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CONTINUANCE of nightly air

raids, problems of life in the coming winter are exer- cising the minds of the British Government, business men, and all British families. The three main pro- blems are sleep, transport, and health.

There is no hope for immunity from night bombers through the winter, but the Air Ministry is confident that new methods of defence will diminish the comparative immunity of night raiders.. Fogs, clouds, snow, and ice will not prevent indiscriminate attacks, although accurate bombing of military ob- jectives in Britain will be difficult, but not impos- sible, in the coming months.

essity for isolating all influenza sufferers from their fellow em- ployees, and some officers are al- ready holding medical_inspections daily, All suspected cases of "'fu" or colds are sent home im-

Nevertheless, Britons, especially, cuces from crowded danger areas. Londoners, cannot expect to sleep Medical experts insist on the nec- in their own comfortable beds these cold winter nights. The au- thorities are pushing on with the provision of adequate shelters, in which hunks are being installed, and the conversion of the tubes and unfinished sections of the un-mediately. derground railways into deep shelters in which millions of Lon- doners will sleep.

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This procedure is officially approved, and is giving rise to the slogan, "Stay in bed victory."

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Fortunately, arrangements food and fuel are considered ade- quate, and a shortage is unlikely to aggravate the risk of wide-

MANY OF OUR AIRMEN WOULD JIB

General Sir lan Hamilton, in a letter to "The Times," sug- gests that the con- troversy whether the R.A.F. should take re- -prisals for the bomb- ing of civilians in London should be ended..

"As president of the British Legion in Scot- land and patron of the British Legion in the metropolitan area, am brought into con- tact with the young generation about to join the Services," he says, "and I am sure that there are many of our

airmen who would jib at, an order to bomb women and children."

spread sickness. Dumps of food, coal. and coke have been esta- blished all over

the country in '000000000 order to spread the risk of dam-

Because of stern military exi- gencies, it is unlikely that the black-out" will be alleviated to the slightest extent. This makes travelling home in the darkness during air raids a serious problem, and large firms are being asked to provide sleeping accommodation age by bomb. for employees in office and factory shelters, thereby relieving the strain on transport facilities and making life easier for the m- ployees.

Looting Reported

Scotland Yard has formed a special squad to deal with looting, which is tending to become a ser-

GIRL'S HEROISM

ious feature following aid raids, IN RAID

This is already being done to a considerable extent in Lon- don, especially where employees especially in the East End, where finish work after 7.30 p.m. Some looters have taken the paltriest AMONG THE RECIPIENTS of the large organisations are articles from wrecked homes, An

OF THE GEORGE MEDAL, THE making arrangements for com- old-age pensioner reported to the NEW AWARD FOR munal feeding of the staffs who police the theft of a wireless set TRY, IS MISS SONIA STRAW, GALLAN-

sleep in offices or factories.

and overcoat. While she was A 19-YEAR-OLD AIR RAID The Government plans the pro-reporting the loss, the looters re- WARDEN OF CATERHAM · vision of hostels where

turned and stole a loaf of bread, (SURREY). "grass widowers" whose wives and a few ounces of butter, and a few The citation of her award states: families have been evacuated, can pence left in the dresser.

"During an air raid Miss Straw live during the winter, eating, Although the defence regula- volunteered to give assistance to sleeping, and finding their recreations provide. the death penalty or the wounded.

raid While the life imprisonment, magistrates was in progress she attended a opening of such hostels will speed view of these offences, but have and children and treated several up the evacuation of women and children from the poorer areas been content to give stern warn-persons suffering from shock. She where wives are at present un- ings, and the maximum impri- carried on entirely by herself for three months. It was expected able time until help came. Her that their attitude will soon action was most praiseworthy change.

throughout and she showed great courage and resource."

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The Government is asking em- picyers where possible to rear- range office hours for the purpose of allowing employees to travel home before the "black-out." Some Government departments are already doing this. Many offices and shops last winter open- ed an hour earlier and closed 60 or 90 minutes earlier. Such a scheme is likely to be widely adopted, and the Government hopes that office hours will be generally advanced as much as two hours, greatly assisting in the transport of home-going workers.

Some Government offices have already adopted a scheme where- by the weekly quota of hours is worked in three or four days, thus permitting Civil servants to take several days off each week, which are spent outside the metropolitan area, enabling them to get less dis- turbed sleep.

Fear Of Sickness

It is noteworthy that several great newspaper staffs have agreed to work three days continuously, sleeping in the offices, the ed!- torial men being constantly at call. American news agency men are having spells in rotation in Elre, where the "black-out" does not exist. "You will go to Eire to cover the invasion story" is the instruction, but actually it means a care-free holiday, far from Lon- don's noisy fighting front.**

There are grave fears lest the improvised communal life lead to widespread illness possible epidemics, especially in view of the danger of Interruption to the sanitary services. The au- thorities are taking precautions, and are providing more adequate conveniences in public shelters, and, are endeavouring to improve. the ventilation, especially of the underground railways, where there is already a mild epidemic of "tube throat."

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Large supplies of anti-typhold and other serums have been stored in Britain, and 20 special labora- torles have been established in evacuation areas to deal with possible Infections carried by eva-

forment so far imposed has been without assistance for a consider-

A member of the A.R.P. squad who was sent to gaol for steal- ing cigarettes from a tobacco- nist's shattered window, "Iam sorry, but everybody's doing it."

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A report from Poland states that Poles are forbidden to listen to Wardens in some districts re- the music of Chopin. It is also wrecked premises for fear of be- use only third class waiting-rooms fuse to salvage valuables from stated that Poles are allowed to ing accused of looting,

and carriages. on the railways.

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