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and first aid squads to the points Where their services are required. And especially must they set an example of coolness and stead- iness among neighbours and so reduce the risk of panic.

Air raid wardens who are now being appointed must be well ac- quainted with the districts in which they serve, and know how to call the fire brigade, the police, and the first-aid and ambulance services. They should be able to reassure frightened people and put them in touch with the help they need, so preventing a need- less increase in casualties which would be sure to occur if there were confusion and disorder. In Hong Kong there are to be some 6,000 to 8,000 air raid wardens, grouped in small numbers, each group with a specified area under its control

The next step is the, organisa- tion of voluntary first aid parties to tend to the injured and arrange for their removal either to first- aid posts or to hospitals. In Hong Kong these parties require a personnel of 400 at least; all persons who are not likely to be unnerved by the spectacle of phy- sical suffering.

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As progressive stages reached in the accelerating pace of A.R.P. organisation in. Hong Kong, it requires no very great prescience to realise that the sys

The next unit, though less like- tem planned for the Colony runs very closely to the model adoptly to be needed, is the decontam- ination squad. Its duty is to de- ed for Great Britain. That sys- tem, introduced on a voluntary constaminate, with chemicals sup- basis several years ago, was made plied by the Government, all a charge on the local governing roads, buildings, vehicles, and the authorities by the Air Raids Pre clothing of the public after at- caution Act, 1937. It received tacks with gases which its first severe test during the burns and blisters that persist in some cases from seven to 10 days. September crisis of last year,

Rescue parties, formed of vol- with results which merited a good deal of adverse criticism. In spite, unteers, are required to rescue however, of the obvious unpre-persons who are trapped in build- paredness of many local authoritings. These parties are directed ies, especially in London, to im- plement the plan in the critical Munich days preceding the Agreement, the A.R.P. organisa- tion has stood the test of criti cism, and the Government has seen no reason to modify, in broad outline, New Queen's Hall orch.

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All fire brigades will be aug- mented by volunteer auxiliary firemen. These will serve as fire- men, telephonists, messengers, and drivers of the auxiliary vehi- cles which are to supplement the work of the fire engines available in peace time.

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the instructions embodied in the original measure. London, with its 8,000,000 in- habitants, has been called the best bombers' target in Europe.

Volunteers are also needed to Inadequately defended, it is a dan- gerous temptation to the air for-assist the police, especially in the ces of aggressor nations. Defend-task of assisting traffic in darken- ed sufficiently well to ensure thated streets.. aerial attack would not cause civ- The first requirement in A.R.P. ilian panic, industrial disorganisa- training, as in militia training, is tion, and national defeat, it might to capture the interest of the prove to be the most potent de- volunteer by demonstrating the terrent against a general Europ- usefulness of his services and this ean war that the present genera-can only be done by telling him tion has to offer.

frankly the problems with which The new concept of totalitarian | he will have to deal under war means that for the first time conditions. It means, in A.R.P. in history every civilian man, training, showing him visually, woman, and child becomes dir- by moving picture and photo- ectly concerned with military graphs, the destructive effect of operations. If London could be modern high explosive and in- bombed from the air as readily cendiary bombs. A diagram and successfully as Canton, Han- showing the path of destruction kow, Nanking, and more recent-caused by a solitary bomb in the ly, Wanhsien and Kweiyang have been, fear of Britain's naval, military and air might would van- ish from the war councils of Europe A.R.P. and the decision of the Government to spend £20,- 000,000 on new measures of pro- tection are inspired by this know ledge.

The basic idea behind the A.R.P. is to enrol a large volun- tary force of private citizens will- ing to give up some of their lei- sure time in the evenings to learn their job and willing to help others to know what they should do if an air raid comes. First of all it is necessary to appoint air raid wardens, whose duties are to advise the inhabitants of a group, of houses what to do in emer, gency, how to wear respirators, and where to report damage by bombs. They are responsible for guiding rescue parties, firen

streets of Barcelona is worth a library of written instructions..

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The morale of the civilian popu- lation in war depends on how far it has faced the danger in ad- vance, both mentally and materi- ally. If people have been customed to see the A.R.P. or- ganisation working efficiently in peace time, if every person knows automatically what to do the mo- ment an air-raid warning is sounded, the possibility of panic will be negligible.

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A.R.P. is, in effect, a great de- mocratic experiment in self-de- fence. It calls for the active co- operation of the community in the passive defence of their homes and institutions. On the en- thusiasm the bring to their ser- vice rests safety since ability to face threatened aerial warfare with confidence and equanimity is - the most powerful deterrent.