AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVES
'•] Ammunition and explosives will .ifee scattered in dumps around Britain’s countryside for at least another three years. t At the moment there are about 800,000 tons of these stores on the yerges of 1500 miles of country loads or in country fields. This was disclosed by Brigadier ,V. O. Lonsdale, Deputy Director of {Warlike Stores at the War Office, Jwhen he appealed to holiday-makers ]to be on their guard. “The main thing to avoid is fires, are easily started by a cigarette end,” he said. “We have already had a number in dangerous areas, but so far our pickets have been able to deal with
them,” he added. “We could wire off completely all ' the danger areas, but we do not want "to restrict the pleasure of the v public more than is necessary. ■“What I would like the public to realise is that we would rather trust. them and ask for their help than put up barbed wire all over the place and post sentries everywhere.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 19, 2 September 1946, Page 8
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170AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 19, 2 September 1946, Page 8
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