New York, June 3.
New York's "Board of Disaster Control" has precautionarily drafted comprehensive plan to shelter this city's 7,000,000 inhabitants in the event of any disaster including aerial bombing or invasion, it was understood here today.
The defence plan, it was understood, includes the utilization of 87,000 city employees to guard water mains, power lines and bridges. They are being equipped with maps showing the area for which they will be Tesponsible, it was reported.
lan from New York City to New Jersey and Connecticut.
Authorities here declined to discuss details of the plan and stressed that the Board began its studies of defence problems in New York two years ago as a routine precaution before the Outbreak of any war involving America.—United Press.
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