Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-17
TELLS BRITISHERS
HOW TO keep SAFE
No Building Is Safe From
the Fire Of the Big
Gums.
Cellars and the Open Coun-
try Safest When War
ships Bernhard.
Polski. Copyright, 1915, by the

Correspondence OF the Associated Press
LONDON, Dec. 2S.-"How to
keep safe under shell-fire" is the
title OF a statement given out to the
press by a prominent army officer,
for the benefit Of coast towns.
''The first fact TO bear in mind
he says lis that no buildings In
this country, however substantial,
offer any protection against bonn
bardment by warships, The big
gest guns brought into action by
the Germans at Scarborough and
Hartlepool were Of 12-lnch calibre.
These fire a %projectile weighing
900 pounds, one of which would be
sufficient to lay the great cathedral
Of st. Paul in ruins.
THE other guns used were IL
inch, S.2-inch and 9.9-inch, throw
ing respectively shells weighing 700,
$50 and 100 pounds. The lightest
Of these projectiles would go
| through the walls of any building as
II they were brown paper, and its
bursting charge Of high explosive
would detonate inside with annihil-
ating effect.
Houses Not Safe.
"The inside of Il house, then, Is
the very worst place to be during a
bombardment, for If a shell strikes
the building and the inmates have
the luck to escape direct injury
from the explosion or the flying
spIinters they are almost certain to
be buried in falling debris or inn
prisoned and at the mercy Of the
fire which usually breaks out.
"The next most unsatisfactory
place I'm he street. Shells bursting
on the hard %payements are most de-
structive; to their own %splinters OF
steel are added flying fragments OF
stone, each a deadly missile. The
person in the street is also in im-
mended Is a cellar, and hat must
of houses and from bricks and tiles
that go hurting about.
where then is safety to be
found? The only place to be recom-
mended is a %celler, an dthat must
be strongly vaulted. II such a place
is available it's use is recommended.
Go into IL the moment bombardment
begins and stay until you are quite
sure all danger is past. If the
building above is supplied with gas,
turn IL off at the meter. II pos
sible, take candles, food and water
with you into your subterannean
quarters, for the time of your stay
is uncertain and your exit may be
blocked by debris.
Country IL Safest.
Apart from such a cellar. the
best place to be when shells are
falling is the open country, well
away from hard roads and trees and
buildings. A nice, soft ditch, out OF
sight of the enemy on the reverse
slope of rising ground. is the posi-
ton / should choose.
whatever Is done, let II be done
without panic. Panic adds I'm
menseiy TO the sum Of the danger;
IL means blind rushes in which the
weaker ones always suffer, II means
also the overlooking Of OF
safety and neglect Of many precau-
tons.
curiosity is one OF the strongest
impulses I'm human nature; often II
is stronger than the fear OF death,
and so has fatal results. We had
examples Of this at Hartlepool and
scarborough: when the German
shells began TO fall. people crowded
out into the streets. curious to see
what was going on. And many
such were among the killed and
wounded"