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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, THURSDAY,' OCTOBER 27, 198827

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THURSDAY, October 27, 1938.

An American newspaper re-

All

A

upon the map to allow where our forces are located.

THEN suddenly perhaps the Observer Corps rends in the news that the... enemy have changed course and are heading for another locality. VISITOR to this room

A new plan then has to be would see a large map made and the old plan undone. enemy planes will have to ask but of airfields and anti- their bases by radio for radio of the British Isles and the New messages are sent out to aircraft gun emplacements. navigational directions if they North Sea as far as the Con- A.A. guns, cancelling the pre- Within those lines are our wish to navigate and bomb with tinent. Around the map would, vious orders and advising them

be the chair of the officer in of the new line of attack. best military objectives for accuracy. the enemy to bomb.

All these sources of receiving charge of the "Fighter Com-

The fighter squadrons, by We have no fear of invasion, information will also have to be mand." Should war be declared:

Air now in the air, have to be co-ordinated and checked. Much to-morrow this would be The only way to attack England false information, of course, will Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dow- diverted to the new danger area. is from the air. The Army, the be received, and will have to be ding.

Well, that's easily done, for Navy and the Royal Air Force rapidly sorted out, especially

around the walls of the control have all co-operated and pooled when enemy bombers are wing-

room are radio transmitters their knowledge in order to make our A.A. defences as im- pregnablo as possible.

On either side he would be

He

ing their way to England at the flanked by his chiefs to staff, one for communicating with fighter rate of five miles per minute. representing the R.A.F., one planes in the air. So a simple The reception of information dealing with A.A. guns, one for radio message is sent telling IF you look at an ordin. and the issuing of orders to our searchlights, and any fore them to alter their course.

move- And so the defence goes on. ary aviation map of the organisations of defence are so formation as to enemy British Isles you will notice that dependent upon each other that ments.

This is what I think would Directed by one man sitting in I believe that the whole of our airfields have been grouped along A.A. defence will be directed happen if an enemy air raid took an office, surrounded with up- paratus for communication. To these two lines. Fighter squa-

I am led place. JAPAN'S WAR AIMS drons will be stationed in these from one large room.

As information as to the post the officer commanding there

will be little thrill of war, still the chief weapon of defence possible to divide the command tion of enemy planes come in, will just be competing with areas, for the fighter plane is to conclude that it will not be against raiding bombers. In into sections, for the whole little flags are placed upon the cently quoted a foreign wag in support of the fighter plane there country is liable to attack. In map. The Chief of the Fighter ever-changing intelligence.

But the dispositions which Tokyo who, on being asked by are A.A. guns and searchlights. addition, planes are mobile ob- Command then starts to draw

He the officer commanding our A.A. The success of our defences jects, and can be moved from up his plan of defence. an anxious Japanese whether

will depend upon the successful one end of England to another, sends out messages to A.A. units defences will make will be of Upon Japan's real intentions were co-ordination between these depending, of course, upon to prepare to receive the enemy, the utmost importance. properly

who are approaching from cer- this man and upon the accuracy understood abroad, Junits. To accomplish this they where attack is severest.

I do not know if such a room tain directions. Orders are then with which he can intercept the replied quite gravely: "I'm will be put under the command

That man will be exists or is contemplated, but it sent out to the bases of fighter news will depend the safety of afraid they are." However, not an Air Force officer. The A.A. is plain to me that the control squadrons to tell them to take hundreds of thousands of civi all the public utterances by guns, although manned by the room, if one does exist for the the air and to prepare to in- lians. The man in the control Japanese leaders in the past Army, wil be under the direc- Maginot Line, will be many feet tercept the enemy at a given room may easily

place. Flags are then placed Iron Duke of the future. tions in war time of the Air underground. have conduced to clarity, and it Force.

of one man.

is unlikely that Japan's promise The success of our weapons of to tell the world later this week defence against air attack de

pends upon one essential service, just what she has in mind will an efficient system of intellig- be any more enlightening.

ence. Early warning of the approach of enemy bombers must be obtained. ·

To be sure, Japan has clearly

let it be understood that the

primary requisite to, peace negotiations is the dropping of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

If early warning is received it gives time for our fighter planes to intercept enemy bombers and engage them before they reach their objectives. A squadron of within five minutes of receiving warning.

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Was it beneath those same chest-Tennyson family, looking in reality England I have derived great nut trees, by the side of the little quite as extraordinary as it did then. ON several, motoring hoildays in pleasure from seeking out the gardens round lily-pond, that there came to The garden slopes downward from of some of our famous writers, and him some of the thoughts by Eng- the lawn towards a meadow through

given"? The peace and tran- which meanders the famous brook- have enjoyed the privilege of wanquillity of that garden, safe from if there are those who would seek to dering up and down their paths.

Rupert Brooke's garden at Grant- war's alarms, impressed me greatly convince you that it is not the brook,

do not belleve them! one of them. Quite when I stood within It. chester was apart from his fame as a poct, his

between the grassy paths, were

and hollyhocks. for large numbers of people because

Such Then there is Tennyson's garden at peoples, who before the war

it was linked with their own personal

of memories--the garden Somersby, that Intle Lincolnshire garden of the "voice that's speaking sorrows of the war years, | welded them'into a`united nation

In Grantchester, a small country village, far from the beaten track in the wind," the garden where “a and since August last year has FACTORY workers can village, there are people who treasure where he spent the years of his guest or happy sister sang the gar

evacuated to air memories of him. A lady at work youth. The smalinesa of Somersby den in which, following the death of led them against one

of the raid shelters within two minutes in her garden recalled how she used proved most surprising, unce Tenny. Hallam, he debated, the problems of

poems have accustomed one to death and humortality. to see him dally rushing about on most powerful military and of a warning, that is, of course, bicycle when he was a student and a feeling of spaciousness in every-

Flowers Wordsworth Loved aerial machines in the world, if air raid shelters are placed she was a schoolgirl. On the war thing connected with him.

White Lilico

120 GVET peeped must go. Chiang Kai-shek, to near to factories likely to be memorial his name is written with

lads.

And Wordsworth's garden? Though churchyard wall near to where the bombed. Barcelona proved this. the names of the valed at the Old post's father lies buried. But it was the gardens of Grasmere are sur- whom all the Japanese leaders

Rupert Brooke lodged at There are many systems in Vicarage, which is smothered in flowers of glowing red that threw passingly lovely, there is not much of now pay the compliment of un-use for giving warning of the greenery and creamy roses. And he their reflections upon the polished a garden attached to Dove Cottage compromising hatred, must be approach of enemy bombers, gazed out at the peaceful garden, the mahogany of the side-table in the a few daffodils

The first is with ordinary sound subject of his poem written in Berlin, rectory lounge, within which I was ceramble up the bank behind the eliminated. Then those in-locators. These instruments will through his little easement window, permitted to peep.

Wandering round to the lawn, I But surely Dora's Field, adjoining peeping through the trails of honey- dividuals and groups in the give warning when planes are suckle and the purple bells of the found that

appears the house at Rydal where the poet Kuomintang which are willing approaching a town. They will clematis at the plots where "mtled exactly as when it used to gaze at me died, is the perfect garden with which and from the page of my school "Tenny- to associate Wordsworth! The fold give warning in time for local the carnation and the pink,"

tolis mass of flowers In springtime. pansy con"-the dining-room, built on to admit defeat may discuss A.R.P. to be set in action and to where "the poppy

Accommodate the ever-increasing Daffodils, narcissi, anemones, prim with the leaders of the existing enable local A.A. guns to clear

roses, tiny mauve violets carpet the grass and mount the banks to a point for action. pro-Japanese regimes, and other

where, having, climbed with them. one has a wonderful view over Rydal puppets which will be set up in

Water. Hankow and Canton, conditions for a settlement which will leave China a little more dependence than Manchukuo,

But, of course, this system is

blow."

and the

no use for advising fighter squa- GRIN AND BEAR IT drons of raiding planes, for by the time the locator has heard i the hostilo engines it is already in too late to intercept them.

perhaps, but which will establish Ile, therefore essential

that raiding bombers Japan's domination of east Asia should be located either before on a firm, and unshakable basis. they arrive at our coast and Can this hope of Japan's be when they are far out to sen or Immediately they cross our realised? Only, we are con-shores. vinced, if a certain section of All along our coasts in war- the Chinese people of whom we Corps will keep watch.

time the Aircraft Observer When have become increasingly cog-the sound of airplane motors is nisant since the fall of Canton heard the Observer Corps will

can have their way.

téléphone the news to their head- quarters with, if possible, a There is no gainsaying the description of the machine. fact that in China to-day is Then this information will be small minority which would like sent to the headquarters of the to BCC an Increase in the fighter command.

Wo will also have reconnula-

Japophile element at the na-sance planes far out to sea on tion's helm. The mere fact that constant patrol.. Japan's major demand, before If they alght enemy bombers peace can be discussed, is for the they will radio the news to their

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the rectory

By Lichty

"You know, I'm rather glad the Governor refused, my par

sa solves the matter of an ending for my, memoirs.

house.

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When I reached the Hardy coun- try, the garden of the novelist's house, Max Gate, at Dorchester struck me as rather formal. But the garden at Upper Bockhampton, where Ilardy was born, was a tangled mass of loveliness, gilmpoed through the hedge the real old-world garden of country lovers.

Thoughts of Tess

Somehow, i was of Tess rather. than of her creator that I was think- inst all the time-strange that Tess, who was merely a fctional character, has become so reall

Poor Tess, in that brief, busy life of hers, had little time for garder toys. Yet the churchyard at Mar- hull where her unbaptised infant was, buried is a rose-hung place.

The Hitle village to which sho went to look after the D'Urbervillo poultry glimmered red with popples In its hedgerows, The Slopes, how- ever, which in Hardy's page showed like a geranium bloom against the subdued colours around," remained; Invisible,

at

Talbothays, the dairy farm which Teas met Angol Clare, is 100 practions to worry about a garden; the tinkle of its milk palis reminds one of ile purposefulness

At Woolbridge House, the sceną of the honeymoon, with its portraits of the sinister women had its tole of a spectral conch sweeping up to its door each Christmas Eve, the rosch. seem quito half-hearted about their blooming. But Bindon Abbey: near by showed me "Tess's Tomb Ty

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