Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, Chamberlain told Parliament...
...London Chamberlain reported to the House of Commons on his ultimatum: "No reply has been received. If the German Government should agree . . . His Majesty's Government would be willing to regard the position as being the same as it was before the German forces crossed the frontier...
...protect its staff, London's Bank of England last winter built an underground air raid shelter. Last fortnight, bank members in charge of Air Raid Precautions sent an elaborate health questionnaire to all employes to find out if they could withstand prolonged imprisonment in the narrow, crowded shelter. Among the questions: "Do you suffer from claustrophobia...
Patients' Progress. All last week, ambulances and lumbering green busses carried convalescents and minor cases out of large London hospitals, drove them home, or off to private houses in the countryside. At least 300,000 hospital beds stand empty, all over Britain, ready to receive victims of the first air raid...
...London has been divided into ten medical zones, each containing 20 first-aid stations and one large central hospital. As soon as a citizen is felled by steel scraps or toppling masonry, he will be carried to the nearest first-aid station, or picked up by one of the numerous trucks ("mobile units"), which, manned by doctors, will cruise around stricken areas. Smaller first-aid stations are set up in public laundries, baths, and in most public buildings. Almost all stations are equipped with shower baths to "decontaminate" victims of poison...