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HONGKONG TELE GRAPH

December 4, 1939.

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A Look Through The Telegraph

What It's Like Th

to be bombed

HAVE been bombed for a

week on end in Warsaw; In

tiny villages and small open towns in Poland's country- · side I have seen bombs and machine gun fire rain down from the sky.

As the result I have come to the conclusion that the safest place to be in an air-rald is a big town. And the nearer, the centre the better,

I do know about this because I ac- companied a member of the military mission and a counsellor of the British Embassy in Warsaw on a tour of the areas damaged by air-raid in the city's neighbourhood.

Take Warsaw, for example. city had no barrage balloons.

The Yet

until the city's air defence broke down

in fact, seems to bring one more through sheer numerical weakness the

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of Hitler's prophecies nearer realisation. Hitler, when he was---writing-Mein Kampf, declared Russia could be no suitable ally for Germany and adduced these reasons:

Considered purely militarily, the event of German- Russian war against Western Europe, which would probably, however,

the mean against entire rest of the world, the relations would be simply catas- trophic. The struggle would proceed not on Russian but on German soil, without Germany being able to get from Russia even the slightest effective sup- port.

The Reichsfuhrer's Siegfried

enemy was kept at bay.

There was a belt of anti-aircraft de- "fence

"guns. There were pursuit- planes. There was a system of detec- ilon which warned civilians of the op- proach of enemy planes when they

were at least forty miles away, and sounded an alarm Ove minutes before their arrival.

It was only very occasionally that enemy planes were heard and seen be fore the sirens had got going.

Moreover, there was in the first few days of the war an effective radio warn-

Ing sent out on top of normal wireless programmes to be picked up by defence groups.

The Warsaw pubile very soon learned to translate this coded message— "KO-RAM 29 Coming "-as a warning of Immediate danger, and took to the cellars.

Warsaw, with its big flats, all built over roomy celiars, and many of them led with protective roofs twelve inches thick in concrete, was at, the outset of the war a fairly easy place to organise for civilian defence.

Indeed, the public dug-outs proved to be very little ted because of the ex- cellent shelter provided in people's own houses.

And wille the people ran into the Line makes him possibly less chased the German bombers away from cellurs the Warsaw ghter planes

concerned about what may

the centre of the city. happen to the industrial heart

*

of Germany. But the opinion. Naturally a modern block of flats,

of outside experts tends to con- firm his doubts in the economic sphere.*

A tabulation by the United States Department of Commerce shows that German imports from Russia of such critically needed commodities as petroleum products and animal or vegetable oils and fats have fallen off in the last five years to less than a fourth of what they wore. It may be that these and some other imports can be increased, but a great deal will depend upon.

bull round a steel skeleton, stands up best to bombardment. That is only what you would expect. But a direct hit demolishes even this.

A substantial stone house, or a siccl- frame building, however, is good pro- tection against anything except » bomb which falls exactly where you happen to be.

The bombers either had to fly so high that their bombing was inereo- ive, or they had to dive below the fighter planes and thus come into the mage of the anti-aircraft guns.

Now take the contrast: Just before the war there was an exodus from the elty into the suburbs. After the Arst day of bombing the refugees hurried back again into the city..

The American Ambassador, Mr.

Anthony D. Biddle, for example, rented

a house in the wealthy residential dis- trict of Konstancin, about iz miles

WOULD It not be of great value if we could find out what was the exact effect of German bombing, say in one rald on Warsaw, so that wo might have some idea what it would be like here?"

put

Mr. Josiah Wedgwood this pertinent question to Mr. R. A. Butler (Under Becretary for Foreign Affairs) in the House of Commons suggesting that British diplomatic and con- sular officials should make tull reports of what they had ex- perlenced in Poland of German air bombing.

Mr. Butler promised that they would do so. He added that any aircraft which came here will get the reception they deserve."

Here-15 what Mr.-Wedgwood. asked for. This report is made by

JERZY SZAPIRO

former Warsaw correspondent.

He experienced plenty of German bombing, several times in the company of members of the British Embassy. Rered. mark and learn what he has to tell you.

outside Warsaw. On the second day of the war he was having breakfast with his family when several hambas exploded within 150 yards of his villa. The reason was that Konstarelo was four miles away from a smoll aero- drome. A Oermau bomber, éhased by Polish fighter plane, was forced to unload his supply of bombs in order to make it easier to escape. and Kon- stancin happened to be underneath.

It was this concentration of the German air foren an the business of destroying Poland's air defence at the source, and of the railway junctions, which made the suburbs of Warzaw B0 unhealthy.

Of course, a humane, pilot, forced to unload his bombs, would dump them, if he could, into a river or a field i saw this myself on the south-east of Warsaw, at Bleico.

Two pilots had dropped about co small bombs on pasture land en the bank of the Vistula. I counted about 30 craters, two to three yards in diameter. The rest of their bombs fell into the river.

On the other side of the. Vistula Another plot of the 'same · squadron dropped his bombs on a village, de stroyed about eight houses and killed four peaannis.

were

Five miles away in the Otwock health resort another plist had dropped ten bombs or 60 One of them hit nu orphanage. Eleven children kifled, about 16 were wounded, and' many houses were destroyed by fira.“*

The weakness in my argument is that Warsaw was finally destroyed by air-raid attack, but the answer is that Herr Hitler warned himself the Polish air force was numerically

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It just hadn't enough fighters ta give up. With its own huge

-oven if by a "miracle" it cope with the German bombers once tlin Germann had occupied the Polish mechanized army in motion, It

escaped total destruction in a western provinces and thus set free obviously will not have a great

Warsaw's defence, compared with surplus of gasoline and lubric Russian alliance "surrounded frother use a great part of their what I know and have seen of London's by great military states." And can the German Reich ex- To that observation he added deletion, was pathetically work

There is a great deal of procaution pect military aid from its new that such an alliance "would be taken in England with regard is might raiding, but bombing in Warsaw. Look friend on the north when the end of Germany." The past place almost always an hour after Comrade Stalin is employing his two months have seen the first dawn, at 11 o'clock in the morning." es army on his own missions? half of this forecast confirmed.

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and just belore dusk, ALDO PAR

The German aviators, who were cap-

tured by the Poles were mostly young fellows of 18 or 20, and when they izma out of their planes they were nervous wrecks-not through fear, bus because of the terrible strain which a rald and a fight in the air, the colossal speed and noise of a military plane. and the effect of higli niitudes im- pose on an aviator.

The Germans knew quite well that nctive air defence in Poland was con fined to the big cities, and to military nujectives such as aerodromes, railway junctions, armament factories, and so

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On the very rat.day of the war. when they unleashed about 500 bombers or more on Polish cltles from the Carpathians to the Baltic and the Corridor to the Pripet Marahes, they realised that they could bomb most of the country with impunity.

They risked retaliation for the sake of crippling military objectives, but when it came to breaking down civilian mornie they chose the line of least - realstanco.-

They deliberately picked on the small towns, and even villages, the wooden cottages, the open market- places, even the individual peasant men and women.

In such places as these there was, of course, no air defence, hardly ally shelters or trenches. The bombers dived three hundred yards above them. dropping twenty to forty bombs at a time, machine-gunning the crowded market-pinces, killing scores at a time, wounding hundreds.

Bombing on these occasions lasted less than the minute. but the effect was terrible.

The appalling sight of human bolles blown and burst to fragments, of horses and catlle swollen to fantastic dimensions, caused ulter horror and panic.

There were hundreds of such gall designed solely to terrorise the clella. population, I heard of one pilol chasing a peasant woman is a field na if she was a rabbit, circling round end round her, and finally killing ber.

SO YEARS AGO

Dec. 4, 1880.

A little incident occurred at Govern- ment House to-day. It was a boy, lis Excellency has our warmest congratula tions. (Sir William Des Voeux-Ed.), We have it on good authority that the European loegnative drivers now in the employ of the China Railway Company at Tientsin, will be dismissed from the service at the commencement of next spring, the Chinese drivers be-

considered fairly-well ing quainted with the duties required and nina more reliable as being free from the vice of drink.

now

ac-

Colonel Kitchener and Colonet Wode- house have been appointed Companions of the Bath, and thirteen offerra serving with the Egyptian Army hava been appointed Companions of the Dis Linguished Service Order or brevetted for services at Taski.

25 YEARS AGO

Dec. 4, 1014. President Wilson han unametally communtented to the American repre sentatives. In the belligerent countries his disapproval of aircraft throwing bombs on unfortified eities occupied by, that the baille in Poland whos centro A Petrograd offelat despatch shows

in ut Lodz continues in favour of the

sians while the Austrians have bac badly benton, and are falling back on Cracaw.

Three hundred and twenty-six pri soners from Tsingtau in uniform, in- eluding twelve-officers, arrivedin. Tokyo this afternoon. Huge

crowds witnessed their transference from tha lect to tramcars which conveyed them to their quarters at the Honganji. Temple. The police and. troops rangements were ample, but there won tto semblance of a disturbance, The officers receiving the prisoners showed every courtesy,

10 YEARS AGO

Dec. 4, 1920. Far the Orst time in the history of St. Androw's Society the annual fall will be held to-night in Kowloon and not at the City Ilall.

5 YEARS AGO

Dec. 4, 1934. After nearly three years of warfare in the jungle and awamp of the Gran Chaco valley, the Boltelan army now faces finn and completo defent The Government at La Paz is attempting to secure a hurriest ponce with Paraguay. to prevent carnage in the batt)v= Actr

No wedding has been attended by nuch vast coininny of witnesses as was that of the Duke of Kent to rincess Marina of firecce, which is the presence of un august and dis- tinguished congregation, was solemnisc In Westminster Abbey to-day.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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By Lichty

*Shu makos all hor money speculating-she's been married

"six" times!"--