Air-raid Drill for Civilians Last - Tuesday Paris followed the example
of Berlin in putting the civilian population through practice defence measures against an imaginary air raid ; and- in this country also the Home Office is preparing plans for the instruction of civilians, and perhaps also for dress rehearsals of air-raid procedure. Since war, and with war air-attack, cannot be regarded as inconceivable, the civilian population cannot be left in ignorance of the precautions which it might be called upon to take against poison-gas and visibility from the air. Such gruesome anticipations of war may seem alarmist., but they are not more so than the preparation of engines of destruction now going on everywhere. If they serve to bring home to the minds of the masses in all countries some inkling of the realities of war they may even serve a salutary purpose.
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