To Cost £25,000,000
Comprehensive Measures Presented QLAMES shot high into the sky, illuminating the waterfront brilliantly last night when one of the biggest downtown fires in months broke out in the N.Y.K. godown; s on Whangpoo Road.
Sparks were carried in a high are over the river, falling into the water as far from the fire s the British Naval Buoys.
The fact that the burning building w: practically adjacent to the Japanese Consulsis-Genersl lent arara r ihe spectenular cone; which London, Mar. 24.
The Governments proposals for dealing with civil defence are contained in one of the most comprehensive bills presented to Parliament in recent time:
The Bill contains 75 clauses and two schedules. Its object is to increase Great Britain's preparedness against air attacks, particularly regard to provisions for shelf extends to industrial and commercial establishments the statutory duty of organizing air raid precautions and for providing shelter for work-people. Local authorities are given power for the purpose of acquiring land, under which shelters and underground car parks, which can be used as shelters, can be constructed The total cost to the Exchequer of the proposals in the Bill which broadly follow the lines indicated by Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal and Minister of Civilian Defence, in the House of Commons en March 16, is estimated to be over £25,000,000.—
Reuter.
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