THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 18, 1989
Emptying Cities In
Pagè
Wartime
1,000,000 People A Day To Be Moved
Drastic Control Of Transport
Drastic restrictions are contemplated by the Government to control the movement of people who are proposing to leave London and big cities, in the event of war, to go to the country homes of relatives and friends.
All these people will be expected to leave well in advance of an actual emergency being declared. Thereafter, it has been decided, all road and rail traffic will give absolute priority to the evacua- tion of 3,000,000 children and mothers of children under five years of age. This Government scheme will extend over two or three days at least.
The Government will not be able to, advise the million adults, who propose to move under private ar- rangements, when they should leave. They will be officially advised to travel as long before the emergency as they can, even at the risk of a wasted journey.
CARE OF EXPECTANT MOTHERS
After close, consultation with the railways and transport companies concerned, the defence departments have come to the conclusion that about 1,000,000 people could be mov- ed from the urban areas each day. Precise time-tables and destinations are now being worked out in detail.
Special provision is to be made for expectant mothers. For trans- port purposes the majority of these women are covered by the Govern- ment's arrangements. Any mother who has already one child or more under five years of age will auto- matically be moved to the country by Government transport.
No arrangements have yet been announced, however, for women ex- pecting their first child, and, the Ministry of Health have special plans in mind for them. -NURSES. FOR RECEPTION AREAS
Moreover, it is recognised that en- vironment, the character of the households to which the
women
may be moved, and the provision of necessary maternity and welfare services are important factors. So far as possible the Ministry of Health will make special provision for individual cases.
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It is proposed that a large pro- portion of the nurses now being re- cruited and registered by the cen- tral Emergency Committee, shall be available in the reception areas for this work and for nursing sick children.
A.R.P. AT THE B.B.C.
· Eight hundred members of the B. B.C. staff, at Broadcasting House, including Mr. F. W. Ogilvie, the Director-General, took part in air raid drill recently, Electric warn- ing-sirens placed on every floor sounded and the staff walked down to the concert hall in the basement. Grasproof doors, fitted to all the ataircases leading down the base ment, were closed and steel shut- tera were pulled across all ground- floor windows. After 15 minutes. an "All Clear" was sounded and the staff returned to work. There was no interruption of broadcasting.
Cowan and Bailey, the popular entertainers, who will bring their intimate revue "Hollywood on Parc de" to the Queen's Theatre next
Thursday.
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