CIVIL DEFENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1941, Page 7

CIVIL DEFENCE

COMPULSION SCHEME

BRITISH PLANS BEING PREPARED

PART-TIME DUTY

LONDON, December 31.

The Minister of Home Security, Mr. Morrison, announced that he is working out detailed plans to make part-time civil defence work compulsory for every Briton who is called 'on. ..'•■■ '•.-'•.■ ."■.: ..•/'.

Men and women will form a civil defence home guard to defeat Nazi incendiary bombs by guarding the property where they live or are employed, thereby' Releasing the fire forces to fight the worst and most dangerous fires. ■.'■-■ ■■ ■■ ' -' ■. ••••.'■.-■ ■:

,: In a broadcast appeal to householders and small shopkeepers to form themselves into parties of neighbours to take turns in the dangerous work of watching for the fall of fire bombs and to deal with them, Mr. Morrison recalled the immediate.and overwhelming, response to the appeal for recruits for the Home Guard, and expressed confidence that this urgent need would be met at once.

He began his address with the statement: "I am here to call upon you— some millions of you—for urgent duty," and he concluded, "Now, then! The latest answer to the latest attack! Fall in, the fire-bomb fighters!"