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iZDEN: NEUTRALS 'I'URNIHG TO ALLIES? 
The number of small neutrals who are beginning to realise that their safety lies v.rith the Allies is increasing according to BY TID, the Social Democratic newspaper, published at Gothenburg. 
This journal i.·.Tote: "Commonsense suggests that the German flying over Sweden depends on other circumstances than the desire to spy. The Gennans have not secure landing places in Nol"l~ay and Denmark. It is clear that Gennan machines flew over Sweden from bases in North Germany and repeated forced landings in Swea.en seem to comfinn this. 
"The landings in Sweden gi-ve no cause to think that Germany has designs on our country. If we do not strongly resist Germany's breaking our neutrality it can at any moment be disregarded by ·the other side. rre must use weapons to defend it else our independence is lost. The number of democratic countries turning their eyes to·vards the Allies as their saviour is becoming greater." 
SOCIJJ:.. DEHOJ.illATEN, in a reference to the German assertion that Danish "prudence" had spa.red the country the horrors of '7ar, wondered whether anyone in Denmark shared the vie'.7 that it ·,ras better ·to lose liberty than suffer war and concluded that the answer Ytas in the negative. It was added: "The Danes are already under a protectorate like Bohemia and Moravia and are not even spared the horrors of war since the British are bombing Aalborg. This bombardment is an inevitable consequence of the threat of German bases to Britain. 
"Had Norway surrendered, the country ·would still have become an Allied­German battlefield and if uar must reign in the Norwegian valleys and hills it is a thousand times better that the Norwegians themselves should take part in the struggle as the defenders of freedom which a German victory would in any case terminate." 
Referring to the statements of a German newspaper blaming Norway for being blind to Poland's and Finland's fate SOCIAL DEMOKRATEN continued: "The Norrtegians could not be blind to the fact that 'che possibilities ·or Allied help were very different in this case. Events in recent days comfirm.-this. The possibility of successfully meeting the invader increases day by day." 
Expressing the belief that Italy is hardly likely to enter a major war the GOTEBORGSPOSTEH stated yesterday: "It is a special 5.urprise that the whole King George class of battleshi?s is already ploughing the seas. Mussolini will willingly cross the Allies' plans but vvill l".lardly attac!~ unless perhaps to a quitc limitea. extent for the ad-vancerne.nt of special Italian aims. Does that position exist? \ie shall soon knc)IW. 11 
The GO'fEBORGS MORGONPOST declared: "Shortly before the ~rman landing in Norway prominent Oslo people were imrited to the German L~gation to see a German frightfulness film showing terrifying bombing scenes-.. It is said that this film softened Oslo's authoritif:s1;·1ho accepted the• Germ.an occupation from the fear of air attack." 

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U.S. A. : .AMERIC.PJ'l" POLICY TOWARDS THE VI.AR, 
The attitude of the U.S,A. towards the war, the position ef Sweden, and Sir John Simon•s budget are among the .matters discus.sed in today's New York Press. 
In a.n editorial article the N::::\_;_ YORK TILIBS discusses the silence ~f the Re.publican Party on question of foreign policy and adds: "All potential Presiclential candidates are epposed without exception to the entry of the United ~:.ltates into the war. The issue is not whether this country shall go to war -the issue is what policies .America will pursue with respect to Europe while A.m.arica itself remains at peaoe,and specifically whether the foreign policies thus far pursued by the Roosevelt Administration shall be continued," 
In the NE··,! YORK It..;RALD-TRIBUNE, Mark Sullivan, describes how discussio.ns on the impact of the war on United States policies are dominating Washington, particularly as regards the questi<Yt whether America may be involved, 
The vvell-knaim oolumnist, Walter Lippmann~ discusses how the .American peaple are receiving no guidance from their polit.:i.cians on th.e implications of the war for .American seeurity, 
An Agency dispatch to the I'f.B.'1.'f YORK nERALJ)..TRIBUNE reports Mr. Thomas. W. Lamont, the Ne1v York f'i.nancier as saying in an interview: "The only uay in which the war can end with a.ny hope of permanently peaceful conditions is for those to attain victory who are fighting t~ the rights of Democratic countries. The more we ca.n help the Allies ta obtain here their absolute vital supplies ~f .American agricultural and industrial products, the more will the war be kept away from our ~wn borders and the sooner will the conflict end. Co-operation along economic and financial lines is for America not the road to war but t~ peaee." 
Writing on the position of Sweden, :the NEW YORK TIIBS states: "Sweden has every reason to be alarmed at the throbbing of the newspaper tom-toms in Berlin, even though the official tone of Germany is more conciliatory. 11 
In an editorial article the NEF YORK DAILY NEWS asks if Sweden is Germany's next victim and concludes that the Allies cannot defend all Germany's smaller neighbours but they can defend themselves indefinitely, 
The NEV! YORK HERALD-TRIBill~ referring to Britain's budget declares: "All this is not o. matter of taking the nation's extra money to pay the costs of the war. It is a matter of trucing the nation itself and putting it to work to produce and win the war. No-one can say what Britain will be like after the war but the British people will remain and it is certainly not too much to predict that they ·will conserve the personal liberty of individual initiative and free enterprise vmich are the essentials that we value in the Capita.list-Democratic system." 
Headlined "War Office loses optimism" a London dispatch to the NEW YORK TIMES states: "The optimistic tone evident in the War ()ffice 's laconic eomrnuniques of the last few days is missing today." 
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FRANG".b : BRITAIN'S AIR ~1i.iillT:bRY. 
In an article in the POPULJuRE written by M. Blurn, in which a tribute 
was paid to the R.A.F., ·the belief VJas expressed that the Gennan air force 
would never rob the British navy of the supremacy of the seas. 

The article stated: "The clash between German aviation and the Allied 
fleet has been to the disadvantage of the former. Transports have crossed 
the North Sea without loss. They have landed and are still landing without 
hindrance their cargoes of troops and,munitions. German avir..tion has not been 
able to d.eprice the allies of their mastery of the sea, nor to ·ainto.in: .. 
the communications between the German troops and the Mother countI"J. A 
two-fold error has been made in the German calculations. The Germans, vdth 
thei.r love of system; have misunderntood the tlru~ relationship between an 
air force at ':rar and a modern fleet at war. The German assumption could not 
admit that the Royal Air Force was something less contemptible ·than the little 
army of Marshal Foch was last titg.e• 

"This second mistake of jtidg;nent is perhaps the graver, for in reality from the first news of the German invasion English aviation was able most effioien:bl.Y tb paralyse German progress, It did not even wait for the landing of troops. It did not even wait for the Allied fleet to go into action against the Gennan fleet, It hurled itself on Norway without losing an hour, and barred the invaders' road, The first communiques already reveal this essential difference from the German campaign in Poland, and even from the Soviet campaign in Finland. There was no impression of terror,.no effect of disorgan­isation and destruction, and this was because the Royal Air Force was there taldng the initiative with a courc:cge and boldness which 6.lmost went as far as fsolhardiness, harassing the German formations, bombing transports and attacking bases ceasiessly in Denmark and Nor-nay. 
"This eeaseless offensive on the part of ~nglish aviation has won the 
mastery of the air, and it is behind this aerial cover that the Allied troops 
were able to land, that Norwegian troops have been able to organise, and that 
both have been able to undertake their first campaign together against an 
enemy which is kept in a state of division and isolation." 

EGYPT: WHY EGYPT SUPPORTS THE DEMOCRACIES. 
In an interview with AL :MOK.ATTA~ on why Egypt and the Arab countries 
support the Democracies Dr. Ali Ibrahim declared: "It is due to our nature and 
eur religion and our respect for human individuality which is the spirit of 
democracy and which is in accordance vvith the teachings of our religion. The 
Moslem religion equalises all Mosl ems, making no distinction between big and 
small except in faith and piety. 

"This democracy in which we believe is the cause of all our reform move­
ments.•••• From this natural instinct emanat es the allia,~ce between Egypt and 
the Arab countries with the Democracies, which have the same feeling. The 
progress that they have made is proof that democracy is the correct basis of 
goverrunent to which all refonns are due. ·' 

"If we made an alliance with the Democracies,we did so because we felt 
that we must retain the consciousness of our individuality, which is implanted 
in us by the Moslem faith. This is in addition to the common interests 
existing between the Allies and the A;mb countries." 


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GERM.ANY: MORE TRICKERY. 
An ingenious contribution to the German methods of compiling eJ:aggerated 
claims of British sea losses is given by a German News ~\gency message published 
by the \<1.DSTF.ABLISCHE LANU.:;SZEITul,TG under the headline "Churchill Admits Heavy 
Losses -Lord Hankey :Makes Further Admissions -Bad Staff ·~iork of the British 
Super Liar." 

The messace deliberately suggests that the British Admiralty's repudiation ef Nazi claims ~~th the statement that only five British ships and a submarine have been lost in N0 rwegian waters is a belated admission of the losses of 11 five more British warships." The message insinuates that as the names of the warships were not given "they are in all probability heavy units." After the pretence that the names of the four d.estroyers, the submarine and an armed trawler, were not published, the message proceeds to SUG-?:est that L0 rd. Hankey' s references to these units and others damaged by bombs, "is a really comprehensive admission of the effectiveness of German blows against the fleet >'.ihich rules the waves."' 
There was some more sabre ra-C,cling in a message published in the Il~U'l'SCHE 
ALJ:.G:21.~HNE ZEITUNG from its liilan correspondent under the headline "Italy cannot 
be induced to turn back -the day of decision is approaching." 

The message quoted Francesco Coppola, formerly delegate to the League of 
Nations, as writing in the GAZZETrADEL POPOLO that Italy -wants no "foreign rulers 
of the sea11 in the "Italian Lake". Signor Coppola included i n his complaints a 
brief reference to the Suez Canal, which the Italian messages published in the 
German Press have been less fond. of mentioning than Malta and Gibraltar. 

A report of a speech to representatives of the book trade at Leipzig by Alfred. Rosenberg published. in the FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG contained the passage ­"Lively applause followed Rosenberg's statement that whoever felt deeply that treason was the greatest crime against the nation already felt himself spiritually united with Germany. 11 This statement ·was ma.d.e at about the same moment as Dutch National Socialists in Germany, organised in defiance of their own Government 1 were issuing an ultimatum to their fellovr-countrymen in the Reich to join the party or get out." 
HOLLAND: SWEDEN'S 11 UNFORTUNATE POSITION". 
What is d.escribed as Sweden's "unfortunate position11 is discussed with interest in the Dutch Press. 
HET VAD.;;;RLAND, the Liberal newspaper, writes: "The fate of certain onlookers will depend. on the outcome of the N0 rvvegian struggle and the conclusions drawn from it as to the value of the weapons used. Sw·eden is in the unfortunate position that both belligerents watch each other with Argus eyes in view of an excuse for preventive action. Sweden however vr.i.11 certainly offer resistance against the first to infringe her neutrality. 11 
The Cl).lestion of whether air pmver can ever master naval power is discussed in BET R~.ND~LSBLA.D, which states: "The theory that the German air a.rm can cripple the greatest fleet is now being put to the test, and it may be stated t )l.at so far the British fleet has maintained. its superiority and that the German air arm, though able to hamper, has not been able to prevent the landing of Allied troops in Norway." 
Referring to the Royal Ai r Force this paper adds: "This force shows a growing initiative. Will it reduce to impotence the German air bases in N0 rway and Denmark?" 

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ITALY: PRESS ~rn.=rsSIONS 01; NOR.il:GD.N STRUGGLE. 
Though the Italian newspapers continue to devote their headlines to German Hsuccesses11 , readers are given an inkling that the Nazis are by no means having things all their ovm way by the admissions of several writers that the Norwegian struggle will be long and hazardous. 
The POPOLO DI ROMA stated: 1iThe Norwegian struggle is at a trial stage. The great battle is coming nearer. 11 
After alleging that Britain had suff ered. the first defeat of the Yra.r at the hands of Germany's "superior organisationn 'i:ELEGRAFO~ Count Ciano's nevrapaper, ad.ded: "But perhaps she too Ydll know how to organise and resist, and so be saved. But in doing so, she will have aband.oned that great system uhich gave her prestige and power~ namely individualism~ liberalism and utilitarianism, in f-avour of 'totalitarian warfare'"· 
ii"riting on the Mediterranean situation the G.\ZETTA DEL POPOLO declared: "The Allies have been hostile tovm.rd.s Italy ever since they could not continue to consid.er her their docile pawn. Franco-British possessions and. forces in the llediterranean,which they had alrra:ys declared were solely intended to keep the ''lay free towards their respective colonies, were suddenly in 1935 mobilised. for an entirely other course -to strangle Italy. Yle honestly ask a;ny Frenchman or Briton honestly disposed to reason if a great free nation can support this state of things?'~ 
Using an emphatically pro-C-erman tone the llliSTO DEL CARLINO stated: "One must be most ingenuous to believe that if France and England won, they vrould send their 3entlemen garbed. as arnbassadors to offer territorial compensation. 
The old world is about to crash. Eus·c ·we lool<: on rather than help Germany? ·.!e will fight for our fortunes and all the better if they coincide •vith those ot the German people~ vvho are young, ardent, proletarian like ours and equally contemptuous of democratic h;ypocrisies. 11 
Equally strong laneuage was used. by the :i';:ATTINO ~ which ste.ted. yesterday: "Allied blandishments are tvrenty years late. We prefer an open adversary to a false friend. masquerading as a protector. A.11 that we have conquered in partial satisfaction of our rights has been done in face of British and. French aversio~ Precise statements, clear indications, urunistakable facts and a firm unchangeable 'vill are the guides of our policy. It~ly works and arms, looking far ahead." 
BUIJJlillIA: TRE THREAT TO SWEDEN. 
The aa:nger to Sweden 11vas emphasised. by MIR, which wrote: 11 Signs, already well-knovm, are apparent that contrary to international law the strategic requirements of one belligerent respecting the development of the situation ill Norway rna;y compel the infringer.1ent of Sweden1 s territorial sovereignty." 
The tendency of the Bulgarian newspapers to print anti-Allied reports was maintained yesterday by ZORA~ which carried a considerable amount of I·calian news, much of it culled from the POPOID D' ITALIA. 

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No. 
J1\PAN: J_;,p_£JL~0E VI~~:J 01" RUtiSI.AIJ Jili!D ITALIAN A'f.~ITUDE i'O VI.AR. 
The conclusion that Russia and Italy are doing their utmost to avoid 
entry into the war is reached by a leading article in the YOMIURI SHIMBUN 
which examines the British blockade in relation to the Balkans. 

"Owing to the cutting off of imports from Overseas by the powerful 
British navy Germany is obliged to rely more and mor~ on Scandinavia and the 
Balkans," declares this newspaper. "Even supposing that Gennany is 
successful in Scandinavia this will not fulfil her requirements. She needs 
the Balkans too." 

The article refers to the new British Trading Company for the Balkans and says that this alone is not sufficient and the Allies may take severer methods, such as interfering with transport routes, It adds "The Allied efforts in the B~lkans -the appeaseillent of the Soviet and the separation of the Balkan countries from Germany -are a prelude to the blockade of Germany in the Balkans. With the recent conclusion of a trade agreement ~t'.whieh Roumania undertook to export to Germany up to 130,000 tons of oil a month, Gerrnan-Roumanian relations have given a superficial impression of improvement but from previous experience it is doubtful whether Roumania will be able to carry out this undertaking fully. It i s reported that Britain and France, while allowing Roumania to conclude such an agreement, are secretly planhingto bring about the restriction of Roumania1s exports to Germany. So Roumania1s position is still dangerous. The Soviets are out to avoid involvement. Unless challenged by Britain and France the Soviets cannot be expected to enter the war on the side of Germany. 
"Italy knovvs that to join the vmr and help Germany at present would 
result merely in an advantage to the Soviets and although Italy may maintain 
a sympathetic attitude towards Germany, encouraged by geogrti.phical relations 
and other circumstances, she will do her utmost to avoid irnrolvement." 

SWITZEHL.AND: GERM.AN DIFFICULTIES IN NORWAY. 
German difficulties in No:r-'2.y are stressed in today's Swi.ss Press which 
states that the position of the Nazi forces there is becoming i.ncreasingly 
critical. 

The Berlin correspondent of the usually well-informed NEUE .ZUERCHER 
ZEITUNG, the Radical Democratic news:::iaper, writes; "The concentl!:ation 
of a large section of the. German air forces in Norway under a lea.ding Gener...ul 
foreshadows still greater activities in air warfare. Germany is determined 
to force a decision. Gcrrrinny fears nothing more than a stabilisatj.on of 
the Northern Front andthe cren.tion cZ n. perma'lent secondary area in v;rhj.ch Gennan 
forces will be squandered and the usefulness of new harbour bases wil1-be 
diminished," 

After declaring that Norway's only hope of liberation lies in an Alli~d 
victory the TRIBUNE DE GEl'Jb"'VE aclds: "The Gennans are making desperate efforts 
to win mastery in the air profiting by the fact that the main Allied forces 
are still ~ssed on the coast, but the German situation is becoming 
increasingly critical. The Gert.1an Press is now attacking Sweden and there is 
every indication that the Reich is pre:~)f)_ring a sudden aggression on the 
last Scandinavian neutral. 11 

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JOINT ADMIRALTY AND AIR MINISTRY c;ommNIQUE l 
Numerous enemy aircraft attempted an attack on Scapa Flow late l as t night. Two bombs were seen to drop which fell on heather l and, and one enemy aircraft made an abortive machine-gun attack on an open road. No damage or casualties rcsulted. The enemy were driven off by heavy anti-aircraft gunfire and by fighter aircraft of the Royal Air Force. 
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ATTACK ON \lllESTERLAND. 
Further details of the raid.. on \iVesterland during Tuesday night were made available this 'morning by two of the pilots who took part in i t.o One of them said: "We were attacking singly.. I was flying round over Sylt for 40 minutes before I att acked the aerodrome, which was not easy to find, for though there ·was a moon it was hidden by the clo.uds4' Several times we got caught by a group of about 5 or 6 searchlights. The gwifire was not so accurate; though there was a ~ood deal of it. They gave us porn-porns with tracers, the usual flaming onions' and the ordinary heavy stuff, but rune of them came anyvvhere near us.. 
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vi/hile the searchlights v
ere concentrating on this single aircraft, another of our bombers came over the target. The pilot of this aircraft said: ;'We believe that some at least of our bombs dropped pretty well at the point where the runways intersect. Up to this time we had not drawn very much fire, but they gave it to us more heavily after we had made our attack. Later, on the way back and when we thought we had got out of the danger zone, one of the F~L.A.K. ships let go a couple at us11 
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FRENCH OFFIQJ~\L COMMD_NIDJJE (MORNING)• 
Tho follovfing official communique was issued from French G. H. r;,. this ( Thursdo.y) 
morning : 
NOTHING ;ro PcEPORT. 
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25/4/40 .-No.!±. CONCBRTS FOR FACTORY WORKERS. 
Thousands of factory workers are now benefiting f roi:1 lunch-time and midnight concerts arranged for employees t o counteract the strain of war-time production. Since February last 19 concerts have been given to audiences varying in nviaoer from 150 at a small cement factory to nearly 6,ooo at a lar ge motor wor ks. 
Ten concerts have been arranged for the ne:ct few weeks and hundreds more have been asked for. Without exception a second concert has been requested at every place already visited. Well-Knovm artists are engaged anc1 the highest possible stanc"'..ards are maintained. The concerts are not "highbrow", anc1 classical works included are both tuneful and popular. 
These concerts are part of a scheme introduced to maintain cultural ·activities in war-time and for which the Pilgrim Trust has made a grant of £25,000. It was originally intended to provide the concerts in a limited area not more than 50 miles from London 9 but with Government aid it has been possible t o extend them to other parts of England and Scotland. 
The following towns will be covered during the ne:;rt few weeks: -
Stewartby9 Bedford -on April 24; 
Slough9 -on April 26:
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Greenford -on April 24, May 9 , May 2 2 ; 
Enfield -on April 30; 
Bourneville -on April 30; 
Redditch -on May l; 
Brentford -on May 2; 
and Barkingside -May 25. 
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Postal Services td Nort.P,e.rn Eµfope . 
The Postmaster General announces the restoration of the letter mail services (including Air Mails) and the Money Order services to Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, but the correspondence is subject to deiay. 
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TilVIBI.-<:R CONTROL;_. 
The Timber Controller wishes to remind the Timber Trade that, the closing de.te for the receipt of o.pplications for Trading Quotas is now past. Accordingly no further applications or requests £or forms of application can be entertained~ 
A very large number of applications f o:r Quotas has been received and it will be some time before these can be dealt wl.th and the Quotas made knovm to those to whom they have been granted., 
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MJ1 AE£ilt l9~..Q.. 

I run prouet to have this op1:iortu11ity to welcome you, the first contingent of the large numbet' of' Nmvi'OU11.dl['.nders who ho.ve volunteered for service with the Roy:::.l Artillery. 
Newf'ouno.land, whose sons have fought sia.e by sia.e uith ~:0.2:lishmen since the de.Jrs of' the Tua.ors, res:;:ion.Cl.eo. o.t once to the q2ll tho.t echoed round. the vmrlo. lri.st September. 'Ihis call woo, of course, in no sense a conunana.. It was P. cc.11 to Jrour own hearts, 8. cnll to voluntary service in n noble cause; flnd your o.nswer ~1ns been clear and firm. Your presence he1"e to-d.ay is c, p2,rt of that nnsv..rer. 
I must s aJr a worG. about your f'ellm-.,r countrymen who c-.re elree.a.y in this country. PerhalJs not urmc.turally, your first thought wo..s of the s e£i., for in your veins flows the blood of the men of the West Country who first sailed the stormy waters of the Forth Atlontic. Volunteers for the Ro~ral 1'Tnv~r were c:::llecl. for from the fishermen of Net!f'oundland o..ncl they wel'e imrnecUately forthcoming. About c. thousend of' these men are alrend~r serving in the Ro~rnl No.V'J. They o.re carry­ing on the brnve trao.i tion of their fs.thers vrho served in the Navy in the l ate vml" nno. Yrhom LorCl. Beatty once cJ.escribed us 11the best boatmen in tl1e Grand Fleet11 • Neo.rly tYm thouso.na. rnore of' these seamen :f'rom l'TewfotlllO.lv.nd nre to follow, Others are being recruited f'or ectually important service with the Merco.ntile r1iarine. 
Even be:f'ore the wo.r the Hoya.l Air Force hnd attracted many young men from the Isl2nd. '1.'hese are now serving nnc;_ some have o.lready underteJ-cen hazardous flights over Germe..ny. 
Your countrymen are renderillG yet another vital service to the Einpi:re 9 s endenvou1.... T\ovo thousana. Nevffoi.i.nc-;_1ana. loe;f;ers ha.ve now f'or some months :po.st been at work here cutting the !Jit-J)rO}JS which are essential to our mining industry. I arn told that larse nurnbers of these men are most anxious to join you in the Army. We nll applaud and symp~thise with their spirit. But the skilled work upon which they are now engaged is so essential that I f'eel sure they will understcnd me when I ask them to carry on. 
It is to the labours of such men as these, sailors, airmen, lumbermen, that you have come to ada. your ovm loyalty o.nc1 ci..evotion. I Jr,now that you will maintain the magnif'icent Army record of the Newf'oundlana.ers during the Grea.t War. In. October, 1918, the youngest V.C. in the British Arm;i,r was a Ne1·.'founcl.lo.nder, and the Royal Newfouna.land Regiment distinguisheo. itself greatly at Galli:poli o.nd in Frv.nce. You have a splendid tradition t o u~hold, and I have no a.oubt that you will give f'urthe1.. proof of the hardihood ci.lld coure.ge of the men of your country: Gradually you will t o.ke you1.. i)laoe with men f'rom all the l ands of' the Empire in. the joint endeavour to which we are all pledged. 
The :people. of Newfounc.land have suffered greo.t hardships in the 1)ast, more es1')ecially in the :;:Jerioo. of o.cute economic a.e:pression from which the Island. is, we hope, now beginning to recover, yet they have accepted a burden of extra t o..x2tion with 0uiet cheerfulness and constant' loyalty. You may i)e sure that the s::_)irit of' Newfoundland, as re1)resented both by those wl}/) have come across the Atlantic and by those who he.ve remained at home, is not forgotten. 
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The Air Ministry regrets to announce the following casualties 
on variqus dates:-

BHYfi.N..·S.MITH 76003 Pilot Off:i.cer Ac 

BATHGA'.11E 567441 Aircraftman 1st Class A. MARSDEN 528828 Leading Aircraftman HoJqNoROUT 550531 Aircraftman 1st Class G. WHITE 39406 F1ying Officer J11A.,C'\l VvRIGifl.1 41643 Pilot Officer AoHoMo 

NORMAN 70871 Pilot Officer GQLQSMITH 526371 Aircraftman 1st Class R.B. WHEATLEY 39147 Flying Officer CoM• WII.SON 56647'1 Sergeant DciW• 

. NICHOLAS 43014 Pilot Officer WoEo PHILLIPS 90072 Flying Officer D. ROSE 565666 Ser~:sean"b C., Fo ·SMITH . 523054 Sergeant LeWoG,, 

BARR.ASS . 550995 Acting Corporal A.s.G. 
BROVVN 613213 Acting Corporal H.D. 
DONALDSON 37389 Flying Officer Mo W" 
EVANS 532819 Acting Corporal J.,H. 
EVANS 566421 Corporal WaHoG~ 
GREET 580696 Sergear:t J., 
HENRY 621154 Acting Corporal A.C. 
ISON 580659 Sergeant WoJ0 
JOHNSTONE 40229 Flying Officer KoJ.Ao 
JOPLING 550598 Acting Sergeant JoRo 
MIDDLETON 40735 Pilot Offioer F.D. 

ROBSON 39?5g Flying Officer H.w. 
TAYLOR 40155 Fl¥1ng Officer WoGo 
THOMAS 40648 Pilot Of:f'icer M. 
TONKISS 564502 Sergeant JQRo 
VART 580261 Serg4ant SaV~ 

MISSING 

AITGHISON ALDOUS ATKINSON 
BALMER 
BANCROFT BOOTH BOWEN 
BOYD BRUCE BRYSON BULMER 
CALLINAN 
CHIVERS 
CLARK 
CROSBY DICKSON DOLLEY 
ED~fJNDS 
EMANUEL ETHERIDGE FORDHAM FOWELL GOULD GRAHAM GREENWOOD GREGGANS Hlu"LtRISON J-1\RROTT 11.AYNES HUGHCS LAMB LIDDLE LLOYD McffCYNOLDS MlrnCER rmREWE'l'I--J:bR MORRIS l\liULULI)Y Iva.JRRAY PICOT RICKETTS 
RID!JYiAY 
ROBERTS SALMOND SCARFFE SCOTT 
Ui.UTH 
SU?J1ViERP.ILLD TH'fi!J,ITE TULLOCH VER!iAQUE WELLS WIIJGN WILLii'-JvIS WILLS 
AUGOOD 
CATTON 
FARRELL 
GRAHAM 
HALL 
563022 40582 515180 564120 562429 630373 562025 619108 524136 524310 569834 580171 741732 618202 40679 33164 648552 75997 563099 565877 70220 622095 33312 551827 566263 641163 37599 618068 610705 333908 536874 568502 547593 522965 546929 41860 37866 580583 524858 364162 540110 611142 522093 33476 529786 566428 39346 615808 39399 39403 525499 617573 534598 580927 580722 
Sorgee.nt JoD4' Pilot Officer P.D.8 Sergeant J. Sergeant W.L. Sergeant L.. Aircraftman 1st Class Jo Sergeant C.R. Air-craftman 1st Class J. Sergeant R.G. Corporal R.. s. Aircraftrnan 1st Class B. V.H., Sergeant R.s,, Sergeant P._ Aircraftman 2nd Class R.M~G~ Pilot Officer G.Lo Flight Lieutenant FoOo Aircraftman 2nd Class W.H.Uo Pilot Officer C, Sergeant v. Sergeant R. Flying Officer A.R. Aircraftman 1st Class L.J. Flying Officer D.E. Aircraftman 1st Class P~G• Sergeant G" Aircraftman 2nd Class H. Acting Flight Lieutenant R,.Po.A., Aircraftman 2nd Class H. Leading Aircraftman F.A~S,, Aircraftman 1st Class c.A. Leading Aircraftman R.J. Leading Aircraftman T. Loading Aircraftman D.89 Leading Aircraftman N. Leading Aircraftman R.H,, Pilot Officer A.G.W. Acting Flight Lieutenant M,.L. Sergeant W.M,, Leading Aircraftman P~ Leading Aircraftman E.W,J~ Aircraftman 1st Class P.P. Aircraftman 1st Class G~E·., Leading Aircraftman A.F. Pilot Officer J.GPC• Sergeant J.s. Sergeant G.H. Flying Officer A.F. Aircraftman 2nd Class E.B~ F1yipg Officer H.o. Flying Officer c.F.L. 
Corporal G.A, 
Ai~craftman 1st Class J,, 
Leading Aircrnftman J.L. 
Sergeant E.H. 
Sergeant :R.H. 



55:;-100 Aircraftman lst Class W,,A. 58149~ Acting Sergeant A.a. 39866 Pilot O:t'f'ice;r P .,A. L. 581508 Acting Se~geant F,, 740183 .~ergeant A.E. 
HOLMES JJJVIES McPHERSON RAPER SCOTT VJILBURN  748369 751999 748419 516071 743009 534269  Sergeant J. Loading Aircraftman Golie Sergeant A. Sergeant L.A. Sergeant A.F. Corporal C.E.  
MISSING BELIEVED KILLED  ON ACTIVE  SERVICE  
FOLKES  39076  Flying Officer P,  
WOUNDED  OR  INJURED  ON ACTIVE SERVICE  
BAILEY FIELDHOUSE HUTTON POLIJiRD SOAR WAWN  764119 740751 754874 564996 748685 41505  Sergeant R.w. Sergeant L.. A. Sergeant R,s. Sergeant B. Sergeant H. Pilot Officer R,D.  

rnD. OF WOUNDS .OR INJURIES RECE;IVED QN f;CTI,VE SERVICE., 
.ALEXANDER 36222 Acting Flight Lieutenant A. MISKEILY 740837 Sergeant J .. 
DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE. 
CALDER 889998 Aircraftwoman 2nd Class D~E. 
FLYNN 548610 Aircraftman 2nd Class Do 
HALL 618078 Aircraftman 2nd Class T.S. 
HOLMES 631536 Aircraftman 1st Class G.W. 
JONES 654469 Airc.raftman 2nd Class E.A.L. 
MENZIES 633568 Aircraftman 2nd Class A.D.. 
PRIOR 582834 Sergeant A.G.H. 
SINDEN 213336 Sergeant V.B. 

Press and Publicity Branch; 
Air Ministry,
King Charles Street, 
Whitehall, S0 W,l. 


25/4/40 


The following notes of an Address to be del ivered by Mr. Her-bert Morrison~ M.P. 9 at tho Sorbonne, Paris, at 6 o'clock this (Thursday) evening, are placed at the disposal of the Pi->ess t ::.rough the Press Division, Ministry of Information.­
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN IN THE 'TWENTIETH CENTURY. 
"Broadly speaking, the nineteenth century in Great Britain was one of classical individualism, whilst the twentj_eth century has witnessed great changes in,,,the direction of the State concerning itself with a wide variety of social, economic and industrial matters which were formerly left to the indi vidual to settle as best he could for himself.. 
11 Mo!'eover, the present century has witnessed a considerable 
increase in the membership, strength and influence of BPitish 
Trade Unionism and Co-operation, and the emergence of the Labour 
Party from very little into the second party in the St at e which 
has twice constituted a Government under minority conditi onso 

"Undoubtedly it is the case that, despite the ext ensive risks of poverty and unemployment which still face the working people of Britain and other countries, the social and economic status of the working and lower middle classes of my country has in an absolute sense improved. Moreover, political democracy has made great strides forvvard. There i s an adul t franchise for both men and women and a much higher degree of political freedom than was formerly the caseo 
"Because of this progress we feel the more the shar p 
contrast with the conditions obtaining in Germany under Nazi 
rule. 

11 Because we realise that the further extension of Nazi domination in Europe would imperil the valuable liber t i es obtaining in both Britain and France, British Labour, despite J_ts traditional op:!;)osition to '.var, has almost unanimously t aken the view that it had no option but to support the entry of Britain into the present struggle. · 
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"In the field of social l egislation and the administration of the social services in Britain, great changes have been made du!'ing the present century. There have been wide extensi ons of pop-q.Iar education in a number of directiono; in particular , higher education, including university and ~echnical educat ion, has become available to an increasing rn.nno·er of boys and gir ls of families of limited means. By no means all, but much o~ class privilege in education has been ended, 
11 Associated vri th the school we have also seen the ini tj_at i on and extension of school medical inspection and treatment and the feeding of school children. 
11 Since the last war there has been an extensive develournent of State and municipal activity in housing and slum cleara~c eo IDhe present war is interrupting this work, but at the outbreak of war the London County Council and other authorities were carrying through progr ammes which 
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were calculated to end slumdon within a limited numbCl"' or years• 
' 1Health insurcnce, rnaternity and child welfare, im:qrovedmunicipal hospito.ls ancl. increcrned public health aotivities generally have done much to reduce death rates and iraprove the general health of the comrnu;J.ity. Unemployment insure.nee e.nd assist a.nee, the better ad.rninistro.t~9n of the Poor Lc.w, Old Age Pensions, assist ance for the blind ana_ other reforrms have ended that crude destitution, which is portrayed so vividly in the novels of Charles Dickens. 
111 have by no means mentioned all of the social changes we have seen in this century, but they are sufZicient to indicate that srn:!1ething in the nature of a fundai:nental alteration has taken place in British outlook and pr2ctice in these matters.. 
11Economically, in conuno1 
with other countries, theI'e has occurred a considerable consolidation of economic organisation and industrial activity. '.I1he field of trade and industrycovered by small businesses has tended to decline and the area covered by great limited liability companies and trade combinations has much inc1,eased. Great Ciilploye:es' and trade associations have been established on the one side, whilst the trades unions ana_ the organisation of the 'rrades Union Congress have become much more elaborate and extensive on the other. 
"The consequence has been on the whole a decrease of industrial warfare r ather than an increase, for there now exists between em1)loyers and employed e. l <.rge amount of well established machinery f or the discussion and settleraent of labour conditions. 
11This has been clone without upsetting the fundamental 
independence of the organisations on either side. Partly perhaps 
because of this evolution of industry away from its more 
individualistic phase, state economic supervision and regulation 
and actual economic enter:p:eise has increased. 

"Not only aje the postal telephone and telegraph services 
successfully managed by a St 2te de~)~U"ti:nont and many trading under­
talcings are directly E22naged by municipalities, but there has now 
evolved a typical British institution, the Public Corporation, for 
economic undertakings. It combines the :principle of public 
authority and in some cases public ovmershi:), with some of the 
better fyatures of private enterprise. 

11 The Public Gorpo1"2tion is a British attem:pt to get the best 
out of both worlds! Examples of this ty1)e of economic undertaking 
are the British Broadcasting Corpox•o.tion, the Central Electricity
Board and the London Passenger TrQnsyort Board~ 

"From -vvhat I have said it will be seen that within a limited 
period Britain, formerly the home of an alraost aggressive
individualism, is now arnong the foremost countries of social reform 
and collectivist experlincmt. 'I1his move forward has not gone nearly 
so far as I a.nd my friends would wish, but if we make due allovranoe 
for British co.utio:;.1 and conservci.tism it must be agreed that a.. big 
change in outlook has come o.bout with remarkable speed. 

11Britain is D.n interest ins; but much misunderstood country11 , ooncluded L1r. 1for:rison~ 11 Perha1Js by nobody is it less understood than by the liraited forces of the extreme 'Left' in British politics. What they have least understood is the import2nce of lallb..ruage. You can frighten the British electorate out of its life by the use of revolutionary l anguage Vlhich has no practical application and therefore really makes no difference. On the other hand if resueotable and conservative l angu2.ge is chosen and if reason is appealed to, the British are capable of almost revolutionary changes in publicpolicy11 
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During his stay in Paris, Ur. Horrison will be meeting various 
personalities there. 
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PP~SS NOTICE 
The attention of :Qersons VihO wish to correspond with foreign countries is pa.rticula.rly dravm to the Censorship requirement, 8.lreacly announced in the Press, that t he narae and full postal address of the sender must be stat ed l)oth on t he outsicle of t he envelope and in the letter itself'. LettG1"s f ailing to comply with this regulation may be clet2inec1 or indet'initely delayed. 
Attention is also dravm to the fact that correspondenci with persons in enemy or enemy-occupied territory cannot be fonrarded except through the officially authorised 
1

intermediaries, I '.essrs .rhomc.s Cool;: & Son; Berkeley St. , Lohdon, v1.1~ or the Br itish Red Cross Society. Particulars of the limited f acilities afforded by the Red Cross Society can be supplied by any Citizens' Advice Bureau• A serious view will be t aken by the authorities of att~mpts to 
corre~pond with enemy territory through any other channel, The above does not apply to letters to British or allied. Prisoners of War or InternGes, which can be acldriessed a.irectly. 

IHNISTRY OF I N:i!ORL1ATION 
25/Li/40 No. 1i. ANZAC DAY 1,;:;-.:.:SSAGES. 
Field-Marshal Lord Birdvvooo_ has sent the following message to Ma jar-General Freyberg9 V. Co 9 who is in conn,mno_ of the New Zealand Forces i n the Neer East:­
;1Please convey my sincerest greetings and kindest ·remembrance tD.. all ·meni"Qer.s. o·r the. . Second .N ... z.. E.. F~ ·Notll.ing can ever dim my recollcc.tion o:f -the. day.I?. .I passed with tl1eir elder brothers o-f the. First .No Z4 :W. F-.... in Galli)oli 
.and. France~ and I am absolutely coi1fident t ha t if and whc:;n you may be called on you ...-fill f'ollorr their footsteps anc1 eq_ual their great deeds. God bless you all11 
• 

General Sir Alexanc1-er Godley, Yv~J.o comrnnnded the Nc..:w ZealancL troops in the l e.st Yiar in Egypt 9 Gallipoli, and France, has sent an Anzac D2y r,1E;ssc:.. 6C to Nevi Zenhmd troo) s in which he says that he is supremely confident that the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force will worthily u~phold the glorious record of the First. 
DOMINION AND COLONIAL AFFAIR~. 

~Q/4c'.'40 .. No. 1.2 British 'l1roops Smile <J.S they Sail for Norv:ray. 
Boys Thrilled at the Prospect of Battle. 

At one of our Ports. 

Throughout the dark h0111•s o:L the night I have watched British troops in full kit "boarding camouflaged sinister-looking ships ·which slipped silently a··:ray from this port to embark upon a perilous journey whir3h will end i11 a great adve::i.ture in Norway. 
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At midnight, with :vind and rain riri·~, ~.n3 r.. g:ainst the tents of their camp 9 orders were g5_vcn "::.:w men to parade., They stumbled out into the dar 1::nssa and without noise or confusion trudged down the hastily impro·1rised road which had ·been turned into mud and slush. 
There was the cruncht cr!mch 9 c:run.~h of marching feet as they made their way along ·Ghc1 <~ountry Pouds ~ through fleeting towns and villages t o the por·t of e1i1'ha2ka-ciono 
Almost invisible in the darkness caused r)y rain clouds hiding the moon, the troops i11u·.re3. t h:;."c, u;;h windj.ng roads to where ships of every description -v:rer·a lying at anchor ready to convey them across the hu.."ldx•eds of miles 0f ocean to join their comrades who had preceded themn 
Everything worked Yl:i.th c1oekYrnrk pr•ecision., No sooner were the men on a particular g.uay frurn uhich ttey were to embark than they began to climb al1oard~ Scarcely a li.gilt .:;ould be seen. Hour after hour they cliiiJbell aboard and c:.~ t cnce proceeded to their quarters. It was nearing ric.'.?·01'eak before they had all embarked. 
To send an arm;y to a 1'oreign coun:cry is much r:1ore difficu.lt than the mere embarkation of t1•oopsc They must be accompanied 'by all the heavy artilleJ.."Y9 tanks ~ moto1' lorr·ies and su~::;ilies necessary to feed the armyo 
All through t he day I have watched the countless procession of motor transports making its wa~r to the embarkation port. It took many hours to place them on boardo 
Some idea of the difficulties of l3nding stores in a country held by the enemy could ·be gai ned from the manner in Yvhich they had to be loadedo Everything must be manhandled, ana_ so the stores were made up into small packets and ou:x:es such as couJ.d be easily carried ashoreo ·ro loa(l rapidly, the t r oops and sailors formed themselves into a hurna21 chain 9 pitching the packages from one to the other. 
It was a fascinating sight as the p8l."'aphernalia was piled on the q_uay. There v-1as every cunuej.~ra'ble artiritle necessary for an army which must be constaJ.Ytly on the rnoveo Shovels and picks, hur:i."'icane lanterns, dixies 9 l')oxes of small~-arm amrnunition and a heterogeneoi,is collection of ma ter.ial r eminding one of a ju.."1.k dump. 
But there was not a single article ~ut was essential either for utilitarian purposes or to give some little cornfo1"'t to the boys under the exacting concJ:i.'J io11s which they 111ay meeto I
Every 

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Every soldim" cm"ricd enough r>o.tions anci.. equipment for several days on the marchc There wor>c slecping-bQgs and five blankets for ench man~ 
All was tense and still as the final details were completed. _ _ As each ship nei ghed anchor a:ad cast. off, it glided awcy-·from the g_ua~rside into a sea whipped by a high north-easterly wind. 
Awaiting them wore the War·sJ:i:l.p.s. vrhich vvould escort them in convoy over the long voyage. 
The lads hung over the deck-rails as they toak ~ last wistful glimpse of the fast-receding shox•es:_, of England. 
Earlier in the day I had boon permitted t o see and talk with them in their temporary canvas camp a few miles away. A bitterly cold wind was driving heavy rain and during tho f ew hours the troops had been in occupation of the camp it had been turned into a quagmire. The conditions when I reached ther e were just about as foul as one could imagine and were a good baptism for what the troops might expect once they get into action in the rapidly melting snows of Norway~ 
It. would not have been surprising to hear them grousing like the very devilo They had been huo.dled up in their bell tents throughout the night and wGre caked in mud~ Many of them vvore soaked through already and they stil:~. had to face hours of hardship and fatigue before there wouid be any chance of rest. 
But these boys appoarea_ t o bo impervious to their conditionse They wore bubbling over with high spirits as they collected their spoc.ial eg_uipmento 
"Can you see me mother~11. l aughed one of them as he struck a comic attitude before his comrades. He had donned his shee:pskin~·lined oilskin and sheepskin-lined helmet, making him ap:tJ(f,:a;:r· ·CT,· .;_~fl.:J.J ID\:JJ.lande.r,, 
I could not find a single officer or man who did not feel thrilled at the prospect of at last coming to grips with the enemyo 
"We have hac1 months of boredom but now it looks as if we shall have the excitement wo are all looking for," said one brawn;y-fellow~ 
Their Colonel simply doted over those gr and followso 
"It r eally seems, 11 ho saic1,nthat tho more uncomfortable the conditions the more they revel in itc I have had these boys under me in different parts of the world and they :rurprise me almost every week. 
"I have seen them bright and .cheerful in 45 degrees of frost as if they had been under a tropical sun. I have seen them wading through mud, rollicking with good hur11our., They are superb. You can t ake it from me that they are tough guys and are bursting to show what Bnglishmon are made Ofo Theybelieve that there is only one waJr of winning this war and that is to get ric1 of Germans o" 
He called over a nuniber of yom1c officers who have been undergoing special training in t o.ctics which will be adopted 
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in Norway. They wore fine, hoalthy fellows and one felt at 
once thoy wcx•c the-ty-pe who could eornrc.and both the respect and 
love of their men. 
They share the discomforts of the troops with eQual cheerfulness. 
And so they left for a strange country speaking a strange tongue but they wore setting forth in the spirit of the Crusaders bent on waging a Holy War. 
25.4.40/No.13. P.N.1642. 

PRESS NOTICE. 
The Postmaster General announces that in consequence of a further alteration in the operation of the air services the latest time of posting at the Head Post Office, London, E.c.1. for the direct air mail service to Malta, for which the air postage rate is ls. 3d. per half ounce (postcards 7d.) is now midnight on Thursdays only instead of midnight on Mondays and Thursdays as previously announced. 
GENERAL POST OFFICE. 25th April, 1940. 
If 


MINISTRY OF LABOUR & NATIONAL 
SERVICE 



Press Notice 
.NATIO~AJ.J SERVICE _Ll~MED FO!_f_CS~ ACT, 1939. 
g_EGI8'1BATION OF 11.iEN ON 27TH .APRIL,~· 
The Ministry of Labour and National Service announces that to-morrow, Saturday 27th Aprj.l is the date which has been fixed by the Government for the next registration of men under the National Service (Armed Forces) Act. Posters setting out the classes of men required to register and the times at which they should attend for registra.tion are displayed at all Ministry of Labour and National Service Offices, 1fiunicipal Offices, Post Offices and Police Stations. 
The men required to register are those not already registered who were born between 1st Jro1uary 1913 and 27th April 1920, both dates i~clusive. They should attend to-morrow for registration at a local office of the :Ministry of Labour and National Serviee anc1 . should take vdth them _the~_r. National Regist:r:ation 
I 

Identity Cards. Seamen ancl fishermen, while they may register at a Ministry of 
Labour and National Service Office, are asked instead to register at a 
Mercantile Marine Office if there is one within reasonable distance. 
~'he address of the nearest Ministry of Labour and National Service Office may be obtained on enquiry at a Post Office. N~n are advised to read ,the posters carefully and keep to the tirnes of attendance allotted to them according to the initial letter of their surname. The times of attendance are as follows: 
Men whose (A to B should attend be tween 12.30 p.m. and 1 p.m. 
sernamcs should attend between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. commence F to JE should attend between 2 P•ID• and 3 p.m. with the K to O should attend between 3 p.m. ancJ. 4 p.m. letters -P to S should attend between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. (T to Z should attend betvreen 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. 


!° W 
Press Office, 
Ministry of Labour and National Service. 
Mcntagu House, Whitehall, S.W.1. 

Telephone: Whitehall 6200. 
H. Q.576-500 D.J. 
(6aG7-lU9) Wt. • 7177-702• 20,000 l/60 T.l!. 677 

The War Office announces that the official description of the B.E.F. in Norway is novr 11 The North Western E.rpeditionary Force11 
• 
In order to avoicl. :0.ossible confusion, the destination of correspondence for members of H.M. Army serving with the British Forces in Norway should lJe shown in the address as 
F. 11
11 N. W. E. and not "B. E. Fu Norway as previously announced. 
WAR OFFI~ WHITEfiALL. 
s.w. 
25/4/40 -No.16. 
Q.I:AIMS AGAINST DANISH VESSELS. 
In the case of Danish ships which have been seized in prize by or on behalf of His Majesty's Government. in the United Kingdom, British creditors whp before the date of seizure had claims on such ships in respect of salvage, disbursements, bunkers or other necessaries, are notified that such claims may now be made to the Accountant General of the Ministry of Shippingi 
MINISTRY OF SHIPPING. 
AIR MINISTRY BUI,LF.TIN NO. 599. 25.4.40 

ANZAC .1\IRJ1EN RB!•IBMBER GAJ...1LIPOI.I. (Not to be quoted as an Air Ministry o.nnouncement). 
The only Dominion flying unit on o.ctive service in Great Britain -No.10 (Flying 13oat ) Squ2dron ·of the Roynl Austr8.lio.n Air Force -commernoro..tcd Anzac de.y, the anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli, at a coastal con~and station this morning, before setting out on convoy escort and anti-submarine patrol far over the Atlantic. 
In the parade wore men who were in tho la.nding on Gallipoli Peninsula 25 years ago, while others were the sons of tho original /inzacs. 
The EqU?..dr on foll in under the officer commanding the station, m1d their own Austr.::i.lian Commander, and saluted the flag of the Cornmonwenlth which was dr2."[)ed at hnlf-mast, British troops, with bayonet~ fixed, and buglers formed a gu~rd of honour for the Australians. The prayers included intercession for the souls of the men who died on the Gallipoli beaches. 
Ten minutes after the solemn ccromony the squadron took off for the day's opcr~tion. 
Sj_nco the 11ustralian squadron began to functi.on 2s a unit of coastal commc:md two months ago 1 it .h2s flown a thousand hours and covered more than 1L!-O, 000 miles on Atlnntic patrol duties. 
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AIR MINIS_TRY BULLE1'IN No. 600, 25/4/40 · ..::.. _No-._18. 
_{Not to be guotod as an Air Ministyy announc~ment) 
NIGHT ENCOUi\fT:CR r:rrH ENEHY FIGHTERS . 
Further roports of the raid 0:..1 ·Stavanger in the early hours of WednesCb.y morning show that, for the first time since the outbreak or the war~ the British raiders encountered O:'.;lposition at ni.'.:Sht from enemy fighters. 
An eneniy airc·raft was seen to close in on one of the British bombers as it was approaching its objective. The fighter fired several bursts at short range~ Over the target area several Messerschmitt 110 twin-engined fighters were encountered. The raidors took successful evading action in the heavy pall of smoke from bursting bombs and A.A. fire which hung over the aerodrome. 
On leaving the target one of the raiders was followed and attacked for nearly ten minutes by a Messersehmitt 110, 
whose bullets could plainly be seen striking the water on either side of the low flying bomber• The British gunner returned fire, registering a number of hits• After trying one more unsuccessful attack, the Liesserschmitt abandoned the attack s.nd turned back.. 
Later re~)orts of this r.:i.id confirm the extensive damage done to the air base• They also shovr that a nu.mber of enemy 
aircraft dispersed on the ground, flamed u:p after s. salvo of high exi)losive bombs, dro~):!_Jed from a lo'w level, ho.d burst close by. Bierce fires started by incernl1ary bombs were seen to be still blazing ai'ter the last of the British raiders had left the scene. 
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AIR AFFAIRS 
25LL1i_40 -No.1_2. 
The 1.-f<:U"' Office issues the following cornrnunig_ue : 
aTheI'e hns l:Jeen no further fighting in the o..rea north of Tronci.heim wher·e t he enermr now 2.:ppenI'S to l:Je c.i gging in just north of Stei~L.~aj r:..er. 
In the South increnseo_ enemy pressure h2.S necessitatecL the wi thO.rawal of Alliecl Forces f1"om the positions they previousl~r l1eld. nenr Lilleho.mmer. 
In the 1'To.1"vik o.r•ec. tb.03re is nothine; to report. 11 
vViill. OFf:'ICE ~ WHIJ::B.N~~J:..L_.?,•.Y~._l. 
25th April, 1940. No. 20. 
·M.A.F:-257:--~------~­
!IQJ.!'i!_ANNOUNCEMENT_~X-!HE AGEJ.QULTU~I:!_DEPARTU~TSo 
\{H~!~CTe.z.-12~2 t o_194Q.!. 
Palill~ts_!Q_B~g!st~red !he~!_Gro~~ 
UncJ er the Agricultural ( lviiscellaneous War Provisions) Act, 1940, deficiency payments to registered wheat r rowers are to be computed and paid in respect of periods of less than acereal year. For the current cereal year ending 31st July, 1940, the first three accounting perioc.s, and the average prices obtained by registered growers for home•-grovm millable ·wheat sold by them during these 
periods, have  novr  been determined by the Minister  as  follows: ­ 
Per cwt.  
1st EerioQ  1st Ausust  to  8th Septo  1939.  48;7o22d.  
_gnd_J2er}o,9;  9th Sept.  to  20th October ,  19390  
3rQ_£eri.2£  21st October, 1939,  to  
31st March,  1940.  7sol.36d.  
The  \•standard price11  under the Wheat Acts  is lls.Odo  per  
cwto  (49s.6d.  per qr.),  and  the  rates  of  deficiency payment  - 

representing the difference between the standard price and the "average priqe", after allowing for a deduction of 0.52d. per cwto (2.3d. per qr.), to cover administrative expenses -are, therefore, as follows:­
Per cvvt. ~!-..9!'..!._of 504_1b. 6s. 4.26d. 28s. 7. 2d.
1!2.~!i2.£ 
5So l.18c1. 22s. 11. 3d.
EES:...£~~ 
3rd_~1od 3So 10ol2do 17s. 3 0 6d. 
The Wheat Commission hopes to issue cheques to growers for these deficiency payments on or about 5th June. The payments will be subject to the deduction of any amount already advanced on account. 
The Commission will be g reatly assisted in their arrangements for these payments if growers and authorised merchants will see that wheat certificates yet to be issued for sales made up to 31st March, 1940, are sent as soon as possible to the Commission's offices at Brooltland House, Weybridge, Surrey. 

. ... . · .. No; 21;;AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN N0.601. 
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GERMAl\T UNTRUTH EXPOSED. 
The Air Ministr.Y announces:­
The German High Command communique allegesthat on Tuesday night Great Britc-:.in opened unrestric+.cd air warfare by attacking undefended places with no milit2ry objectives. 
This allegation is unfounded. 
The attack on the Island of Sylt was directed against Westerland A.erodromc1 an important military objective, and one of the most heavily defended places in Gcrms.ny, 
No attack was made on the town of Heide. 
It will be remembered that on March 17th enemy aircraft dropped bombs on the Orkney Islands,-causing casualties to civilio.ns. 
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25/4/40 -No .. 22. 
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TALK ~ROADQA~J'.3_¥._ .GJ.~NERAL SIR HUGH ELLE~~.C.B. 2 .K. C,M. G. 
The B.B.C. announces that Gener8.l Sir Hugh Elles, K.C.B., 
K. C.M. G., bx•oadc8.st Ct tD.lk ontitled War Comr11entary (Civil Defence)in the Home Serv.i.ce programme at 9.25 this (Thursday) evening. 
The text of Ge::.J.eI'al Sir Hugh Elles' broadcast follows:­
I am going to talk tonight 2,bout \Y8.r on land on the home front. 
Let me take you back a little in history and show you how the Home Front has developed. 
It was not until the last e;reat war thnt the duress of war was really felt bJr the people of this countl"'J' in the way that the peoples of the Continental nations had felt it. Consider the Napoleonic wars -it was only a ·vel"'Y small :proportion of the men o-r our people who ever saw war at all -none of the women. Why, the fleet that won Trafalgar onlJr numbered in men e. fev1 thousand end Wellington's armies in the Peninsular Cam:paigns pro·!JablY averaged only 25.9000 British soldie.:-s and never exceeded. 50,000. The rest of the nation was immune. They paid, they watched and they waited. 
The war o:f 191L1-·-l8 howeve2 }_)roduced conditions which our people had never before experienced. For the first time there was a complete call on the manhood. of the nation. Fol" the first time we suffered, as all the other belligerents suffered, a staggeringloss of life. For the first time women, in all aspects of the life of the community, took the places of men. 
Ana_ now we have another we.r -a war which, as far as we of the Civil Defence are concerned has had a slow start, puzzlinglyslow, but which shows nmv ever~r sign of getting very rapidly into a stride that may very possibly become extre~ely hot. 
All the n twv p:1.enomena that appee.red in the last war are re-appearing. Blockade, the money c_:.uestions, intensified agriculture, rationing, munition-making and so forth. And there are two features that are so intensified that one might justly call them realJ.y new features ., The first of these is the weapon of propagaLJa a~d the second is the air menace. Both are directed against the Home Front. 
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I am not going to say anything about propaganda for that is being4ealt with far more skilfully thnn I could deal vith it, by others, but I do want to say a little about the air menace and the Civil Defence Services that have been raised and oreanised to meet it. 
Let us see first what this air menace is. I would like to putit very simply. It is just this -that at a moment when it seems to the enemy expedient, the ports or the great industries or the civil population of this country may be attackec'l. i:1ithout notice or with verylittle warning. Don't let us make too much of the air menace, not even the man Hitler can bomb everything, ev.erywhePe, all the time. Don't let us forget that our active defence, the anti-aircraft guns, the fighter aircraft, the balloons are increasing in numoers and efficiency every day. But don1 t let us forget that no system of active defence can make us g_uite immune. Don't let us forget that bombing from the air is -and anyone who has experienced it in even a small degree will bear me out -a very beastly thing and very 0.estructive to those who are not prepared# 
I don't want to give anyone the jitters, but it's not a bit of good blinking facts, The Air Menace is still there and it is a beastly thing. 
Now· a year ago I was an Air Raid Warden anc1. I should have been very glad if somebody had explained to me what exactly was this organisation in which I ha a. entered as a private citizen. That is what I am going to attempt to do, now that I am, alas, no longer a Warden but in a position of -well, perhaps -wider responsibility. 
First I would like to trace very briefly the history of the enormous organisation to which I have the honour' -as many listeners have -to belong. 
After 1914/1918 there were set up a number of Committees to examine the various aspects of the late war ana. one of them sat to consider the g_uestion of air raids -of which there had been a few by aircraft and zeppelins against London. That Committee reported in 1924 -and curiously its Chairman was the same Sir John Anderson who is now Home Secretary and the Minister of Home Security, and respon­sible for Civil Defence. 
You all know that for the ten years after 1924 the energies of our successive Governments were directed, not to ~arlike measures, but to peace and disarmament. Until 1934, when the man Hitler came to power. 
In 1935 the three Defence Services began to move -just -:and the embryo of a new Defence Service, that is now the nation-wide Service of Civil Defence, was formed. 
Soon afterwards five Officers and a few Clerlrn moved across· the road in Whitehall and started. the A.R.P.. Department at the Home Office. 
And I'd like to take my hat off to that small banc1 of pioneerswho had a very rough and discouraging passage for many months through seas of apathy and opposition. They have seen their craft into port all right. 
Very early in the day two main principles were decided. Firstly,that the Civil Defence Service should be a voluntary service -more, that as far as it was practicable it should be an unpaid and corrnnunal service, and secondly, that each locality should be responsible for its own defenceA In conseg_uence of that, the burden, and it has been a real burden, of organising, raising ana. aCIJninistering these Services has been put upon the local authorities. And I may say, as one who has seen something of their sia.e of the affair, how splenc1id has been the work that has been put in by municipal and county officials, already very busy men, in this great national effort, 
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-3 ­However, things went slovirly enough for a great many months. Then came Hunich in the Autumn of 1938 1 and we all got a tremendous jolt. The small Hitler cloud of 1931J.. had begun to look very much like a ·tornado and thinc; s began to move such faster. Early in 1939­last year, the Civil Defence Act was passed and every sor•t of measure was taken to tighten and speed things up. The Country was divided into 12 Civil Defence ~:.egions. TheJ:e were 1 2 Commissioner's -I was one of them -and staffs were pi:ovided.1 tl:.e industPial side of A.R.P. was made obligatoJ:y. Every factory l:.ad to make its preparations. Ana. so we come to the actual outbr eal: of war 1 and although the task was faJ'.' from complete we did have an organisation all over the country to deal with the air menace -an organisation which, if the blitzkrieg had come upon us, would have given a reasonable account of itself. But much 1:emained to do. 
'rhei:e must be among my listener s a .zreat many people who like myself are meml)ers of this gr·eat Defence Fo:i:ce -A.R.P. of course is part of it, but it is a much bigge,:· thing than A.R.P. alone. Our Service coveJ:s A.R.P. with its Wardens ; its Hescue Parties and Decontamination Squads and First Aid Pai:'t ies. It covers the Ambulances and the First Aid Posts -all splendidly helped by St.John and St. Andrews and the I?.ed Cr·oss -and a 11 those amount to more · than 1 ·. million souls. It coveJ:'s the Fire Sej:vice and its Auxiliaries ­more than 200,000 men ancl. women. It covers the police and its auxiliaries -nearly another 200,000 more. It covers a very large section of that surprising orGanisation the V!omens Voluntary Service with ffiQj'.'e than 600, 000 women which seems to be able to turn its hand· to a~rthing. It covers 1 too, the A.R.P. of Industry, which has trained 700,000 people. 
. So you see that we belong to a very great National Service and 
we ma y be justly proud of belonging to it. V'le a:;:e the fourth 
Defence Service of the CJ:own and that, it seems to me 9 is a very 
honourable thing to be. 
But we ape not the onl~r people in this. There is a great deal that has been going on besides our efforts, things that have been produced laboriously without fuss by men Q.Uite behind the scenes. Figm'.'es are :;~athej: a bore, but I am sure you would wish me to pay some tribute to the men and women who have produced neax•ly 70 million respirators of one kind 01" anothe1:, and enough steel shelters to protect 11 million }le op le, those who have calculatea the effects of bombs and done other invaluaole resea;:'ch worlc, those who have installed many hundi:eds of miles of telephone cables, who have worked on the lighting pr oblems and a great deal else. It has been the whale of a job. And I can tell ;rou this because I have had nothing at all to do v1ith t hese results myself. 
But, to go back, the blitzkrieg for which ve wefe prepared didn't come off. We got the sitzk~ieg instead -and that at on~e produced a 7ihole crop of new :problems. Thos e of my listeneps who have gone through the boredom of standing by day after day and night after night as whole-time voluntec rs, know ver'J well what I mean. You have done awfully well. It wa s n't a :_Jleasant VIinter, but, you know ) thePe are husbands and brothel'.'s and sons and uncles and cousins on the sea , at the front, in the air who have been doing the same watches, in eQual discomfol"t and often in gI'e&t dangej'.'. You have been sharing partners with them. That is good enough, isn't it? Nevertheless, we have been trying to cope with the problems raised by standby conditions. But it is just a case of Pe-modelling a house and having to live in it at the same time, that is always a very difficult thing to do. · 

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Now, there is another thing we are after and that is broadlywhat I may call a pooling of our resources. 
We have got to pool because as the war goes on, we are going to lose men and women for other war activities and we shall still want more voluntary workers. Especially we want them for first aid and stretcher parties. Now we hRve had time and have had experience and e~;:ercises and we knovv firstly tl1.8.t our Civil Defence services are very mobile, and we lcnow that everybody cannot be bombed Ht the same time. So why not throw in reinforce­ments to a place that has been attacked from some place that has not been attacked? That is the way our policy is tending and we have had a most encouraging response from almost every place. Pooling and elasticity and rnutual help generously and quickly given by one authority to its neighbour.­
For months we have been :orepared for these blessed bombs to drop. We have, however, been improving all the time -most of us, There is no doubt about that at all. But in a force of many hundreds of thousands you are bound to find backsliders and they are a bit of a nuisance. I'd like t"o pick out three sorts to deal with. 
There is .Sort 1,To.1 -the person who now sa;y-s 11 This A.R.P. business is all rot. vVe 've had no bombs. We are wasting our time." Well, that is just the unthinking sort of person who almost qualifies for the title of public menace. 
And there is Sort Fo.2 -he's been beaten by the monotony. That sort is just one point s cored to the other side in the war of boredom. 
So.rt No. 3 is different. He says, "I know my stuff, I shall be all right on the day. I can 1t be troubled with all these exercises." There is a simple answer to that. .::,.nd it's this: 11 IV!any a good ho:L"se has lost a valuable race because he was short of just a few gallops. ;i So please keep trained and keep fit and encourage others to come forward to do the same. And £2. wear ~rour badges. 
Now just a word to t he householder. If you are not already doing so you can hel:9 us 81id help us a great deal. If you can't volunteer you can do a l ot by just carrying out those simple urecautions that vou have been advised to take. If you have ~orgotten exactlyv what they are, anyone in A.R. P. or the Fire Service will be able to tell you4 That is going to ease our burden a lot if the time for action comes. 
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Well, there we are. Some day sooner or l ater we shall be tested -and the test will be severe. Upon the result may turn the issue of tremendous events. We are the fourth defence Service, and we owe it to the three Fi ghting Services that we ensure the safety of their homes and t heir industries and that we keep the Home Front firm. 
It's not spectacular but it ' s very, very im:portant. 
THE BRITISH BRO.A.DCi\.STLi.'W COHPORi.TION 
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The \'.far Office, London, s. · .. 1. 25th April, 1940. 
MILITARY APPOINTl\/IiJNT. 
The ·aar Office announces .that His Majesty The King has been pleased to approve of the ap~ointment of Colonel C.L. Matthews D.S.o., retired pay, as Coloneili of The Durham Light Infantry, in succession to Colonel (honorary Brigadier-Gener•al) H. H. s. Morant, D. b. O. 9 retired pay, who has resigned. 
25/4/40 No, 24, 
RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION AFTER 2,25 THIS EVENING (THURSDAY,,&RIL 25, 1940). 
MEM. TO SUB-EDITORS: As this script is being issued in advance it is neoessary to check it against the broadcast at 9.15 this (Thursday) evening on 391 or 449 metres. 
B.B.C. ANNOUNCEMENT 
BUDGBT TALK. 
TALK BROADOAST BY CAPTAIN H.F.C. CROOI\SHANK. 
The B.B.c. announces that Captain H.F.C. Crookshank. Pinancial -Secretary to the Treasury, broadcast at 9.15 this (Thursday) evening in the Home Service programme. 
Captain Crookshank said:­
It is a year since I last talked to you, and it was on the same subject -the Budget, that is to say at the time when we all 
look into the nation's purse to see what we must put into it to keep going, but oh! what a difference. We were then at p·eaoe and Poland, Denmark, Norway he.d not b'ecome the victims of GeI'l11an aggression and brutnlity. We were then planning to spend six hundred and thirty millions on rea~mruucnts, hoping -hopingperhaps against hope -that those arn~ would never be needed, and Sir John Simon had proposed taxes to the tune of.' nine hundred and f.'orty two millions, an unprecedented smn, but now dwarfed because of war. What then was he to do this year? In ordinary times the Chancellor tries to estimate ex:_oenditure to the last shilling,and then tries to suggest just enough taxes to cover it. We can't do that now, for he can't know what may be our war needs. He knows that our ordinary civil expenditure will be about six hundred and sixty six millions, and he has added to it a figurefor war costs of two thousand millions but that is clearly a round -very round -figure. 
He has therefore a~proached his problem the other way round. He has tried to see what in the present year is the most he can get by taxation, and must rely on borrowing the rest. Of course that is not normal Budgeting, but today it is the only way. The new scales of taxes will be a grievous burden for everyone. Theyshould bring in one thousand two hundred and thirty four millions­an easy figure, you write 1234 and then add six noughts -and that is nearly a third more than was proposed this time last year, 9ut you all remember there wo.s an extra War Budget in September so that the huge increase is not being taken all at one gulp. We have swallowed some of it alreadyt and it tasted pretty nasty. 
You don't want a lot of figures tonight but let us see some of the dif.'ferences between l ast April alil now.. The standa.I'd rate of Income Tax was then five and sixpence -now it is seven and six.Pence, and Surtax went up in September as well. Some critics still go about s aying thc:i.t direct taxation is not highenough, that the rich should pay more. Look then at the case of a single man earning all his income. Half of it is now taken when the total is eight thousand five hund~ed younds, this time l ast year half the income was not t aken until the total was seventeen thousand pounds, just t wice as much. A pretty startlingchange in his circumstances i.n one year, which shows the new increases in the high income sco.les. To find absolute . equality 
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of' sacrifice is perhaps impossible, but there is no lack of 
sacrifice everywhere. 
Take indirect taxes. Look at tobacco. Bef'ore last year's Budget the tax was nine and sixpence a pound -it is now seventeen and sixpence. The Beer tax has gone up in the sarae period . twopence a pint. Of course beer and tobacco 2re luxuries but they are often the one luxury of working men: many of them will, I am sorry to say, seriously feel these taxes. .And further a bottle of whisky now costs sixteen shillings instead of twelve and sixpence; and after May 1st a letter will cost twopence halfpenny though it will remain at three halfpence if it is addressed to our Forces and ships abroad. 
And on top of this a tax is proposed on purchases made byretailers 'from wholesa.lers. 
You can now see what the burden, direot and indirect, is going to mean, but the keynote of this Budget is the policy of checking the demands for civilian goods so that our factories can produce more munitions and more exports. We realise what this means to shopkeepers but, in one way or another we must check everybody's purchasing power, and one way of doing so is the proposal to r estrict dividends which companies may pay out of their profits, themselves already limited by the Excess Profits Tax, as well as to prohibit the issue of bonus s}Jares in war time. 
And yet at the end of all this, we will raise by taxes only just under half our expenditure-What about the gap? The Labour Party still talks of helping to blose it by a tax on capital, but while I am sure we are all agreed that it would be unjustifiable, if some people at the end of the war found themselves vastly richer just because of the war, it is quite certain that even if desirable no such tax can be imposed now. No: the gap must be closed by borrowing out of genuine savings, but we arc not, I repeat not, having any compulsion. The lending is to be as now voluntary, so we must all do our best, economise, save and above all lend to the State the savings. 
I can imagine some of you thinking 11 \'Vhat is the good of talking like that. I can't save. I can hardly make both ends meet". Yes. I know it is, alas, true; many of you do live on such narrow margins, you just can't save, but I feel sure that when it is all over you would always hate it afterwards if you had contributed nothing -work, money or se!'vice. 
-to your country in 
its hour of need. So I suggest if you aren't already doing war work, if you have no savings to lend, you can perhaps lend some of your time to voluntary war work. 
But for the great bulk of you people, there is the chance of saving -some daily or rrcekly self-denial -to help pay for the war. Some may have been holding back because of your fears of what might happen to your savings, if you ever came under the means test. If so, don't hold back any more, for we propose to take altogether out of the scope of the means test, no less than three hundred and seventy five pounds of new war savings. 
So, be you rich or poor, I do impress on you the more you lend, the more you close that gap -the more you help check the rise in prices, the more you help win the war on the financial front. And won't the prize be worth the self-denial. A real prize, noth.ing less than victory. Victory over evil and Yf!IOng• . Victory ovor ull those horrors for which tho Germany of 1940 stands. The Budget is framed to bring that victory no~rur. 
Gon~night everybody and thank you for listening, 
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THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION 
C 0 R R E C T I 0 N 

ROYAL AIR FORCE AWARDS NO. 22. 
In Page 2, Para. 3 please read that Corporal Wallaoe "joined the R.A.F. in March, 1938," not 1918. 

A.M. Bulletin No. 5940 
HNOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN ANY COUNTl1Y BEJ?ORn · THE MORNING NEWSPAPERS OF SATURDAY, 27TH AFR.HJ~ 1940;PR BHOADCAST BEFORE Fj A.. M. ·cm THAT DATjJ}.~ ~ ­
ROYAL AIR FORCE AWARDS NO s 22. 
The King has been graciously pleased to approve of the following o.vmrds for gallantry displayed in flying operations aga1nst the enemy. 
AY!ARDED THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS~ 
Pilot Officer Michael Giles Homer. 
AWARDED rHE DISTINGUISHED FLYING MEj)Aih 
Corporal John Wallace. 
Acting Corpornl Albert Douglas Coldicott. 

Pilot Officer Homer was the pilot of an ~.A.F. aircraft carrying out a high-level bombing attack on two enemy cruisers anchored in Christiansand Bay; South Norway. In tho face of intense anti-nircraft fire and attacks by enemy fighters, he· 
successf'Ully pressed home his attack• nnd his air gunner sho~ down an enemy fighter that burst into flames and crashed into the sen. Although his aircraft had boon damagedp Pilot Officer Homer skilfully piloted it back to his base after a sea crossing of more thnn 400 miles. 
Acting Corporal Coldicott was the wirele~s operator and air gunner in Pilot Officer Homer's aircraft during the above engagement nnd it was he who shot down the enemy fighter. By obtaining accurRto bearings under difficult and harassing conditions he enRblod Pilot Officer Homer to navigate the damaged aircraft successfully to its home base. 
Corpo11 al Wallace was wireless operator nnd air gUnnoi:1 in another R.A.F. aircraft ongaged on the attack on enemy cruisers nt Ohristiansand. They were attacked by nine enemy fighters, and Corporal Wallace displayed tho g:r:•oatcst gallantry and coolness in the face of repeated attacks by supol:'ior numbors 
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and shot down ono enemy into tho sea. Under rrircloss instructions f:rom the formation loader~ Corporal Vfall2co' s aircraft escorted an another that had boon disablod until the latter was forced to nlight on the sea. Corpor~l Vallnce's accurncy 1n giving its ~ositio~ onablod a vessel to ro~ch the sccno nnd to effect a rescue. 
NOTES ON, CAftESfilS. 
Pilot Officer Michaol Giles Homer wns born at Stroud? Gloucostorshirc, April 17th, 1919, He wns educatod nt Wollington and C:rnnwcll, nnd wns grrmtod n pormo.nunt commission ~s Pilot Officor in tho Gono~nl Dutios Branch of tho R.A.F. in Docombel:', 1938, His home town is Shoringhnm, Norfolk, 
Corporal Wa.111:'.,co was born 6th May, 1918, at Bar:rhond, Ronfrewshire 9 which is still his homo town, Ho joinod tho R.A.F, in March, 1918, Previously ho wns an Insu:r.n.nco .Agent, 
Acting Corporal Coldicott vms born Soptomber, 27th, 1919, at Worcoster which is still his homo town. Ho was n goncrnl clerk before joining the R.A.F. in Soptcmbor, 1958, 
Pr0ss and Publicity Branch, Air Ministry,King Charles Stroet,
Whitehall, S,W,1. 
27/4/40. 

A.M. BULLETIN NO. 595• 

.rNO'l' TO Bli: PUBLIS.tlED UT ANY com~11:H~{ Bi;P01·U. ·rHE MORNING NEHSPAPERS OF SATllRDAY9 27TH AP:Riij:-1~40 OR BRO.ADCAST BEFORE 7 ~:i..M. ON THAT DAT}3~a;r-­
ROYAL AIR FORCE AVUillDS NO. 23. 
The King has been graciously pleased to approve of the undermentioned award in recognition of gol1nntry displayed in flying operations against the enemy. 
AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING MEDAL. Flight Sergeant Gordon Allen Pow·ell. 
Early this month, Flight Sergeant Powell was captain of an 
R.A.F. aircraft taking part in a low fl~ring attack on Stavanger aoro­drLm10 9 Norway. This was pressed home with the greatest determination in the face of intense anti-aircraft and machine gun firo. 
The aircraft received throe direct hits, tho first of which wounded :B,light Sergeant Povrnll in tho shoulder and loft. side and sovoroly damaged tho aircraft. Immodintcly ho was hit, Flight Sorgoa11~ Powell dived near to tho ground and made his escnpc to sono Despite his wounds nnd loss of blcDd and the difficulty of conti":'lling his d2mnged aircraft~ he succeeded in roaching his home baso 9 n distance of 370 miles in extremely bad weather at night. His gallantry and devotion to duty wore outstanding. 
NOTE ON CAREER. 
Flight Sergeant Fewell ·was born Decembor 18th 1909 in Fulhnm, s$w. Ho was ongngod in farming beforo he joined tho R.J•• :P. in July 1928. His home town is Sanderstond, Surrey. 
Pross nnd Publicity Branch, Air Ministry,King Charles Street~ Vlhitehnll_, ScW.1. 
27th Apr111 1940. 
25/4/40 -NO: 284 11SPREAD-OVER11 HOLIDAYS FOR ORDNANCE rJORKERS. MINISTRY OF SUPPLY PLANS_. "Spread-over'·~ hoifd~ys are to be given to ·workers in.Royal 
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Ordnance Factories during the period from May to October, the 
Ministry of Supply announces. The following statement was issued by the Ministry tonight: .. 11 In view of the pressure una.er which munitions workers have been employed for some time, it is felt that maximun produotion is more likely to be promoted than hinderea_ by allowing workers in the Royal OrCl..nance Factories to have the usual intervals for rest and recreation including annual holidays of the customary extent. 
11 The Ministry of Supply has accordingly decided that annual Summer holidays shall be taken 1 and that it is desirable that as far as is practicable they should be taken in one spell.• 
"In order, however, to obviate the necessity for the entire closing of any one works at any particular pe~iod, and with the object of reducing the numbers of workpeople taking holidays at any one time, arrangements are being made for spread.ir+g holidays over the whole of the period from May to October this year." 
MINISTRY OF SUPPLY. 

25/4/40 No. 30, 
FRENCH OFPICIAL C01~.IDNIQUE

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Paris, Thursday, April 25, 194~. 
The following official communique was issued this evening from French General Headquarters:.... 
In the Vosges one of our parties of sharp shooters put to flight an enemy detachment which had laid an ambush near one of our outposts. 
In the Skagerrak a French destroyer flotilla attacked and sank two enemy 
pat~ol ships and returned unscathed to 
their base in spite of attacks from the 
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(Not to lJe c_;_uoted as an Air Ministry Announcement. 

Further particulars are ilOW available of the successful bombing of two enemy auxiliary vessels on Tuesday night off the islana. of Sylt during a ix1.tr•ol of the Germc.'1.11 seaplane bc.ses by aircraft of Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force. 
The. captain of the aiPcraft which attacked the larger of the two vessels states that there were numerous lights on the water as he o.~r~)roe.ched the island, anc1 in 01"c.er to investigate them he came down to within a few huna.rea. feet of the sea. Two la1""ge ships were then seen, one of which was believ1:.d to be of about 1200 tons. Both opened fire immediately. 
"The gunfire" says the captain, "was so intense the,t avoiding e..etion ho.a. to be tD.ken before the attack on these shii:>S could be maa.e. There was 2 moon at the time, anc. on our return to the scene we could. clearly see the ships silhouetted in the moonlight. 
11We ou1""selves h ad the moon behind us as we carried out our first attack9 d.ropping two bombs both of which missed the ship at which we aimed, though they must have given it a terrific. shaking. Not to be outdone vie circled. again and delivered an attack on the other shi~. 
1'A few seconds e.fter we had. released the bomb there was a shattering explosion e..nC. our aircraft vms knocked all over the place for a second or two. Simultaneousl;)r there was a blindiiag flash as the bomb l ana.ed fairly and squarely on ·ehe deck. 
"After that there was only one ship left. 11 
The crew of another aircraft on patrol duty over Sylt on Tuesday nigh t were s:pectators of the British attaclc on the enemy bases there. They actually arrived before the raid had begun but by the time the3r were ready to leave, the pictuPe had complete­ly changed. Searchlights were sweeping the sky and several large fires were seen blazing away, all of which were evidence of the success of the British raid. 
Adventure~ too, was in store for them, and it came v-,rhen they were flying up the east coast of the island about two miles away from the mainland_,, Here they were suddenly fired U}.)On from the w2,ter. The captain s o.Jrs " 'ife at once looked d.ovm a nd saw, directly below us, t wo motor boats. As soon as we realizea. what was ha:ppening we pre~9ared to attack. Just then t :'le moon hid itself behin c1 some cloua.s. ancl. we had to wait for about ten minutes before it showed its f ace ngain. 
11As soon as it re£ll'peared, we ags.in saw the two boats and vd th.out an;sr more :1hesit ation ·we delivered a fairly low bombing atte.ck. After the attack, only one boat could be seen and only one boat fired c~t us, which seems to be conclusive proof that the other was destroyed. " 
AIR AFFAIIl§..~ 
25/4/40 -NO: 32. 
PRESS NOTICE. 
The Har Office announces that reports to the effect that a British Force in Norvrny has been cut to :pieces and forced to V!ithc1raW in disora.er is ·a C.istortion Of the facts. The account presumably relates to the incio.ent already referred to in recent communiques. 
The facts are: -An advanced detachment of a larger force pushed forward towards Trondheim from the direction of Namsos. The Germans moving reinforcements by water insicte the Trond.heirn Fjord threatened to cut off the advaneed troops from their main body. They therefore viithdrew but were not followed up by the enemy, who are now ~eported to be digging in at the head of the Fjord. Our troops suffered some loss. 
WAR OFFICE. 
25/4/40 No. 33. 
PRESS NOTICE 
German broadcasts have been boasting that the ferrying of troops and sup~)lies to Norway has been proceeding steadily and according to plan. 
This hns not been Germany's experience in the first fortnight of the Norwegian campaign. 
Between April 9th, when her first troops landed, 
and April 22nd, twenty-six transports and supply ships were sunk by Allied aotion, or s cuttled. Ten others were hit by torpedo and probably sunk. One was set on fire by air attack, and four German vessels were captured.These ships were employed in supporting and supplying the German forces in Norway, although not all of them were carrying troops, the lives lost in their destruction must have numbered several thousand. 
Three thousand German dead have been washed ashore on the east coast of Oslo Fiord. Great quantities of arras ammunitions and other supplies were also lost to the invaders. 
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