AIR RAID MEASURES
e GAS DEFENCE DEMONSTRATION.
RED CROSS ORGANISATION.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
London, April 9.
The British Red Cross Society staged a demonstration of anti-gas defence and first-aid in chemical warfare at Chislehurt, when the “maroons” sounded the alarm. Thick clouds, of smoke engulfed the hillsides near the famous caves, to which Red Cross nurses, equipped with anti-gas clothing and the latest gas masks bore on stretchers “cases” of gas poisoning realistically acted by local people, t Meanwhile the caves, which are naturally bomb-proof, were transformed into gas-proof shelters by an air-lock preventing the entrance of the gas when the inner door was opened to admit victims.
It was announced that 100,000 voluntary air and Red Cross workers throughout Britain had been taught to render similar assistance to prevent panic among civilians in a real raid?.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1935, Page 5
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