Regarding incendiary bombs, the Home Secretary continued, the Home Omee had already approved 100 emergency fire-brigade schemes and 5,000 trailer pumps and other appli-nees had been ordered, It was expected that deliveries would be com pleted by the end of the year.
Sir Samuel Hoare foreshadowed a country-wide house to house canvass that every householder might be given simple directions.
He. mentioned that a grant of several million sterling had been made to public utility companies for alrerald precautions, Tt had tentatively been suggested that the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge might place their colleges ft the Government's disposal for has pital in an emergency, He had asked hospital experts to consider this and similar proposals.
He pointed out that the Home mee had advanced very far with arrangements for an invulnerable Batlle headquarters and had also arranged to ce-ordinate vfarlous branches of civil defence in the War Cabinet.
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