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ADMIRAL SIR DUDLEY POUND, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE BRITISH NAVAL FORCES,

MAKING YOUR HOMES

SAFE FROM BOMBERS

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

By

December 4, 1939.

Ernie Bushmiller

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Amazing Instruments Are Almost Human BRITAIN BEATS NAZIS IN SCIENTIFIC WAR

By IAN MACKAY

RANGETOWN.

FOR the past two days our little party of British and Dominion journalists have been whirled from one great arsenal to another in the incessant clamour of anvils and electric hammers.

Our ear drums have been shaken by the roar of great guns; our eyes glazed by the blinding glare of oxyacety- lene flames; our flesh parboiled by the outrageous heat of furnaces.

To-day, after our sojourn in those infernos, we emerged into the blessed peace and sunlight of a scientific heaven.

without

SPOTLIGHT

ON

GERMANY

No Tea, No Coffee, No Smiles

For to-day, we visited the in-| spectors who test the scientific! I HAVE just returned from a

through which trip

Germany-the modern warfare would be a most bewildering and depress- feckless affair.

ing journey I have ever made.

NAZI BOAST instruments

FAILS

Planos Not As Fast As They Claimed

THE airplanes are warming up. Air rald alarms and at recon- naissances have spread to the hitherto strangely undisturbed area. the British sector of the Maxinut Line,

But the best bombing weather already has gone. For eight wecks the Nazi pilots have en- joyed the ideal "six-tentha" conditions which are the dream of bombers.

I should explain that the tenths" jare units of the sky space. Six- tenths of this area have lately been 'cloud. This cloud is the bombers' friend. They can approach behind 11, emerge from it, and retire into it like a trench raiding party popping out of their bomb-proof shelter.

Now these conditions have changed.

iabilities.

this. For the German warplanes still outnumber ours, though in speed they are inferior. Recent bombing visitors to our stores with a hoasted speed of 250-300 m.p.h. barely Achieved 200 m.p.l. At this pace our pursult planes must throttle back they are to keep under their fire the enemy gunner behind the pilot.

We looked, in short, over a great optical instrument factory which working top-speed, fashioning the eyes of the Flect the Air Force and the Army.

Kinethcodolytos

As a neutral I had no difficul- 3 in obtaining a visa to enter Germany.

Neutral newspapers I had with me were confiscated at a railway station

It would be idle mockery for me tonear the frontier.. pretend that I understood

010- I was handed my traveller's ration hundredth part of the things I saw. cards containing vouchers for about But you will not wonder at that| 2lb. of brend, 21b. of meat, and 5oz. when I tell you that many of the of fats and buller. skilled workers who produce them,

or the highly-trained soldiers, sailors Troops Go Home and airmen

who use them, know

very ite about these astonishing

kustruments.

Among the many marvels which (we sno, but falled to understand,

were:

AT Freiburg, the first station im- mediately behind the Siegfried Line, the trufe was invaded by hundreds of troops in full war kit.

Five East Prussians entered my Predictors which tell you in compartment on their way home for advance where an acroplane a fortnight's leave. But their one gatny to be, thus enabling the shell 1den seemed to be to get some sleep. and the aeroplane to arrive at the I was lold that more trains were same place at the same time; following and noticed that troop Kinethcodolpics, which film the trains going in the opposite direction passing planes and never let them were quite as numerous. out of

the

But..it seemed to me, that...while. *, which throw o

on foreign reports stressed the constant wall enormous natural-flow of fresh troops, westwards, they coloured photographs of anything might have overlooked the fact that you place inside them and can de-these were, in the muin, reliefs, and tect forged banknotes;

that the eastbound trains were by co Telescopes which look round means empty.

corners;

Gunsights which enable you to Ersatz Coffee sec behind your head, and

A comic-looking gadget-which THE Frankfort hotel at which 1 should be in every schoolboy's stayed was practically empty. And Inapsack-which will work

out it was here I first sampled the food

* mathematical 17 ор problem which the Germans now have to eat.

instantly.

Coffee was coffee only in name. It was brewed from a mixture of acorns, barley, and synthetle coffeln.

FLEET STREET.-Earth, gravel or shingle, scrap timber, masses of old books, and pieces of old linoleum are the materials The autumn harvest of the bomber used by the Ministry of Home Security in its model types of in-has gone by. Henceforth in winter door or outdoor shelters which Londoners will presently be able he will operate under increasing dis- to Inspect. They have been constructed to illustrate the leaflet We can congratulate ourselves on recently distributed to householders "Make your home safe now." At 200, King's Road, Chelsea, boards supported on rafters, covered visitors will see the surface "pill- with linoleum, and earth piled on top. These shelters give protection equal to box" big enough to shelter four that of the Government steel garden people where the ground has shelter, and the timber for each costs few shillings. An emergency only been excavated to a depth of two covered trench just under 4ft. in depth

The predictors not only record the feet, and a low wall built round was built by three men In one day.

future movements of enemy aircraft, it of boxes made from planks or short

This slowness of the German bom-but actually make allowance for the

Often during my journey I heard lengths of old door-boarding Alled

bers makes it equally hard for their wind.

them.

German women, normally so proud of with carth. The fourth side of the

A large room in the house had been own fighters to accompany

their rich brown coffee, exclaim, "It shelter is the brick garden wall.

For the escorting

is not so much the lack of meat and leet a battleshsip.

The machine is worked in closether things I mind, but what wouldn't Thicker planks support the boxed chosen to show three types of window profecting them like destroyers pro- arolection, one window protected by a earth roof, and linoleum protects this fare bookcase tightly packed with fighters must held themselves by co-operation with the anti-aircraft I give for a real cup of coffee!"

are not en- two feet of old books, a second by order to carry out their convoy dutyun, but the gunners

while our own fighters can fling) in the same garden is a scrop tim- baxes of earth or shingle or of send themselves against the whole armada curaged to know how the predictor i ber-covered trench shelter for ten bags, piled on a table, and a third pronte, the trench dug four feet deep window was protected by a shingle at top speed.

was nailed In the earth, its roof formed of old snattress. Wire netting

neross the window frame inside and out, old linoleum placed inside the netting, and the space between it and the window glass filled with shingle,

trom rain.

KING

SI

NEXT CHANGE

Saved from jail

for greater temptation?

THE SENSATION

OF THE NOUR

on

GIRLS PROBATION

ARE THEY THE MARKED‣

WOMEN OF TOMORROW?

Window Protection

Training In Canado

"A Little Knowledge..

works.

Tea-This was even worse. Bread. What I was made of I It certainly containeti "A little knowledge is very dan-don't know. perous in a thing like this," my only a small proportion of wheat, ameer guide said, "and we think it Batter,—I received two tiny paly in better they should not know any exchange for a 4oz. rallen voucher thing about it."

was passable. Then there is a new helght-and- Bugar was greyish in colour,, I was range-Ander, which records two pie-given three minute lumps for my tea. Itures of the approaching plane.

Marmalade.-A frugal helping

The break up of flying weather favours us in a second sense. gives us time to train more pilots.

11

It

is very likely that the Power with The coal vault beneath the pave the most pliots will win this war. ment, with its strong vaulied roof, takes from six to 12 months to frain and the carape openings into vaults

a pilot. The supreme value

of

on either side mode very good shel-Cannda at the moment is that she ter. The Ministry considers thal while a room with a smull window can provide the training grounds.

and thick outer wall gives good pro-

tection, a basement passage with twD

walls is protection on either side and

two means of exit is still safer.

KIDNAPPED YOUTH

The basement passage at No. 50, Cheng Chung-Fai Returns

Abingdon Villas, Earls Court, a house

of more expensive type, was strutied

with timber, a task not requiring

To Hongkong Upharmed

The man at the controls turns a was quite good, handle and when the two pictures Nobody Smiles meet the exact height la recorded on

In chart at the back of the Under,

A Ministry of Supply spokesman

WHAT struck me most was the

fold me our Instruments are de-camplete absence of mirth. Nobody fultely better than Gennany's

smiles. The Gordana have forgotten "anless they have something we how to smile. They have become know nothing about."

slem and worried.

44

In the inspection department we Raw a new, wide-eyed type of anti- aircraft binoculars which work night as well as day.

At the optical works wo

BOW

skilled labour. A glass window bad Sea of a wealthy Chinese in long- been painted with a special clear paint kong and brother of Cheng Kwok-lenses, glasses, cine projectors and as protection against shattering, and you, Cheng Chung-fal, 17, who was all sorts of visual instruments being there was an earth wall protection reported to have been kidnapped turned out by the thousand. for a semi-basement window.

from Hongkong, was traced to Poklo,

A Wonder Lens

Throughout my stay in Germany I was haunted by a feeling that the civilian-and even more so the for- eigner is an Intruder.

Even the Germans themselves are

conscious of this, and only the active Nnals seem immune from its depress- ing effect.

Everywhere there are man in uni- No. 12, Charlwood Road, Wands-Walchow district, and rescued in á

forms. worth, was a less solidly bullt semi- Chinese Polico raid.

All cinemas, theatres, concert halls, The star product here is the new night clubs, and other places of detached house where a small kitchen The boy returned to his parents at at the end of a passage had been 78 Morrison Hill Road on Saturday lens which the RAF is using in the amusement are open, but owing to chosen as the most suitable "safe" and in reegvering from the effects of reconnaissance flights over Germany. the shortage of money they are not room and its windows filled up. The his experience.

bls Cheng told

has a wide fold of vision well frequented. ont door was protected against blast parents, that he had not been mal- which enables the airman to photo- by a wall of earth.

treated by the kidnappera.

graph In-small detall an dera of 40 When the police raided the house square miles from 20,000ft,

This

In Pokio, it is reported, Cheng was You will appreciate what this found with man named Wong wonder lens can do when I say that

original

Landmark To Be DEFENCE BONDS C, who allegedly had entleed him 40 square miles is exactly 40 times

Museum

KANSAS CITY.-The . It can photograph necurately and Cable and Wireless, Limited, are away and who described himself as the area of the City of London: a mechanic of the Ping Kes radio among the large firms assisting their firm of Gloucester Road, Hongkong, in detall everything in the area be- Wyandotte county court-house build- aloffs to purchase Defence Bonds and When arrested Wong were with two tween Highgate and Streatham, and ing has been bought by the Women's National Savings Certificates. Ar girls and all three are at present in Poplar and Bayswater,

It consists of five different kinds of rangements have been made by the the custody of the Chinese Police et Company for. Cable and Wireless, Poklo.

glass, and it took.iwo years to work Staff throughout the world to have The boy was not Interviewed, yes-jout the mathematics of the thing, facilities for investing in these now, terday as his relatives and, he was If you want one, they will let you Government securities.

not in a condition to receive visitors, have it for £300.

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