AIR RAID SHELTERS
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Rich Buy Islands
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* ; LONDON, April 25. Wqalthy people are already buying Jslands off the North coast of Scotland as.a precantion against air Taids. { Professor J. D. Bernal, eminent. Cambridge , scientist,- said this at a national conference . in London to discuss the feovernment's air raid precautions " echeme. The plans were "grossly nnfair to the poorer classes of the community," he declared. "If you are wealthy you ean buy an island or build a bombproof •helter. The wealthier you are the more protection you can get.'' Professor Bernal feared that the •cheme to recruit 5QO,000 air raid wardens might be the beginning of n Pascist army in Britain. . "In Germany," he said, "air raid wardens were eventually used as a means of getting control of the civil population." Simultaneously, Dr. Eudolph HansBan, German author of a hook ealled *' Chemical Warfare," annonnces his belief that, although chemicals will prove to be the decisive weapons of the next war, ' ' even chemicals rained on * city from fleets of aeroplanes wWd not be nearly so effeetive as the best eoqilosives." • "A good exploeive bomb/' he adds, "is mdre destruetive. ' '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 111, 27 May 1937, Page 6
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