AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS
BACKWARD STATE
TERRIBLE PRICE IF WAR HAD
BROKEN OUT
(Received October 7, 10.40 a.m.)
LONDON, October 6.
If war had broken out and London was bombed the city must have paid a terrible price owing to the backwardness ot the air-raid precautions. This is the conclusion of a. report by a committee of the London County Council.
The auxiliary fire-fighting services, the report states, lacked the necessary men and equipment, and the ambulance services were short of vehicles and drivers. Though 30,000 auxiliary firemen were required, only 4200 were enrolled on September 24, A further (5000 joined up as a result of an urgent appeal last week, but there was no time to train them.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1938, Page 9
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