12/6/40 No.-2. PRCSS NOTIQJ)l. The Ministry of Transport mal-ces the following announcement:­ ,.It has been found necessary to cancel the 8.; 50 a. m. train from Paddington to Frame, Bruton, Bridport, Dorchester and 11-ieymouth, which was to have taken parents and others to visit evacuees on Sunday next, 16th June. 11 Any vouchers which intending visitors have obtained for journeys to any of these a_es tinations r:mst accordingly be regarded as cancelled. 11 +++++++++ 12.. 6.-40. AIR.. MINISTRY COMMUNIQUE : Airc'r'aft of· the R.. A.:F.,. rec'onnoi tred Northern Italy last Bombs were d.ropp'ed on certain military obje'c'tiveEj~ AI.R... .AF.FAIRSi . ~-.l ,_ ..... _ ....... ~. -···· i2/6/40 .. No. 4. POLISH, NAVAL STAFF OFFICIAL COMI.1UNIQUE, The Polish Naval Staff in London regrets to announce that, as the· return of the submarine "Orzel" from patrol is now considerably overdue, this submarine must be presumed lost. ++++++++++ ADMIRALTY. 12.6.40/No.5 P.N.1661. PRESS NOTICE. The Postmaster General announces that the mail services to Italy and Italian Colonies and the service to Northern Norway recently introduced are suspended. Correspondence for all European Countries to 'Which the mail services have not already been suspended, as well as correspondence for Cyprus, Egypt1 Iran1 Iraq, Palestine and Syria, is subject to heavy delay. The mail service to the Far East by the Siberian route and the air mail services to European Countries, other than France, Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, are temporarily suspended. GENERAL POST OFFICE. 12th June,1940. 12. 6.40 No. 7. PRESS NOTICE. DEFENCE (FINJ\NCE) REGULATIONS, 1939 .. The Treas'tlr·y announce that by an Order in·· Cmmcil dated the 11th June, 1940, (S•R. ~ o. No.929 of 1940) the maximum penalties on conviction of an offence under the Defence (Finance) Regulations, 1939, have been increased. As an alternative to the fines previously prescribed (the previous maximum penalties were three months' imprisonment and a fine of £100, on summary conviction, or two years' imprisonment and a fine .of £500, on aonviction on indictment) penalties imposed may now include a fine not exceeding three times the value of the subject matter of the offence, The public is reminded that Regulations have been in force since the outbreak of the war in relation to securities, foreign currency, payments in sterling to persons resident abroad, gold coin and bullion. In addition further Regulations have been made as regards the method of obtaining payment f or exports and other matters•. Failure to observe the Drovisions of the Regulations is detrimental to the interests of the country in the conduct of the war and persons committing offences are guilty of unpatriotic conduct and will be treated accordingly. ,. Alleged ignorance of ·the Regulations will not be accepted as an excuse and any member of the public who is unce~tain of his obligations un~er the Regulations should consult his bankers or solicitors. TREASURY CHAMBERS. No. 8. PRESS NOTICE. All Dutchmen or Dutch subjects not belonging to the Dutch Naval or Land forces may now be called upon to perform special services in or for the Dutch Mercantile Marine if this is considered necessary in the interest of the State.. A Royal decree to this effect, signed by H.M. The Queen of the Netherlands, has been published. It empowers the Dutch Minister of Defence to issue an order for such services as may be deemed necessary. The Dutch government has full powers to requisition Dutch ships. The new decree opens the possibility of requiring personnel as well. FOREIGN OFFICE NEWS DEPARTMENT ON BEHALF OF DUTCH LEGATION PRESS SERVICE~ ­ Speech by the Rt. Hon. Herbert Eorrison, 1.I. ?. , l:Iinister of Suonly ~i • f ..,,!;' ' spewang or the National Defence ?ublic Interest Committee at a Luncheon at the Dorchester Hotel on Wednesday, 12th June, 1940. Not for publication before 2.30 p.m. At this hour of grave crisis in vrhich we meet together YO'-! vvould perhaps •vish me to tell you something of what can be told about the drive for arms production which has be~n put into my charge. A month ago the people, stirred to full awareness by events on the continent and responding to the urgent appeals of their leaders, set thenIBelves to the task of forging at greatly increased speed the weapons of victory. :i.iiy news of the month that has since elapsed is good. The nation swung over almost instantaneously from something that was too like a peace stroke to a full war stroke. There have been marked and material increases in output, some of them drarnatic. I mn g,Tateful to the workers and the technicians for their unsparing offering of 1nind and muscle, and to the active directors of industry for their intelligence, drive and human understanding. But I beg of you, do not overestimate the effect of this spurt. Do not belittle it -it is great, and it vrill help to preserve our cause. But do not expect the impossible of it. Before I tell you something of its details let us face together once for all the mistakes of the past, and let us understand their consequencese • To begin vvith you must know that the r.1ilitary policy that held sway here for some years vras that we could fight a great war vvith a great navy and air force and with a small continental armyo That cardinal error held the field until comparatively late in the day.. The early planning of our arms industry and the scale of equipment for our forces was based upon it. But then, even when this error was realised ru:1d corrected, vre vrere at first not sufficiently bold and ~naginative in the scope of our planning for our army. Even when we began to think on a continental scale, the l~ts of our thinking were too narrow. As a result the outbreak of wa:r found Gennany at~ or near, her peak of productive and striking power1 vrhi1-e vre were very far from ours. And not only were the years before the wa:r thus partially lost, but the first months of war itself were not turned to full account. The philosophy of the indefinite defensive held sway, vvith the result that the effort then required of us now seems lax and puny in relation to the greatness of the actual task awaiting us. It is my duty to spealc vrith every frankness -and it is helpful to us all, I believe, for me to do so. For nine months after the outbreak this nation was in many -perhaps in most -walks of life on a peace rather than a war basis. Then finally crune the great material losses of the Flanders battle, and I need add nothing to what the Prime Minister has already said of their effect upon the magnitude of the task before us. A situation arising from causes as extensive and longstanding as some of those I have enumerated, cannot be corrected at once. I should be misleading the country -and that I vrill never consciously do -if I suggested that a few weeks, even a few v1eeks of intense speeded-up effort by our great industrial machine, would suffice to put these matters right. Bear this fact well in mind -it is the baclcg,Tound which partially overshadows the brighter story of the last month, to which I can novr turn. Even before the nevr Government asked Parliament for sweeping powers over property and persons, giving it the right, among other things, to demand.extended working hours, a great number of factories engaged on arms and war supplies.bad responded voluntarily to the need of the hour. 1;Iany of them had been vror~i~ 21+ hours a day in shifts of nearly 12 hours for six days a week. Uncomplainingly they extended their effort to the seventh day. We know that we cannot continue to exact such a sacrifice, and it vvould do more harm than good to the end we serve, the end of increased output~ We must arrange that while factories work throughout the week, individual men and women are asked to do something less than this. Meantime, however, in the face of the immediate emergency this tremendous effort has been made_ I shall speak of this again. Under the new powers to vmich I have referred various directions have been given to the mvners of a wide variety of industrial undertakings, On Monday I made an order bringing 1,463 works under control. Some will thus come under the direction of the Ministry of Supply, some under the Ministry of Aircraft Production, others under the Admiralty. In addition to the factories and plants already equipped and at work, a great programme of factory construction was under way, timed to bring into operation a large nwnber of new plants at different future dates. It has been decided to quicken this programme by concentrating all possible effort on those factories which are nearest completion, so as to bring the greatest amount of productive povrer into action at the earliest possible date. The drive to bring over to anns production factories previously engaged on other work quickens in pace. We are steadily and swiftly reducing inessential production, and aro cutting across previous plans for the allocation of material as between civil and war needs, and as between less and more urgent requirements. As the technicians might put it, we are adjusting priorities to reql.ities vdth all possible speed. While we do not forget the future, all available energy is being concentrated on the most urgent tasks. The cry is "First things first". The needs of war mean that to-day many short-term measures a.re long-term wisdon. We are also schooling ourselves to sacrifice those super-excellent detail.a of production which for long made British goods, heavy and light, patterns of quality to the whole world. We shall sacrifice nothing of working efficienoy but there is no time now for refinements of style and finieh. The greater scope and speed of WDr production called for corresponding adjustments of the administrative machine at ton and I have made certain additional appointments to the official mid advisory staff of the 11Iinistry of Supply. These appointments, it is hardly necessary to say, are no reflection on the existing officers. They are ma.de because I am mvare of the danger of allowing one machine to overdrive itself. It is sometinles a temptation to pile more and more responsibility on to an administrative staff in being, but ·while I do not underrate the readiness for sacrifice that exists from the highest to the lovrest, I believe that in wartime excessively overworked senior officers, like . excessively overvmrked Ministers, are a danger. The new extent and urgency of our taks calls for something more than greater intensity of effort and more men. It calls for an indomitable resolution, a keener mental thrust, a refusal too readily to accept the notion of impossibility. The counterpart to the tremendous physical effort being ran.de in the factories is a mental effort of altogether exceptional quality among administrators, managers and technicians. Quantitative effort is not enough, vre need a ·higher thought­potential if we are to succeed in our task, We must find the answers to problems that might have been left as insoluble a few months ago. We must discover vra:ys round, over or under obstacles that i;iight have seemed final. In approaching every task the question in our minds must be not 11 Can this be donc1' but rather "This must be done-and noY' how?". It is in this spirit that I endeavour to discharge my ovm responsibilities, and it is this that I require from others. Of the quanti±v and quality of work in the fuctoriestheu5elYes I have. already spoksn. -Pt:lrnaps -.1.. may-give you ore or t\vo exanp1es or the sort--or thing the.t is taking place. In one works where certain :iI,1portant operations are carried out by women they had core to the end o" their seventh consecutive day, working l~ hours each day. It was 5.30 on Sunday afternoon, and a certain piece of work was unfinished. Without hesitation, without any hint or lead from the management, they sent spokesr;1en to ask whether they might be allowed to work straight on until they had finished. l~ hours a da.y for seven days, and then this gesture as a crown to the work! In another factory men were at work on a job whose early co1:i.pletion was :important because many other things depended upon it. A l.?..rge gang of r.ien volunteered to get it done in the shortest possible tirn.e. They worked a straight 36 hours shift and completed it.. In yet another case a certain -2 ­ sub-contractor 'vas producing parts whd.ch were required speedily in a ma.in factory some distance awey. The parts were rushed through, and instead of putting them on rail or road for probable delivery the following r.i.orning, the na.nager of the factory took his own car on a Sunday afternoon, loaded it with the parts and made it his Sunday excursion to deliver thera; so that a night might be saved. In a certain great works in the North, my report says, "The spurt of the men was magnificent -less than 1% loss of time. No tirae wasted, no mornings off because of "on the beer" last night, and the ar:1ount of sickness down to practically 11nilII• Performance of this quality needs no praise. It speaks for itself. The workers of the country have played the gar;ie magnificently0 .And may I pay my tribute also to the Trades Unions, who have noved so fast and so far in order to make possible rauch of what has been done., They too have played the gane. Every Minister has reason to be grateful to then for what they are doing in the interests of the country and the t:ighting servicCso The Trades Union r;10vement in this hour of crisis has proved itself a tremendous asset to Britain. Perhaps when we contrast the spirit and quality of all this effort with the past mistakes which have both nw.dc it necessary and have put such hazards in the path of full success we may be tempted to indulge in rocr:ininv.tion, or to search for scape-goats. I have myself in the past been an outspoken critic of things done and things left tmdone. I reserve th0 right to be en outspoken critic again, at an appropriate tine; but this is not the tu,1e. I say to you emphatically that to look back now is a weakness which we cannot allo•v ourselves. I say this for three reasons. The backvrard look is a waste of energy, it reans that we are expending upon anger and conder:mation resources of mind and spirit ·w·hich we must husband for the task in hando Secondly, to demand a scalp every tine vre have evidence of nistakes or setbacks is to create incipient panic, and to threaten stability of I!lind both anong governors and governed, Modifications and reinforcements of the Gover:nnent there may need to be fron tu.1e to time, but what we cannot afford is a political crisis every other week. Then thirdly1 vre want above all things at the present tine to build up and to foster a spirit of genuine unity, a community of thought and feeling fror.i. which none are excluded but cowards, slackers and traitors. fle do not want to afford the world -i:10re important still, we do not want to afford ourselves -the spectacle of Britain in internal dissension, picking over the mistakes of the pasto Now above all moments in our history, this nation needs to show itself that "Band of brothers" that Shakespeare called it, yes, that "hqppy breed of r.i..l help that is already appreciable in volur:i.e and will steadily grow, r!l.O:ral help that heartens us with a sense of the increasingly powerful waves of strong and coniradely su~port that flow out to us fron the great dotlocracy across the Atlantic. -4 ­ Yet if I aention this first, it is not to place it first in importance, since in this crisis we depend abovo all upon our ovm effort. I give you next, therefore) the fact that Britain is fully awake, heart nnd nerve, and will nobilise as n.;ver before under a leader who is worthy of her. We arc happy in our Prine Einister. As c. colleague I pay tribute to his leadership.. He gives to the menbers of his terun ariple authority, neverceasing encouragement, a saving and helping hand over awkward stileso As a citizen I pay tribute to the inspiring power of his quenchless courageo Lastly I point ou-C to you certain qualities in our ovm nation lately dEDOnstrated afresh and particularly apt in this hard hour. Slow to action we are, but in action the British people show a resourcefulness, an inventiveness~ a knack of adn.pting odd and unexpected E1eans to great and unexpected ends 1 a power to draw dovm achieveraent E:.Jr.1ost fror.1 the e:rapty air. All these things we have seen in their fine flower in the exploit of Dunkirk.. Dunkirk was no victory -but it was an earnest of victory, a triumphant answer both to those who :r.w.y still cherish the hope of being able to teuper with our norale and our will to victory, and to those who talk as though war was just a ne.thematical calculationo Dunkirk wr:.s o. triunph -not by any means the first in our history -· of nind over aatter, of will and intelligence over the fury of -brute force~ I coD1-:i.end it to you as a portent. In that sign we shall conquero HINIS'.1.'RY 01'1 SUPP".GY, Press Office, Ade1phi, YT. C, 2. --------·-----·------.--,·-·---·--···-­ Insert Page 2 before paragraph b0ginning "'.1.'he greater scope and speed•••• " We have now in progress n. cor;iplete nationoJ. census of the nunber of hours worked by all :r.1£1.Ghine tools in the Gngincering and allied industries of the country. FroD this we shall discover ijust whn.t opportunities still exist for adapting to urgent war production tools which may be partially idle during certain parts of the vreok. Our ;::d.L1 is to get the E1ax:i.J:iu.i-:i, possible contribution fron our vitally :iJ:iportant nachine tool equipnent. 12/6/40 -No. 10. SOUTH_ AFRICAN INTERNMENTS. liAZIS AND ITALIANSo The Union Government are vigorously rounding up Nazi sympathisers in the Union and South West Af'rica. Over 800 are being arrested in South West Af'rica and between 3,000 and 4,000 in the Union. The Union authorities expect that the total numbev of' internees will soon be f'rom 6, 000 to 7,000. This number will include crews of' captured ships, of internees from South West Af'rica Yvho will be moved to the Union, and over 500 from Tanganyikao Prompt arrangements are being made to accommodate this totalo Arrangements had been made to intern all Italians on the outbreak of' war. Italians in the Union on the basis of' the 1936 census probably number rather less than 1% of' the population which represents a total of' about 17,000. +++++++ DOMINIONS AND COLONIAL OFFICES PRESS SECTIONe 12/6/40 -.NO. 11 LORD LLOYD RETURNS FROM PARIS Lord Lloyd, Secretary for the Colonies, returned yesterday rrom .a short visit to Paris. In addition to interviews with members of the French Colonial Office, he . saw certain members of the French Government. DO~UNIONS & COLONIAL OFFICES PRESS SECTION :· AIR MINISTRY NEWS SERVICE 12/6/40 -No.12. AIR MINISTRY BULLETlli NO. 8'Z,.9_:. DOG FIGHTS IlJ THE SKIES R.A.F. PILOTS' STORIES ---....-.--""~.__... , -. "A DOG FIGHT~S~ That sentence appears again and again in reports by fighter pilots who return from hunting Heinkels, Junkers, Dorniers and Messerschmitts over the battlefields of France. What happens during the "dog fight"? What does a fighter pilot see as he climbs and dives and turns, trying to close with the Nazi raider he has singled out, trying to avoid the enemy fighters who may be on his own tail? Here, in their words, are "dog fight" impressions by pilots of the R.A.F. Spitfires and Hurricanes, memories of crammed seconds put into a score of words. One of the most vivid is by a Spitfire pilot who says: "I continued to attack · belmv 'tiree level." He had dived after a Dornier 17 from 5,000 feet and pressed home his attack, although the spinner of his Spitfire had been hit by a bullet and his windscreen was covered vlith oil. "The Messerschmitt 110 dived vertically to ground line. I followed him down and he was with.in 20 feet of ground, chasing round a ch:l.mney pot," That is a Hurricane pilot's way of putting it. Another pilot said, "when I last saw the enemy, he was staggering ove±-a wood." Sometimes a pilot tells in a few sentcnCit a}larhe ohly just managed to escape with his life~ "My machine was hit from behind by machine gun fire and four cannon shells. The last cannon shell hit my port tank and the Hurricane caught fire. I used my parachute and made a delayed drop from 6,000 feet to about 1,500 feet. When my parachute opened I was fired on by troops with rifles. Four holes were made in the parachutes canopy. " One pilot describes how, in addition to being attacked from directly ahead, he was surrounded. Eighteen Me.109's attacked him and although he tried skidding and climbing, he had to take to his parachute. Another destroyed a Ju 88 after he had himself been hit.on the wings by cannon fire from :Me.nO's. Then the Me's attacked him again, and this time he says: "I received direct hits with cannon fire and then dived to the ground and found my base engine temperature was now registering 145 degrees, and fumes coming from the engine. I switched off to prevent being overcome by the fumes. Made forced landing on aerodrome." But most pilots describe the end of more satisfactory fights in familiar sentences. They say: "I immediately turned round steeply, as the Me. had passed quickly by., and saw the machine a mass of flames, diving towards the groi.md haze." Or••••• "I .then saw the complete tail of the enemy aircraft break off, this aircraft rolling over and diving out of its formation vertically. Another Me. blew up and disintegrated." "Or•••• "My windscreen was smothered with oil so that I could only see another aircraft by the flames which just showed thTough the oil. "Or••••• "I saw the fuselage tear up. The rear gunner was lying helpless in the cockpit." "Finally, here is a typical remark by a squadron leader whose Sf!uadron had just shot down seven and damaged three Ju 87's~ "All the Junkers seemed ve1-y surprised to see us: They were obviously not expecting an attack, as we were some distance behind the line." AIR AFFAIRS. ... -··--·--· ... -. -·· ~-.. . ' L!IR MINISr:1RY NEWS SERVICE. -No.15, -. ·-··. ··-· .. -·-----·---.. ··-...~ -...... -· ~ .. ' AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN No.880. , A $pitfir.p pilot diyed more than ·11 ~ 000 .:f!eet ·to 1118:li;e t~~ fiPst a~tack on tho Hcinkel 111 .·which was · shot· ·down off. the K~nt · ~OflS'~· shortl;y. af'te~ 8 at mt today~ 'After firing the W~ol:e Of ·frt~ ammunition, · he ~aw · the Heinke+ dive into cloud with black smo~e pourin~ from its port engine! A· ~ccond. Spitfir-e took up the, cha~e~ foll.owed c+oscl~ t>y tw9 morqp They could · set2) thq Hc;;inkel staggering low over. ~lie, wa~er., " with its ~ail· sJ;:>laship.g ·.tho 'surfaoo :r.epeateq.1;y: ·af;J tne, 'P'ilqt tried· in vain to ·continue his flight. FinallY;' th0''-Heinkel pame, tq: re~t on the sea, arid two members of-the crew w~no se.eri"to qltm~ 9µt into their dinghy, . They ~ere pic~od up and are po~ in. ha§P}ta~ in a Ken.t 9qastal town, PRBSS NOTICE Mr. Churchill, accompanied.by M!i~ Eden, Secretary of State f'or \Var, and General Dill, Chief of the Imperial G£eneral Staff, had meetings-in France yesterday and to-day with Monsieur Reynaud, Marechal Petain, and General Weygand, Complete agreement was reached as to the measures whiqh should be talrnn to meet the developments in the war situation•. -'!""'~~ooo-~.... MINISTRY OF INFORMATION. 12/6/40 No, 17. PRESS NOTICE. The Ministry of Transport makes the following announcement :­ It has been found necessary to cancel all the trains which were to have taken parents and others from London stations to visit evacuees on Sundays 16th. and 23rd June. Any vo~chers which intending visitors have obtained for journeys by any of these trains must be regarded as cancelled. ++++++++ MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT, 12.6,40 ... No.18, Evacuation of Registered Schoolchildren from Greater London starts tomorrow. MINISTER'S MESSAGE 'l'O PARENTS. The Minister of Heal th ( ~·!r. Malcolm MacDonald) issues the following message to the parents of the 120,000 registered schoolchildren who are to be evacuated from Greater London, starting tomorrow: "You fathers and mothers have done a wise thing in registering your children for evacuation from crowded London. Now the Government rely upon you actually. to seize this chance which your foresight has g1ven you. The move starts tomorrow and continues until next Tuesday. You must see that your children are sent to their school at the right time, of which you have been informed by the teachers. Otherwise they will now miss the chance of going away to greater safety. · "In the first place you arc helping the dhild±>en. Remember that the danger to them in case of air r aids, however good oui detendes, ~ould not only be death or wounding from direct hits, but also injury in fires spreo.cl. by incendiary bombs, and in addition the effect on their minds of the .terrible experiences they might suffer. But you arc also helping the authorities in charge of · defence~ Children may hamper the men and women who are working to protect the civilian pobulation. So the movement of these 120,000 children will strengthen the defence of London. 11 MINISTRY OF HEALTH, ------oOo-----­ )..]/_6/4D -NO. 20 The Home Secretary has made a further Order under the Aliens Order declaring certain areas to be Protected Areas~ These areas are, first, all the areas previously declared Protected Areas (except the East Anglian Area and the Kent Area which o..re covered by an earlier Order which remains in force), and secondly, two further coastal strips approximately 20 miies wide, one ru..'1.ni:n.g from the existing boundary of the East Anglian Area northwards to the northern boundary of the East Riding of Yorkshire and the other from the western boundary of the Kent Area to Lands Endo Aliens, other than those of F;.~ench nationality, Emst obtain the written permission of the police to enter or to renain in any Protected Area unless they are passing through it in the course either of a continuous journey by train from and to places outside the areo..f or of a continuous journey from or to a place outside the United Kingdom.. Such a1iens must also obtain police permission if they W::.sh to possess or use in a Protected Area such articles as carneras, telescopes ~ ruiutic~l charts, etc, The occupier or keeper of any premises in any of these areas at which an alien is staying~ is required to report to the officer in charge of the nearest police station forthwith~ (i) on the arrival of the alien9 his arrival, his names in full~ his nationality, and the address at which he spent the preceding night; and (ii); on the departure of the alien9 his departure an.a. the add1~ess at which he intends to spend the succ:eeding night... Details as to the areas to ·which these provisions apply are contained in the Schedules to the Aliens (Protected Areo..s) (Nao 4) Ord.er, 194D, and. the Aliens (Protected Areas) (Noc 5) Order~ 1940~ copies of which may be obtained from the Stationery OffL:e or from any bookseller. HOME OFFICK NOT FOR PUBLICATION BY CLUB TAPES OR OTHER IVIEP..NS BEFORE THURSDAY MORNING PAPERS. BEARER SECURITlES IN ENEMY HPJiQS. The Treasury give notice that it is proposed to compile a list of nurnbers of bearer securities which are owned by persons in enemy territory or enemy occupied territory, or which have fallen into enemy hands. Information should be sent to the Bartie or England, Securities Registration Of"f:ice, without delay, through the company secretaPies or paying agents ·in this country if the secur•ities were issued in the United Kingdom, and tlu'"'ough a bank in the United Kingdom if they vvere issued abroad. Names and addresses of beneficinl owners, p+ace of deposit and. definitive numbers and denominations of bonds, warrants, etc., and all other relevant particulars should be given in the fullest detail. TRJMSURY 12/6/40. -No. 22. EARLY HAYMAKING. To make hay of the highest quality, the kind that will replace cake, it is necessary to cut the grass while it is still immature. Many farmers are doing this. Many mm·e should follov\1' their example. One word of caution, however, is necessary. Leaf'y herbage is very deceptive. Under a hot sun it may look drier and feel drier than it really is, If stacked too soon large losses will occur through heating< The most effective safeguards are - (1) Salt: 1 peck per ton sprinkled over the stack; (2) Narrow stacks and vents; (3) Cocking and Tripoding. Many people regard cocking as wasteful of time and labour. This is a mistake. Cocking or tripoding ensures protection against scorching from too much sun anddamage from rain. Hay thus made has the maximum feeding value. All greenstuff evolves gas and heat, even in the swath. These escape unpe:.:·ceived in the field: they are retained in the stack, causing loss and damage, perhaps spontaneous combustion. So be careful and patiento Good stuff is worth some trouble. MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE. No. 23• . RICKS IN THE FIELDS. Farmers nre asked to co~operatc further in the nation'~ defence by building their hay ricks, where possible, . in the middie Qf those grass fields which might be used ns landing grounds by enemy nircrnft; Where the field is large and the ground level it will be most useful to build two or more ricks spaced across the field~ Haystacks should not, however, be erected near aerodromes if it can possibly be avoided~ MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE! i?L.E?l.40. -No. 24. AG!3-ICJJLT1!.E&. lV.J1GES BOJ'JID M!lON~ MINIMUM WAGE A meeting of the Agricultural Wages Board was held at Kings Buildings, Smith Square, London, s.w., on 11th June, the Rt. Hon. Tho Viscount Ullswater, G.CoB., presiding. The period having expired within which the CountyAgricultural Wages Committees were entitled tc make representations to the Board for lower minimum rates or wages to apply in their area instead of the national minimum wage of 48/-per week fixed by the Board at their last meeting on 7th June) the Board noted that 46 of the Committees had notified their int ention to vary the minimum rates of wages for adult maJ.e workers employed whole time by the week or longer in their areas to conform with the national minimum wage. The Board consider ed representations made by the remaining Committee, that for Cornwall and the Scilly Isles, and decided that no modification of the national minimum wage would be justified in that areao The next meeting of the Board is arranged ror Saturday,15th June, at 11 a.mo to redeive reports as to the stepstaken by the Committees in issuJ.ng Notices ·Of Proposals to vary the county minj_mum rates of wages so as to give efrect to the national minimu.~~ and to take action in any case or default. MINISTRY.OF AGRICULTURE 12/6/40 -No 2!) .... .-· ~...!.~.'; ..; _.::_.'_ -~: ... : --.... l) ~s ~onf;i.rmed iP. official cirqlos that agr,eement has :peep. r.~ae1}~d.-on-dutf:i~ai1,qJng I>oip.t·s·: retat~ng to' 1oqal ,'.lissi~os at; T.iert~s·:in and it is }1.oped that the. detailed arrangements·-w!li be available·for"publt"cation~in' a ·few clays · -'· · :: :·' .. • --;·"" · -1 ' '~ •. '>"} :t·:·~··J.' . ·:+ ·-) . : ' ~ ,' ·.· ". ,· 1t' .. OONTROL OF FATS Al\11) OILS. As already announced, from 1st July the Ministl"Y of Food will control snles to all trade users of marga~ine, compound ooolting fat, hog lard, dri1Jping and edible oils. Trade users must apply now for application form O.F.240 {a) to the Oils and Fats Dsitribution Officer for the area in which their business premises are situated. Fish Fryers should receive these forms direct from the National Federation of Fish Fryers. Any Fish Fryer who has not received a foi-•m by V/ednesday, 19th June, should applydirect to the local Oils and Fats Distribution Officer, whose address may be obtained from the Food Control Committee.. MINISTRY OF FOOp. 12/6/40 -NO! 27, KENYA'S WAR GIFTS The Governor of Kenya ahnounces that the foiiowing :rd~ther allocations from the Kenya War Welfare Fund have beeh sent direct to the organisations named: I £ Mansion House Fund 1,000 King .George's Fund for Sailors ·250 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust 250 Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund 250 Royal National Lifeboat Institution 100 st. Dunstan's 150 ChuI'c h Army 125 Salvation Army 125 Young Men's Christian Association 125 Missions to Seamen 50 DOMINION"& COLONIAL OFFICES, fRE§S fl:EtCTION . ·..··· '' . ' 12/6/40 -no.30. COLONIES I N WAR ZONE LORD LLOYD 1 S INSPIRING MESSAGE. --·---- Lord Lloyd, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has sent the following message to the Governors of Kenya, Somaliland, Malta, Ade~, Cyprus, and Gibraltar: "As the result of the latest .developments in the war situation, '. the territory fer which you are responsible has been brought within the zone of active military operations, and is now, or may be,' called upon t.o sbare directly in the dangers and hardships ·Of modern waro "I ari1 confident that these dangers and hardships will be faced with pride and deter·mination, and I hasten to assure you of my conviction that the people of your territory will display in these momentous times the courage and resolution characteristic of the peopltes of the British Empire 9 and that the day will come when we shall look back proudly and with thankfulness to the part which they have played in achieving victory over the King's enemies." +++++++.+++ DOMINION & COLONIAL OFFICES. PRESS SECTION. Air Ministry Bulletin No. 882 • 12/6/40 -NO: 31. .. Air Ministry News Service. DAYLIGHT ATTACKS ON. ENEMY FORCES High explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped at the rate of over a hundred a minute during one ten-minute action yesterday by day bombers of the Royal Air Force. The raid, one of a series of attacks launched throughout the day in support of the allied armies resisting the right wing of the German thrust, was carried out by a force of medium bombers and was directed against enemy concentrations advancing on the Lower Seine, south-east of Rouen. Attacking in sections at heights which varied from 6,ooo to 800 feet, our aircraft released salvos of bombs on their targets, wrecking convoys,scattering mechanised columns, blockin~ road junctions and setting woods ablaze. Hits were scored on a column of lorries near Les Andelys; twenty armoured fiehting vehicles on a road one mile south east of the town received a full salvo of highexplosive bombs: and ten large tanks, standinb by the roadside at Suzay, were enveloped in smoke and flying debris when heavy calibre bombs exploded on the road around them. Other targets successfully attacked in the course of this ten minutes' intensive assault included an anti-aircraft battery near Les Andelys, and a mechanised column at Racheville. At the height of this raid the starboard airscrew of one bomber was shot off and the engine disabled, but after droppinetheir bombs on the target, the crew returned safely to their base on the one undamaged engine. In the course of further sorties later in the day a bomber force, after attacking enemy concentrations in a forest at · La Mare and setting the woods on fire with incendiary bombs, were themselves attacked by a greatly superior number of Messerschmitt fighters. One of our bombers, encountering a formation of twelve Messerschmitt 109's, was engaged by the fighters which attacked simultaneously from astern above and below. One Messerschmitt was almost immediately shot down in . flames by a burst of fire from the British observer's gun which -·, tore chunks of metal out of the fighter's wing-roots, and a few minutes later a second Messerschmitt 109, caught at close range by the bomber's air gunner, was sent plunging down trailing a cloud of black smoke. Another bomber with six Messerschmitt 1091 s on its tail dived for cover into a cloud, On coming out it narrowly missed a head on collision with the leader of an enemy formation which it had been evading. The fighter, apparently shaken by his narrow escape, did not pursue the engagement. AIR AFFAIRS 12/6/40 -No 32 Air Ministry No 88~ AIR MINISTRY COMMUNIQUE During yesterday,. medium bombers of the R.A.F. made repeatedattacks on enemy motor transport columns armoured ·fighting vehicles, and troop concentrations in the loops of the Seine ea·st of Rouen and the adjacent wooded areas. The enemy's movements were harassed both by bombing and low-flying machine gtin attacks. In the course of these operations two enemy fighters were shot down. Four of our aircraft ·· are missingo Night operations included bombing of key points, railway junctions and ammunition dumps in the rear of the fighting zones from the sea to the Meuse. Enemy concentrations in the neighbourhood of the Seine were.. again bombed, the crossings of the Somme suffered further damage and woods were set afire in the Hirson-Givet area. Other aircraft attac·ked military objectives at Cologne an'd elsewhere in Western Germany. In the course of a reconnaissance over NortheJ.nitaJ.y, heavy bonroro operating from Great Britain attacked military objectives at Turin, while others bombed targets at Genoa. One of our heavy bombers is missing. Our fighters were active over France yesterday. At least eight enemy aircraft were destroyed. One of our fighters is missing~ Off the South East coast of England this morning Spitf'ires shot down a Heinkel bomber. AIR AFFAIRS. 12/6/40 -No.33• The following is issued by Naval Affairs for such use .as the Press may wish to make of it.. -~LI>° AN UN.FORTUNATE SHIPt At 4 P•ID• this afternoon the German Propaganda Ministrybroadcast from Deutschlandsender the following statement:~ "Last night at dawn a German submarine in the Atlantic stopped what it to-ok to be ~ Greek steamer, which it had previously ·stopped on the assumption that it was. not obeying orders~ . An exchange of flash signals took place between the ships. VVhen the submarine lea:rned that it was the u.s. liner "WAS'HINGTON" .it gave free passage to the ship• The American State Department states that governments had been notified that the ship was returning via Ireland• This is unfortunately incorrect. The German Government did not I.earn until yesterday afternoon that the ship would call at an Irish port in addition to Bordeaux and Lisbon." That this statement is completely untrue is shown by the faet that the Germans themselves had previously made . the followingannouncementsfrom their controlled broadcasting stations:• From Transocean at 4 p.m. on June 3rd,1940: "As, however, the steamer "WASHINGTON" will pass through war zones which otherwise would be evaded by American vessels; according to American regulations; competent German military quarters have been informed of intended voyage of steamer "WASHINGTON", and had received strict orders to let steamer carry out its voyage· unhindered." Fr-om ,Hamburg in English at. 11 .1 5 p~m.· on 7t~ June:\ 1940 : "U • S ~ NATIONALS GOING HOME. The U. s. liner "WASHINGTON" which arrived at Bordeaux yesterdmy, in order to t ake American c~tizens back to the States, will not proceed to Genoa as originally planned but will merely touch Lisbon and an Irish port." From Deutschlandsender in German at. 6 a.m. 1 Oth June, 19Lb0 : "THE WASHINGTON LEAVES' BORDEAUX. u.s..A. steamer "WASHINGTON" lef't Bordeaux for New York the day before yesterday." She carried one thousand American .passengers, who crone from various Eurouean countries. On her return voyage to America, the steamer will call at Lisbon and in Ireland to embark a further number of American citizens." NAViUJ AFFAIRS• URGENT NEV\TS · ;B:,0'.(/;...L...h.Il\ ,FQ:J.CI: h:d.ARDS NO., 5.2.o The KING has been graciously pleased . t o approve the undermentioned awa1·ds in reco:..;nition of gallantr·y displayed in flying operations against the enemy;- Awarde R.Qf.~.~L.QJLC~S Pilot Officer DEERE (22) born at Au ckl and, Nc.Z..,, was educated at St,, Can:ice ts S·'."hool, Westport; and. Vianganni Technical College~ He joined the R.A.Fo as a pupil pilot in 1938 and was granted a short service commission the same yearo Sergeant BU'rTERFIELD born at Leeds in 19J.3 joined the R.A.F~ as an apprentice straight from school i n 1929a He is now a pilot fitter , 9 and his wife lives a t Stamfordo Press and Publicity BranPh~ Air Ministry, King Charl es Stre~t, London.~ SoWolo