The Archive · 1938

Stockholm Adopts Air Raid Precautions

Stockholm is adopting air raid precautions of an entirely different character. Considering that rubbish, packing cases, boxes and other inflammable material filing cellars and attics are a fire, danger in case of raids, the city*is being searched and huge piles of rubbish taken outside and burnt at the expense of the Swedish insurance companies. Here is one of the piles ablaze. understood here that the f not the whole, of the British credits for China will be used for the purchase of motor lorries, intended mainly for use on the Burma-Yunnan highway, states Reuters Diplomatic Correspondent. An order for these lorries, he declares, has already been placed.

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