AGAINST AIR RAIDS
0 DEFENCE PLANS IN BRITAIN STATEMENT BY THE HOME SECRETARY, EVACUATION AND OTHER MEASURES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 28. The report of the committee appointed to consider the evacuation of the civil population from certain areas in the event of war will be published in the near future. In announcing this in the House of Commons today, Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, paid a tribute to Sir John Anderson and his colleagues for the expedition with which they had completed a survey of a difficult problem. He said that the report was lengthy and that the recommendations raised important questions of policy, some of which Parliament might wish to discuss. He proposed, however, not 1o delay action on certain work that could usefully be undertaken at once on the lines recommended by the committee and which did not raise questions of policy. For example he must increase the staff of the air raid precautions department to enable it to deal adequately with this large problem. Sir Samuel Hoare, concluding, observed that, as the committee had pointed out, the provisions they recommended for evacuation in no way detracted from the necessity for the provision of other means of passive defence. The essential industries and services of the country, which were mainly concentrated in the vulnerable areas, must be carried on, and that meant that essential persons must remain and plans be made for their safety.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1938, Page 5
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238AGAINST AIR RAIDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1938, Page 5
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