CIVIL DEFENCE
DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH PLANS COUNTRY TO BE DIVIDED INTO ZONES. SELF-CONTAINED AT NEED. (British Official Wireless.! (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, February 3. A further development of plans for civil defence measures is revealed by an announcement by Sir John Anderson that Britain is to be divided immediately into twelve zones for civilian defence. Each region in war time will be in charge of a regional commissioner, who in peace time will be supplied with full details of the war plans of all Government Departments concerned in civil defence. Greater London will form one of ten regions into which England will be divided, Wales will be the eleventh and Scotland, subdivided into five areas, will constitute the twelfth.
The scheme is directed primarily toward dealing with the situation which might arise in a war if an area, as the result of bombardment, were cut off and forced to organise its life as a separate unit until communications were restored.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1939, Page 7
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162CIVIL DEFENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1939, Page 7
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