BATTLE OF THE FLAMES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 115, 17 May 1941, Page 9

BATTLE OF THE FLAMES

Job on the Home Front

LONDON, May 16

Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Home Security, broadcast tonight urging 40,000,000 people to fight the "Battle of the Flames."

This, he said, was the biggest job on the home front. It was total war, and the entire population was needed to wage it. He warned his hearers it was ho use arguing about rights or wrongs while bombs were

tailing1. Fire-bomb fighting was a national service wherever the bombs were falling. It was a fine thing to guard one's own home, but if a party of neighbours were guarding' it, it was just as fine a thing to guard some other home, effice, shop, or factory.

Mr. Morrison went on to say that experienced fire chiefs had told him that the work of their brigades had been enormously eased because so many fires never got really started.

rived in Bohemia and Moravia and 32 districts have been compulsorily evacuated by order of the Protector to make room for them. This figure has probably been doubled by now.

"The general inference is that the German evacuation has been a hurried affair for which no adequate preparation was made. It has now been extended on a huge scale, and Germany and the tributary countries offer enormous tracts that can be counted as 'safe areas.' All the same, it. is a side of the war that must have had an effect on the confidence of the ordinary people."—B.O.W.