CIVILIAN ARMY READY
TO FOLLOW INVASION OF EUROPE
(Recd. 11.15 p.m.) London, Feb. 16. Secret plans for a civilian army to follow the Allied invasion of Europe have been worked out, says the Daily Mail. The War Office, the Home Office and police chiefs have produced a scheme designed to promote the smooth and efficient control of the reoccupied territories, including the provision of essential services like gas, electricity, water and railways, and also emergency feeding and housing for civilians, the maintenance of order and traffic control. Special police may take over civil administration in captured areas. Civil defence personnel, firemen and nurses are likely closely to follow the invaders for duty in harbours and base towns, which will certainly suffer bombing.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 40, 18 February 1943, Page 5
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