1937-12-04 — Page 5

CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER

20,000 000 GAS MASKS ARE READY IN BRITAIN. HANDPUMPS IN EVERY HOME

(By AIR MAIL)

London, November 16 said. "It is possible that they may During the four years of the also be towed behind private cars. war 300 tons of bombs were drop of auxiliary firemen, wash ped in this country at a low esti "Each appliance will be fitted with mate a greater tonnage of bombs a petrol engine which will work a could now be dropped in 24 hours." pump capable of pumping up to 500

In that one sentence the Home gallons of water a minute. Secretary (Sir Samuel Hoare) in the "Every town which requires them House of Commons last night pic-will be supplied with them... tured the peril that might face the "Contracts have already been plac-1 civilian population in the event of ed for some of the new mobile ap another war..

pliances."

A single medium-sized bomber, he said, might cause 150 fires.

Two hundred thousand auxiliary firemen are needed to

these

mobile appliances and to take up He disclosed that three new types other voluntary fire brigade duties of fire engine are being prepared in the event of war. —

which will carry not only the means

extinguishing fires but also an emergency supply of water:

One type, a comparatively small machine rather of the "trailer-car" type, was very mobile, and would be able to visit a principal centre of population every 10 or 15 min-

200,000 Volunteers For

Precaution Duty

ANOTHER

ALARM TEST

It is notified for general înforma- tion that the impromptu emergency alarm system which was tested on Tuesday, 30th November last, having proved unsatisfactory, tests of an These machines will be supplied to alternative alarm device will be car- local authorities by the Government ried out on Monday 6th December at Experiments, he stated, had been 9.45 am. This alarm will consist of made with a view to providing house a combination of the sounds of a holders at small expense with a siren and a bell, and will be trans- hand-pump, a shovel and a box of mitted from the Broadcasting Studio! sand. Even simple apparatus of through loudspeakers installed at the that kind, he pointed out, would be Post Office Building and at one other effective in preventing fires from point in the Central District. spreading: He also said:

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As this test is being carried out LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY

“Already we have a supply of gas on a limited scale it is not expected masks for the civilian population that the sound of the alarm will be better than any other country.

""No fewer than 200,000 men and women have volunteered for air raid precaution work.

Later in the debate Mr. Wedder- burn (Under-Secretary for Scotland) said:

"We are now in possession of some 20 million gas masks which are ready for distribution and of about 650 new fire appliances which we have in reserve.

heard outside the Central District.

-MUNITION WORKS

FOR WALES

To Be Started Shortly

Imperial Chemical Industries ha been commissioned by the Govern ment to erect a factory on it Landore site at Swansea, for the "Production can be enormously manufacture of munitions. expanded directly we know how many of these fire appliances the local authorities will require."

It is anticipated that buildin will start shortly.”:

The Government's action is ob- iously a measure to relieve un- Evacuation Plans In Certain Areas employment which still persists in

this area. It is believed that a

The Government, he said, hope considerable number of juveniles that local schemes will be worked in the town will find employment out by local authorities in collabora-at the works.

tion to provide for evacuations The LCL works employ about where worst effects of raids might 200 hands, but formerly a great be expected.

many more were engaged there. Some have been transferred to the added that the Board Education and the Scottish Office Imperial Chemical Industries works at Smethwick, and many of the will shortly issue a joint memoran- dum concerning the desirability of older men have retired, on pension. closing certain schools in particular-

ly dangerous places in wartime and

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News of the birth of sextuplets in India is contained in a letter just received by Major-Gen. E. D. Giles, of Roehampton.

His correspondent, Lt. Dur Khan, writing from

the ne type an Indian officer,

agines, many Kohat, North-West Frontier, stated that six sons had been born to his

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