DEMOBILISATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 9

DEMOBILISATION

NOT DISCUSSED AT MUNICH

BRITISH PRECAUTIONS

LONDON, September 30.

The War Office has decided to grant, limited leave to anti-aircraft and coast defence units and Territorials. All equipment is to remain in position. The Paris correspondent of the British United Press says that Cabinet decided to begin demobilisation in a few days. ~~ In response to a question at Munich regarding general demobilisation, Mr. Chamberlain said:—"The question was not discussed, but I think—l hope— measures on the subject will be discussed everywhere. We hope it will come practically immediately. I take this question for granted." i

in a few days,

Official quarters see no signs of hope of an immediate end of the tension, which is shown by the fact that the Government is continuing its precautions, says the "Daily Telegraph." Thousands of Territorials, already mobilised, are living under wartime conditions. Some are quartered within a bus ride of their homes, but are not allowed to go home at night.

The Home Office has warned parents against allowing children to use gasmasks as toys owing to the danger of damage rendering them useless. Bradford police were called out this afternoon to two large gangs of children, all wearing gasmasks, who were staging a mimic battle from parallel air-raid trenches in the heart of the city. Police fought their way to the trenches through a hail of stones and clods.