Disbanding of National Emergency Committees, 1918
(NRS reference: HH31/20/5)

Transcript: 
20 December 1918

Sir
I am directed by the Secretary for Scotland to say he is informed by the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Great Britain, that the need for Emergency Schemes is now at an end.

Though happily there has been no occasion for putting these Schemes into operation, the work of organizing the civilian measures to be taken in the event of an attempt to land by the enemy was an essential part of the arrangements for Home Defence, and it has been a point of importance to the Military Authorities that they were able to rely upon the co-operation of the Emergency Committees if such an attempt had been made. Mr Munro desires me to convey to you his thanks and the thanks of the Government for the public-spirited services rendered by yourself, by the Central Organizing Committee for your County, the Local Emergency Committees and the Police and Special Constables, in the organization of the Scheme and the working out of the details, and he will be glad if you will communicate this expression of thanks to all concerned. 

I am, Sir
   Your obedient Servant,
	JAMES M DODDS