More and more are the appliances of war coming into their own in the questionably piping times of peace. Aeroplanes, having given up fighting, are to carry mails for the future: even tanks have been used ta draw barges along the French canals And just as striking in its own way is the statement that the Shanghai Fire Brigade is to adopt the gas mask. Mr. M. W. Pett, ithe Chief Officer, mentions this in his annual report, alluding to the number of smoky fires Brigade has to alitend, and he says that twa masks already in use have been found quite satisfactory. In these matters of equipment, naturally, our ex-service men will want to know technical details. Is it the small box respirator which the Brigade has adopted, or the P. H. helmet or some of its refinements? Will it be possible to watch the firemen going through smoke helmet drill by numbers as the army used to do, and what penalty will be there under K.R. (or its local substitute) for parading minus this accessory? And will the Chinese, as certain wrong-minded British soldiers are known to have done, substitute inside the holder pair of socks in place of the helmet? These deen and weighty problems are enough to make one believe that the war atill proceeds space.
Mar. 5,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.