STIR IN MOSCOW
A.R.P. PRECAUTIONS & MASS MEETINGS DESTRUCTION OF WOODEN HOUSES. HIGH SCHOOL BOYS JOINING ARMY. (Received This Day. 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, June 22. According to reports from Moscow, the population is dividing its time between feverish A.R.P, precautions and mass meetings resolving to smash the Fascist aggressor. Loud-speakers at street corners I blare official encouragements, ineluding for the first time the full text of President's Roosevelt’s comments on the Nazi regime. Many wooden houses in the capital are hastily being demolished to ( prevent fires from air raids.
A.R.P. workers have been ordered to prepare gas-proof shelters and to instal additional fire hydrants and a blackout has been enforced. Workers throughr out the Soviet Union have given a pledge to work harder than ever to help defeat the enemy. Boys from the high schools are said to be flocking to military depots seeking enrolment, in the Red Army.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1941, Page 6
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