Rail Escape if Air Raid Comes
NEW PLAN REVEALED BY BRITISH PRECAUTIONS CHIEF The Home Government is planning with railway aompanies for the voluntary evacuation of people from danger areas in the event of an air raid. Wing-Commander A. H. S. SteelePcrkins, of the Air Raid Precautions Department of the Home Office, revealed this recently to the Public Health Congress in London. The proposal, the Wing-Commander said, was to evacuate the people to areas where there was less risk ot attack. The Wing-Commander also revealed that ho had been through 9,000 homes in London to investigate the problem of gas-proofing, and commented: “There are thousands of houses which cannot, in. any conditions, be made gas-proof.” By the use of a warning system all the country would know in seven or ten minutes that raiders had passed the coast. “We fear incendiary bombs more than anything else,*' he declared. Referring to the free issue of respirators to every inhabitant, Wing Commander Steele-Perkins said: “He won’t get it to-day or to-morrow. We won't want . i little boys playing Guy Fawkes with 1 tiem s ’ *
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 8
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182Rail Escape if Air Raid Comes Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 8
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