NO PUBLIC WARNINGS
SMALL AIR RAIDS LONDON, Nov. 7. The surprise that no public warning was given to Edinburgh and towns near the Firth of Forth during the air-raid on October 16 is the subject of an official explanation. Speaking in the House of Commons, the Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, said emphatically that the Government did not intend to allow an odd' enemy raider or small reconnaissance parties to" dislocate the nation's normal activity by sending large sections of the rjonulation underground. He added: "It is not the sounding of a public warning that brings our defences into operation. It follows that action against the enemy may be in progress without any warning having been sounded."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 18 November 1939, Page 7
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117NO PUBLIC WARNINGS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 18 November 1939, Page 7
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