BOMB SHELTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 226, 23 September 1940, Page 6

BOMB SHELTERS.

LONDON PRECAUTIONS. AUCKLANDER RETURNS. The opinion that precautions taken in London before the war to guard against air raids had been fully justified was expressed by Dr. E. B. Gunson, who has returned to Auckland after being more than a year in Great Britain. Although bombing had not started wheu be left England, he had obtained an idea of it from experience in another part of Britain, where bombing had been carried out by the enemy.

Dr. Gunson said that public shelters dn streets and squares were not. proof against direct hits, but gave good protection from blast and splinters. A great deal had been done to. strengthen basements of city buildings, so that they would be safe even if the structure above were severely damaged. He considered that the removal of hospitals from London to tjic country early in the war was likely to be parmanent. The treatment or wounded soldiers was entirely under civil control, and the advantage of that system had been evident since the evacuation from Dunkirk.

Dr. Gunson said there was no doubt about the solidarity of the British people under the leadership of Mr. Churchill, and confidence had been restored. It was generally felt that a new political order would emerge from the war, and old party alignments would not be seen again.