Approach combined until their objective is reached, and injured sufferers. with High Explosive.
Thus sound detection becomes High Explosive "opens the already gone.
In Spain the most deadly Orthodox A.R.P. anticipates a impossible. The distance the door and window to gas....
of the totalitarian raid on these lines:
bombers can glide is dependent Dreams of gas-proof rooms are blows
terrorists have been aimed at dissolved." 1. Approaching bombers de- on various factors....A possible
The March raids in Barcelona the Republican fighters through tected by sensitive instru- best performance for a medium- ments.
weight bomber might well be to were an experiment in totall- their women and children.
In Britain already darkened glide at 120 miles an hour at a tarian terror.. "The aim was Population gliding angle of one in thirty. not casualties but the creation by the shadow of the Silent Ap
This would mean that such a of panic."
proach the technique will not be different.
2. Alarm given.
takes shelter.
3. Curtain of air
sent up to keep
away.
barrages | raiders
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4. Some bombers get through
defences and bombs dropped.
*"Air Raid,” by John Langdon- Davies. (Routledge.)
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of the present day trend more Consequently, the aftermath warily than did their predeces- of the last war has been bitter sors the problem of minorities, indeed. Those nations which which is so perplexing, may Buffered under the peace trenty breed a calamity worse have become now dangerously that born twenty-four years ago. potent. The new political con- Central Europe, as in 1914, is sciousness of the New Germany the centre of all diplomatic in- under Herr Hitler is formidable, terest, and Czecho-Slovakia and and the attitude adopted by the Its Sudeten problem, regardless Nazi party has been one which of all the efforts of conciliation has neither forgotten nor for- adopted by Lord Runelman and | given the wrongs, done at Ver- the Czech President, Dr. Bénes, sailles, They hold that might may yet turn out to be a second makes right, that the "mailed Sarajevo, What must be re- fist" is more effective in 1938 moved are the fundamental than it was in 1914. Germany | causos of this unrest and ill-will. by adopting as her role that of War is no remedy. But, unfor protector of all those citizens of tunately, all nations do not senso German blood who are resident this truth, T.P.G.
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