# A.R.P.
# GENERAL STATEMENT ON A.R.P. DURING THE PERIOD
1st JANUARY, 1939, to 31st DECEMBER, 1939.
## 1. Instruction, and Advice to the Public.
During the above period the main effort of this department was devoted to carrying through an intensive training and recruiting programme, combined with a propaganda campaign, with a view to making the general public "air raid minded."
In order to carry this programme through a total of one hundred and twenty European and Chinese were trained as A.R.P. Instructors.
The course for Instructors consisted of fifty hours of theoretical and practical training.
The locally trained Instructors have proved a success.
The following personnel received instruction and qualified in A.R.P.
Wardens 2,400 Decontamination Squads 250 Rescue Squads 300 Fire Brigade 300 Road and Water Repair Parties.... 500 Police 1,500 St. John Ambulance Brigade 1,000 Miscellaneous (Clerks, cooks &c.).......... 200 Total...... 6,650In addition, a very considerable number of Government employees and personnel employed by business firms, factories, public utility companies, etc. have not only received training in protecting themselves, but also in the methods which should be employed to protect buildings and vital parts of machinery.
Over 180,000 books and pamphlets have been issued to the general public.
A successful A.R.P. Exhibition was held at the Peninsula Hotel at which over 15,000 people attended.
The Women's Air Raid Precautions Union has done an immense amount of good work during the period under review, in the way of arranging A.R.P. classes for women, and in general propaganda work.
## 2. Air Raid Precautions Warning Signals.
Fourteen sirens have been erected on the Island and on the mainland, and are controlled by a single switch operated at A.R.P. Headquarters.
It is not the intention at present to supply the New Territories with sirens.