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SINCE the issue of the circular to local authorities in Great Britain by the Air Raids Precautions Department in July 1935 urging them to co-operate in schemes of passive defence, public attention has been continuously engaged with this subject, but despite the growing activities of the Department it cannot be said that public opinion is at all happy upon the question. It is increasingly aware of the concern with which informed scientific and technical opinions regards the proposed measures, and the decision of the Government to transfer the shell-filling and other explosives supply departments of Woolwich Arsenal to four centres in the west and north of the country, which are regarded as less vulnerable to air attack, tends to increase rather than to dispel alarm.
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The Civil Population and Air Attack. Nature 139, 387–389 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139387a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139387a0