PRECAUTIONS IN BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22521, 1 October 1938, Page 18

PRECAUTIONS IN BRITAIN

NO IMMEDIATE END

OF TENSION

CHILDREN IN MIMIC WAR

WITH GAS-MASKS

(HUTTED PRESS 4.Sit IOCIATXON—COPYRIGHT.) (Received Septa unber 30, 10 p.m.) LONDON, September 29. The “Daily 1 telegraph” says official quarters seta no signs of hope for an immediate end to the tension, which is shown iby the fact that the Government continues to take rapid precautions. Thousands of territorials are already mobilised :«nd are living under war-time conditions. Some are quartered within, a bus ride of their homes, but are mot allowed to go home at night. The Home Office has warned parents against allowing children to use gas-masks as toys because of the danger of damages making them useless.

At Bradford the police were called out this afternoon j to two large gangs of children, all wearing gas-masks, who were staging a mimic battle from parallel air-raid trenches in the heart of the city. The police fought their way to the trenches through a hail of stones and -clods.

HOUSE OF LORDS ADJOURNS

REFERENCES TO HOPES FOR PEACE

(BBITISn OFFICIAL. WIHELESS.) (Received September 30, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, September 29. When the House elf Lords met this afternoon Lord Stanhope observed that they would not desire to have a debate on international affairs in view of the new circumstances.

“I am quite sure that, speaking on behalf of all tl»e House, I can say with what earjnest hopes and prayers we trust, under the guidance of Almighty God, tlaiose four statesmen who at this very moment are meeting at Munich may be guided to a settlement whArh will be just and lasting in its eJTects, and that our own Prime Minister, who has made such tremenddus and unceasing efforts to preserve the peace, may have those effonts crowned with success.”

Lord Snell, for th*e Labour peers and the Marquess of Crewe, the Liberal Leader, agreed that any debate would be out of place. The House adjourned until Monday.

“MOOD OF SOLEMN

RELIEF ”

COMMENT IN EVENING NEWSPAPERS

(eatnan official wieklus.) (Received September 30, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, September 29. The smallest details about the movements of the leading personalities at Munich were prominently recorded in the evening newspapers. Their comment confirms the declaration of the “Evening Standard” that “the heart and hope of the British people are with Mr Chamberlain in Munich to-day.” The “Star” describes the public mood as one of solemn relief.

MESSAGE FROM N.Z. TO MR CHAMBERLAIN

(PJIBSa ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, September 30. The following letter has been sent to Mr Neville Chamberlain by. the secretary of the Municipal Association of New Zealand: “I have the honour, by the direction of the executive of the Municipal Association of New Zealand, representing 152 municipalities in this country, to convey to you their deep gratification at the news which reached us to-day of the agreement achieved at the Munich conference. I have also much pleasure in conveying our sincere appreciation and respectful approval of your courage in initiating direct conversations with the Chancellor of the German Reich, which have led to the maintenance of peace in Europe. Our earnest wish is that your efforts will be crowned with the establishment of that permanent peace which they merit.”