The Archive · 1938

Five Minutes Warning

If the movement of raiders supported the belief that a particular district or districts would be attacked, an action warning message would be distributed to all on the warning list. This would include air raid precaution services, local government offices. operators of warning signals, headquarters and divisional police stations, fire brigade headquarters and certain public utility and industrial undertakings, The delivery of an action warning will be timed to give not less than five minutes notice of the approach of raiders, After the raiders had left a district the action warning message would be cancelled by a "raiders passed" message. The four messages involved would be communicated on telephone by a code of colours.—Wireless through Reuter. aged. to express their views on foreign policies of the United States Mr. Hull indicated, in order that the State Department will have a definite gauge on the policy Americans desire.

State Department officials said the United States today faced questions Oi foreign policy more grave than any in many generations. They said an attempt consequently was being made to consolidate public opinion in support of the Administration's foreign policies in order to give weight to the American position in world problems.

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