"In case of war, you must remember when the bombs start falling that the enemy does not want to kill you. He is really the kindest-hearted man in the world —he only wants you to be a casulty!" said Commissioner W. D. Pirrett, of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, at a meeting at Wakari. Mr. Pirrett pointed out that a dead man was no liability to his country whereas an injured man was. In peace time it was estimated that there were three people either directly or indirectly employed in taking care of one incapacitated person, but in war time this number rose to five.
The police in Danzig have been reinforced and now number between 3000 and 4000 "owing to the necessity for protecting the city from the Polish army," says the Danzig correspondent of the Times.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4813, 21 July 1939, Page 4
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