Rail Escape if Air Raid Comes

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 7

Rail Escape if Air Raid Comes

NEW PLAN REVEALED BY BRITISH PRECAUTIONS CHIEF The Home Government is planning with railway iompanies for the voluntary evacuation of people from danger areas in the event of an air raid. Wing-Commander A. H. S. SteelePerkins, 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 of attack. The Wing-Commander also revealed that he 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 icoast. “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 little boys playing Guy Fawkes with Jl-eri-” ■ b . Mj4L '‘ 7 "teSML.