AIR RAIDS
PRECAUTIONS IN BRITAIN. (United Pre6s Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Jan. 28. The Home Office has instructed the local authorities throughout Britain immediately to prepare air raid precautions schemes. The plans include advising the public on receiving and disseminating information of impending raids, casualties and damage, creating air raid wardens, establishing ambulances, clearing debris, dealing with unsafe buddings, detecting poison gas, decontaminating streets and buildings, protecting premises, recruiting personnel, providing shelters, restricting lighting, distributing respirators, storing equipment, co-ordinating precautionary services, organising fire brigades and transport. The Government will centrally provide base hospitals to deal with the evacuation of the population. Britain, as compared with Germany, which launched the scheme in 1928, has much leeway to make up. “Blackout” exercises similar to those at Leicester will be organised throughout the country.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 53, 31 January 1938, Page 8
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131AIR RAIDS Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 53, 31 January 1938, Page 8
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