TO FOLLOW INVADERS
PLANS FOR CIVILIAN ARMY
LONDON, February 16. Secret plans for a civilian army to follow the Allied invasion of Europe: have been worked out, says the "Daily. Mail." The War Office, the Home Office, and police chiefs have produced, a scheme designed to promote smooth, and efficient control of reoccupied territories, including the provision of essential services like gas, electricity/ water, and railways, and also emer-j gency feeding and housing for civilians. For the maintenance of order, and traffic control, special police may, take over the civil administration in. the captured areas. Civil defence personnel, firemen, and nurses are likely to follow the invaders closely for dutjr in harbours and base towns, which will certainly suffer bombing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1943, Page 5
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120TO FOLLOW INVADERS Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1943, Page 5
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