Air-Raid Shelters For Schools Planned Tokyo, Nov. 17.
The municipal authorities have decided to spend about Y.2,000,000 on strengthening Tokyo's - air-defence system.
More than half the amount involved will go towards the construction of air-raid shelters.
These will be installed in 155 of Tokyo's elementary schools, and will be designed primarily as refuges for children and the aged in time of emergency.
The plan also calls for the construction of 70 water tanks in different Parts of the city; the installation of.|2015 small-type hydrants; the setting up of 22 large-type alarm signals, and the building of a fire-proof warehouse for storing gas-masks, fire-extinguishers and other anti-air-raid apparatus, The Government will bear part of the total cost of the project—Reuter.
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