" When wc left New Zealand 1 thought war was as far away as it had been for 20 years, but conditions over the last six months brought us face to face with a crisis so serious that war was averted only at the last moment," writes Mr John D. Emmett, from Portsmouth, -England. He .nentioned that Portsmouth, which possessed the largest naval dockyards in the British Empire, would have been an easy target in the event of an air raid. War was so close, he said, that everybody had been advised to dig splinter-proof trenches in their gardens where possible. Close to where he was living, Mr Emmett added, there was a firstaid shelter costing £OOOO. the first of 10 to be built in the city.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23649, 5 November 1938, Page 10
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