DEEP SHELTER POLICY REJECTED IN BRITAIN Committee's Findings: Time Factor Crucial Mistaken In Aim,
Impossible In Practice
London, To-day.
The committee appointed in February under the chairmanship of Lord Hailey to advise Sir John Anderson, Minister of Civil Defence, on air raid shelters, issued its Report yesterday as a White Paper.
The committee opposes the provision of deep or bomb-proof shelters for the whole civil popu- lation.
Instead, it favours a policy of dispersed shelters giving protection against blast, splinters and the fall of debris.
The Report states: "This policy represents a means by which mea- sures affording a considerable de- gree of protection can be completed within a limited time, which seems of crucial importance."
MAIN OBJECTIONS
Three main grounds are given in the Report for opposition to deep bomb-proof shelters, These are:
Diversion of material effort and money from active defence.
KING OPENS
WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL
LONDON, TO-DAY.
THE KING, WHO WAS AC
REPENTANCE
BEFORE FORGIVENESS
New York, To-day.
President Roosevelt will await Hitler's reply to his pence appeal before taking any action in re- gard to sending back Mr. Hugh Wilson, the Ambassador, to his post in Berlin.
This is according to “informed sources" quoted by Associated Press. Reuter.
SWATOW FEAR OF INVASION
Swatow, To-day. THE Chinese authori-
ties here have order- ed all civilians to eva- cuate within three days. The threat of invasion has been intensified by the presence HOS-of severa! Japanese transports
and warships.
COMPANIED BY QUEEN ELIZA. Technical difficulties of construct-BETH, OPENED THE NEW ing shelter system which would £850,000 WESTMINSTER guarantee speedy and sufficient ac-PITAL YESTERDAY. cess to the population which would The Hospital had been want to use it, and
from its old site opposite West-
The time factor of construction.minster..
TWO YEARS' TASK
The Report adds it is estimated it would require two years to con- struct 16 miles of shelter tunnels in London, and this would only provide shelter for 160,000 persons.
con-
The Report endorses the advice given to Sir John Anderson cerning the value of steel shelters and the design for strengthened basements.-Reuter.
DECISION REACHED
London, To-day.
removed
Two children's wings in the new hospital bear the names respective ly of Princess Elizabeth and Prin- cess Margaret Rose.-Reuter.
ARCHBISHOP ENDS LUXURY YACHT CRUISE
London, To-day.
The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived back in England yesterday following his visit to the Mediter-` ranean and Istanbul.
Most of the main roads leading out of Swatow have been des- troyed and the rest have been heavily mined for, blowing up in emergency.
Originally the time limit for evacuation was the end of this month. Our Own Correspon-
dent.
"CHAMPLAIN”. SAILS WITH
JAPAN GIVES SPRATLEY IS. ASSURANCES
Tokyo, To-day.
An assurance that Japan does not intend to "extend her lines of defence" to the Spratley Islands, was given by Rear-Admiral Kana- zawa, Chief of the Admiralty Pub- licity Bureau, yesterday.
He said the islands were useless for strategic purposes as they con- stituted mostly dangerous reefs with no facilities for sea or land planes.
Japan occupied the islands, which lie off the coast of French Indo- China, a few weeks ago while nego- tiations with France were continu- ing-over their ownership.-Reuter.
IL DUCE'S SPEECH PLEASES THE NAZIS
Berlin, To-day, Mussolini's speech in Rome has been received by the Nazis with "satisfaction and the full- est agreement."
Nazi political circles regard the reply to President Roose- velt's peace proposals as an- other decisive demonstration to the Democracies of the soli- darity of the Rome-Berlin Axis.
One German political com- mentator pointed out that Hit- ler had also often referred to Germany's building activity as proof of her peaceful inten- tions. Reuter.
ART TREASURES NEW GOVERNOR OF
BENGAL
LE HAVRE, TO-DAY. › The Minister of Civil Defence, The: Archbishop had been ‘holi- THE FRENCH LINER Sir John Anderson, announcing the daying on board the luxury yacht "CHAMPLAIN" SAILED FOR
London, To-day, Government's shelter policy in the of Mr. J. P. Morgan, the American | NEW YORK YESTERDAY Sir John Woodhead has been ap- House of Commons yesterday, de-millionaire financier. British WITH ART TREASURES FOR pointed Governor of Bengal, it was clared that deep or bomb proof Wireless.
THE NEW YORK WORLD'S Lannounced last evening, shelters for the whole civil popula-
FAIR AND PASSENGERS, WHO He will take up his new post on tion were impracticable.
WERE TO HAVE SAILED ON June 11. The former Governor of THE "PARIS," NOW A SEMI-SUB- month. Trans-Ocean..
ILL-FATED LINER Bengal, Lord Brabourne, died last M.ERGED BURNED-OUT WRECK.
No grounds had been shown for departing from the policy of blast and splinter proof protection already announced, and the Govern- ment would make every effort assure that this policy was carried out us speedily as possible in vulner- able areas.
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An attempt to produce bomb proof shelters on any general scale would prove Impossible in practice and would be mistaken policy.
KEY POINTS
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shelters should take.
Sir John Anderson mentioned the distribution of portable steel shel- ters which began on February 20 and had proceeded at a rate sub- stantially in excess of estimates.
SHELTER EXPANSION
Among the passengers were Mrs.
JAPANESE
Lindbergh and her two children. SENTRY SHOT
She is joining her husband in Washington, where Colonel Lind-" Shelters capable of sheltering 1,500,000 persons had already beenbergh is now on active service with
the United States Air Corps.- distributed, and future distribution Reuter.
rate.
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would proceed at accelerated
Tests had been carried out specting the strengthening of base- ments.
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There was a case for providing As a result of these tests the first heavily protected shelters for cer-orders for materials had been placed tain key points and for certain vital on April 4. services.
An organisation had been created Technical advice would be af- to assist local authorities in carry forded speedily to industrialists ing out a speedy survey of suitable and others as to the forms such basements, Router.
JEWISH POLICE OFFICER KILLED
Jerusalem, To-day.
Chungking, To-day. The Japanese in Tientsin
are vigilant as the result of the murder. of a.
Japanese sentry on Wednea- day.
Extensive searches were conduct- ed by the Japanese in the neighbour- hood, but the assailant is still at large. Contral News.
A Jewish supernumerary police- The well-known - Chinese actor, man was killed and five injured Sit Kok-sin, was fined ££0 by Mr. when a lorry in which they were R. Edwards this morning for allow travelling struck a landmine near a ing two dogs abroad without a town west of Jerusalem. Reuter. muzzle in Fuk Kuk Avenue,
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