CIVIL DEFENCE FORCE
NO WHOLESALE REDUCTION. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, October 19. In the Commons, Sir John Anderson, referring to the clamour for a reduction in expenses, said there could not be any question, at present, of a wholesale demobilisation of the Civil Defence personnel. None, at the outbreak of the war, vias able to foretell the extent of the emergency ahead, and consequently the Civil Defence organisation was called into action to meet intensive, and perhaps continuous, aerial attack. Any other assumption would, have been grievously at fault. “We must not be lulled into a sense of false security, because hitherto we have not been involved in battle,” Sir John Anderson added.
SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN. RUGBY, October 18. At a meeting in London of more than 100 South African women resident in Britain, plans we.re made to allow voluntary workers to give war services for which they are best qualified.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 October 1939, Page 8
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