AIR RAID MENACE
DOMINIONS WARNED ALL PARTS VULNERABLE. LONDON, February 17, An English factory is producing 500,000 gas masks a week, Wing-com-mander Hodsoll informed a gathering of the Royal Empire Society. By the end of the year the factory would have supplied 40,000,000 or 50,000.000 masks for the protection of civilians in the United Kingdom.
Wing-commander Hodsoll was voicing the views of the Air Raid Precautions Department when he _ added : “ I hope that if the dominions need gas masks they will make prompt application to England, because the defence authorities are anxious to keep the factory in steady production.” The speaker gave a warning that there was no part of the Empire which could not be reached by enemy aircraft based either on land _or on sea carriers. Air-raid precautions constituted a problem which must claim the urgent attention of dominion Governments.
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Evening Star, Issue 22895, 1 March 1938, Page 9
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