The Archive · 1940

400000 Volunteers

London, June 5, Over 400,000 Home Defence volun. teers have been enrolled in England, the Under-Secretary for the Wat Office, Baron Page-Croft, disclosed the debate in the House of on home defence yesterday.

have in large numbers, y for preventing a military on." he declared. od Strabolgi said factories in the islands have been made into fortes "with machine guns and bul-proof shields for their Windows."

I would be sorry for anyone com. ug near one of these places," he declared. He urged the compulsory vital centres in the United Press,

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