5,000,000 GERMANS MR. T.A. MARTIN
TRAINED IN AIR DEFENCE
Berlin, To-day.
OPERATED ON
"of
Mr. Thomas Addis Martin, Messrs. Caldbeck Macgregor and Battery Commander of the Corps 1st Battery, H. K. V. D. C Was successfully operated on at the War Memorial Hospital yesterday and is making for appendicitis
Five million Germans are now considered fully qualified for the task of carrying out air raid pre-
favourable, progress. cautions, declared Lt.-Gen. von
Captain T. A. Martin was at during the Ruques, president of the Air De- camp at Bakshawan
week end with the "L" section of fence League, yesterday.
his battery returning late on Sun- day night. He went to the hos- pital yesterday morning for obser- vation when it was found that operation' was advisable.
As a result Captain Martin will combined not participate in the
The League, he revealed, has a membership of over. 11,000,000. adults.
In keeping with experience al- ready gained, from 10 to 22 per cent. of the population of each town in Germany will be enrolled for air raid defence and will dergo a course of training.
un-
Completion of this plan will mean that 12,000,000 Germans will be trained in air raid defence.
14,000 SHELTERS
Extent of the work already complished is evident from
ac-
the
fact that the Air Defence League
manoeuvres.
Ambassador At Foreign Office
London, To-day.
an
Lord Perth, British Ambassador
has established 63,000 service sta- in Rome, paid another call on Lord Halifax at the Foreign Office with the yesterday in connection and
tions, 2,500 stations for advising the public on air defence,
.
14,000 fully equipped air raid shel-impending Anglo-Italian talks.
ters.
It is intended to increase the number of air defence training centres to 3,000.
British Wireless.
tional training centre will be es-
Moreover there will be 500 main tablished in the course of the pre- training centres organised in fif-sent year at Wannsee, near Berlin. teen provincial groups. The Na--Trans-Ocean.
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