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Show At RAID SHELTERS BEING CONSTRUCTED LONDON, Feb. 2S. (Mail) Airraid Air-raid shelters for 20,000 persons are being constructed by the residents of Edmonton, one of the outlying London boroughs. The borough contains mainly main-ly working class dwellings of the cottage cot-tage type, and It was found that there were only one or two buildings of sufficiently suf-ficiently solid construction to bo classed class-ed as proper air-raid shelters. So the residents appointed a local civil -engineer to take charge of the work, and began to dig shelters of the cyclone-collar cyclone-collar type in all parts of the borough. bor-ough. The government gave them 20,000 sandbags and they expect shortly to bo able to shelter 20,000 persons. In most cases, the excavations were made in vacant lots or back gardens, bolstered bolster-ed by wooden beams and railroad ties, which were then covered with earth And sod and finally roofed over with sandbags. Each shelter will accomodate accomo-date at least five" families. Other shelters shel-ters arc in protected railway culverts and embankments. Each will be provided pro-vided with lighting, seats and a small stove so that tea can be served comfortably com-fortably to those waiting for the "All Clear" signal. |