SHELLS ON SYDNEY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 5

SHELLS ON SYDNEY

REPAIRING OF DAMAGE

DEFENCES IMPROVED

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 8. ■

Immediate steps will be taken to have repairs made to the residences in Sydney and Newcastle which were damaged by the submarine shelling attacks. This has been stated by the chairman of the Australian War Damage Commission, Mr. A. W. Coles. ' "I am very sorry to find that few ; householders who suffered in the attacks took the precaution of taking out war damage insurance on furniture and personal effects," said Mr. Coles. "These people will thus receive no compensation for the damage sustained. •"I hope their misfortune will show the vital necessity that everyone should insure their belongings against war damage." War damage insurance on property in Australia is compulsory. Insurance on furniture and chattels is left to the discretion of the individual owners. INDIVIDUAL PRECAUTIONS. ■ The sensation caused by the shelling of the eastern suburbs overnight remained the sole topic of conversation late tonight when residents of the beach suburbs had generally completed preparations for individual safety in the event of a further raid. Those who had neglected to protect windows, or to provide themselves with some form of home shelter, set about the task today with a zeal that surprised their more cautious neighbours. , The Minister of National Emergency Services, Mr. Heffron, commented on the lesson which the raid had taught ithose who were sceptical about the shatterproofmg of windows. He said that windows which had been treated with adhesive tape had fared much better than those which had not.

The bodies of the four Japanese brought out of the submarines will be cremated tomorrow and buried with naval honours.