Gas War Practice
LONDON TELEPHONE GIRLS United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Aug. 3. A number of London telephone girls for the first time publicly demonstrated how to carry on during a gas attack from the air. They wore special gas masks resembling divers’ helmets, having a microphone and earphones built in, which can be plugged into the telephone board. Two hundred girls have already worked at a switchboard in a gas chamber in this manner, and telephonists are being given instruction throughout the country.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 183, 5 August 1938, Page 7
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85Gas War Practice Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 183, 5 August 1938, Page 7
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