1938: Government issues gas mask instructions
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This extract from a news bulletin, read by Frank Phillips, illustrates concern about incorrect use of gas masks. To reiterate the government's message, further warnings are given to the public not to test their masks in gas ovens or by car exhaust pipes. Citizens were also told how to gas-proof a room in their home and ordered to black out their windows.
The issuing of gas masks was one of various precautionary defence measures rolled out in response to Germany's likely invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Originally broadcast 1 October 1938