BRITISH AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS
Satisfactory Progress
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, January 12.
Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, discussing the air-raid precautions organization with representatives of 28 London boroughs, said that general progress had not been unsatisfactory. He expected that the results of the national service campaign which was to be launched in the next few weeks would solve all problems of personnel A proposal advanced by the deputation for a central wartime authority for Greater London received his approval, but he could not agree to a new statutory authority in peacetime. Sir John mentioned that the St. John Ambulance Brigade had been invited to undertake the general organization of first-aid parties and he proposed to ask the London County Council to coordinate the organization of rescue parties.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 9
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