THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 7, 1938
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CIVILIAN DEFENCE PLANS FOR GREAT BRITAIN
Sir John Anderson And Voluntary Register
Air Raid Warden
Training To Be Revised
London, To-day.
Plans for civilian defence in Britain were detailed by Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, open- ing a debate in the House of Commons last night on voluntary service plans.
Sir John disclosed that discussions of the lists of re- served occupations with employers and repre- sentatives of the workers had already been in- itiated.
From January 1, he said, there' would be training with regard to incendiary bombs and high explo ́sions and 240 fully, qualified in- structors would come forth every month from the special schools and be able to expand the training in 'different localities.
HANDBOOK ORDER
POPE GOES FOR A DRIVE
Vatican City, To-day.
The Pope, whose condition has. improved, went for å drive in his motor-car in the Vatican gardens, this afternoon.
This is the second time that His Holiness has been out of doors since his recent illness. Reuter
XMAS DEMAND FOR CURRENCY
London, To-day.
NEW TYPE OF INCENDIARY BOMB
London, To-day.
A new type of incendiary bomb was described yesterday at а conference here of the Society of Chemical Industry in an address by the technical expert of the Home Ministry, Mr. A. R. Ast- bury.
A large bombing airplane, it was stated, could carry 2,000 of these bombs. The highly inflam- mable bombs can be dropped from the airplane in groups of 20 each second.
The spreading action of the new bombs on bursting could be The Chancellor of the Exche-increased to 1,250 metres, the explained. Trans- The Lord Privy Seal said that the quer announced in the Commons lecturer final order, for printing of the hand-that he had given directions, at Ocean. book, the object of which is to make the request of the Bank of Eng- clear to the public the various forms land and under the powers con-
national service can take, had gone ferred on the Treasury by the BRITISH RAILWAY
to Stationery Office and he hoped Currency and Bank Notes Act of that distribution to all households 1928, that as from December 6 He announced that the training would be far advanced by the third the fiduciary issue which was of Air Raids Wardens was being week in January.
reduced from £260,000,000 to re-organised so as to include in Local National Service Commit: £200,000,000 in 1936, should-be struction in the meeting of an in- tees which were to be set up would temporarily raised to £230,000,- cendiary bomb attack, elementary be constituted on a widely repre- 000 to meet seasonal demands. first aid and exercises in working sentative basis, beginning with a British Wireless. a communications system.
Committee for each County and County Borough.
FIRST AID
Special arrangements were being made for the training of first-aid parties with the assistance of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and the British Red Cross society.
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No difficulty was expected in 'large areas about the training of - firemen.
The beginning had already been made in the setting of the organis-
TRAFFIC
London, To-day.
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The English railways carried 8,800,000 fewer passengers in in the August of this year than corresponding month last year ac- cording to figures published yester- day.
The decline in the
[about £207,000.
revenue
Sir John Anderson emphasised SPAAK GAINS VOTE
SPAAK GAINS VOTE comparison with August 1937
OF CONFIDENCE
that these Committees would have any of the functions of a re- cruiting authority. He went on to deal in detail with questions of the training of "unteers in A.R.P. services and the necessary equip- ment for that purpose.
be obligatory.
Brussels,-To-day. -
by
was
Trans-Ocean.
Chief cause of this state of affairs is said to be the preference of the travelling public for overland omnibus services. One English rail- The Belgian Chamber continued way company, namely the London its consideration of the Cabinet and North Eastern Railway, have Training in certain cases would position concerning the Socialist already withdrawn about 100 trains
split when following a declaration from its timetable. NOT FOOLS
by the Prime Minister, M. Paul The Lord Privy Seal referred to Spaak, to the effect that the Gov- ation necessary for recruiting. the argument often urged in supernment would not resign unless
Sir John Anderson explained that port of having on a compulsory re
defeated, the Chamber accorded nothing in the nature of a "whirl-gister now, namely, that it would the Government a vote of confid- wind campaign” was thought to be a bold measure which would be necessary, having regard to the impress foreign opinion. On this, abstentions. number of recruits already avail he said he believed that those who able.
constituted foreign governments were not fools and it would be quite apparent to them that there would in be an element of make-believe
THE REGISTER The National Voluntary Register would include a register of people any such measure.
ence by 111 votes to 49, with 21 Socialists and Communists voted against and the Flemish Nation- alists (abstained-Reuter.
Labour
of
a
for
men
with special administrative quali- Instead of being impressed, they expressed the view that fications. There would be a special might conclude it was only being would want more information re-
Gov-garding the industrial aspects register for those with exceptional done because His Majesty's scientific and professional know-ernment could think of nothing bet-the scheme. They would want
safeguard against victimisation and ledge and this was already being ter to do. compiled by professional bodies As to those at home who advocat- the use of the new organisation and the universities.
ed a compulsory register, he thought against Trade Unions. Mr. Green- He revealed that about 50,000 there was confusion in their minds wood argued that when calls enumerators would be engaged to and that they really intended some service were being made on facilitate compilation of a com-form of compulsory service. It was and women, there ought be proper plete register if. it became neces- very doubtful what compulsion now organisation of national resources of such as would absorb into produc- sary in an emergency. The cost would achieve. Even in time would be £10,000 for the whole war, there was no sharp antithesis tive employment the large numbers country-
between the voluntary principle and now involuntarily idle.
Compulsion, for ex- He referred also to the question compulsion. ample, was, of little use in getting of profitering.
MR. AMERY NOT PLEASED people for jobs requiring judgment, initiative and discretion. The num- Sir Percy Harris, for the Liberals, ber and importance of jobs of that congratulated the Lord Privy Seal character had greatly increased un-on building his scheme on the sure foundations of the voluntary prin- der modern conditions,
LABOUR QUESTIONING ciple, but Mr, Amery, who follow- enable some future government to Mr. Arthur Greenwood, speaking ed, expressed disappointment. He do something prejudicial to the in- for the Opposition, asked for fur thought the proposals showed little terests of some class or section of ther information regarding the realisation of the terrible peril the community. I see no possibility forms of voluntary service, regard- which confronted them. Two days ing which, Sir John Anderson had have been allocated to the debate of getting a united nation behind compulsory system in- peacetime announced last Thursday, he pro-and the division will not be taken and there is no necessity for one."posed to introduce some form of until the end of the second day-
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contractual undertaking. He also British Wireless.
A complète register on the eve of an emergency would cost $250,000.
NO SINISTER PURPOSE
He concluded: "There is, in the Register, no sinister purpose, no al- terior motive, nothing which would
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