GREAT BRITAIN MAKES EXTENSIVE PREPARTIONS TO MEET POSSIBLE PARACHUTE TROOPS.-In addition to the formation of highly mobile units from the regular army, and the enrolment of 400,000 local defence volunteers to co-operate with them in case of emergency, inhabitants of sparsely populated country districts are receiving instruction on how best to communicate their discovery immediately to the nearest authority. These people are being equipped with signal flags and are being given elementary instruction m their use. Taken during such instruction, this picture shows a farmer who has observed a landing passing the information by flag signal to the nearest house equipped with a telephone.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 6
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104GREAT BRITAIN MAKES EXTENSIVE PREPARTIONS TO MEET POSSIBLE PARACHUTE TROOPS.-In addition to the formation of highly mobile units from the regular army, and the enrolment of 400,000 local defence volunteers to co-operate with them in case of emergency, inhabitants of sparsely populated country districts are receiving instruction on how best to communicate their discovery immediately to the nearest authority. These people are being equipped with signal flags and are being given elementary instruction m their use. Taken during such instruction, this picture shows a farmer who has observed a landing passing the information by flag signal to the nearest house equipped with a telephone. Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 6
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