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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 1, 1940,

MAGAZINE

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ARTICLE--- by Mrs. G. ATKINSON GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

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8 Air Raid Precautions have now become a permanent part of the Colony's defences, so also must they now have their permanent place in every home.

To women this will scam & very grim necessity, but it has become just as important as is regular fire drill, or boat drili in liners. There may never be any necessity to put into practice the lessons learnt, but

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there is any "but" prepara- tions to avoid disaster and injury must be made.

The question of A.R.P. In the home becomes almost entirely a woman's affair. The main effort of preparation and adaptation will fall upon her shoulders, as will the question of how the family exche- quer can be stretched to Include these necessary preparations.

So here are certain points which she must consider carefully: where He the greatest dangers, what pro- teelion may be had against them and how such protection can be provided.

High-explosive bombs are, as they have always been, the most formidable weapon' which could be used against us from the air, and added to them we now have

Incendiary bombs and, possibly

So, if it is possible, a refuge against high explosive must be pre- pared for the family.

Women with common sense will prefer a refuge within the bounds of the home. They will realise the dangers to which they and their family might be exposed by leaving cover, when an nir rald warning has been given,

Such a refuge in the home is possible if the house in solidly con-- structed. If the walls of the house measure at least 1315in. in thick- a cellar or ness, and if there is basement sumelently furge to ner commodate the whole family. And when counting the numbers who will want to use the room, pets must not be forgotten. Apart from any personal feeling on the subject. "these might become a danger the family if allowed to roam during or immediately after an air, rald in which gas had been used.

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BUT the ownership of such a

room is not enough; it must be prepared-the walls must be strengthened by means of sand-bags filled with earth or, preferably, sand, or boxes of earth,

The windows must be protected, the celling must be shored up so ma to be able to bear the weight of the house should if collapse, and the whole room must be prepared to exclude the possible entry of gas.

In protecting the walls by means of sandbags it is as well to remember that greater protection _will__be__obtained...If. partition walls are strengthened in this way,

HOUSE

WIVES AND

A.R.P

ments. Bere stee! has certainly Come Into its own. These stevi sheltera can be erected with ease, and ir sunk sufficiently in the ground and covered with earth can be made into quite an attractive alltion to the garden by planting on them rock or climbing plants.

* * * THEN there is yet another

type of shelter which musi be considered-the trench type.

In the outskirts particularly this kind of refuge will be practical und popular. Here again the camou

age of a rock garden can be used but if this type of shelter is to be built it must be considered serious- ly. Accidents are very liable to occur when such trenches are built In an amateur way. Technien) nd- vice should be obtained before they are started,

The trench must be lined to pre- vent the sites from falling In. drains 1LS! be provided, and thought must be given to proper framing, reinforcement, and many other points. If a treuch shelter is to be permanent and thoroughly satisfactory it should be concrete Hined. This will ensure that it does not collapse or fill with water.

There are several types to choose from, and the new "egg" shaped trench lining sheet will make this work ensler to carry out.

But the provision and prepara tion of a household refuge is not all. The housewife must also con- sider the question of what articles and stores she must provide for the shelter, should it ever be used. first-aid box is really a necessity in every household, and particularly so. should we ever be involved in another crisis.

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TINNED food.

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toys and games for the children, or chairs, rugs, mattresses perhaps IL gramophone or wireless, books, sanitary uten-... siis, etc., should all be borne in mind,

If the refuge is in the house there will probably be electric light, but we must not forget the danger of unshaded lights, and there should be some kind of dark shade which will throw the light down and yet prevent the possibility of its show- Ing in any way outside.

As regards the shoring for the eciling, it is wise to obtain technical advice as to the strength of shoring necessary. Steel, as well as wood,. can be used for this purpose-and, If the Anance question is satisfuc- tory, even more protection can br obtained by means of steel sheeting above

as a protection against fire. Doubtless there are numbers of beureholds who will prefer to make their own arrangements as regards shelter, and in these days it is not nimeult matter to and a type of refuge which will all require- ponic, su portable battery-operated

The same applies to all lights Il must not throughout the house. be forgotten also that the electric it inlght fall in an emergency. might cause Such a possibility

IS 1940

YEAR

COULD you find in all his

tory a year of greater wonders than 1940-early as it still is?

. Alreatly it has recorded a dis- astrous earthquake, the greatest cold spell for a century, and the worst snowfall.

This Leap Year Innyhow e- markable since Lent fell three days off the earliest possible date. That cannot happen again this century. England made the year inore remarkable still with the enrllest coming of Summer Time.

Three wars have raged, and each of them has gone so wildly against everything ever expected or cal

by itself, would

lamps should also be provided.

Where it is not possible to pro- vide refuge within the bounds of the home, there is much which the house wife can do to protect her home,

Incendiary bomba may be used, and I, when the fire-fighting ser- vices enter the house to put out some small fire caused by such a bomb, they find improvised re- Öghting materials already provided, their work is going to be made much easier and quicker.

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IT is possible for every home

to have such equipment, containers of earth or sand, shovels fitted with long handles, and rakes, also con- tainers already filled with water and placed on each floor of the house-all this is pos- sible if it is prepared before- hand; it could not be done at the last moment.

A form of air raid drill might be inaugurated in every home, duties delegated beforehand to avold con fusion and panic.

There should be a proper routine arranged for leaving the house it thly is necessary, A ittle thought and organisation along these lines would well repay any woman res- ponsible for a household. As I said before, it may never be necessary. hut, If the emergency does arise, let it fad us well prepared in the small things whieli motter so much as well as those which are arranged for us."

"Somebody should tip off the sucker he can't beat that machine-besides who's he think he is, monopolising it all ovoning?"

ENTERTAINMENTS

STRIP TEASE YEAR'S FIRST

FIRST new star of 1910 is

Mary Martin, Mary made her Broadway name in one night singing "My Heart Be- longs to Daddy." She sang it is a strip-tease number, ended up wrapped in n big fur coat.

It is not surprising, therefore, that Hollywood should wrap her slim legs, her slender hips in the voluminous fashions of 1890 for her starring role, "The Great Victor Herbert." She

the frills. wears furbelows, ospreys, bustles and blows of that, evyera without showing a sign of wanting to shed a thing.

This fortunate young possesses, in addition to her own talents, a strong facial resem blance to Claudette Colbert. The chubby checks, the eyes, the look of arch surprise, even the bang. And also the cute cornerake vølce of Jean Arthur.

WONIGH

While to herself she hugs little bubble of good humour,

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So pleased are her employers with her thint they simply can't make up their minds whether to star her next in Clore Boothe's satire on Gone With The Wind" callext "Kiss the Boys Goodbye"

ALREADY A OF WONDERS

in ruins by a fire so mighty that we still talk of it as the Great Fire.

It was no wonder that the com- ing of that year was proclaimed

comel.

by

But the greatest wonder of Is Year of Wonders was that the starved and neglected Navy of Britain fought the combined flects of France, Denmark and Holland, and beat the lot.

We became mistress of the sens for the first time, a place we have hung on lo ever since.

So 1005 was a year of wonders, but was it the year of wonders?

about 1703, for instance,

culated that either, ban the history. When Daulcl Defor, the author

of man.

One has hung fire for six months as no war ever did before. In an- other, n people of three millions held off a people of 150 millions for so long that, Finland will live for all Ume na the proof, in the great Age of Dictators, that

one

free man will always be equal to ten slaves. The war in Chinn, ex- pected to last a hundred days, le to-day 1,000 days old.

TEARLY three hundred years

ago Dryden wrote

4 poem which he called "The Year of Wonders....

Annus Mirabilis." He was thinking of the great year

1000, when n London, already stricken by the worst

of "Robinson Crusoe," Blood in the pillory and the worst storm ever just rolled up leaden roofs like Turkey carpets,

We were at war that year. was the first of a war that ob- stinately refused to begin on the Western Front, so that the Duke of Marlborough was constrained to point out that "If you have a mind end of the war you must

to spend for fi,"

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That war produced one revolu- tion in France and another In Hungary.

AND there was 1740, of the hard

winter when the front lasted nine weeks and they lived in tents (and the on the frozen Tlumen, where they last) of its great plagues was laid roasted sheep and called it Laplanif

mution.

Britain went to war that year, after twenty-five years of peace,

when Frederick the Great became King of Prussin, and started by falling treacherously upon-Aus-

And 1760. That was a year of many wonders.

A new reign began, destined to last for sixty years, and there never were so many victories. We conquered India and we conquered Canada,

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THAF year, too, began with a comet which "appeared to the naked

eye ke Jupiter in fog." und followed it up with a frost that cut 100 ships from their moorings along our cousis,

And 1048 was a Wonder Year. There was a portent too- sea serpent, solemnly vouched for by the captain and officers of HLM.S. Daedalus who saw it for twenty minutes.

There was

revolution in France, a revolution in Austrin, civil war in Hungary, twenty re- volutions in Germany and ten in

italy.

The Pope, the Emperor of Aus- trin and the King of Prusado, and the Inst King of France were chased out of their capitals. The Chartists gathered at Kennington to murch on London,

And

gold was found in Cali- forntu,

Amazing years all. Yet this 1940 bids fair to beat the lot,

by STAGE DOOR

IS SINGER FILM STAR

WHAT'S ON

KING'S: "The Old Maid.”. MAJESTIC: "The Real Glory.”

QUEEN'S

ALHAMBRA: "Balalalka."

ORIENTAL: Crusoe."

AND

"Air. Robinson

(for which they have paid £10,- 000), or whether to put her in the next Bing Crosby. "Miami."

1 were Miss Colbert, I know where I'd put her.

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ARRIVAL of Miss Martin on the A scene

proves conclusively theory have. long, held-that most lovely women come from the State of Texas. I give you Ginger Rogers, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Ann Sheridan to be gelting on with,

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N second thoughts, I'll take Miss Turner back for a minute. I'd like to congratulate her on her favourite swing! marriage to my mnestro, Artie Shaw, I hope she'll coax him to start playing again.

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And I hope she goes on with her dancing. I Mary Martin makes Claudette Colbert mad, Lana Tur- is the girl to drive Ginger Rogers to heavy dramatic parts.

Which reminds

to report that Miss Rogers is shortly to partner Ronald Colman in "Good Luck," adapted from a Sachu Guitry play, it's a far, far better thing she does.

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of

AMMERSMITH Film Produc- tions earn spotlight for their announcement that "Tilly Bloomsbury" will be followed by Am dealing with the "Altmark" Incident. Mes. Elizabeth Hiscoll, managing

director, approached the Admiralty and the M. of 1. for the necessary tacllities, and it hun al- ready been decided that Leslie Iiscoll shall direct, Bernard Brown will handle cameras, and that Andrew Mazzel, Jolin Dennis and Fred Wilson will also

the by engaged, "Tilly," is now in its fourth and final week at Riverside, everything going well despite a short absence last week on the part of Jean Gillie, "flu" victim.

be

way,

EORGE BRENT will co-star U with Merle Oberon In "The for Warner Constant Nymph" Bros. They were teamed for the first time in "We Shall Not Meet Again," which is now completed.

"This Mum Reuter" is the title of the pleture. Warners are basing on. the history of the Reuters News Agency, in which that famous news organisation is giving world-wide co-operation. Edward G. Robin- non, who has just finished "Dr. Erlich's Magle Bullet," will star.

James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Ann Sheridan are listed for top- billing in Torrict Zone," which takes the floor, xoan; while Jeffrey Lynn has been assigned a principal

role in "All This und Heaven Too," co-starring Belle Davis and Chur-. les Boyer. Virginia Weldler has been borrowed from M.-G.-M. for the role of Boyer's daughter In this picture.

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one of the most

"gripping mystery dramas ever

produced on the American stage, has been announced as the first Almplay to be made by Globe Pro- ductions, Inc., the $1.000.000 Cor poration recently organised by James Roosevelt, Hollywood's lat

Roland est independent producer. Kibbee is now at work on a screen treatment.

EORGE

RAFT met Norma Shearer at the New York Fair Jast sinner. They s3w the Aquacade, did the parachute junip together.

George thought it was fun, being around with the screen's first lady. bought a ticket on the boat so that he could cross to Europe with her.

They did Paris, Cannes together," and when the war broke out they stood in the queue together, wait- ing for the first American ship to take them home.

The friendship wasn't just one of those bolidny things.

Meiro are wanting to borrow Georgle from the brothers Warner. They'll put him in with Shearer in a remake of "A Free Soul."

She' play the part again; he'll have the role that made Chirk Gable's name. He'll play gangster.

Spotting The Rank

COMMANDER

The title of Commander dates from 1074, when it was laid down that no officer should command 'a sixth rate (the smallest type of ship in the Navy) unless he had passed the examination for Mas- ier at Trinity House. The le wak first Commander and Mar- ter, and later Master and Com- mandler. Then it became simply Commander,

Not until 1827 were Comman- ders also employed in the post second- of executive officer, in-command, of bigger slips. In the flagship of one of the prin- cipal fleets to-day there may be as many as elght Commanders. One of these, referred to as “the Commander," is of course the executive officer, responsible for the organisation and discipline of the ship.

Another

the

navigating ofleer. and the remaining six are on the staff of the Comman- der-In-Clilef. (whoso fing is tar- ried in the ship).

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