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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1948.

OFFELICENCE

**'Urry, 'Arriet-or the copy'll pab you for having a bottle party.”

Would Civil Defence be useless if atom war broke out over Britain? SIR JOHN ANDERSON gives this authoritative answer

Britain COULD

Defend Herself

TOM warfare presents no entirely new problem in the sphere of civil defence. With respect to shelter, evacua- tion, decontamination, rescue, first aid and maintenance of morale the difference, while in certain respects considerable, is of degree rather than of kind.

The characteristics of an atomic explosion are blast, flash-burn, Irradiation by high velocity particles and gamma rays and contamination, The blast from an atomic bomb differs only in intensity from that in the of any other explosive, save Immediate vicinity of the explosion. short distance round the For a centre of the exploding mass there effect against which shattering no protection could avall. Apart from that effect-the range of which is very limited-the blast factor presents no novel feature and should involve no major modification of shelter policy.

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SHELTERS INTO SMEDS: Sir John, who organised Britain's civil defences for World War - II, ・ views D "converted Anderson typa air ÷

Skraid shelter,

from

dating any future conflict the one from which we have just emerged.

The much higher speed of aircraft, the great development of aids to

by C. V. R. THOMPSON

HOW NEVER TO BE SNUBBED

TO

A high-priestess of high life seks out to catalogue (in 650 pages) "what's done!" in those "circles" known as "the best"..

NEW YORK. centro of the plate?”. The mouth

It is "eccentric" but / flattering to

FROM now onwards (for the should be wiped before drinking,

price of five dollars) we the hostess to mop up the gravy can get ourselves snub-proofed. with bread, which should be re- The whole lesson is in a 650 moved with. a fork, not the angers. Salad should not be cut with a page book just out here in

knife; only falbones and shots from America.

gamo may be removed from

the mouth by hand.

Our guide is Miss Millicent Fen- wick. [I would have called Miss Fenwick a gorgeous girl. But she anya I may use "gorgeous" only to describe a sunset, and that a female over 25 is always "n woman."

Anyway, it has taken Miss Fen- wick four years in her spare time from an Important magazine job to catalogue all the right things in life.

+

Leave The Juice Extra special don't:"squeezing grapefruit to get the last drop juice is not an attractive custom" And now for some special hints for each sex.

01.

should be MEN. Your manners

.No perfect, but unobtrusively so. of sweeping bows, no flashy compli- game ments.

Now that I have read her book

exactly I know

what kind mourning 10. wear while shooting (a black

on

my jacket)

und how to ad-.. dress the Greek Orthodox Arch- bishop of Cyprus ("Your

Beaul-

have

teamed how to Mourning to wear game- pronounce tomato while

"tomalo")

now

and. ahooling.

to ask the

King to dinnet ("Would your Majesty like to come to dinner?"),

Decorum Above All

That age-old problem of the hat in the lift has been settled keep it on in an office building lift, tako it off anywhere else.

Try to avoid shaking hands with your gloves on, but shake 'hands with them on rather than fumble madly. And

oh never, say

"Pardon my

Don't smoke while dancing. ways offer a wamah

AL .n cigarette every time you take one::

Don't hold a woman's elbow crossing a street: unless sho: le lamo or the streets are icy.

Let a woman take the initiative- In using Christian names and don't be caught saying, "Oh, do call me George."

WOMEN (mar** rled). Deferenco La called fon Never say I de-

a elded 50-and-so,

Bccurate navigation and precision bombing, and the advent of pilotless machines and rockets must all be

Miss Fenwick has more practical taken into account in the organisandvice, too, but first she warns us:

·tion of Civil Defence,

"Decorum demands disciplinio ann There are also the grim possi-even sacrifice of comfort." blities of biological warfare. It may

It is no longer bad form for

always We focal authorities and of mobilele or to put on lipstick; but the columns, whother military only place for hair-combing, or still, Henry de- civilian,

will have to be given a rouge, is a dressing-room. new emphane

And, of course, men should never

Never say you bombs were dropped in a short look in a mirror or comb their hair are glad, happy space, of time new organisational in public, The most they can do

delight- pleased, problems might without leaving the room is to cd, or anything

straighten a neck-tie..

More useful to many the

well be that the respective roles 01 woman to powder her nose in pub-buted. Or better

and operational obviously arise. These are

many

atom

which matters upon for research, the information and experience at their disposal, alone competent to pronounce.

These

the

elded.

,

while dancing.

Don't smoke

the whom Emile

No Publicity Please

And If you are a mother don't let your daughter get any publicity beyond a paragraph in a newspaper announcing her wedding.

engagement

than this else to know, meet.or make

Introduced-just the Government, with the facilities advice will be what the author cali, acquaintanco of anyone to

you are. "the accepted formula" for dealing

prettily. ! with a waiter who is "unbearably rude." You simply call over head walter and say: "I wonder i The New Bil you could send another waller to this table-ming seems to be very are offered as the pro-buy."

Whatever happens-no scene. part I remain calm behind the visional views of one who was ja

first called upon të

Miss Fenwicks has a lot to say Flash-bure

study the phenomenon impervious shield of probabilities.) M

And if you are a girl-and you peculiar

atomic explosion. The

of to an

problem radio-active problems of civil defence as long about eating.

was not encountered ago as 1016, and who had the

Soma of her edlets: you should are living on your own don't en It is practically instantaneous. It is contamination

responsibility for caused by an intense wave of heat at Nagasaki or Hiroshima probably major

the sit up straight at the dinner table, courage a man to tell you stories radiation

and which advances with the only because of the height at which formulation and execution of the but not rigid.....The table napisin that are risque, never accept a speed of light and may ignite the bombs were detonated.

plans which enabled the popula- belongs nowhere but on the lap.... valuable present from him,

alcoholic nothing tion of these. islands to Sustain considerable material, Comparatively

It is no longer forbidden to tilt the drink thin screens of opaque material

the first shocks of Berini bom-soup plate, but always away from sherry or a glass of wing with din- bardment by day and by night, you......Anyt

Anything served in a cup ner Miss Fenwick's help, I could will intercept it.

be subject wit must naturally

vances

solid

With

Except

An atomic explosion at or below ground level as at Bikini might be

to involve a wide dis

They

with a handle should be drunk from As it precedes the blast wave, expected

of highly radio-active to adjustment in the light of the the cup......Corners of the mouth go on to tell you what waistcoat to which advances only with the speed persal

facts and conclusions

never bo emerging should

too delicately pick out for your buller, or how to of sound, structures incapable of material

from the inquiries of the Govern- touched with the point of the nap rent a theatre party of 18. resistance to blast should affort a

But no matter. I will say :good=" The decay of much of the more ment, on which the new Civil kin....Food should be kept in the high degree of protection before

be rapid, Defence Bill that we

bye in the way Miss Fenwick re- are told to they collapse. Research may, intense radiation will

as perfect, namely, of future will,

Etiquette commends expect in the near

Vogue's Book however, be needed into the problem and the problem here to which

research must provide mit answer presumably, be based.

(Simon and Schuster, New York), ""Good-bye." of reflection.

will be to determine how Irradiation, like flash-burn, sün

and under what conditions after tho with approximately

дв explosion the contaminated velocity of light, but, unlike the ground can be safely traversed. Latter, con penetrate deeply into matter. The gravity of the problems

Complete and prolonged evacua- which it presents must not be underestimated. Research is on of wide areas would, of course, to be inevitable (with possible grave needed to determine the extent of effects on industrial production and the cover required to give adequate military efficiency) for decontamina protection, but,

but, while my information by any available physical or tion is incomplete, I would not expect to find that any very sub- chemical agency is probably ruled stantial

in shelter design out. Here lies undoubtedly tho change

most intractabss, problem, but it was necessary on

this account

should not prove insoluble so far as These three -- reserving the

civil defence is concerned. problem of contamination are the only factors relevant to shelter polley, and they

seem to. point to reliance on the smaller types of domestic shelter.

.me

Morale

Better to be safe than snappy

be

headlamps Sun-glare could greatly reduced by painting bonnets

mait black.

Red rear Ughts on both sides of DOCTORS who think that thousands every vehicle and a Plimsoll line

of luminous paint to show up the of lives could be saved every year vehicles size should be required if cars were less "snappy and super- by law. streamlined" have issued a report on how design should be changed.

It is the result of a big-scale accident-by-accident analysis of injuries caused in every type of road crash. The doctors Hat their recommendations essential if road deaths are to be reduced"-under four main headings.

Mary

tho

hydraulic devices.

"Aro One, similar to aeroplane landing gear is urged as a standard crash-absorbing atment on all front The problems of fire, of refugees, The shorter warnings, likely in of rescue, of first ald, and of feed-

bumpers. The other. Atted to the and the time ing, should be much as in the tast

steering wheel, would enable it to nhy future

"give under the pressure of a driver taken to reach deep shelters, I war.

thrown being

forward. suggest,

the.. greally grengthen

The main anance of morale' will

WINDOWS: The new fashion to dashboard, which should have an fatal injuries are caused this way. general argument against that type of shelter, to which I con- claim special attention because of alope windows and windscreen for overall covering of sponge rubber.f

the unnerving phenomena peculiar streamline effect should be scrapped The doctors say that

by projecting the report, published I Leks have always been opposed. except to meet abnormal situations. to an atomic explosion,

in favour of the old vertical pat handles of en cause disfiguring head. American Medical, Association, re- The question what risks may Here rellance must be places ferns, which give better vision, Plas injuries when a driver brakes sudcommends a compulsory maximum. egitimately be taken must always on the twould urge in addition ate the bad cuts which sometimes

of wardens and tic windows, they say, would elimiŋ- denly,

speed of 33 miles-an@bour for all enter into shelter polley Probabili police. and I ties must be assessed.

UPHOLSTERY: Serious interrial vehicles. 15 importance, from this point of happen ever with

the publle the

injuries can be traced to bad up Thươ In planning, whether for offense view of givin and the largest All windows should be bigger holstery. The backs of all seats Anements will cost money. But.

realise that all thoes re- defence, there.can be no greater fullest information folly than to sim at absolute safety, possible e part in

in the execution of the back window for better vision, should be locked to the car body they say: "The added cost could be

windows ward, in a crash' or All experience escape hatches And reply of Poincare, a man of ex- own

sudden stop. toptionally preciso

activity. mind when Jn shows:

the

with safety glass,

There was much wisdom in the tho both for their the side windows to be used::as, so, that they cannot be Jolted fat-largely absorbed by the elimination."

has a should be high enough to stop peo- The backs of the front seats should clocks which do not rin radiator

pin riding with their elbows out of be padded with sponge rubber, say auments, and other useless gad

gets which are now included in the the first European war he was marked steadying effect.

In what I have said - above 1 the car one of the most common the doctors

WE cost of anmutomobile whether, urged to take shelter from the long-

concerned with range gun that was bombarding have been....

the causes of accidents

LIGHTS: The report claims that wanted or not*** Paris. Pour moi," he said, "de reste Implications of atomic bombing

· ́DASHBOARDI: All knobs and it is now practicable to eliminato lenser): to

CHAPMAN FINCHER impene. It will be realsed, of course, that tranquil sous la voute. trable des probabilities (For my there are other factors differen- | handlas - should be flush with the 'demie by, Biting special

NANCY

Rising to the Occasion

Ernie Bashmiller

HEAD FIRST FOR BEAUTY!

LUSE

NAN KANG CO.