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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, TRUBEDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1938.

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Britain, too, has her

Maginot Line

HE English Maginot Line stretches from London to a point in Scotland, and from London to Southampton.

It is not composed of hundreds of miles of con-

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upon the map to show where our forces are located.

THEN suddenly perhaps the Observor Corps Bends in the news that the enemy have changed course and are heading for another locality. SPHINX PATENTED FEATURES-crete forts and pill-boxes, enemy planes will have to ask length the planes 1180. All

A VISITOR to this room A new plan then has to be but of airfields and anti- their bases by radio for radio of the British Isles

would see a large map made and the old plan undone. and the Now 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 best military objectives for accuracy.

bo the chair of the officer in of the new lino of attack. the enemy to bomb.

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

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

co-ordinated and checked. Much to-morrow this would be Air now in the air, have to 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 have all co-operated and pooled when enemy bombers are wing- rapidly sorted out, especially

On either side he would be around the walls of the control room are radio transmitters their knowledge in order to ing their way to England at the flanked by his chiefs to staff, one for communicating with fighter make our A.A. defences as im rate of five miles per minute. representing the R.A.F., one pregnable as possible.

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The reception of information dealing with A.A. guns, one for planes in the air. So a simple

them to alter their course. IF you look at an ordin. and the issuing of orders to our searchlights, and one for in- radio message is sent telling

formation ns to enemy move- ary aviation map of the organisations of defence are so

And so the defence goes on. 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 ap- these two lines. Fighter aqua-

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

the officer commanding there As information as to the posi- areas, for the fighter plane is to conclude that it will not be An American newspaper re-

still the chief weapon of defence possible to divide the command tion of enemy planes come in, will be little thrill of war. against raiding bombers. In into sections, for the whole little flags are placed upon the will just be competing with 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

Ho 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 Japan's real intentions were co-ordination between

Upon these depending,

course, upon to prepare to receive the enemy, the utmost importance. properly understood abroad, units. To accomplish this they where attack is suverest. who are approaching from cer- this man and upon the accuracy replied quite gravely: "I'm will be put under the command I do not know if such a room tain directions. Orders are then with which he can intercept the of one man. 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 tako 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- llans. 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 become the have conduced to clarity, and it Force.

tions in war time of the Air underground.

place. Flags are then placed Iron Duke of the future.

is unlikely that Japan's promise! to tell the world later this week just what she has in mind will be any more enlightening.

To be sure, Japan has clearly

let it be understood that the

The success of our weapons of defence against air attack de- pends upon one essential service, an efficient system of intellig- ence. Early warning of the approach of enemy bombers must be obtained.

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GARDENS OF AUTHORS

several motoring holidays in Was it beneath those same chest-Tennyson family, looking in reality England I have derived great mit trees, by the side of the little quite as extraordinary as it did then. pleasure from secking out the gardens round illy-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 land given"? The peace and tran- which meanders the famous brook-- have enjoyed the privilege of wan-

quillity of that garden, safe from If there are those who would seek to dering up and down their patha.

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

do not believe them! apart from his fame as a poet, his

Quite when I stood within it..

The flower plots, between the grassy paths, were crowded with roses and lilles, laven- der and hollyhocks. for large numbers of people because

If early warning is received it Peter Dawson with Chorus primary requisite to

peace gives time for our fighter planes negotiations is the dropping of to intercept enemy bombers and

engage them before they reach chester Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. their objectives. A squadron of

vyas one of them.

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peoples, who before the war within five minutes of receiving

warning. welded them into a united nation

It was linked with their own personal

Then there is Tennyson's garden at Somersby, that sorrows of the war years.

little Lincolnshire Such a garden of memories—the In Granichester, & small country village, far from the beaten track, garden of the "valce that's speaking: and since August last year has FACTORY workers-can

village, there are people who treasure where he spent the years of his in the wind," the garden where a memories of him. A lady at work youth. The smaliness of Somersby miest or happy alster sang," the gar- led them against one of the raid shelters within two minutes in her

be evacuated to air her garden recalled how she used proved most surprising, since Tenny- den in which, following the death of most powerful military and of a warning, that is, of course, bicycle when he was a student and

to see him daily rushing about on his son's poems have accustomed one to Hallam, he debated the problems of

a feeling of spaciousness in every-jdeath and immortality. aerial machines in the world, if air raid shelters are placed she was a schoolgirl. On the war thing connected with him.

White Ilica peeped over the Flowers Wordsworth Loved must go.

Chiang Kai-shek, to near to factories likely to be memorial his mame is written with

bombed.. Barcelona proved this. the names of the village lads. churchyard wall near to where the whom all the Japanese leaders

And Wordsworth's gardent Though There are many systems in Vicarage,

Rupert Brooke lodged at the Old poet's father lles buried. But it was

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

The first is with ordinary sound subject of his poem written in Berlin, rectory lounge, within which I was a few daffodils do their best eliminated. Then those in-locators. These instruments will through his little casement window. perited to Pound to the lawn, 1 house.

scramble up the bank behind the dividuals and groups in the give warning when planes are suckle and the purple bells of the found that the rectory

peeping through the trails of honey- Kuomintang which are willing approaching a town. They will clemnila at the plots where "aniled exactly as when it used to gaze at me the house at Rydal where the poet, give warning in time for local the carnation and the pink," and from the page of my school "Tenny-

pansy conile dining-room, built on A.R.P. to be set in action and to where "the poppy and the

accommodate blow."

ever-increasing} enable local A.A, guns to clear for action.

But, of course, this system is

no use for advising fighter squa- GRIN AND BEAR IT drons of raiding planes, for by

to admit defeat may discuss with the leaders of the existing pro-Japanese regimes, and other puppets which will be set up in Hankow and Canton, conditions for a settlement which will the time the locator has heard the hostile engines it is already leave China a little more iri-

too late to intercept them. dependence than Manchukuo, perhaps, but which will establish Japan's domination of cast Asia on a firm and unshakable basis. Can this hope of Japan's be realised? Only,

IT is therefore essential

that raiding bombers, should be located either before they arrive at our coast and when they are far out to sea or immediately they cross our WO are con-shores. vinced, if a certain section of

All' along our coasts in war- the Chinese people of whom we time the Aircraft Observer have become increasingly cog the sound of airplane motors is Corps will keep watch... When nisant since the fall of Canton heard the Observer Corps will can have their way.

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

We will also have reconnals- Japophilo element at the `na- tlon's helm. The mere fact that constant patrol..

sance planes far out to soa on Japan'a major demand, before If they sight enemy bombers pence can be discussed, is for the they will radio the news to their removal of one man should con-headquarters, vince these people that that In America thero is an in- man is the very one who should genious radio device called the not be removed, if China is to Spitz flight recorder that locates planes when far distant, provid- preserve her territorial integritying that the plans sends out and economical independence in radio messages. It does not, the future.

however, matter what wave-

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By Lichty

"You' Jenow, I'm rather glad the Governor refused my pardon 48 solves the matter of an ending for my memoirs."

to

But surely Dora's Field, adjoining

lo died, is the perfect garden with which to associate Wordsworth! The Beld is a mass of flowers in springtime. Daffodils, narcisst, anemones, prim- ruses, tiny mauve violets carpet the grass and mount the bank to a point. where, having, climbed with them, one has a wonderful view over Rydal Water.

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 Beckhampton, where Hardy was born, was a tangled mass of loveliness, glimpsed through the hedge-the real old-world garden of country lovers,

Thoughts of Tess

Somehow. It was of Teas rather- than of her creator that I was think- Ing all the time-strance that Tess, who was merely a fetional character,, has become so reall

Poor Tess, In Ust brief, busy life- of hers, had little time for garden Joys. Yet the churchyard at Marn- hull where her unbaptised infant was. buried is a rose-hung place.

The tie village to which she went to look after the D'Urberville poultry glimmered red with poppies. in its hedgerows The Slopes, how- ever, which In Hardy's page showed like a geranium bloom against the subdued colours around," remained invialble.

Talbothays, the dairy farm at- which Tes met Angel Claro, in too practical to worry about a garden; the tinkle of its milic pails reminds one of its purposefulness..

At Woolbridge House, the scene of the honeymoon, with its portraits of the sinister women and iis, tale- of a spectral coach sweeping up to. its door each Christmas Eve, the roses scem quife: half-hearted about their-- blooming.

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