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Hawaii Knows Japs Now — So Islands Prepare for Deadly Gas AttackPreparing: for any form of attack the Japanese may deliver on a return visit to Hawaii, civilians are getting accustomed to wearing gas masks. Picturedabove is the city, room of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, with windows completely blacked out and staff members working in gas masks.BY BETTY MACDONALD (NEA Staff Correspondent) HONOLULU.—Hawaiians expect a return visit from the Japanese, and when it comes, they look lor an all-out smash, with no holds barred. So civilian defense authorities are busy providing gas masks for the entire population.Available now to the 465,330 civilians in the territory is a greyrubber gas mask and pack. And \ not backward in claiming this projection are the 157,000 Japanese in [ i the islands who don’t trust their i | little yellow cousins in Tokyo further than they can thrust a bayonet.Hawaii’s children will also beprotected with 23,000 respirators for babies. For older tots, 70,000 small masks are now on iheir way to the beleaguered island.In a recent gas mask demonstration before nurses and doctors at the Queen’s hospital in Honolulu, Col. G. F. Unmaeht, Hawaiian de-
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Indiana Evening Gazette
Indiana, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Feb 16, 1942
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