ADVICE TO PUBLIC
AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS
(British Official Wireless.) (Received February 12, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, February 11. An air-raid precautions general training school is to be opened shortly to give general instructions in air-raid^ precautions to officials of local.authorities charged with the preparation of the schemes.
About 500,000 copies of a book giving advice to the public on air-raid precautions is to be issued to local authorities for distribution to official air-raid wardens and volunteers, were fruitless, as they encountered strong resistance from our troops. Our planes yesterday bombed a large body of Japanese troops who were endeavouring to cross the Hwai River near Pengpu, and inflicted ! heavy casualties.
On the Wuhu front fighting is still severe. On February 8 a small body of Chinese troops penetrated to the outskirts of Wuhu, but owing to the severity ol the Japanese fire they retired.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1938, Page 9
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