1938-10-27 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TB LEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1038.

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JAPAN'S WAR AIMS

An American newspaper re-

"I'm

upon the map to show where our forces are located.

THEN suddenly perhaps the Observer Corps sends in the news that the enemy have changed course and are heading for another locality. A VISITOR to this room A new plan then has to. De would see a large map made and the old plan undone. but of airfields and anti- their bages 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. guna, 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.

be the chair of the officer in of the new line of attack. the enemy to bomb

All these sources of receiving charge of the "Fighter Com- information will also have to be mand." Should war be declared

The fighter squadrons, by We have no fear of invasion: 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 aren. is from the air. The Army, the be received, and will have to be

Well, that's easily done, for Navy and the Royal Air Force

around the walls of the control have all co-operated and pooled when enemy bombers are wing. rapidly sorted out, especially

On either side he would be room are radio transmitters their knowledge in order to make our A.A. deferices as im ing their way to England at the flanked by his chiefs to staff, one for communicating with fighter

one representing the R.A.F., rate of five miles per minute.

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 one for in them to alter their course.

ary aviation map of the organisations of defence are so formation British Isles you will notice that dependent upon each other that ments. airfields have been grouped along I believe that the whole of our these two lines. Fighter aqua A.A. defence will be directed drons will be stationed in these from one large room. I am led arcas, for the fighter plane is to conclude that it will not be

against raiding bombers.

into sections, for the whole little flags are placed upon the In

preguable as possible

ding.

as to enemy move-

This is what I think would happen if an enemy air raid took place,

As information as to the post

And so the defence goes on. Directed by one man sitting in an office, surrounded with ap- paratus for communication. To the oficer commanding there will be little thrill of war. He

still the chief weapon of defence possible to divide the command tion of enemy planes come in, will just be competing with

ever-changing intelligence.

He the officer commanding our A.A.

cently quoted a foreign wag in support of the fighter plane there country is liable to attack. In map. The Chief of the Fighter 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 an anxious Japanese whether

The success of our defences jects, and can be moved from up his plan of defence. Japan's real intentions were co-ordination

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 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, units. To accomplish this they where attack is severest. replied quite gravely;

tain directions. Orders are then with which he can intercept the will be put under the command of one man. That man will be

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.

squadrons to tell them to take hundreds of thousands of civi- all the public utterances by guns, although manned by 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-

tercept the enemy at a given room may easily become place. Flags are then placed Iron Duke of the future. tions in war time of the Air have conduced to clarity, and it Force. 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 primary requisite to peace negotiations is the dropping of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

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.

I do not know if such a room exista or is contemplated, but it is plain to me that the control room, if one does exist for the Maginot Line, will be many feet underground.

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Was it beneath those same chest-Tennyson family, looking in reality nut trees, by the side of the little quite as extraordinary as it did then. round 11ly-pond, that there came to The garden slopes downward from If early warning is received it of some of our famous writers, and him some of the thoughts by Eng- the lawn towards a meadow through gives time for our fighter planes have enjoyed the privilege of wan- land given"? The peace and tran- which meanders the famous brook- quillity of that garden, safe from If there are those who would seek to to intercept enemy bombers and 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, engage them before they reach chester was, one of them. Quite when I stood within it.、

do not believe them! The flower- their objectives. A squadron of apart from his fame as a poet, his

plots, between the grassy paths, were crowded with roses and lilies, laven- der and hollyhocks. Then there is Tennyson's garden at Such a It was linked with their own personal Somersby, that Intle Lincolnshire garden of the "voice that's speaking peoples, who before the war within five minutes of receiving for large numbers of people because

a garden of memories--the warning.

sorrows of the war years.

village, for from the beaten track, in the wind," the garden where "a In Grontchester, -a small country and since August last year has FACTORY workers can

who treasure where he spent the years of his guest or happy sister sing," the gar- are people village, there a be evacuated to air memories of him. A lady at work youth. The smallness 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, since Tenny- Hallam, he debated the problems of

to see him daily rushing about on his son's poems have accustomed one to death and immortality. most powerful military and of a warning, that is, of course, bicycle when he was a student and feeling of spaciousness in every-j aerial machines in the world, if air raid shelters are placed she was a schoolgirl. On the war thing connected with him.

Flowers Wordsworth Loved White Illies

tho over near to factories likely to be memorial his name is written with

Deeped must go.

And. Wordsworth's garden? Though Chiang Kai-shek, to bombed. Barcelona proved this, the names of the village lads,

churchyard wall near to where the whom all the Japanese leaders There are many systems in,upert Brooke lodged at the Old poet's father les buried. But it was the gardens of Grasmere

which is smothered in flowers of glowing red that threw passingly lovely, there is not much of

And he their reflections upon the polished a garden attached to Dove Cottage now pay the compliment of un-use for giving warning of the c

greenery and creamy roses.

do their best to approach of enemy bombers. gazed out at the peaceful garden, the mahogany of the side-table in the a few daffodils compromising hatred. must be The first is with ordinary sound subject of his poem written in Berlin, rectory lounge, within which I was scramble up the bank behind the

peep

house. eliminated. Then those in-locators. These instruments will through his little casement window, permitted to

Wandering round to the lawn, I But surely Dora's Field, adjoining that the rectory appears the house at Rydal where the post dividuals and groups in

the give warning when planes are peeping through the trails of honey- Kuomintang which are willing approaching a town. They will clematis at the plots where "smiled exactly as when it used to gaze at me died, is the perfect garden with which The field give warning in time for local the carnation and the pink," and from the page of my school "Tenny-to associate Wordsworth!

to is a mass of flowers in springthine. to admit defeat may discuss A.R.P. to be set in action and to where "the poppy and the pansy son"-the dining-room, bullt

the ever-increasing Daffodils, narcissi, anemones, prim- accommodate blow."

reses, tiny mauve vloleta carpet the with the leaders of the existing enable local A.A. guns to clear

grass and mount the bank to a point pro-Japanese regimes, and other

where, having, climbed with them. But, of course, this system is

'one has a wonderful view over Rydni puppets which will be set up in no use for advising fighter squa-'

Waier. Hankow and Canton, conditions drons of raiding planes, for by

the time the locator has heard i for a settlement which will the hostile engines it is already leave China a little more in-too late to intercept them. dependence than Manchukuo,

IT is therefore essential perhaps, but which will establish

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 immediately

when they are far out to sen or they cross our realised? Only, wo ате con-jahores. vinced, if a certain section of All along our coasts in war- the Chinese people of whom we Corps will keep watch.

timo 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.

| telephone 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 a Then this information will be small minority which would like sent to the headquarters of the

fighter command. the

We will also have reconnais- Japophile element at the na-sance planes far out to sea on tion's helm. The mere fact that constant patrol.

to

sec an

increase in

that

for action.

Japan's major demand before If they sight enemy bombers peace can be discussed is the they will radio the news to their removal of one man should con-headquarters. vince these people that

In America there is an in- man is the very one who should genious radio device called the Spitz flight recorder that locates not be removed, if China in toplanes when far distant, provid preserve her territorial integrity ing that the plane sends out and economical independence in radio messages. It does not, the future.

however, matter what wave-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"You know, I'm rather glad the Governor refuted my parilan is solves the matter of an ending for my niemolrm."

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 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 Tess rather than of her creator that I was think- Ing all the time-strange that Tess, who was merely a fictional character, has become so reall

Poor Tess, in that brief, busy life of hers, had little time for garden joys. Yet the churchyard at Marn- hull where her unbaptised Infant was burled is n rose-hung placo,

The little village to which she went to look after the D'Urberville 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 Tess met Angel Clare, la too practical to worry about a garden; the tinkle of its milk pails reminds one of its purposefulness.

At Woolbridge House, the scene of the honeymoon, with its portralis of the sinister women and its talo of a spectral coach sweeping up to its door each Christmas Eve, the roses seem quite falf-hearted about their blooming. But Bindon. Abbey near- by showed me "Tess's Tomb" in a (Continued on Page 5,)