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Show Air Raid System of Great Britain Shown In Gaiety Picture "When Air Raids Strike," the latest March of Time film now being shown at the Gaiety theatre here, is the story of one of the greatest feats of organization and public education in modern times the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) system of Great Britain. The film shows how U. S. citizens, citi-zens, adjusting themselves to the imminence of danger from air attack, are learning that total war demands of civilians the same discipline and alertness as that required of the military forces. ! And from Britain's hard and bit-' bit-' ter experience in educating her 1 people to defend themselves dur-1 dur-1 ing air attack, the March of 1 Time shows, America is also learning learn-ing many valuable lessons. "When Air Raids Strike" shows, first of all, the standard protective protec-tive military devices in action during dur-ing an air attack super-sensitive plane detectors; barrage balloons bal-loons which force enemy bombers to fly high; squadrons of fighter planes; and rings of anti-aircraft batteries around important cities and industrial areas. Back of these defenses, the film shows, must be a trained and disciplined civilian army centering around Air Raid Wardens, who are responsible respons-ible for the protection of human life, and Auxiliary Fire Fighters charged with the task of minimizing minimiz-ing property damage. In one particularly important sequence, the March of Time shows exactly how to extinguish an incendiary bomb one of the worst menaces of all, yet one of the easiest to fight if proper coun-termeasures coun-termeasures are employed. In a war whose most decisive victories and defeats have been largely determined by air power, the film points out, the ability to meet and master attack from the air is vitally important. U. S. coastal cities and industrial areas are likely to be attacked repeatedly repeat-edly by hit-and-run enemy planes, not for purposes of wholesale destruction but to create hysteria and panic among the U. S. people. Realizing the tremendous importance im-portance of everyone learning what the American public will have to face, if and when, this country is subjected to bombing, Andrew Pace, county defense chairman of civilian defense, Lee Owens, county chairman of protection, pro-tection, urge that the citizens of this county use every method to acquaint themselves with what has to done under this program. They point the experiences of other countries who have been through this ordeal helps this nation na-tion to learn quickly the things that must be done.V, |