PORT OF LONDON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 9

PORT OF LONDON.

j PROTECTION IN WARTIME. j (British Official Wireless.) j RUGBY, July 20. I A carefully prepared scheme of coni trol and protection lor the .Port ol 1 London in the event of war has, it is confidently declared, put the port into a state in which in all circumstances its business will he carried on. I The I'orl of .London Authority lias devoted special attention to the protection of men working in the docks system and has allocated £250,000 for air-raid protection of them. All vital points have been protected, and more than three miles and a half of trenches are available for refuge from blast and .splinters. More than 30,000 workers arc being safeguarded in the authority's own dock area, while the owners of wharves and warehouses for ;S0 or 40 miles on each bank of the Thames have arranged for similar protection for their own stall's. Moorings have been placed for about 78 ships in the lower reaches of the 'Dunnes. Small craft organisations . with some 10,000 barges and tugs cap- . able of handling J. 000,000 tons of cargo have been organised into a pool, and should any single dock system be : put out of action all these resources ' would be at the service of the port. Arrangements have also been made for evacuating essential foodstuffs anil dangerous goods.