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Show i : " Great Britain Plays Safe i -1 . . i ' 7 '1 ' L V ft t Picture I a - I Parade ' yfef 1 7 .',r-'l This year, Britain is spending spend-ing $1,715,000,000 on rearmament, rearma-ment, building anti-aircraft guns (above) and fixing out defense troops with oilskin suits ( right ) as protection against disastrous mustard gas. Though the nation is outwardly calm, A.R.P. has perfected an amazing organization of 600,-000 600,-000 community ''wardens" who will have charge of A.R.P. fire brigades, first aid units, evacuation evacua-tion and contamination squads. Moneyed classes are building underground bomb-proof shelters shel-ters where they will retire to live in comparative comfort during raids. But poorer classes cannot afford this luxury, indeed in-deed cannot even afford gas masks. Though England has not been invaded for 1,000 years, modern airplanes bring danger of bombing and gas raids. So A.R.P. ( Air Raid Precautions) has been organized to teach civilians how to wear masks and defend themselves against bombs. Most masks sell for 75 cents and the government has an extra 40 million on hand. f y i x ' I r fzJ it V - r v t x ill i , j n i IK" c i t A )i . ' " ' i England hopes her coastal defense measures will drive away planes to forestall a repetition of World U ar raids which killed 1,414 people. One phase of this defense is the artillery, another the fantastic fan-tastic irire mesh supported by balloons, which would surround sur-round London and possibly scare off planes. A third phase is fast transportation of troops by planes, enabling England to move man power to any part of the coast in the event of invasion. Britain realizes the English channel is not so wide, that an enemy can knock at her front door within a few minutes after leaving the continent. 1 Post haste, British pilots see how fast tly can take of. |