HOME GUARD IN BRITAIN
Service To Be Made
Compulsory
(8.0.W.) RUGBY, January 22. The War Office announces that Defence Regulations, providing for the application of compulsion in the Home Guard, have been Gazetted. These implement proposals already announced in the House of Commons by the Secretary for War (Captain David Margesson). The adoption of complementary action in regard to part-time civil defence workers was announced on Thursday evening by the Home Secretary (Mr Herbert Morrison), who said he did not for a moment doubt the willingness of the men and women, 1 who had shown such a fine example of courage and efficiency in the days of the heavy German raids on the cities and towns of Britain, to continue to offer their services. Mr Morrison said the vital necessity for obtaining the protection of the life in cities and for maintaining the morale of the people required that certain numbers of civil defence personnel should at all times be available.
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Southland Times, Issue 24651, 24 January 1942, Page 5
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161HOME GUARD IN BRITAIN Southland Times, Issue 24651, 24 January 1942, Page 5
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