ARMED AND TRAINED
BRITAIN'S 1,500,000 HOME GUARDS DEFENCES WILL NOT BE TAKEN BY SURPRISE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 13. ‘ (Received March 14, at 10.25 a.m.) The Home Guard is already a mature force 1,500,000 strong, armed and trained. “No matter how or when the German troops may come,” says a War Office communique dealing with Home Guard activities, “they will not take the home defence forces by surprise. The invader would not find a scared population and a congested countryside, but an armed and trained body of men in every town, village, and hamlet who are fighting for their homes on their own home ground with shot, shell, and bomb. They will contest every foot of ground, fighting as a local force or in conjunction with the regular Army. Men of the Home Guard will truly deserve their proud name and the people’s trust. Already they have proved their worth in a swift response to a call for action. Many times they have been first on the spot, ready to capture German airmen who have baled out. “ In air raids the Home Guard has given great help to the civil defence services. In the big blitz on Manchester the Home Guard members paraded, and were among the first to give aid and the last to leave.”-
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Evening Star, Issue 23834, 14 March 1941, Page 8
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217ARMED AND TRAINED Evening Star, Issue 23834, 14 March 1941, Page 8
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