GAS ATTACKS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 February 1935, Page 4

GAS ATTACKS

PROTECTIVE MEASURES TO BE ISSUED BY BRITAIN. Press Association Electric TelegraDh—Copyright LONDON, Monday. The ‘.News-Chronicle” says that the Committee of Imperial Defence will shortly be issuing to local authorities throughout Britain complete plans for the protection of the population in ease of gas attacks. Seven years of investigation by the anti-gas sub-committee, on which there are leading Scientists and military experts, has respited in the drawing up of a book of instructions of several hundred pages.,*; The population will not be equipped with gas masks,'as experiments in gasproofing houses has shown that one room can be made gas-proof ciAjiparatively simply by chemically saturated curtains over doors and windows. It is also not considered necessary to build vast dug-outs like Germany, where one dug-out shelters 45,000. The instructions provide that each local authority will be responsible for its own district, will form an anti-gas committee, enrol all municipal workers, and thousands of doctors, policemen. The instructions include a system of alarms to warn the public of an impending attack; secondly, the speedy location of the attack and isolation of the affected area; thirdly, protection of water and food supplies; fourthly, storage and protection of antigas substances; fifthly, the establishment of de-contamination centres; sixthly, the training of school children, and the organisation of special ambulance transport services.