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INSPIRING HOME GUARD STORY

THE STORY of the growth of the Home Guard

WORLD'S

BEST AIR

may be told in the future as one of the most inspir- SHELTER

ing of the war.

Ramsgate has, in the words of Mr. H. R. Knickerbocker, the famous American journalist, "the

To this he attributes the light

Several weeks ago the Guard did not exist. To- day the name connotes a million and a half men, divided into zones and groups, battalions, compan-hest air-raid shelter in the world." ies, platoons, and sections, led by experienced soldiers, bristling with expert shots, and secure in the esteem of the Regular Army.

All the Guards now have rifles. Soon every man will have his de- nim overalls or battle dress. They are to be given steel helmets with cye shades, greatcoats, and service respirators, Regular soldiers are drilling them, They will have

special instruction in machine-

gun, mortar, and anti-tank techni- que.

Within less than four months an entirely new and already been

soundly based force has

born in Britain, and although for

the moment recruiting has been

NEUTRALS CAN TOUR

DAMAGED AREA

casualty list when 50 bombers

swooped on the town, dropping 500 bombs in 411⁄2 minutes, and damaging nearly а thousand

houses.

The experience of this residen- tial seaside town is reviving the controversy about the wisdom or otherwise of deep air-raid shel- ters.

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Many London boroughs, Glas- gow. Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Dover, Southport and a host of other authorities tried before the war to get the Govern- ment to sanction schemes for shel- ters in business and thickly popu- lated areas which would be deep that they would give abso-.

The Home Office suspended the supply of men-

In contrast with the re-lute security.

these age-limits seventeen and sixty-strictions imposed by the schemes on the ground that it was

declared generally against five is very far from 'exhausted.

impracticable to provide sufficient Space is to be provided at Nazis on neutral journal-deep shelters to which the people Hurlingham Polo Ground for а

training school, new

intended ists in Berlin, journalists would have access during raids.

The Ramsgate scheme was twice primarily for Home Guard mem- bers in the London area and the of neutral countries in rejected (when it was first put forward it was declared to."be home counties. It will be run on Britain enjoy almost com- "premature"),

but the council time and Park, where members irom plete freedom of move-submitted it a third that the all over the country are being ment when visiting dis-pressed it so strongly

Government approved it in

the same lines as that at Osterley

trained.

In various places its members

·

been March of last year.

Now the shelter is in almost

A few days ago the Home Guard tricts which have brought down its first aircraft. bombed by the enemy.. daily use. It has accommodation have arrested crashed German They are not shepherded into for 60,000 people (nearly double airmen. There is competence conducted parties as in Germany, the peace-time population), has 23 see entrances which can be reached in here as well as enthusiasm. The where they are allowed to authorities have made sure that only that which the authorities four to five minutes from any of

to see. Neutral the main parts of the town. every man is physically fit-a wise permit them

Britain precaution-and

It is nearly three miles long and. the Guard is journalists working in well led by commanders of whom carry special Press certificates is cut through the chalk under the central part of the town, its many have had distinguished ex- which have been issued to them. perience in the Regular Army.

In London the production of this galleries, 80ft. below ground, are certificate enables the holder to brightly lighted. It has its own case the go wherever he likes to make an generating station ini independent investigation after a town electrical supply fails, first- raid.

aid posts equipped with all medi- cal necessities, and a system of loud-speakers to relay wireless. programmes and announcements. Ramsgate owes this shelter to

Sir H. Gough's Suggestion

In the case of areas which have General Sir Hubert Gough rais-been declared prohibited areas in ed an important point in a letter a legal sense, the procedure is for to "The Times." Referring to Mr. the neutral journalist to get. in Eden's statement that there are to touch with the chief constable for the persistence of its council, who be "no commissioned or non- the area. The latter arranges for succeeded where other authorities. commissioned ranks" in the Home him to receive a permit to circu-failed, and to its geological ad- which minimised the Guard, Sir Hubert pointed out late in that area and go where he vantages "the extreme danger of such a likes.

engineering difficulties. decision," arguing that the exer- cise of leadership in battle and of ordinary discipline cannot be en- forced in any military unit with- out a properly constituted body of officers and N.C.O.'s.

To this argument General Sir Alexander Godley, himself a platoon commander, replied that although he, his company commander, and section fead- cre were not known by any military rank' and were not conscious of being commission-

PARIS UNDER NAZIS, IS

WORLD'S DARKEST CITY

AFTER HOLDING for many decades the undis-

ed or non-commissioned, the puted title of the "City of Light,” Paris is now pro- "chain of command" seemed to bably the darkest capital, for the German authorit- The point will be much debaties have decreed that residents must observe with

work very well.

ed. But the Home Guard has so

firm a backbone of ex-Regular the strictest care the black-out regulations, and add soldiers that its discipline, if not of the rigid pipeclay-and-polish "no negligence will be tolerated."

variety, is good enough to inspire belief in the effective working of the force.

It has

that

been pointed out the principle of leadership is re- cognised fully, that the leaders, their titles and badges are respect- ed as in any other force, and that

the Guard is not likely to suffer in the way Sir Hubert fears.

The Molotoff Cocktail

Curfew hour, writes a special correspondent, who has just returned from Paris, has been fixed at 9 p.m., and after that hour any person found in the streets will be arrested and detained at the police station for the night.

Although a number of leading, Ajaccio is now running again, cinemas are now open again, they Cafes are doing brisk trade. in the show mainly programmes of a the Champs Elysees and pronounced pro-Nazi flavour. All Grands Boulevards as well as in British and American films are the Montmartre and Latin quar The Home Guard is rapidly in- strictly barred, as well as foreign ters... creasing and strengthening its co- news reels.. operation with the Regular Army. Its members, who might have to bear the first stab of an invasion,

Most visitors to Paris know the are being taught to hold and har-

Bar Carpentier, the cocktail bar the enemy, to hunt down tanks, and to use such weapons run by Georges Carpentier the as machine-guns, mortars, and boxer. This bar is now open, but the remarkably disturbing Molo- under the direction of a manager toff cocktail,

ass

are

In effect, the cocktails" similar to those used in the Russo-Finnish war and also in the Spanish civil war. They are cal- culated, when well aimed, to re- duce a tank to o flaming, ruin in a few seconds,

The military instructors are coaching selected numbers of the Guard in many forms of modern warfare. The men: also Icarn map-reading and the elements of scouting

Boxer Absent

Laval," "vice president of the Petain Government, chas, just passed four daya in Paris, dur: ing which he had general con- ferences with German authorl- ties there, and had a discus- alon with Abetz, [

It is reported that the emolu- ments for Secretaries General ap- as Georges himself has not yet re-pointed through Vichy by the law turned, but is still at Vichy, en- of July 15 amount to no less than

match to..the finish 150,000 francs a year. gaged in a with Jean Borotra, the French

Car: Ban tennis ace, 2

The object of the match, so far The Journal Official' publishes a a Carpentier is concerned, is decree that civil and military cars to gain funds to continue his can only be used on obtaining a maintenance of a number of special authorisation. This per,. his old aparring partners who mit is only granted for uses judg are now without "means of fed to be indispensable, for cop- support.

tinuing important public sor- It is learned in Paris that the vices, and particularly the distri- air, route between Marseilles and | bution of food and provisions.