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SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA

It may be taken for granted that the Government's air raid" shelter

ROM the time when the first man to travel on water scooped out the fallen tree-trunk and fashioned himself a boat to the era of the Phoenicians, who wagged Semitic hands and curling beards as they chaffered with Tyrian purple for the tin of Corn- wall.

L'ATLANTIQUE

Arrow shows what happened to one of the lifeboats owing to list. of burning ship

IRE is man's greatest onemy at soa. For the French morcantile marine it has been an.added terror.

On May 16, 1932 tha Georges Philippar en route from Hong- kong to Europo, was burnt and 32 lives wore lost, The L'Atlan- tique was burnt on January 4, 1933 with the loss of 17 lives.. Yesterday, the Paris was gutted.

But slowly man is learning how to fight the 103. This article tells of the advances that have boen mado and those that are still to be achlovod

seems insuperable-there is no need to despair.

Discipline and practice at musters and drilla ensure that passengers know where to go for lifebelts and boat-stations. Ingenious methods of protecting the boats have been devised to give the fragile craft the best chance of getting away safely instead of being foredoomed to sink.

A sinking ship lists, say, to starboard. The starboard boats can possibly be launched. But half the boats will not suffice to take off all the passengers and all the crew.

MAN AGAINST

THE SEA

developments, the strictest of The Titanic discipline and, in the ultimate, boats. If every

THE difficulty of launch- ing the boats on the port or high side lies in the fact that as they are lowered they beat against the hull and keel of the ship. As the derelict was short of rolls the wooden lifeboats goes

bont hind got.

metal

BRUNO WALTER WITH ORCHESTRA DE CONSERVATOIRE Plans for the civilian population of wheels that eked out sail to the confronting the blind and naked filled, there would still have been plates to get stove in and sink

From-the-slapping ---paddle with the naked spirit of man away and every boat had been crashing against the

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force of nature.

war.

in that remorseless

turn

which

OXFORD SYMPHONY (LAYDN).

CONCERTO NO-1 IN D MINOR (BRAHMS)

the Colony are fundamentally an issue ARTUR SCHNABEL WITH ORCHESTRA of Time versus Security, with the Queen Mary breasting all waves

logg of life.

as she touches water. Or else CORIOLAN OVERTURE (BEETHOVEN)

dismal fore-knowledge that whatever with ease and cutting the time

That cannot hap the angle at which the ship lies ORCHESTRA DE CONSERVATOIRE plans are ultimately put into effect, for the London-New York run

pen to-day. Adequate boats tilts the lifeboat until it spills LE ROI L'A DIT (DELIBES)

SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA | Anancial considerations must play aby hours there has waged an

must be available to save every- its crew into the sea.. POMI AND CIRCUMSTANCE MARCHI NO-4 (ELGAR)

prominent part,

inexorable and unremitting war

THERE are casualties one aboard, The short-term policy which Gov-with the sea.

Various devices have been de- The Board of Trade has taken signed to overcome KOWN HOOD SUITE (CURZON)

Every year a thousand note of the bitter irony of the culty: permanent fenders that this dim- LONDON PALLADIUM ORCHESTRA No-C-3079ernment is likely to adopt-it, indeed,

It has no aiready been adopted- That war between merciful ships go to their death. The Californian, admittedly provides only part-pro-man and merciless ocean goes individuals who perish

which lay but a protect the boat from gunwale tection against blast and splinter of on to-day: fought as equally four figures to five, sometimes to Titanic, but made no effort to correcting and overcoming a list few miles from the sinking to bilge: davits that swing out, Ltd. bombs, less protection against fire, heroic, less worthy wars are six,

and no protection at all against direct fought-with the weapons of Eleven pages of close print in save her personnel because she of 7 degrees; "skates"

did not hear the SOS: her wire- enable à double column in Haydn's Dic- leas operator had gone to bed. launched though the ship lie on boat to be safely tionary of Dates are devoted to Men pore over plans; officials wrecks outstanding in surfelt of cheap labour almost as soon sit in offices drafting regula- tragedy: limited to British ves- ship fitted with radio is never their To-day the wireless cabin of a

her beam-ends. as an emergency arises and at com- paratively Hitle cost.

tions to counter at once the sels only; running from 1545 to left unattended. Regulations Tunnels, which we have persis- greed of capitalists and the 1895. tently advocated, would give 100 per carelessness of sailors; inventors cent. protection against all aspects of

THE peril of fire has not the air menace. But it is a solution experiment with models; crafts three ships every day; one ship ship's company.

a year; "Sparks" shall form part of a

yet been quelled so involving a long period of work, men scratch white lines on blue every eight hours. But, though certain technical dimeultics, and a paper; patents are taken out the lanes grow

Radio itself is compulsory in efficiently as the peril of faulty considerable autlay of money, much with hope, to moulder in pigeon with shipping every year, the cargo-boats. above the 1,600-ton Georges Philippar have been laid- more crowded all passenger, vessels and in all lessons of the Atlantique and the launching of lifeboats. But the than this Colony is apparently will holes. That is the War-behind-loss of life at sea grows steadily mark.

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A thousand ships

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And on the blue bosom of the thing, we believe, is certain. The absolute confidence of a civilian population of the type predominant

lay it down that at least two

of

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to heart. "Floating palaces" Radio warnings are broadcast with highly inflammable super- any impending danger. structures, garnished with Modern Instruments enable a highly inflammable paints and the battles are fought with WHEN I crossed the

ornamented with Atlantic in 1914, and skipper to ascertain his position varnishes, aggression such as this Colony one the newest appliances, the latest again when I crossed it in 1920 precision. To-day one could sail again giving place to real ships and his course with absolute highly inflammable hangings are- the first time under the Stara "blind" as one can fly "blind" with decorations suited to the.

in Hongkong is vital to the success- ful outcome of any resistance to

At

it

day may face,

present. perfectly clear that the "short-term"

an

Ser.

policy which Government is appar ently adopting we do not know yet rending the practicability of tun- and Stripes, the second time with impunity. whether it is to be a temporary ornelling the Peak and have been under the Red Ensign-there permanent policy-is such that con- assured that the construction of was no boat-drill at all. No But there is still the ultimate fidence will, in

1 tunnel right through the be emergency. Jacking.

island from the city of Victoria to one worried; nothing happened. enemy to reckon with: the cle- Aberdeen would not be impracticable But had there been an accident mental sea. Part of the Government's plans or has been announced at infrequent co exorbitantly costly. It has been the passengers would inevitably If a ship to-day does get into

computed that such a tunnel, properly have run intervals and from these announce ventilated, would provide times stood like stones.

about like rats or difficulties and recourse ments we can form some idea of

They the policy

75,000 people

did be had to the lifeboats; if the that is contemplated, of emergency. In times of peace, not know how to put on a life- ship lists heavily and the diffi- do not fit self-lowering tackle to

for over only two it would permit

culty of launching the boats

vital

1 covers, apparently,

subjects

of

DI

a certain section of civilian population to

evacuation for mass

safety

accommodation belt, nor what boat to seck. two streams of vehicular the traffic, thus relieving considerably unpopulated the congestion on the arterial roads and less dangerous parts of the lending out of the west and east ends Colony (le, the New Territories), of the cities. and the provision of trenches. Activities in the direction of enrolling

So far as we are aware, Govern- Air Raid Wardens, Volunteer Firement has not even

considered the Fighters, etc., whilst important in question of tunnels. Yet, ignoring themselves, do not come under the the factors of time, finance, labour category of air raid shelter provision.and materials, we believe that they No attempt is being made to compet remain the only sound and reasonable architects to make provision for solution of this Colony's problem. The A.R.P. in plans for the many new labour problem is costly surmount- buildings in course of erection, this able, especially in view of the fact being left to the discretion of the that we have (a) two thousand owner of the property. Nothing is prisoners in gaol or (b) 11,000 re- being done to compel owners of facfugees in concentration camps-the tories to make provision for their former avaliable at no cost whatever, staffs although, to the credit of many the latter at no more than we are Hongkong firms, the work is being at present paying to keep them. The voluntarlly undertaken. The plans question of time docs not really for mass evacuation appear to be in enter into the question, on the thesis a somewhat nebulous atate, while that It is better late than never. precautions against gas are of an Nor does the question of materials elementary nature.

provide an unsurmountable abstacle.

There, briefly, you have the case There remains finance. We would of the critle. For immediate pur-suggest in this connection that the pose it is entirely destructive, and it question of human lives is par- of dollars. Only would be unreasonable not to admit amount to that that Goverment in doing everything yesterday, we drew attention to the pessible at a cost commensurate with exorbitant amounts mulet from this the Colony's financial position, and Colony for Imperial Defence contri- capable of being execuled within a buttons. We have, in the urgency of reasonable period.

our problem of self-protection from

the

On the other hand, it is an undis- the remission of a considerable part al raids, an unanswerable easg for puted fact that the Colony was first of these military contributions for at Onced with the realisation that pro least one year, in order that visina for the protection of its citizens money can be diverted to a channel ngoinst air raids was necessary at that will ensure us re protection in least five years ago, and that three time of war, of those five years were wasted. Had a long-term polley of tunnelling in paying milltary contributions to We have often questioned whether, -admittedly the only efficient safe the Imperial Government, guard available-been started even paying for our own protection. with the outbreak of hostilities in have no doubts whatever but that the China, the Colony would to-day have real protection to which the pubile been well on the way to as complete is entitied will be forthcoming it a protection as could be obtainext.

portion of the military contribullon is We have taken same pains to make diverted to the cause which we havo enquiries in local mining circles repeatedly espoused.

We Gru

We

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Cvr. 1918 by Pulled Pratara Rjudirals,

must

Fire-drill, improved fire-fight- .. ing apparatus, stricter regula- tion and regimentation are fast robbing even the unnatural alli- ance of fire and water, formed by a ship aflame, of its danger. But there are still owners who their lifeboats because it is more expensive; owners who do not fit. skates or permanent fenders to their lifeboats because it costs too much.

By Lichty th

1-2

"Laim's foudin agin' every family in the valley since bein' made district census taker-figgers every one he knocks

off now will make it caster in 1940!"

Even new ships are being built for tens and hundreds of thou-- sands of pounds, and the owners refuse to spend an extra hundred or five hundred or a thousand pounds on the devices that may save their sailors' lives.

The regulation controlling the fitting of permanent fenders or other devices of approved pat- tern, such as skates, lays it down that lifeboats must be so equip-' ped providing they are scheduled to carry 85 or more persons.

There are liners, sailing the high seas to-day whose lifebonts are capable of holding exactly 84 persons.

The regulation enforcing the equipment of radio legislates only for all passenger abips. Certain exceptions may be made by the Board of Trade; as in the case of small excursion steamers that ply round the coasts. In the case of cargo-boats, only ships above 1,600 tons must carry. wireless. And a

Vessel still ranks as a cargo-boat if she has aboard fewer than 12 pas- sengers.

There are "cargo-boats" run- ning to-day which, in the sum- mer season-when danger is ut a

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