1940-06-13 — Page 23

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 13, 1940

HOME DEFENCE MEASURES

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ON A LARGE SCALE QUEENTS&CLHOM

London, To-day.

A STRIKING INDICATION OF THE large scale precaution- ary measures of Home defence was given by the Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, in the course of a debate in the House of Commons.

The issue of the necessary equipment for the civil defence

services was, he said, complete.

WAR ON THE FIFTH COLUMN

LONDON, TO-DAY.

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Sixty million respirators, including children's' respirators and bables' helmets, had been issued as well as three million steel helmets, a million and a half oil skin. suits, while the number of stirrup pumps issued ran into six figures,

The total establishment of the civil defence personnel paid and unpaid was just short of a million.