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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 8, 1989.
British Plans For
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Mass Evacuation VEENS
In War Time
London, To-day. The story of the Government's measures for civil defence, begun on Wednesday by the Lord Privy Seal, was carried further yesterday by the Minister of Health, Mr. Walter Elliot. Continuing the adjourned Commons debate, Mr. Elliot gave details of the plans for emergency in respect of medical services, casualty stations, the evacuation scheme and other matters.
He mentioned that 300,000 beds, who had shown a ready desire to could, under arrangements, already Help children who' i
would be exposed
in existence, be made available for to the serious effects of air attack casualties within the present hos- if left in the crowded areas of pital system, and 200,000 of these | large cities. would be available within the first 24 hours.
PROBLEM SOLVED Already he thought they might The Exchequer was undertaking say that in two months the house- the major part of the cost of pro-holders of the country, without any tection of hospitals and first aid compulsion, had shown that the posts from blast and splinter.
most difficult of evacuation pro- Turning to the evacuation
blems that of the unaccompanied pro- blem the Minister explained that child-could be and had been solv- on provisional allocation the
totalled. population of evacuable areas was The survey and response already about eleven millions, spread over known gave good grounds for be the London area and eighteen other large congested industrial cities and towns, while the total population of neutral areas was about thirteen million.
Total population of reception areas was about sixteen millions.
25 PER CENT.
Within evacuable. areas the po- pulation of what might be called priority classes, for whose evacua- tion plans were being prepared, represented something between 20 and 25 per cent, and their evacuation would therefore
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in an average addition of some thing like 15 to 20 per cent. to the population of the reception areas.
He controverted the idea that evacuation meant an indiscriminate unorganised movement of all sorts, sizes and characters.-.-
lieving there would be Httle if any need to appeal to the compulsory powers of billeting which the Gov- ernment had announced they would assume in a an emergency.—British Wireless.
FRENCH TAKE A SERIOUS VIEW
Shanghai, To-day.
The French Government regards the situation in Shanghai seriously as it is believed that the recent
Japanese activities and complaints concerning the "inability" of the Settlement and Concession to sup- The plan was an ordered evacua- press anti-Japanese movements and tion of groups selected in advance terrorism, are merely a pretext for and selected because both on 'na-action against the areas.
tional and humanitarian grounds The French Government, it is they would be better out of large reliably learned is calling for crowded cities.
police recruits in French Indo- MOVEMENT OF CHILDREN China. Applicants for police posts, The evacuation movement was it is learned, must show previous intended to be predominantly aemployment in the Services. movement of children. Priority These native police are to be classes were school children, young sent to the French Concession" to children and mothers of young chil-argument the French police and 'dren.'
defence forces. Our Own Cor- respondent
The census of billeting possibili ties in the reception areas, which was now nearly, finished, had in- volved visits by 100,000 volunteers *to* 5,000,000 houses, and Mr. Elliot considered that the enrolment
IMP'L AIRWAYS
an army of volunteer helpers of PLANE AT KUNMING
such a scale a short notice was
a great testimony to the spirit of national service.
Returns ap far to hand shower
of
splendid response on the part householders in the reception areas
NIKS
Kong Foot
Kunming; To-day.
A big crowd greeted the Imperial Airways Atalanta plane when it arrived yesterday from Burma on a trial flight.
After circling over the city, the plane made a perfect landing at. about 11.40 a.m.
Five persons were on board the machine, the captain, vice-captain, radio operator, mechanic and a visitor
Both the China National Aviation Corporation and the Eurasia Avia- tion Corporation, hore gave recep- tions in their honour.
The plane is returning to Ran- goon to-day Central News.
The E and A. steamship ““Nankin" is leaving for Shanghai and Japan. cse ports at 5 o'clock this evening.
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