For your own safety you should make preparations now, and learn the things you should do immediately you are warned of an impending air raid. Air raid precautions: keep your head down when in an open trench. Upturned faces draw enemy fire. If there is room, lie right down on the floor. To avoid concussion, never lean against the walls of the trench. The open trench in your backyard may be 4 or 5 feet deep, 4 1/2 feet wide at the top, tapering to 3 1/2 feet wide at the bottom. A roof of corrugated iron covered with earth and built to specifications you can obtain from your air-raid warden converts the open trench into a shelter giving greater protection.

Air Raid Precaution officials in conjunction with the Metropolitan Fire Brigade issued a series of air raid precaution instructions with accompanying photographs so that all Australians would be prepared for Japanese air attacks. These are the images and instructions which were forwarded to daily and weekly newspapers for publication.

Cover all food. Plates will protect the contents of basins against flying splinters of glass. Food in airtight tins or jars is protected against gas.

Air Raid Precaution officials in conjunction with the Metropolitan Fire Brigade issued a series of air raid precaution instructions with accompanying photographs so that all Australians would be prepared for Japanese air attacks. These are the images and instructions which were forwarded to daily and weekly newspapers for publication.

Fill your bath with water when there is possibility of a raid. Have as much water available as possible, in sinks, basins, and other receptacles. A bomb may cut off water supplies, and a good supply of water for your stirrup pump may put out an incendiary bomb that might otherwise destroy your home. Also, you might be short of drinking water after an air raid. Therefore keep some water covered to prevent contamination.

Air Raid Precaution officials in conjunction with the Metropolitan Fire Brigade issued a series of air raid precaution instructions with accompanying photographs so that all Australians would be prepared for Japanese air attacks. These are the images and instructions which were forwarded to daily and weekly newspapers for publication.

Turn off the gas meter and electricity at meter switch before going to your shelter.

Air Raid Precaution officials in conjunction with the Metropolitan Fire Brigade issued a series of air raid precaution instructions with accompanying photographs so that all Australians would be prepared for Japanese air attacks. These are the images and instructions which were forwarded to daily and weekly newspapers for publication.

Keep in readiness by your bedside a torch, a candle with matches, some money, a warm sweater, and a pair of slacks. In the case have a roll of bandages, cotton wool, drinking water, sticking plaster, a bottle of iodine, some cakes of plain chocolate, a pair of low-heeled shoes and a change of clothes. If your home is destroyed, the articles you have taken to your shelter may be all you possess, unless you have a complete change of clothes at a friendís house. Slacks are sensible for women in shelters. You may need money for food and for fares to another locality.

Air Raid Precaution officials in conjunction with the Metropolitan Fire Brigade issued a series of air raid precaution instructions with accompanying photographs so that all Australians would be prepared for Japanese air attacks. These are the images and instructions which were forwarded to daily and weekly newspapers for publication.