RESCUES FROM THAMES.
AIR RAID PRECAUTION
LONDON, Sept. 12.
Hospital vessels are patrolling in the Thames each day as part of London’s air raid precautions staff, comprising doctors, nurses and air raid wardens. The job of the staff is to rescue people from the river and banks during an air raid and to administer treatment. Numerous Austrian, Czechoslovakian and German refugees have sent letters to the Lord Mayor of Manchester, offering their services for defence, air raid precautions and national service work. A magistrate at.Fareham (Hampshire) fined a 60-. year-old Army pensioner £5 for having sounded a whistle, contrary to the Control of Noise (Defence) Order, which was made on September 1. It was stated that when the whistle was blown some women and children rushed in a panic to air raid shelters, and others rushed down the street, shouting, “There’s an air raid.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 8
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