TEACHING THE PEOPLE

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2304, 5 September 1929, Page 5

TEACHING THE PEOPLE

TO USE RESPIRATORS FOR FUTURE GAS WARFARE AIEDrCO-AITLITARY ADVICE By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable} (Received Sept. 5. 9.30 a.rn. Sydney, Sept. 5. Addressing Ihe naval and military section of the Medical Congress. Dr. F. A. Maguire, declaring gas to be tlie most: potent weapon of future warfare, suggested Unit tlie aullioiities should educate citizens in the various kinds of gas likely to lie used. 11 was possible to give every citizen a respirator and tell him bow to use ii. It miglil bo possible, also, jo provide a reserve* store* of respirators.

General Barber. Dii'er-lor-Genernl of Medical Services, announced that. Ibo question of the pro!e-ctiem of ilie civil population wa;? now under consideration by the Defence Department, which bad already made provision for the troops in Australia. He pointed out that in the event of war and au enemy sprneing certain districts with gas, it would bp most de-

sirable to evacuate as many people as possible.