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December 14, 1939.

British Anti-Aircraft Work In France

MEN WHOSE LIVES ALHAMBRA

ARE SERIES OF ALARMS

By E. A. MONTAGUE

Somewhere in France.

I saw this morning by practical example why it is so difficult and dangerous for German 'planes to come reconnoitring over our Army area. I had gone to visit an anti-aircraft battery which protects a valu- able railway station from. air attack, and hind splashed my way through the mud to where one of its sections was located.

Suddenly the section commander broke off his explanations to blow three biasts on his whistle;} the section observers had seen a 'plane. Gunneral rushed out of their dug-outs and manned the guns. The men at the height-finders and predic. tors shouted strings of incomprehensible figures and the guns obediently swung round in concert, searching for the plane, so distant that I coul hardly see it. Within a few seconds of the alarm) they were on the target, and following its course ready to fire the instant that it was identified as an enemy. In a minute or two, however, thej section commander lowered his glasses and gave the order "Stand easy." It was a friendly 'plane, and the gun crews went back to their dug-outs toj | wait till the whistle should call them out again,

MANY ALARMS

That Is the daily routine of one of the most uncom-- fortable jobs in the Expeditionary Force. Always thef observers, inking half-hour shifts turn and turn about. are sweeping the sky with, their glasses. As soon as a 'plane is sighted, however for away, they give the alarm, and the section stands to. Not until the section com- mander has identified the 'plane as harmless is the ten- sion relaxed. On a fine day there may be thirty or farty alarms between down and dark. I saw three in less than ten minutes, all of them abortive. In the in- tervals the men have to strengthen their defences and keep their dug-outs in good repair. On a wet day there sre few alarms, but most work is also impossible, so that boredom takes the place of constant, jerky activity.

The anti-aircraft gunners have been issued with af higher proportion of gumboots than any other brauch except the signalers, and they need them. The gun positions are difficult to hide, and so the gunners have to build dug-outs for their protection against machine-gun attack from the air. In those dug-outs they live through- out a much longer working day than falls to most of us. In some mysterious way they keep them dry, and the warmth of their stoves makes them,

not unpleasant on a winter day, but the ground around them is as muddy

as any I have seen in France,

The Other Enomics

Such is the fe of the men who keep ceaseless watch and ward-over our Army. Their job is a skilled one, involving a good deal of delicate instrument work, and certain parts of it, such as the observing, cannot be done adequately except by cer- tain types of men. Their enemies are mud and, beredom-the enemies of everybody, but their great long- ing is to live their guns at a hostile target. They have had weeks now. of standing to again and again, but the section whom I say hnd not yet had a single alarm that was genuine.

They might be excused for relax- ing unconsciously, but one sees no, signs of it. Their vigilance, and the other systems which exists for re- porting all hostile planes, provide together It complete protection against surprise.

In spite of the conditions of their ilfe they seem well and on the whole happy. They get accustomed to: dropping a hand of solo in order to rush out of the dug-out, and to shovelling mud which runs off, the as you lift it. Like nearly all men here they long for dart boards, and wonder audibly when they are going to see one of these concert parties that the papers are always telling them about.

CHOLERA INCIDENCE

Sir Henry Pollock Queries The Government

A question regarding the recent incidence of Cholera in the Colony will be asked by Hon, Sir Henry Pollock at to-to's meeting of the Legislative Council. Sir Henry will

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"In view of the alatement in he Government Gazette on December 8 that Hongkong is declared an infected port on account of Cholera in Bang- kok, Tientsin, Netherlands Indles, Singapore, Federated Maloy States, Amoy, Egypt, Falestine, Tsingtao, Shanghai and the Philippine Islands, will the Government stále how many cates of Cholern have been reported in this Colony during each of the Avo} weeks up to December 07"

Also on the agenda is a resolution to be moved by the Attorney General that the style of the offices of tho Monopoly Analyst bo changed to that of Government Cheinist (Monopoly) and of Government Analyst to Government Chemist.

The Attorney General will move the second and third readings of the following Bills:

A Bill to amend the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897,

A Bill to amend further the Rating |Ordinance, 1901, ...

A Bill to amend yet further ⠀ the Volunteer Ordinance, 1933,

The Attorney General will move the third reading of the following Bill:

A Bill to consolidate and amend the Prevention of Eviellon Ordin- urces, 1938 and 1039,

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