CHEMICAL WARFARE
PRECAUTIONS IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 14. The Under-Secretary for Home Affairs (Captain D. E. AVallaee) stated at question time in the House of Commons that local authorities were actively engaged in preparing schemes for air raid precautions. Progress was very satisfactory. The final design of a mask for the civil population, of which it was anticipated that not less than 30,000,000 would bo required, had not yet been settled, but it would lie designed to give protection against any possible concentration of any type of poison gas which might/ be used in time of war.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 141, 16 May 1936, Page 9
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100CHEMICAL WARFARE Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 141, 16 May 1936, Page 9
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