MR RAID PRECAUTIONS
MEASURES TAKEN IN BRITAIN GAS MASKS ALREADY PROVIDED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, November 15. (Received November 16, at noon.) Sir Samuel Hoare, moving the second reading in the House of Commons of the Government Air Raid Precautions Bill, said he did not take the view that there was no defence against air attack. A beginning already had been made. He ridiculed the idea that nothing had been done in the past two years but wrangles between local authorities and the Exchequer as to the apportionment of the cost. Already thev had provided for a supply of gas masks to the civil population- on a scale in Britain he believed to b© greater than any other country in Europe. They had evolved fire emergency measures on a considerable. scale, and -it was significant that 200,000 men and women had volunteered for air raid precaution Work,
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Evening Star, Issue 22807, 16 November 1937, Page 8
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151MR RAID PRECAUTIONS Evening Star, Issue 22807, 16 November 1937, Page 8
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