31/10/40 -
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AIR MINISTRY 21


 AIR MINISTRY AND MINISTRY OF HOME
 SECURITY COMMUNIQUE


 Enemy air attacks during the night were mainly
confined to the London area and Eastern and Southern

England, though a few bombs were also dropped in the
Midlands. Most of the attacks were made during the early
part of the night and the raids ceased some time before
daylight.

 The attacks were not on a heavy scale, and though
houses were hit at several places the damage as a whole
was slight and casualties were few.


 It is now known that five of our fighters were lost
yesterday. One of the pilots is safe.
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 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR BROADCAST BEFORE 12 NOON
 G.M.T. ON THURSDAY, THE 31st OCTOBER,


 (Simultaneous publication in India has been arranged).



 In spite of war time difficulties, arrangements have
been made to transport pilgrims from India to perform the
Hajpilgrimage and the necessary shipping is being provided.
Realising that the fare for sea journeys, if based on actual
costs, would, in the present circumstances, be prohibitive
for poorer pilgrims, H.M. Government and the Government of
India have agreed to meet certain items of expenditure
attributable to war conditions, such as cost of war risk
insurance on pilgrim ships (the principal factor tending to
increase fares) and expenditure on account of any abnormal
detention due to measures designed for the protection of
these ships from dangers of enemy action. The effect will
be that, in spite of a heavy increase in operating costs
under war conditions, this subsidy will make it possible to
keep pilgrim fares close to the former level -
 for example*
a return deck passage from Bombay to Jedda will cost only
Rs. 195> as compared with Rs. 173 in 1938 and 1939» Sailings
have been arranged from Bombay, Karachi and Calcutta, and
pilgrim ships will be convoyed in the danger zone and such
other measures taken as may be necessary to afford pilgrims
the fullest possible protection.




INDIA OFFICE.

31st October, 1940.
Press Notice.


 SAVING 350,000 TONS OF TIMBER A YEAR.



 A special Economy Branch of the Ministry of Supply Timber Control is

now saving timber at the rate of 350,000 tons a year. This economy, which

means an important saving in shipping space and foreign exchange, has been
made possible by evolving new methods of using timber. The substantial

tonnage saved is additional to the economies which the Control’s
 licensing
 has achieved
system through cutting down supplies for non-essential
purposes.


 Many suggestions for economies are received by the Timber Control,
most frequent being those concerned with matches. About 125,000,000,000
matches are used and people are prolific in their schemes for
 every year
saving timber in their production.

 Ideas suggested include matches dipped at both ends, smaller and
thinner matches, a self-Striking cigarette, and a cement match (for which
appropriate blue prints were enclosed)*

 Great economies in timber have been made by the substitution of fibre
board cases for wooden ones and by the use of open crates instead of closely

Jointed cases* It is hoped that whisky, gin and other spirits (which as
exports are valuable and bring in useful foreign currency) will soon be

packed in corrugated pulpboard when being sent overseas. The use of this
material, which is made from waste paper, will mean a further saving of
timber.


 The lapping-boards on which textiles are rolled have been replaced by
a light framework which saves something like 15,000 tons of timber a year.
Wherever timber is used by the Service Departments new specifications have
been drafted to ensure that it is of the lowest grade and the smallest and

lightest size that can safely be used*


 Every industry which uses timber has been carefully examined to see

whether it can do without it altogether or use much less than previously.
Wherever substitutes can be used they are insisted upon, and if they are

not available the timber must be used over and over again.


Ministry of Supply,
Press Office,
Adelphi, W.C.2.

31st October, 1940.


 M.BOl.
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 The following statement is issued by the Public Relations Office of

London Passenger Transport Board in connection with a conference addressed

by Mr© T©E Thomas, General Manager, (Operations) in the Main Conference Hall
 o



of the Ministry of Information, Senate House at Ho 30 Thursday morning

October 31sis«


 LONDON TRANSPORT AND AIR RAIDS.


 RAPID REPAIRS



 7,500,000 TAKEN TO WORK EVERY DAY

 PLANS FOR THE WINTER


 Talcing seven and. a half million workers to their work and home again:
strengthening ordinary services and supplementing those of main line railways:
evacuating children; maintaining
 women and ever-ready an ambulance fleet:

running special Sunday services, express and emergency schedules: repairs to
damage; diversions and underground shelters are some of the gigantic problems
which the war has presented to London Transport®

 Its war organisation has withstood well, seven weeks of intense aerial
warfare and plans are prepared for the coming winter#


The Staff Problem
 Before tho bombardment began, 10,500 employees of the Board had been called
up or given leave to join H©M© forces© Of this number. many were members of the

operating staffs© When the consumption of Fuel oil and petrol was restricted,
the Board allowed a number of bus drivers to volunteer as instructor drivers with
the Royal Army Service Corps and some 1,400 more were detailed to man the Green

Line coaches that had neen converted to ambulances and which were kept available
at key points and ready for twenty four hours of the day.
 Steps wex
 s
 e taken to make up these losses of staff. Nearly 1,000 Central
bus conductors were trained as
 drivers, trolleybus men were trained to drive oil
and petrol buses, women conductors were engaged for country buses and women porters
 were also recruited© Large numbers of women were selected to be called up when
needed©


More Staff Called For
 An unforseen difficulty arose in staffing the
 emergency bus fleet® When it
 desired to promote the concluctors who had been trained as call up
was drivers, a


was made of the women who had been accepted in recent weeks as conductors and the

result was most disappointing© In response to one call up of 350, only 20 replied.
The board has now called for more applicants, asking for 1,000 conductors, male
or female, for central buses and 500 women conductors for country buses. Peace-
time standards have been relaxed, and successful applicants are being trained
without delay©
 Negotiations are in progress with the Ministry of Labour and the Transport
Workers Union to see whether a number of conductors can be brought to London from
the provinces® Drivers are also needed and it is hoped to obtain the release of
a number fl?om the Army and the Green Line ambulances®
 To make up for the shortage of staff, drivers and conductors have volunteered

freely to give up their rest days in order to man emergency vehicles©

The Emergency Fleet
 The buses that had been taken off the road when petrol rationing was

introduced were not stored away but were kept in condition to go on the roads
at a moments notice© The result was that the Board had an emergency fleet of
600 double deck buses ready to supplement other services and a further reserve

of 300 buses©
 The war organisation is based upon the rapid use of this
 of the Board

emergency fleet of buses and the
 speedy repair of damage# With hundreds of trains
running on 218 miles of railway and buses, trams, trolleybuses and coaches running
on nearly 3pooo males of roads, it is not surprising that London Transport has
suffered its share of troubles©


Diversions

 It should be appreciated. that if "buses have to "be diverted from their normal
 routes , they may have to make their way eiong narrow side streets unsuited to
heavy traffic o
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 In such circumstances
 delays and irregular running may "be unavoidable
 and the solution is not always the easy one of putting on more buses On the o




 contrary that might the situation
 worsen by creating greater congestion.


Repair and Maintenance

 The strain on the Board*s services has varied from day to day even from

 hour to hour o The stabling, cleaning and servicing of vehicles in such
 circumstances, under conditions of strict blackout, has necessitated strenuous
 and exacting work*
 The Engineer in Chief’s war
 emergency organisation works 24 hours
 a
 day.
 Two instances recently of the rapid repair of serious damage may be given:
 A H.E© bomb struck a station platform in the open, derailed a train, made
 the station roof dangerous, wrecked the signal gantry and made the railway
 unsafe. Restricted train services were running next day.

 A bomb fell behind a signal cabin, damaging it severely and making it
 unsafe and throwing one track bodily on the other track. Services were
restored two and a half days latero

Measures of Traffic Relief

 Express busesare running on ten routes and the experiment has been so
 successful they will be placed on ten other routes almost at once. The buses
 that
 that are being loaned by the provinces and Scotland will assist in the restoration
 of all Green Line and the strengthening of auxiliary services.
 coach routes
 Over some railvzays leading into London which may be interrupted,
 sections of
new skeleton bus searrices, with buses travelling at wide intervals will be established
Such skeleton services will be increased rapidly in an emergency and passengers^-
 1
being aware that auoh a service. is running, will know There to look for
 their alternative means of travel 3
Plans for the Coming Winter-
 As the days become shorter, the evening peak period will become earlier
and timetables have been prepared to provide the necessary transport. There are

now very few people about the streets late at night and it is expected that in
the winter there will be no passengers for road vehicles after ten p.m. to
eleven p o m P It is not intended, therefore, to run scheduled journeys after
hours This will make it easier to maintain services during the earlier hours
 o



of the blackouto

 Special buses will be run for late workers and the Underground will run up
to a later hour. Sleeping quarters are being provided for men on early and

late dutieso

Other Improvements
 Other improvements include the opening in conjunctijn with the Main Line
railways of information bureaux in the city, the west-end. and in industrial

areas: the recent devising of means to arscidL the closing of a number of watertight
doors on the Underground during air raids and the
 fitting of improved lighting
to all road vehicles, including a lamp that illuminates the platforms of buses
and the kerb so that passengers may board and alight in safety.
 Passengers can help by travelling home as early as possible to avoid the
evening peak period and by staggering travel at all times, especially after
’’Raiders Passed” signals*

Bunks for Shelter er s.

 One of the Boards most difficult problems has been that of the shelterers
in the tubes. The
 sheltering is
 being placed on an orderly basis so that the
least possible inconvenience is occasioned to travellers. The position will be
improved still more because the Board has agreed that the Ministry of Home Security
shall erect three tier bunks at the stations © This will increase the accommodation
availableo Spaces will still be ready for people who take temporary shelter from
the street.
 At the request of the Ministry of Food, the Board has begun the supply of
refreshments to sheltere; ss. This will involve the employment of a staff of 1,000.


 +++++++



MINISTRY OF INFORMATION
 ■ .
 r
 Press Notices Not for publication before morning papers of Friday,
 November Ist or broadcast in any form before 7
 Friday, November 1st, 19400




 FERTILISER PRICES*


 The Minister of Supply has issued the Control of Fertilisers (:N0.7)
 Order. 1940? and a Direction (No 6)o under the Control of Fertilisers

 (No*1; Order, 1939, fixing majcimum prices Lor the remainder of the
 season in respect of sulphate of ammonia, superphosphate, ground phosphate
 and compound fertilisers,. It will be recalled the Government announced

 last month that, subject to certain conditions, there would be no

 further increases this season in the prices of these fertilisers
 other
 than the seasonal increases of Is* 6d* per ton per month previously
 announced* These Orders provide accordingly.


 Copies of the Order and Direction may be purchased fran
 H»M. Stationery Office, York House, Kingsway, W.C* 2, or from any

 bookseller*




 Ministry of Supply,
 Press Office,
 Adelphi, W.C*2.
 31st October, 1940*


M. 797.
 31/10/4O -
 No.. 6.


 TORCH BATTERIES FOR WINTER


 of torch batteries during the winter,
 To ensure adequate supplies
the Board of Trade have arranged to licence a certain quantity of im-

ports. By this means the substantial quantities of batteries manu-

factured in this country are being supplemented with the aim of
preventing a shortage such as occurred last year.


 While home production and imports should be sufficient to meet
the demand, as estimated from experience, the Board of Trade wish to

urge the desirability of economy in the use of torch batteries.


 In the national interest it is still desirable to limit imports,
which must be paid for in dollars and take shipping space required for
war supplies, as much as possible.


 The number of batteries needed, the Board point out, will depend
upon the way in which torches are used. . Last year torches were used
far more out-of-doors during the black-out than was necessary. Since
the intensified air-raids began this year torches have been used much
more than is necessarjr indoors, particularly in shelters. The practice
has grown of leaving them alight all night.


 Even a large battery which with reasonable use would last two

or three months, would not keep going for more than two days under such

conditions.


 Torches are not an economical means of permanent illumination.
In the interests of their own pockets as well as in the national interest,
 urged to restrict the of torches much
users are use as as possible.

 For permanent illumination in shelters and elsewhere more

suitable forms of lighting should be used. Torches should be used

simply as flashlamps.

 Economy can also be effected by using the larger types of batteries.
The small battery known as No. 8, for example, costing 3id. , gives about
two hours’ light if used continuously. A large battery such as the U..2,
costing about 9cL, gives from twelve to fifteen hours’ light. By using
 ,

the larger types of batteries users will save their own pockets and
assist the war effort by reducing imports.

 The Board of Trade have taken steps to ensure that imported
batteries shall be of satisfactory quality. The Torch Batteries Imports
Advisory Committee, set up by the trade at the request of the Board of
Trade, has undertaken the distribution through normal trade channels of
batteries of sound quality to be sold at reasonable prices.


 Every importer of batteries and every dealer is under an obligation
to comply with the Prices of Goods Act (1939)* Application of the Act
vO the torch battery trade will be closely watched by the C e ntral Price
Regulation Committee on behalf of the Board of Trade.


 The Board to prevent
 are determined
 profiteering. In appealing
to the public to
 part the Board state:
 do its ’’Every battery saved
means one less to import, more currency to pay for aircraft, guns and
other war supplies, and more shipping space to bring them to our shores.”




BOARD OF TRADE,
 MINISTRY OF LABOUR & NATIONAL

 SERVICE—Press Notice
 7/31.10.40.


 Schedule of Reserved Occupations.


 The Ministry of Labour and National Service announces the following
changes in the Schedule of Reserved Occupations:-

1. The following occupations, not previously reserved, are now reserved

at the ages stated:-



 Filleter, splitter, skinner, sorter, grader,
 packer-sorter, packer-grader, (Wholesale Fish Trade) -
 30
 Diamond sorter - 25

 Assistant superintendent (or assistant district
 manager) in industrial insurance companies or


 collecting friendly societies -
 35


2. Railway clerks who relief station masters
 are employed as or as


relief control staff are now reserved at age 25.



 The above entries are not retrospective in their effect; that is,
they do not involve the release of men now in the Forces or of men who
have already received enlistment notices.



3. As from Ist December, 1940, the
 age of reservation of the following
occupations will be raised from 30V to 35V.



 Compositor (hand, all others);
 jobbing andLinotype, monotype and
 Printing machine minder;
 intertype operator; guillotine cutter;
 reader; other workers (excluding warehouse) in printing;

 Lithographic artist, designer; lithographic printer (machine minder);
 lithographic printer; line photographer; lithographic transferer;
 printer-down on metal (lithographic and
 process engraver);
 photographic retoucher (line negative) plategrainer; other

 lithographic copper and plate photogravure workers, other
 steel

 process engravers, except Admiralty chart and bank note copperplate
 printers; bookbinder; other workers (excluding warehouse) in

 bookbinding.
AIR MINISTRY No. 21 31/10/40 ~
 No, .8*



 AIR MINISTRY AND MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY COMMUNIQUE.

 •


 There has been little air activity over this country up
to midday today. Early this morning a single enemy aircraft
dropped bombs on a town in the South-East of England, some

damage was done and casualties caused including a small number
of persons killed. •




 It is now known that two more enemy aircraft were

destroyed yesterday, making nine in all. As already announced
five of our aircraft are missing, one of the pilots is safe*
 31/10/40 -
 Ho< 9*
AIR MINISTRY No. 2136.



 . AIR MINISTRY COMMUNIQUE.


 Though operations were restricted last night because of
bad weather, the docks at Antwerp and Flushing were heavily
bombed and the naval base at Emden was attacked.

 Cherbourg harbour was attacked during daylight operations
yesterday,

 One enemy aircraft was destroyed. One of our aircraft is
missing#
 31/10/40 -
 No. 10,
AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN No. 2137.

Air Ministry News Service.



 R.A.F. DAY BOMBERS ATTACK ENEMY SHIPPING.



 Cherbourg harbour, and shipping off the French Coast
were attacked during daylight operations yesterday by
aircraft of the Bomber Command,


 Dockside "buildings were hit, and a heavy salvo was
dropped among four ”E" boats cruising twenty miles out to sea.
 3l/10/4O -No. 11,




 NOT FOR PUBLICATION BEFORE THE MORNING NEWSPAPERS GF FRIDAY,
 NOVEMBER OR BROADCAST BEFORE 7 ON THAT DATE.
 1, adm,




 ARMISTICE DAY



 The King has decided that the usual service at the Cenotaph
 shall not be held this year; and the Government feel that in

 present circumstances it would be preferable that other large
 services which it has been the custom to hold throughout the country
 on Armistice Day should net be held o In view of the risk of
 confusion with the air-raid warning signals, it will net be possible
 7
 to signal a Two-Minutes Silence as in previous years.


 November 11th will, however, be observed as Poppy Day, as
 hitherto, and the British Legion are making the usual arrangements
\<for the sale of poppies in aid of Earl Haig’s Fund.


 In past years it has been the general practice to hold special
 places of worship cn the Sunday before Armistice Day.
 This year, it is proposed that Sunday, November 10th, shall be
 observed as a Day r.f Remembrance and Dedication; and an announcement
 regarding the observance of that day is being issued by the Archbishop
 of Canterbury after communication with the authorities of the ••




 principal Christian Communions in this country.




 HOME OFFICE,
 31/10/40 -
 No»l2>




NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IK ANY FORM BEFORE THE MORNING PAPERS OF
 NOVEMBER Ist 19UO NOT TO BE BROADCAST BEFORE 7 a.m.
FRIDAY, •.




 ON THAT DATE.




 ARMISTICETIDE.,


 ARCHBISHOP OP CANTERBURY'S MESSAGE,

 The following announcement has been issued by the Archbishop
of Canterbury:


 ”His Majesty’s Government have announced that in present
circumstances Armistice Day, November 11th, cannot he observed in
the once customary manner. But while this is inevitable there will
be a general desire that Armisticetide should not pass without

recalling, though with a new direction of the mind, the memories
and associations which have so long surrounded it. It is therefore

proposed, with the approval of His
 the King, that Sunday,
 Majesty
November 10th, the day immediately preceding Armistice Day, should
be observed in our various places of worship and in our hearts and
homes as a Day of Remembrance and Dedication, Remembrance -we

shall still remember those who fought and died for their country’s
cause in the last war and with them now those who have already in
the present war given their lives. Dedication -we shall dedicate
ourselves to the task of
 finishing if it may be the work which the
men of 1914-18 sought to
 dj, and of doing and giving our utmost to
win the victory of freedom, justice and peace. We shall dedicate
our minds and wills even now to the task which will await ue when
this war is over -
 the task of bringing in a new and better ordering
of our common life both national and international on the basis of
the Christian Faith and on loyalty to the Kingdom of God, Truly,
by the call of this great time, the most fateful in our history, to
each one of us a ’’bond is given that he should henceforth be else
sinning greatly a dedicated spirit.”




HOME OFFICE
 31/10/40 -
 no. i


 AIRCRAFT WORKERS VISIT FIGHTER STATION.


 Some of the men who build the famous Hawker Hurricanes
met some of the men who fly them when a party of the Hawker
Aircraft Company’s employees visited a South of England
Fighter Command Station yesterday.

 The visit was arranged jointly between the Ministry of
Aircraft Production and the Air Ministry.



 The aircraft workers, mostly shop stewards in charge of
different departments, were intensely interested and impressed
during the day they spent at the Station. They talked to

pilots and heard some of the stories of the numerous victories
achieved over the enemy.


 They also talked to maintenance airmen on the aerodrome -




the men who "keep the fans turning".

 One machine had been damaged the previous morning. When
the Aircraft Company’s men arrived, the Hurricane was ready to
go up for a test. A new wing had been fitted and other
repairs had been made in 2h hours.


 One of the Hawker employees declared with a grin, ’’That’s
almost as quick as we can‘build a complete Hurricane these days.’


 The pilots to whom the workers talked are from different
squadrons, and their total bag is something like two hundred
enemy aircraft. One, a Squadron Commander who was decorated
with the D.S.O. and D.S.C. by the King at a Fighter Command
Station some time ago, recently went to open a local Spitfire
fund. "I told them they had better start a Hurricane fund as

well", he told the Hawker Company’s employees.




MINISTRY OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION.
 31/10/40 -
 No.. 114,



 GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR.


 The number of German prisoners of war announced, in the B.B.C’s
German broadcasts as being in British hands since the previous list
was issued, on the 28/10/l|.O, is as below:-


 Air Force - 18 prisoners (Ages from 20 - 28 years)

 No Italian prisoners of war have been announced as being in British
hands since the previous list was issued on the 28/10/UO.




MILITARY AFFAIRS.
 Press Notice.


 NEW RAILINGS CAMPAIGN FOR SCRAP.


 Private- 'owners asked to co-operate.


 The Ministry of Supply (iron and Steel Control) has just inaugurated
 a new voluntary scheme to encourage the private owner to give up his
 railings for the scrap metal campaign.

 A start is being made in the Midlands area -


 Leicestershire, Shropshire,
 Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Y/orcestershire -
 with Birmingham as the

 centre, and the scheme will be extended to other districts as soon as

 results from the Midlands area are received#



 Explanatory notes are being sent out to all Local Authorities and

 each individual house will be
 -owner supplied with a leaflet explaining
 the Ministry’s requirements, together with a form to be filled in
 authorising the removal of the railings# It is pointed out in the leaflet
 that railings which are of a historical or artistic value or which serve

 an essential such as protecting the public from danger, should not
 purpose,
 be disturbed# But there are thousands of tons of unessential boundary

 fences, house frontage railings and partitions between gardens. All these

 might well disappear in the national interest* The occupier of a house,
 if he is not the will be
 asked to obtain the owner’s signature
 owner,
 permitting removal. It hoped that the distribution of leaflets,
 is

 canvassing and other preliminary work will be assisted by voluntary bodies -




 W#Vo S a
 , Boy Scouts, and so on -

 leaving the Local Authority with greater
 freedom to concentrate on the collection and disposal of the metal.

 The actual work of removal can be carried out either by the
 Local Authorities, who would then make good walls and copings, or put
 out to tender by scrap merchants#

 The Iron and Steel Control is prepared to advise on suitable scrap
 merchants for the purpose, or to give location of mills to which the

 broken-up metal may be sent, if the Local Authorities prefer to carry out

 the breaking up, sorting and disposal themselves.


 Although the price of
 scrap metal is rigidly controlled it is high
 enough, when the metal is handled in reasonable bulk, to cover costs of
 removal and making good walls and also leave a certain amount over* This

 can be applied to the relief of rates or handed over to the Red Cross or
 other voluntary appeals.


 The Ministry hopes that the campaign will be conducted on a


 house-to-house and street-to-street basis, both in order to avoid isolated

 unsightly, and in the
 lengths of railing being left and so making a street

 interests of economical handlings




 Ministry of Supply,
 Press Office,
 Adelphi, W C,2„ #




 31st October, 1940 c




M.BIB O
 31/10/4O - No, 16.


 LORD CROFT VISITS CANADIANS.


 Lord Croft > Under*Secretary of State for War and Vice-President of the Army
Council, visited units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force on Thursday, October


 He said that the Army Council was very proud to have their fine formations

co-operating with the great Army which was being built up in this country.


 He, himself had had the privilege of fighting in battle alongside the Canadian

Expeditionary Force in the
 early Spring, of. 1915 and also in 1917, and could never
forget the elan or the dogged fighting qualities they displayed on those bloody fields.


 After the collapse of France this ,Sprimer the world - a sorrowing world -
 looked
at? our cause almost lost, for to those without knowledge this old
 with pity as


Country with 47>000,000 people seemed to stand alone, almost doomed, facing
80,000,000 Germans drunk with victory and spreading over most of Europe.

 What the world did not realize 47,000,000 people of the
 was that behind the

Motherland, there was already the gathering of the Clans.
 Apparently the Germans
thought that at the first blow this Commonwealth of free people would fall to pieces.

 What they did not understand was that the most virile nations on God's earth
were already on the move and just because they are free they come with bigger hearts
and 1 firmer stride to fight to the last ditch for that which we brethren of the

Empire prize more than life itself -
 liberty of conscience, mind and spirit -
 that
freedom which calls its soul its own.



 He knew how early Canada wanted to be in the field, and they knew that they
were only denied the opportunity of coming- to grips with the enemy last summer by a

few days. t-.<• . .

 Wien the eyes of the world were turned on England from July onwards, you were

hereby our side and once more up to date you have so far been deprived of that

opportunity which you came so far to seek.


 This time it was not the collapse of Allies but the bashfulness of Hitler who,
after most definite premises to the German people to make his debut in London was not

prepared to face his audience or even to approach the stagedoor.


 Your presence here along with soldiers of Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland

provided many thousands of weighty reasons additional to the main one, that the men
of this old land are prepared to die where they stand on our white cliffs and golden
sands before a German boot pollutes a foot of our
 precious soil.


 There are other weighty reasons. Y our airmen were with us early in the skies.

A crushing German victory in the air necessary prelude
 was a to invasion and the
destruction of our Ports and Harbours, transport system and factories, essential.

 The eagle-spirited sons of Great Britain and the Dominions have definitely
proved that even in face of great odds they are the "better men.




 The weightiest reason of all was the Royal Navy and the men who man our ships.


 /Dhe Navy
 The if to believe Doctor Goebbels has been sunk times but
 Navy, we are many
still units, sent to the bottom by German wireless a dozen times, hold the seas, and

so long as that is true Britain lives and we can clasp the outstretched hand of the

Dominions with their ever increasing gifts of manhood, aircraft and the food on

which we live.

 What of the future? The present phase of the war is largely the struggle for
air ascendancy.
 He was a whole-hearted believer that air ascendancy was in process of being won

by the vast training plans ever progressing in Canada. If our Air Force, in which

are so many Empire pilots, can continue to hold the enemy, which he did not doubt,
then when the river of supplies of pilots from the great Imperial Camps in Canada
turns to flood, air ascendancy will be won.


 What then of the. .Army? It must be the most highly trained and disciplined
that ever fought if it Is to. achieve, its...pbxposs»? A. Those of us who day after day,
month after month and year after year fought the Germans before know that courage
is not enough the machine must be in equipment" and perfect in training.
 -

 perfect
It must be elastic and have all the-
 qualities of individual initiative, but it mu.
also have that
 complete rhythm and system which enables the. Commander to dispose
 "


his forces suddenly with complete 'confidence# .■•'?■?- . '

 Never forget this: .in the last war most highly disciplined units were always
the best fighting. units and always the happiest.

 Modern war is one of surprises., ;,.The highest fopn of ..training from the
barrack square to the co-ordination of the'largest forces'iri the-field is necessary
 a:
to deal with the speed of mechanical units today. -




 He would urge them
 to. concentrate.all their? energies and will-power on that
training. Germany cannot win the war unless she lands in this- Island and makes
us hold up our. hands. No terror, no murdering of civilians; or destruction of
Churches and hospitals will- ever drive our people to surrender.


 But we want more than that. If the Germans do not come we will go to them,
in which field no man can ye it say, but somewhere East, West or North there is a

flank to turn or a front to-be pierced,.and since the Armies of the Empire are of the

same stuff as ! bur seamen and airmen when the opportunity arises it will be the same

triumph of mind over mass, the same vindication of freemen over slaves.

 The people of the homeland know that you have sacrificed your jobs and left
your homes-J >OOO, 4,000, worthy of your sacrifice
 5,000 miles away. . We will be
and never forget your powerful and generous aid in this hour of our common peril.



WAR OFFICE.
 31/10/40 -
 No. 1




 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN aNY NORM, BEPOR: THE MORNING PAPERS
 s>~¥rlDaY, NOVEMBER Ist, iffiTO. NOT TO BE BROADCAST

 BEFORE 7 a.m. ON THaT DATE.




 PRESS NOTICE


 The King has been pleased to approve the retention of his
office by the Most Hon. the Marquess of Linlithgow, P.0., K»T.,
G.C.5.1., G.C.1.E., Viceroy and Governor General of India for a

further period of one year from April, 1941.




 -No.
 31/10/40
 1
 31/10/40 - No. 18.




 CAIRO OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE.



 The following official communique was issued today from
General Headquarters in Cairo:


 From Egypt, Kenya and Palestine there is nothing to report.

 In the Sudan on October 27/28 our fighting patrols were

again active in the Kassala area. On the latter
 day a

party of the enemy was successfully ambushed leaving 15 dead
and six prisoners in our hands, while two mechanical transport
vehicles were destroyed.

 Our casualties were nil.




MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.
 31/10/40 -
 No.-I




 GENERAL WEYGAND'S WARNING



 On October 30th The "Ddpeche Marocaine", which is
published in
 Tangier, published the fullowing from Rabat
dated October 29th.


 "Certain foreign radio stations have broadcast Wndencious
reports of France having accepted terms incompatible with her
national honour. Residency General has received from French
Government information which permits it to affirm that said
reports are devoid of all foundation. Thefollowing message
addressed yesterday to General Neguds'by General Weygand, delegate
of French Government in has forcefully confirmed
 1
above. General Weygand wdrns the people of French Africa
against hasty and tendencidus foreign reports concerning the
'attitude and orders' of the French Government. I ask all

Governors and Residents General to warn their people immediately
in this sense. Nothing contrary to the honour of the interests
of France and her peoples who have entrusted themselves to her
has been or could be agreed to by a Government headed by
Marshal Petain".




FOREIGN OFFICE NEWS DEPARTMENT
AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN N 0.2138 31/10/40 -
 N 0.20.



 ATLANTIC RESCUE BY EX-U.S. DESTROYER


 BROADCAST SCRIPT BY A FLYING OFFICER.


 The following is the advance copy of a talk to he broadcast at about 6.15 this

evening by the captain of an aircraft, the crew of which was rescued from the sea by
one destroyers recently transferred to the Royal Navy by the United States
 of the o



The flying officer, who was in the sea 22 hours, is half-American and a recent

racing blue*
 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY.


B .B, Announcer: Recently the first job to fall to of the American destroyers
 0., one

transferred to the British Navy was to rescue from the sea the crew of a Royal Air
Force heavy bomber® By a remarkable coincidence the captain of the aircraft, who

is a recent rowing blue, is himself half American and his mother is now in California
He is here in the studio tonight to tell listeners of the crew’s 22 hours’ ordeal
in the Atlantic.

Speaker: Many people have said what a welcome addition the American destroyers would
be to our fleet, I am sure that no-one is likely to give them a more hearty and
grateful welcome than that of my crew and myself one afternoon a couple of weeks ago
when after drifting aimlessly about in a rubber dinghy off the coast of Ireland for
a
 very long time we suddenly saw on the crest of a wave the funnels of a destroyer.

 It happened like this. We had been detailed to escort a convoy and had met it
inward bound at abort midday, Severa.l hours later while we were still on patrol, the
rear gunner reported a trace of smoke from the starboard engine, I could see very

little myself; the oil and radiator temperatures were quite normal and I was not
unduly worried. I decided however to return to base at once and the wireless

operator reported to base that we were doing so. But almost immediately our trouble
 the
increased, engine got very hot and so did I and it was only a matter of a
 - -




very few minutes before we found ourselves cooling- rather rapidly in the
 of
 I saw clouds smoke pouring from the engine, the temperature shot right up, and
I had to throttle the engine back to prevent it catching fire. We were only at about

500 feet at the time and the aircraft would not maintain height on the other engine,
I told the Crew to stand by for a landing on the sea, and our dinghy drill had to be
carried out pretty rapidly. The tail gunner came forward to the dinghy, the second

pilot and the na.vigator went aft, followed by the "wireless operator after he had
finished sending his S.O.S. They all braced themselves for the shock of hitting the
water. This we must have done with quite a crack, in spite of my efforts to hold

off as long as possible speed, and reduce as the fuselage broke nearly in two just
forward of the leading edge of the wings. The cockpit immediately began to fill

with water and I thought it was time for me to be moving# I climbed out through
the
 escape hatch in the roof and found the rest of the crew in the sea with the

dinghy which was just opening.
 I scrambled across the gap in the fuselage and walked aft. The dinghy was fully
open and the
 rope tying it to the aircraft had been cut but it was still caught in

the angle between the fuselage and tail plane so I was able to step straight into it.
This was a great stroke of luck as the hardest job is usually to get the first man

into the boat® We pushed ourselves clear of the aircraft and then I helped the
crew in. The wireless
 operator was the most urgent case as he had hit himself

jumping in and had swallowed a lot of salt water when went under; was he he
 very
nearly unconscious. We got him in af.ter quite a struggle and the rest of the crew

came aboard in turn# The aircraft had sunk by the time the last had got in o


 This in the there about three hours
 happened at about 4 o’clock afternoon; were

of and of much that S.CLS. would have
 daylight remaining, course we hoped very our

been received and that we should be picked up or at least sighted that We

were at the time within sight of land but a strong south-westerly wind was carrying
us
 away out to seao Darkness fell without a sight of ships or aircraft and we


resigned ourselves to at least another fourteen hours afloat. At first we could

see the beam from a lighthouse, but that disappeared by midnight, as the wind which

was increasing nearly to gale force blew us farther from land.


 /There
 -
 2 -




 There were only three things to do all night., to keep awake to keep warm and
 >

to try and keep the boat as dry as possible,, We had all, except the rear gunner,
swallowed some salt water and were sea sick, I was lucky and was not very bad but
 and wanted
some felt most unhappy inside all night very much to go to sleep. However
we all
 kept awake and found three exercises which seemed the most practicable for

keeping warm. First we would pat our hands briskly thighs, that on our warmed botk

hands and thighs and was our commonest exercise, which later in the night we did about
about every ten minutes. Then we did the '‘cabman’s swing" swinging our arms across

our chests as taxi drivers do on cold days, and we found that good for keeping the
circulation going. Finally we smacked each other on the back, I must have been
somewhat vigorous in this last exercise as
 my neighbour said it was too much like

being hit by a pile driver We did our o best to keep cheerful and as my watch was

watertight and working I reported the time every half hour and the number of hours
to daylight. I was a great land mark at one in the morning when the night was half

over and then six hours only to go.

 I found also that by baling out the water which we did with my shoes.
 I kept warm


At first we shipped water quite often as the tops of the waves broke over us Later, e




though the seas were steadily rising with the wind increasing through the night, we


became quite expert at riding the huge Atlantic rollers, and found that if we kept
two of us facing into the wind and two with their backs to it we could watch the waves
and by leaning away from the bad ones ease ourselves over the top of them without

shipping water very often.
 The night passed very slowly indeedo I had decided not to open the rations

till morning as I knew we should be adopted rather much hungrier then. lam afraid I

a Captain Bligh of the Bounty line over the rations as I wanted to make them last for
three days. Dawn crept
 upon us at about 6,30 after an apparently interminable night
of back slapping and wave climbing. It was quite light by 7*30 and we were out of

sight of land, but suddenly to our joy we saw a ship in the West. It got larger and

was heading almost in our direction; then it altered course and came straight for us,

We stood up in turn and waved and we all shouted, but she was to windward and neither
saw nor heard us. We could see her quite clearly and she passed within two or three
hundred yards and I think, a small armed merchantman. That was a dreadful,
 was,
disappointment as we had practically decided what we would have for breakfast;
biscuits and brackish water for bacon and However
 were a
 very poor substitute eggs.
as some slight consolation and to warm us up I allowed, us each a
 very small swallow
from our rum flask, which I was saving for emergencies.

 We saw several aircraft ruing the morning but even those fairly near did not

spot us because the sea was a mass of white horses. About 10 o’clock the rear gunner
was washed overboard by a wave breaking cross ways over
 us, although he was sitting on


his hands holding the rope as we all dido However, he kept his hold and we got hi™
aboard again, and did out best to warm him up with run and exercise.

 At midday there were more biscuits and Horkicks tablets for lunch but I don’t
think we were really hungry yet as some of the crew wouldn’t eat their biscuits, I

told the crew that we should probably have to spend another night in the dinghy and

they stayed remarkably cheerful in spite of this dreary prospect.

 Suddenly about 2 p.m. we thought we saw some ships in the distance. All the

morning, however, seeing we had beenlighthouses proved low islands and. which to be

merely the crests of waves breaking in the distance, so I didn’t have much faith in
any of these ships. Then we started looking round again and to our joy saw from the

crest of a flotilla of destroyers steaming towards us in line abreast.
 a wave The

second recognised the four funnels and flush deck of the .American destroyers and
 pilot
we thought that they would pass on either side of us. Then as they drew near they
altered course away from us so that we passed to port of the port ship of the line.
We held the rear gunner up and he waved our green canvas paddle. Just as we had

about from the decks and she turned in
 given up hope again we saw people waving a


circle round us.


 Soon after she came alongside and.
 shouting directions in threw us a line, at first
German, they as had mistaken rolling heavily and when our
 our uniforms* The ship was
 not get a foothold and as his hands
navigator caught hold of the
 rope ladder he could
were too cold to keep a grip he fell into the sea, A sailor at once jumped in, put

line round him and he was lifted out, The rest of the crew and myself were able to
climb aboard, We were taken below and had our skin practically rubbed off us before
we were wrapped in blankets and put in officers cabins, with tea and rum and hot food,
all extremely welcome.
 As soon as I was warm I borrowed some clothes and went onbridge to thank the
 the

captain. I learned that it was he who had first spotted us saw through his
 when he

glass our yellow skull caps and life saving jackets and dinghy which he thought was
some wreckage as we appeared and disappeared on the distant waves.
 We were all made most abundantly welcome by the Navy and went ashore that night
very happy men indeed.
 31/10/40 . -
 No, 21,
AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN 2139

Air Ministry News Service*,


 ATTACK ON OSTEND


 A small force of Coastal Command Blenheims last night
struck at targets in Ostend Harbour which had been previously
attacked and since repaired by the enemy*


 Easy identifications of their objective enabled the
bombers to score direct hits freely on the quays and shipping
berths ♦ Every second bomb burst was followed by a heavy
explosion and the crews could see debris being thrown high in
the air.
 MINISTRY OF LABOUR & NATIONAL

 SERVICE—Press Notice



 NATIONAL SERVICE (ARMED FORCES) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940.



 Registration Procedure.


1. As already announced ftirther registrations under the National Service

(Armed Forces) Acts will take place on 9th and 16th November, 1940. On

9th November, men born between Ist July, 1905, and 31st
 December, 1905,
together with men born between 28th July, 1920, and 9th November, 1920, all
dates inclusive, will be registered. On 16th November, born between men


Ist January, 1905, and 30th June, 1905, both dates inclusive, will be
registered.


2. Posters setting out in detail the classes of men required to register on

the 9th and 16th November and the procedure to be followed at the time of

registration will be displayed at Ministry of Labour and National Service

Offices and Municipal Offices as from 2nd November. For convenience of

reference the instructions to be given in the posters are summarised in

paragraphs 7 and 19 below.


3. There have already been fourteen separate registrations under the

Military Training and the National Service (Armed Forces) Acts for the

compulsory recruitment of men to the Armed Forces. The first took place on


3rd June, 1939, under the Military Training Act, when men between the ages of 20

and 21 were registered. With the enactment of the National Service (Armed
Forces) Act on the day that War was declared, the liability of these men for

six months training was converted into a liability for service for the duration

of the present emergency. The last registration took place on 27th July, 1940,
when men who were born between Ist January, 1906, and 31st
 December, 1906,
together with men born between 23rd June, 1920, and 27th July, 1920, all dates
inclusive, were registered.


4. The existing Proclamation signed by His Majesty the King on

9th
 May, 1940, relates to men who on 9th May, 1940, had reached the age of 19

but had not reached the age of 37 and who were not already registered under
the Military Training Act or the National Service (Armed Forces) Act.


5. In
 consequence of the making of the National Service (Armed Forces)
(isle of Man) Order, 1939, on 27th October, 1939, men from the Isle of Man are

required to register even though they are only temporarily in Great Britain.


6. The procedure for the registration, medical examination and calling up of
the men, which is summarised in the following paragraphs, will be substantially
the same as when the last under the Act took place on 27th July.
 registration
Attention is, however, particularly invited to paragraphs 10 and 11.


Registration.


7. All male British subjects within Great Britain whn were born between
Ist July, 1905, and 31st December, 1905, or between 28th July, 1920, and
9th November, 1920, all dates inclusive, must attend for registration at

Local Offices of the Ministry of Labour and National Service on Saturday,
9th November, 1940. Men born between Ist January, 1905, and 30th June, 1905,
both dates inclusive, must attend for registration on Saturday,
16th November, 1940. Men who within the
 are age groups required to register
 9th November 16th
on
 November, who are cutside Great Britain on those dates
 or

must apply for registration at a Local Office of the Ministry of Labour and
National Service within seven days of the date of their return to
Great Britain.




 1.
 Men living six miles or more from a Ministry of Labour and National
Service from permanent incapacity fill up
 Office, or men suffering some may a


registration form and post it on 9th or 16th November, according to the date
 on which they are due to register, to a Ministry of Labour and National
Service Office. Forms for this purpose may be obtained at a ministry of
Labour and National Service Office or at the Local Post Office in the case of

men living six miles or more from a Ministry of Labour and National Service
Office. Men who for good cause (for example, illness) fail to apply for
registration on 9th or 16th November, must do so as soon as possible
thereafter. who fails without to register the due
 Any man good cause on

date renders himself liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £5.

 At the time of registration men will be required -




 (a) to produce their National Registration Identity Cards, and


 (b) to furnish certain necessary information, including a precise and
 accurate description of their occupation (see paragraph 8 below).


All men who register should make sure that they receive a Registration
Certificate (N.5.2 Any change of address must be notified immediately by
the return of the Certificate to the Local Office for amendment.


 To avoid unnecessary waiting, men should keep strictly to the times of

attendance allotted to them according to the initial letter of their

surnames, as follows



 Ato D between 12 noon and 1
 p.m.
 -




 E to K between 1 and 2 p.m,
 -
 p.m.
 L to R -
 between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
 S to Z - between 3 p.m. and 4- p.m.


Men who cannot attend in the afternoon should attend between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.



Classification of men according to their occupations.


8. At the time of registration each man will be classified according to the

particulars he furnishes regarding his occupation, and immediately after
 his
registration employer will be asked to check these particulars. This
information regarding a man’s occupation is essential for the of
 purpose
applying accurately the Schedule of Reserved Occupations (see paragraph 17
below) and also in order to identify those men not reserved by the Schedule
who can be employed in the Forces in a trade capacity. The Local Officers of

the Ministry have considerable experience in registration work and in the

classification of men according to their occupations, but the success of

their efforts must ultimately depend on the ready co-operation of both the
men and their employers. Very few cases have so far arisen where there has
been reason to doubt the accuracy of the information supplied in this vzay,
but attention is invited to the fact that the Acts provide for heavy
penalties for the giving ->f false information by in
 or respect of a man upon
his registration under the Acts. It is emphasised that men reserved, by the

Schedule of Reserved Occupations must nevertheless register.


 The importance of ascertaining the precise nature of a man’s occupation
by consultation with his employer as soon as possible after registration will
be fully appreciated when it is realised that once an enlistment notice has
been served on a
 man, representations
 his occupation has to the effect that
been incorrectly entered in the Military Service Register do not constitute a
valid reason for withdrawing the notice. Should a man change his occupation
after the date of his registration, the
 appropriate Local Office of the
Ministry should immediately be notified of his new occupation, an an enlistment
notice, once issued, cannot be cancelled for reasons of this kind.


Preference for Naval or Air Force Service.


9. Men who have a preference for service in the Royal Navy or in the
Royal Air Force
 may notify this fact either orally or in writing, preferably
at the time of registration.

 2.
 Mercantile Mar ine.


 10. Seamen register at Mercantile Marine Offices if possible,
 should
 otherwise their registration will be accepted at Ministry of Labour and

 National Service Offices. This also applies to marine engineer apprentices

 who intend to go to sea as engineer officers and to students at Wireless
 Telegraphy Schools who intend to go to sea as wireless operators provided
 that they can produce


 (a) a certificate from the recognised Wireless School that they were

 already students of the School before Ist July, 1940; or




 (b) evidence that they have already been to sea as qualified Wireless
 Operators and are at the School taking refresher courses.


 Fishermen.


 11. Fishermen have hitherto been required to register at Mercantile Marine
 Offices; in future they should register at Local Offices of the Ministry of
 Labour and National Service.


 Medical Examination.



 12. Men liable under the Acts to be called up for service and required to

 submit themselves for medical examination will be summoned to attend for

 examination by means of written notices which will be sent to them by the

 Ministry of Labour and National Service. The Medical Beards are situated in
 convenient centres throughout Great Britain and men are allowed reasonable

 expenses and allowances for their attendance including compensation for loss

 of remunerative time. At least two clear days’ notice will be given in all

 cases. Men will be informed of the medical grade in which they are placed.
 Immediately after medical examination each man will subject to medical
 fitness be interviewed separately by a Service representative for allocation,
 in the light of his qualifications, to a Service unit.



 Postponement of liability to serve in the Forces.



 13. There is no power to exempt persons from their liability for service in
 the Armed Forces although there are certain specified classes not subject to
 the Acts (see paragraph 19); but a person who can show that exceptional
 hardship would ensue if he were called up for service may apply for a


 postponement certificate. Men wishing to postpone their liability for
 service are none the less required to register on 9th or 16th November, as

 appropriate, and to submit themselves for medical examination when called
 not
 upon. Application for a postponement certificate should be made later

 than two days after the date of medical examination.


Military Service (Hardship) Committee.


 14. Where an application for a postponement certificate has not been granted
by the Minister, it will be referred to a Military Service (Hardship)
Committee. An applicant who is aggrieved by the determination of a


Hardship Committee may, if the determination of the Committee is not unanimous
or if permission so to do is given by the Committee, appeal within 21 days to
the Umpire whose decision is final. The Minister has the right of appeal in
any case where he considers this to be desirable.


Enlistment in the Forces.


15. Men who have been examined by a Medical Board and who have reached the
required standard of fitness will be called up for service by means of
enlistment notices which will be sent to them the Labour
 by Ministry of and
National Service. The enlistment notice will specify the date (which will
be at least three days from the date of service of the notice) on which the
man is required to report at the appropriate Service Centre. Travelling
warrants will be supplied where necessary. A man will be deemed to be
entered or enlisted in the Armed Forces as from the date on which he is
required to report for service until the end of the present emergency.

 5.
16. It sometimes when enlistment notice has been sent to
 happens that an a


man requiring him to report for service he or his employer makes

representations that the calling up should be postponed. It should be
 who has received enlistment notice must
clearly understood that a man an

 legally enlisted in the Forces from the day
comply with it, since he is on


which the notice requires him to report for service. Any failure to complly
with an enlistment notice and
 any attempt by an employer or any other person
 thus
to dissuade a man from complying with the notice is a very serious

matter. An enlistment notice can be cancelled only if it has been issued
in error.




Application of the Schedule of Reserved Occupations


 of
17, In calling men up for service regard will be had to the Schedule
Reserved Occupations and men who are of or above the age of reservation for
their particular occupation are not, in general, being summoned for medical

examination or being called up for service in the Armed Forces. A man’s age
on the date of registration, namely, 9th or 16th November, as the case may be,
will be regarded as his age in applying the Schedule of Reserved Occupations.


Conscientious Objectors.


18. A conscientious objector must apply to be registered on the 9th or

16th November at a Ministry of Labour and National Service Office like any
other who is to of those dates, but he at
 man required register on one may
the same time make application to be placed on the Register of Conscientious

Objectors. He will then be provi sionally registered in that Register and

will be required to make application within fourteen days to a Local Tribunal
constituted under the Act. Failure to make application to the Tribunal
within the prescribed period renders a man liable to have his name removed

from the Register of Conscientious Objectors.

Classes of persons not subject to the Acts.


19. No
 person is liable to be called up for service or to register under the
Acts who is:~



 (a) 3 *
 a person not ordinarily resident in Great Britain who is under the

 provisions of any Act in force in any part of His Majesty’s dominions
 outside Great Britain, a national or citizen of that part within the
 meaning of that is born domiciled in any such
 Act, or a person or
 part
 of His Majesty’s dominions or in a British protectorate, a mandated

 territory or any othercountry or territory being a country or


 territory under His Majesty’s protection or suzerainty;


s For the purpose of determining ordinary residence in the case of such

 the Act lays it down that is resident in
 persons, a
 person who
 Great Britain is deemed to be ordinarily resident in this country unless



 (i) he has been resident in Great Britain for less than two years, or




 (ii) he is residing in Great Britain only for the purpose of attending
 a course of education, or




 (iii) the circumstances of his residence in Great Britain are otherwise
 such to show that he is residing there for
 as a temporary purpose
 only;

 (b) a person employed in the service of the Government of a part of
 His Majesty* s dominions outside Great Britain or in the service of
 the Government of a British protectorate, a mandated territory or seme

 other country or territory which is under His Majesty’s protection or

 suzerainty, provided that his presence in Great Britain is due entirely
 to his employment in that service;

 (c) a member of ary of the armed forces of the Crown other than the
 Home Guard;


 4.
 (d) undergoing training as a cadet atRoyal Military Academy,
 the

 Royal Military College or the Royal Air Force College;


 (e) a man in holy orders or a regular minister of any religious
 denomination;


 (f) the subject of an Order of Inquisition under the Lunacy and Mental

 Treatment 1890 to 1930, is being detained in pursuance of
 Acts, or


 Section 25 of the Lunacy Act, 1890, or as a criminal lunatic or in

 pursuance of an order made under the Criminal Lunatics Act, 1884,
 ■ or is undergoing treatment as a temporary patient under Section 5

 1930, is in
 of the Mental Treatment Act, or a
 person placed an


 institution or a certified house, or under guardianship, under
 Section 3 of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, or is the subject of

 an order under
 6, Section 8 or 9 of that Act or is under supervision
 provided under paragraph (b) of Section 30 of that Act or is an


 inmate of a home approved under Section 50 of that Act or is the

 subject of notification under sub-section (2) of Section 51 of that

 Act;


 (g) the subject of an order or warrant for his detention or custody under
 the Lunacy (Scotland) Acts, 1857 to 1919, or is being entertained
 and kept in an asylum in pursuance of Section 15 of the Lunacy

 (Scotland) Act, 1866, or is a person for whose safe custody during
 His Majesty's pleasure His Majesty is authorised to give order or is
 a prisoner whom the Secretary of State or the Prisons Department for

 Scotland has, in pursuance of any Act, directed to be removed to a

 criminal lunatic asylum or to the criminal lunatic department of

 Perth prison or to an asylum, or is a
 person placed in an institution
 or a certified house or under guardianship under Section 4 of the

 Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1914, or is the subject
 of an order under Section 7,9, or 10 of that Act, or




 (h) certified by a local authority as defined by the Blind Persons

 Acts, 1920 and 1938, to be registered as a blind person under

 arrangements made by the authority under those Acts.


 (N.B. The expression ’’Great Britain” in
 (a) and (b) above includes
 the Isle of Man.)




Press Office,
 Ministry of Labour and National Service,
 Montagu House, Whitehall, S*W.l.
 S.W.I.


Telephone: Whitehall 6200.



51st October, 1940.




 5.


H.Q.695-340 J*J.
 31/10/40 -
 No 23.




 SILVER MEDALS FOR GAUNTRY AND HUMANITY




 His Majesty the King has been pleased, on recommendation of the

Minister of
 Shipping, to award Silver for allantry and Humanity
to

 14ir» Jose Otero Caamano, and
 Juan Mascato Padin
in recognition of their acts of Gallantry and Humanity in the following
circumstances:-


 On the 29th May, 1940, near the coast of Spain, the oil tanker
’’Telena” was attacked by enemy submarine and set on fire. Some cf the
crew, who obliged to leave the vessel, took to the boats and rafts,
 were

while others
 jumped into the sea, which was covered with burning oil. The
survivors were picked up by three Spmish fishing boats, viz: "Meco”, "Cazmen
Garrido” and ’’Carlos; I” •




 The action of the ”Meco"
 particularly praiseworthy.
 was It picked
up 5 men from araft and then cruised round
 the burning tanker looking for
survivors. One was seen on an upturned boat on the starboard side of the

"Telena”, but it was impossible for the trawler to approach nearer than 50
yards because of the fire and smoke blowing over from the tanker. There
was also considerable risk of the tankerexploding. A rowboat was,

however, taken in by two members of the crew, Mr. Jose Otero Caamano and.
Mr. Ju®. Mascato Radin, and they rescued this survivor. Two Chinese
seamen were then seen on the poop deck of the tanker. These came down a

rope ladder and were helped into the rowboat, which then returned to the
trawler.




MINISTRY OF SHt '?ING-
 No
 31.10. HO - »




 HIGH POWERED OARS AND SHOOTING BRAKES WANTED.


 The Minister of Aircraft Production asks the public to give
or to lend shooting brakes and high powered cars to his Ministry.


 They are urgently required for operational purposes. And they
will relieve us of the necessity for buying new cars. Purchases of

new cars would in part have to be made in the United States.


 We will send inspectors immediately to view any cars that may
be offered to us. If they are found suitable we will take them overk



 And we will be deeply grateful for a real service rendered on

a vital sector of the nation’s war effort.


 Generous owners who wish to help us should write to the

Minister of Aircraft Production, Millbank, S.W.I.




MINISTRY,OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION*
 31.10*40 No. 25.



 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN ANY FORM BEFORE .THE
 MORNING PAPERS OF FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IST, 1940 .



 NOT TO BE BROADCAST BEFORE 7 A3E ON THAT
 DATE.




 EARLIER CLOSING HOURS OP SHOPS.


 The Government have decided to make a defence regulation on the
1. nes generally of that in force last winter with a view to securing
earlier closing of shops during the forthcoming winter. Under this
regulation, which will be in force from the 17th November to the 2nd

March, the normal closing hour for shops will be 6 p.m. with an extension
to 7-30 p.m. on one evening in the week.


 In order to meet local conditions in certain districts, for
example, where it is specially difficult for workers to do their
 shopping
before the new closing hours, local authorities will be given power, after
consultation with representatives of shopkeepers and shop assistants, to
allow shops, or particular classes of shops, in any part of their

districts, tokeep open up to 8 p.m. on the late night and one other

evening in the week and up to 7 p»m. on other evenings. They will also
be given power, after similar consultations, to fix earlier hours than
the normal closing hours.

 Barbers and hairdressers will normally close at 7 p.m, with an

extension to 8 p.m. on one evening, but local authorities will have power
to allow them to keep open until 8 p.m. on a second evening.


 There will "be no change in the present hours up to which newspapers,
periodicals and tobacco can be
 sold, and restaurants, cooked meat shops,
confectioners and other shops which are not at present required to close
at 8 p.m. will not be affected.


 The weekly ’’early closing day” and Sunday closing arrangements will
continue unchanged.


 This announcement applies to England, Scotland and r?
 ales.




HOME OFFICE.
 51/10/S0 - No. 26




 HELP YOUR NEIGHBOUR - WARNING TO GARAGEg



 The Government ask garage proprietors to help in the
administration of the Help Your Neighbour schemes by refusing
petrol in exchange for coupons stamped Automobile Association Or
Royal Automobile Club unless the vehicle has the Help Your
Neighbour Badge prominently displayed..




PETROLEUM DEPARTMENT
 31.10.40 -
 3T0>27



 VISCOUNT GORT/S VISIT TO ICELAND*



 General the Viscount Gort, V.C*, Inspector General to
the Forces for Training, has returned to this country after

a fortnight's visit to the troops in Iceland.




WAR OFFICE.
 Not to be published before j1,10,40~ No. 28,
broadcast p«-m g
 -

 piffle)?
 and to be checked against delivery,


 THE FOLLOWING WAR COMMENTARY WAS BROADCAST AT 9,20 P.M. TONIGHT
 (OCTOBER 31ST) IN THE 8.8.C# HOME SERVICE, BY ADMIRAL OF THE
 FLEET LORD CHATFIELD f G.C B
 e e , rdCaLG# ;•
 C.V.O.


 I going to tell you somet about the Your minds
 am
 ing Navy, are largely perhaps
 fixed on the Mediterranean but before I come to that let me say a word about Home
 Waters where we have also great naval responsibilities#

 Some of
 you wondered not many years ago, if the Navy would be of the same value
 in another war; whether it would be able to the and above to
 keep narrow seas all,
 withstand air attack.,

 It indeed foretold that the Fleet would have to
 was
 go far away, out of reach of
 German bombers, that it would do well to the Mediterranean.
 even quit

 Yet those pundits were wrong as the Navy knew them to be Modern ships
 wrong.
 are built to fight and therefore to be hit.

 The Laws of sea power have not so far been vitally modified by aerial or even

 submarine warfare c




 But the 1
 ruling waves an ' 940 is neither so
 easy nor so pleasant as it used to be.

 The sailor lias now to be ever vigilant at sea or in harbour, looking up at the
clouds as his forefathers did., but for a different reason]


 But he is finding out the new values of things, measuring by experience the
reality of the risks his ships have to run, The has to think to
 new seaman quicker,
use more ingenuity and to have greater resource 6

 However the task of the Navy in Home Waters is greater than it has ever been
because we have lost the French Channel Ports -and all the coast of Europe, from the
North of to the
 Norway Spanish frontier is under the heel of Germany. It has been our

traditional policy to prevent this and yet England stands even more confident because
she relies on herself alone.


 Let us consider the problems which confront the Navy in the home area.


 In 1805 Napoleon had an
 army of 160,000 men encamped at Boulogne waiting for a

chance to invade Englands stood between him and world He
 Only England conquest.
needed, he said, the command of the Channel for only six hours, to terminate the
existence of England; and after that the re^lisation of all his dreams.

 The situation confronting the Admiralty today bears certain resemblances to the
situation in those days#

 The threat of invasion ~ fluctuates between a probability and a possibility. The

Royal Air Force, aided by the Fleet Air Arm, is principally responsible for these
fluctuations by their violent bombing of invasion basest From time to time the Navy
has also employed measures of discouragement to the would be invaders. On 12th October

nearly 1,000 shells of varying calibre were poured into Cherbourg during a bombardment
lasting less than 20 minutes? The ships talcing part received rio damage whatever from
—ae
 enemy.

 Our capital ships, cruisers and destroyers in Home Waters are disposed at
strategic points, capable of dealing with any covering forces the enemy can send out,

as well as with the invading units themselves# They will act in the spirit of the
injunction in Nelson*s memorandum before "In any moment of
 Captain doubt
 Trafalgar, no


can do wrong if he places his ship alongside that of anenemy." may not practicable
 It be
to comply with the letter of this order under modern conditions, but it embodies the
principle and the spirit in which they will repel any invasion and smash the enemy who

puts to sea.


 is the into the Atlantic
 The second
 problem in this area escape of enemy raiders.
This menace also fluctuates in intensity, and the governing factor islengthening
 the

 juts of darkness as the winter approaches, By taking a Northerly route enemy
.
 very
ships can effect through our' Northern patrol using very little daylight. We
 a passage
depend on our
 very gallant submarine patrols as well as surface ones to intercept the
raider at it remains
 the outset® But should a raider get through, for our commerce


protection cruisers to deal with her as they dealt with the GRAF SPEE.
 So much for the first problem -


 invasion, and the second problem, -
 Atlantic raiders.
 Nor for a third the maintenance of convoys through the Channel. The enemy

has mounted coastal batteries at the narrowest of the which has made the
 point Channel,
passage of convoys through this area hazardous# So instead of treating these convoys as

a routine traffic problem, as they are elsewhere, the
 passage of each Channel convoy

 /becomes
 -2-

 naval Nevertheless, trade continuesto flew along this
becomes a operation. our


route which the done his utmost to deny us*
 enemy has
 •




 However, it is well to realise that the range nf bases now available to
the enemy enables his submarines to attack our shipping in the North Atlantic
far further afield than formerly. This has given him an advantage he has

never had before. The counter to it is more escorting vessels and improved
methods. The addition to our Navy of fifty American destroyers will go a
long way towards meeting what may be an increasing threat to our shipping.


 If we maintain the sea routes for our convoys we cannot be beaten. It
is now as our most serious problem. What an immense debt we owe to the
 ever

men who bring home our vital supplies. It is against our shipping that
 the.
enemy is directing the resources of his inventive malice. Seeing his invasion
propeots diminishing he is looking for a new way rapidly to end his war. The

men of the Merchant Navy are his target, but like their fathers 25 years ago
their spirit lias never flinched, and all our gratitude goes out to them and the
little warships that protect them.

 Now a word as to the situation in the Mediterranean, There our *.

naval commitments have been fourfold.


 (i) To bring to action and defeat the Italian Fleet.
 (ii) To deny the Mediterranean to the passage of enemy supplies,

 (iii) To ensure the safety of
 convoys bringing reinforcements to
 our armies in Egypt and the Sudan, maintaining the trade
 through the Aegean, and. the oil supplies of Iraq.
 (iv) Lastly to harass the flank of an invading force trying to
 advance by the coast road on Egypt.

 (v) To these have now been added our
 yesponsibilities to Greece.


 Prior to the collapse of France the Western Mediterranean was her

responsibility, and our strategy was based upon this dual control. Now we

fight alone in a sea across the centre of which straddle Italian aerodromes,
submarines bases, and harbours for her main Fleet.



 three main bases for our Fleet: Gibraltar, Malta and Alexandria.
 We have

Malta, owing to her proximity to Italy is as far as aerial attack is concerned
rather in the position of the man who shares an umbrella with two others the -




one who gets most of the drips J Well, Malta' and her loyal population are
standing up to the consequences of her geographical position with a fine calm
and endurance; a gallantry no whit behind that of the citizens of these Islands

and called upon to fare the same conditions*



 Our reinforcement convoys to the Mediterranean largely routed via the
 are

Cape and the Red Sea, a line of approximately 13,000 miles, calling for escorts
of varying strength according to the they are traversing. There has never

been a time in the history of steam when, so much has been asked of ships’ engines.
Nor has there ever been a time when so much has been asked of our shipbuilders and
engineers and the skilled workmen on whom the Navy ever relies,
 a

 I obviously cannot give
 you/oomparative statement of the forces in the
Mediterranean, but we have concentrated there a Fleet under Admiral Cunningham,
able by its efficiency to contain the Italian Fleet, to hold the Straits of
Gibraltar and to protect the Suez Canal. If you add to this our home responsibilities
and our duties cn the Trade Routes you will realise that the
 Navy has no
embarrassing margin -on Yet there is an incalculable margin. It
 paper.
exists in the qualities of our seamen and their traditions.


 Fighting in the narrow waters of the Mediterranean the Fleet has had

gradually to take measure of its Italian opponent, his Navy, his Air Force and
 testing their fighting capacity.

 It is true to say that never before has a Fleet had more complicated

tactical responsibilities than has ours today in the Mediterranean.


 / What
 -3-




 What will "be the effect on our Fleet 1
 s res ©risibilities of implementing

our guarantee to Greece, Obviously they will be considerable.


 The Greek Navy consists of a cruiser, 2 J torpedo eraft and 6 submarines.
They are well trained and vdll play their part by the side of our own, Italy,
by invading Greece through Albania, can maintain her armies by the short sea
route across Adriatic, not an
 easy sea for
 our Fleet to operate in but alwgs -




there are the possibilities of night notions. If Italy plans to extend her
operations by sea to Greek Islands, our Fleet may be given that opportunity to
 toaoh you to strake your enemy's
strike that it has waited for. The laws of strategy
weak spot with your utmost force.

 Italy is the enemy’s weak spot, and those sea .and air forces that we can
 should enable us to
spare from the defence of these islands against Germany
strike some violent blows against Italy now,



 Italy’s object may be to divide our military forces and so weaken our

 and air power will be more value
 But to help Greece than
resistance in Egypt, sea

a large sent to Salonica with all that means in transport and supply.
 aimy


 The waters of Greece are no new battle-ground for us. Thanks to Greek

 has for year's exercised there. Her harbours and islands have
hospitality Navy
 our

 to sailors which shall doubtless But
valuable strategic points well known we use.


one must remember that bases cannot be improvised so simply or so rapidly as before,
for they have to be defended against air and submarine attack.



 It is too early in Italy’s new adventure, however, to discuss such matters.



 The Fleet Air Arm too has played a great and valuable part in our Fleet
operations in the Mediterranean, as it has indeed on the Norwegian coast, in the

Channel and in the broad Atlantic,


 I am glad the Fleet Air Arm has won its spurs and established itself as a


vital part of the Royal Navy,


 Minelaying is another source of attack and counter-attack, on which we rely.
The enemy is equally busy along much trie same lines and the counter measure open to
 is to maintain ceaseless of our harbour entrances and the traffic 3«nes,
us a. sweep
 to vast
a task not, of course, confined Home Haters, It is a task, largely falling
on our splendid Reserve Seaman; a com.iitment calling for a. great fleet of small
vessels and for trained personnel possessing no ordinary degree of courage and
seamanlike qualities. Like our submarine crews they are working day and night unseen

and unnoticed except in the gallantry awards and the casualty lists.

CONCLUSION.


 My time is nearly up. I have tried to cover some of the problems that are today
confronting the Navy, They are great ones, as British sea. problems in war have ever
been. But not greater than our seamanship can master.



 Perhaps you now all realise that the Navy is a modern 'weapon, as modern a weapon
 the aeroplane the land advancing with the times.
as or mine, ever Each day the British
seaman stays at sea. he is gaining confidence and learning by the experience which is
denied to his foe who remains in port.



 Finally remember, the resource of the Navy is infinite; it has behind it a

wealth of knowledge and hard-won experience, technical skill the
 a unequalled in
history of war.




MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.
 31/10/40 -
 N0,29.




AIR MINISTRY




 Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security Communique.


 Since midday the enemy has made a number of attacks by
isolated aircraft on various parts of the country.


 According to reports at present received bombs were

dropped on two towns in the Eastern counties and at points in

South Wales and the Midlands. There was a small number of

casualties in these attacks but the resulting damage was slight.
 31/10/40 - N0.30.

AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN N0.21M.


Air Ministry News Service.




 R.A.F. AMD S.A.A.F. ACTIVITIES.




 Aircraft of the Royal Air Force raided Bardia and Tobruk
 (Libya) yesterday (Wednesday). At Bardia the attack was made on

 a stores dump and bombs were seen to hit the target, starting
 many
 a large fire which was visible for 30 miles, and completely
 destroying the dump. At Tobruk bombs fell in the target area.



 A raid on Teclezan (Eritrea) resulted in a number of fires
being started among military buildings, while at Massawa ware-

 houses were heavily bombed.


 The military camp and railway compound at Keren (Eritrea)
 were also raided. Bombs dropped on the camp and the
 were

railway compound was straddled by bombs, causing considerable
 damage <




 Aircraft of the South African Air Force attacked the military
 camp at Lugh Ferandi (Italian Somaliland) on October 29th, Bombs
'were dropped among buildings in the target area#



 Other units of the South African Air Force carried out a
 number of reconnaissance flights over enemy territory.

 Other reconnaissance flights were carried out by the Royal
 Air Force over Greek and Italian coastal waters. During one of
 these a Cant Z506 was encountered and shot down in flames.


 From all of these aircraft returned
 operations our safely
 to their respective bases.
 1/10/4O - No* 31*




 INCREASE IN PITHEAD PRICE OF COAL,




 The Secretary for Mines announces that in order to
meet the rising costs of coal production an increase of
1/9d. per ton in the pithead price of all coal has been
sanctioned by the Government to operate as from November
1 st.



 A further increase of 1/- per ton has been authorised
for South Wales, and of 1/6d. for Kent to meet the special
circumstances of those districts. The case of“Durham is
under consideration.


 These price increases are made in order to meet the

rising costs incurred by the industry on account of loss of

output of wage increases and of increases in the cost of
stores materials and workmen’s compensation.

 There will be certain consequential increases in the

prices of coke and other solid fuels.


 Before any further review of prices takes place the
whole method of price adjustment to meet the varying
circumstances of each district will be re-examined.




MINES DEPARTMENT.
 31/10/4O - N0.32.


AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN No* 21


Air Ministry News Service.




 R» A* F. ATTACK ON. INVASION PORTS AND EMDN




 Many tons of high explosive bombs and hundreds of incendiaries
were dropped last night on the German occupied ports of Flushing and
Antwerp and on Emden, westernmost seaport of Germany. The attack

on Flushing began early in the evening and lasted for just over an

hour.
 Several sticks of bombs were dropped on the Walcheren Canal
and on the inner and outer Havens, and though'cloud and haze made
it difficult to see the full results of the bombing one huge fire
which was started between two of the docks could be seen from 55
miles away. At Antwerp explosions and fires were reported in the

harbour area.


 At Emden "bursts were observed on a
 quay of the main waterway
and in the large v-shaped harbour to the east' of the main entrance*
One very bright fire was started and other fires in the area were

seen to spread rapidly* One aircraft attacked a nearby railway
junction, and here again a large fire occurred*
 October 31st, 1940.


 MINISTRY OF I N F 0 R M A T lON
 _




 NEWS BULLETIN NO.l£fc

 AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTS EJgANSICN.



 The war has caused aexpansion in Australian short-wave radio
 remarkable
transmissions. Short-wave programmes before the war were mainly for Australian
listeners beyond the reach of ordinary medium-wave stations. Last December,

however, Department of Information, inaugurated, with the
 the Commonwealth
Australian Broadcasting Commission, a short-wave service to bring Australian
 of
programmes to almost every part the globe.


 Australia is now broadcasting ten transmissions daily; four to North America,
two to Europe, two to the Far East, one to South Africa, and one to New Caledonia.
These embody bulletins of overseas and. Australian news, commentaries, talks, and
musical programmes.


 It is especially important, since the collapse of France and the occupation
of Holland, that Australian broadcasts should reach South-East Asia and the

Southern Pacific» Dutch and French listeners in these areas can no longer
receive from their homelands any news which is not
 inspired by Germany. Australia

is, therefore, broadcasting a special transmission in French for the 20,000
French-speaking listeners in New Caledonia and French Oceania and another
programme in French for Indo-China. special transmission in Dutch for
 There is a

the Netherlands East Indies* With these
 developments, and the new high power
transmitter at Singapore, supplementing the 8.8.0., the voice of the Empire will
be widely heard throughout the Pacific.


 to
 Transmissions are broadcast from Sydney in the early morning reach
listeners in Britain on the previous evening.

 There is a programme for British listeners from 5«35 “ 6.30 p.m.
G.M.T., including a news summary at 6 p.m. and a talk at 6. 15 p.m. The last
half-hour of the transmission to Northern is also intended for Britain.
 Europe
This programme is broadcast from 8.30 9 p.m. G.M.T. It starts with a news -




 and there is a talk in English at 8t45 British listeners should
summary p.m.
also be able, in favourable circumstances, to pick up other Australian trans-

missions, particularly those America, from 5.55 -
 6.45 a.m.; 12.25 -




1 p.m.; 3.25 -
 4 p.m. and 11.10/- midnight (all G.M.T.)

 News summaries, commentaries, and talks about the war in Italian, German
and. French, are broadcast to
 Europe, concentrating on news from the Far East and
the Pacific, following the news, there is a talk.

 In order more effectively to answer German propaganda, Australia maintains
a listening post, and is monitoring the most important short-wave broadcasts
from other countries for 24 hours a day.
Dominions Office Press Section. M.0.1-1.



 POTTERY QUOTA CHANGE.


 After discussions with representatives of the pottery industry and a

consideration of returns of employment and production in the industry, the Board
of Trade have decided that the hometrade quota allotted to manufacturers and
wholesalers for the current period ending 30th November 1940 shall, in respect
 to 85
of pottery, be raised per cent of the value of sales of articles controlled
within the class during the basic period. For the next period which begins on
Ist December, however; the quota will be reduced to 50 per cent.
Board of Trade B
 M. o»1.2•




 The Naval/
 M. 0.1. News Bulletin No. 156 -
 Page 2,



 THE NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL.


 Various naval officers and men are now to be seen -wearing the ribbon of a medal
which is little known to the public. The ribbon has crimson edges with a. white
centre and two narrow stripes of crimson.


 It is that of the Naval General Service -"edal, first authorised by King George V
in 1915 -
 "to be awarded for servd.ee in minor naval operations, whether in the
nature of belligerency or police, which may be considered of sufficient importance
to justify the award of a medal where no ;other medal would be appropriate".

 With a clasp or bar inscribed ‘Persian Gulf 1909-1914’, it was first awarded to

officers and men of H.M. Ships who had been employed in the Arabian Sea or Persian
Gulf of the
 ,fbr the suppression arms traffic in the years mentioned. Bars issued
later were "Iraq 1919-20" and "North West Persia 1920",

 u
 In May, July and ctobcr of this year it was announced that the same medal,
with, of course, the effigy of King George VI-on the obverse, and the clasp
’Palestine’, would be awarded to officers and men who had served in H.M. Ships
present in Palestine, or on shore there, during the troubles between 1936 and 1939*


 Army and Royal Mr Force also have a ’General Service Medal’, instituted
 The
in 1918, for minor campaigns which do not justify the award of a separate medal.
The ribbon is in three equal stripes of purple, green, purple, and the clasps
issued with it up to date are ’’lraq”, ’’Kurdistan", "N.Y.'. Persia", "S. Persia",
"Southern Desert Iraq", "Northern Kurdistan" and "Palestine". -

 Ministry of
Information.
 M.0.1. 3»
 000 AUSTRALIAN OFFICERS A YEAR.


 The enlarged Australian Officers *
 Training School will produce three thousand
officers Dominions Qffice. M. 0.1.. 4«
 annually, -




 AERO ENGINES FOR JAVA.


 Thirty-six contractors, who are assisting General Motors to build Gipsy Major
Aero Engines for Tiger Moth training aircraft, were told when they inspected the
finished product that it compared favourably with the English original.


 which are being fitted with three engines, are used for training
 The machines,

pilots under the
 Empire Air Scheme, Tiger Moths are being turned out in such
 the
numbers in Sydney that the Government has permitted a number to be sold to
Netherlands East Indies Air Force. Dominions Office Press Section, M> o»I, 5*
 -




 GIFTS FOR .AIRCRAFT.


 The Minister of Aircraft Production acknowledges with gratitude the following
gifts towards the purchase of aircraft

 Choristers and. of Canterbury Cathedral £5
 singing boys
 L Harrow £l5
 Employees of Adams Brothers and Burnley, td., ... • .




 An anonymous family who have pooled the money they would, other-
 wise have spent on Xmas presents £55

 Deptford Spitfire Fund£l,ooo
 R. Loewenstein, Transport Auxiliary Service 20,000 dollars
 lndustry, made up of the following sums:-.
 Papermakers Association £4,452. 45., National Association
 of Paper Marchants and Fibre Board Packing Case Association
 6d., World’s Paper Trade Review £1,379• 125.. £7>115« 0. 6d.
 £1,283. As. .




Ministry of Aircraft Production, M,p.l*_ 6

 SUBSCRIPTIONS FROM THE WOMEN OF BETHLEHEM.

 to be received for the Naval Patrol Servire from the
 Subscriptions continue
Women of South Africa. The Women of Bethlehem alone have sent over £l4B. They
contributed £4B. 13. 6d. to the first remittance of £l4O announced in August and
 M. 0,.!. Z
have since sent £lOO. - Naval Affairs. .
 Thursday, October
 October 31,
 31 194-0*
 1940*
 7


 MINISTRY
 MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.
 INFORMATION.


 NEUS BULLETIN No,
 No. 157.



 CANADIANS *
 CANADIANS’ TRAVELLING GAS-LABORATROY.
 TRAVELLING GAS-LABORATROY,


 Canadian troops were the first to experience the horrors of gas in the last war.

 To the equipment of the Canadian forces who have come overseas to play their part in
 this conflict has been added a new unit designed to assist in protecting them from such
 a fate again.

 Under the direction of a prominent Montreal medical specialist whose peace-time
 -




 posts are Associate Professor of Medicine and Lecturer in Medical Jurisprudence at
 McGill University - there has been set up a chemical warfare defence laboratory on
 wheels. The laboratory will operate in front line areas,with either Canadian or
 troops, and its purpose is to ascertain at once, in the area concerned, the
 character and effects of any new gas which the enemy may use#


 The unit consists of a chemical lorry, a medical lorry > and a general service

 lorry.. It will be possible to make the examinations necessary for identification of
 a and to examine and deal with casualties. The first unit, assembled in ten days,
 gas,
 is ready for action, and others can be built in the same time if need arises.
 Ministry of Information. M.otl. 1.


 EXPORT LICENSING.


 Lead Tetra-ethyl.


 The Board of Trade have made the Export of Goods (Control) (N 0.36 Order 1940.
 (SR. &0. 1940. N0.1887 Price Id u ) which comes into force on November 4th.

 Under the terms of this Order a licence will be required to export lead tetra-

 ethyl and mixtures containing lead tetra-ethyl to any destination.
Board of Trade. M.Otl. 2.


 LIVESTOCK MARKETING: ACCEPTANCES OF SHEEP AND CATTLE AT COLLECTING. CENTRES.


 The Ministry Of Food announces that during the week; beginning November 4th three-*
 fifths of the entries of sheep and all the cattle duly entered for that week will be
 accepted at the Collecting Centres.
 It is pointed out that, while it has not been necessary to limit purchases of
 cattle in that week to fewer than the entries, circumstances may well arise to make
 this necessary in subsequent weeks. Ministry of Food. M.o»I. 3<


 CONTROLLER. GENERAL. OF TRANSPORTATION.


 Sir Edward Beattie has signified the consent of the Canadian Pacific Railway to
~the loan of Mr. J.C. Patteson, European Manager to the Company, to be Controller
General of Transportation in the Ministry of Supply. Ministry of Supply. M. 4»
 1

 PRICES OF OILS 2ND FATS.



 The Ministry of Food announces that there will be no change in the existing prices
of oils and fats allocated to and
 primary wholesalers large trade users during the
period November 3rd to November 30th, 1940«

 The following addition has been made to the items quoted in the list of prices J~



 Whale Oil Number Three - £26 per ton, naked ex store.

Ministry of Food. M.o*l, 5»


 EXPORT OF GOODS (CONTROL) ORDER. (No. 37)*

 The Board of Trade have made the Export of Goods (Control) (N 0.37 Order (S.R. &

 0., 1940, No.lBBB, price Id.) which comes into force on November 7th, by which the
Export of Goods (Control) Order, 1940, see the "Board of Trade Journal" of 11th January,
 1940 (page 59) as subsequently amended, is further amended as follows:-


 1• Licences will be requir to export to any destination the following classes
 of goods:-


 /Manufactures*
 M. o. I. Mews Bulletin N o»157. Page 2.



 Manufactures of iron and steel (including alloy steel)
 Colliery arches and pit props
 Girders, beams, joists and pillars, whether fabricated or not

 Hoop and strip
 Plates and sheets of all kinds

 Railway and tramway material, the following
 Rolling stock -




 Buffers

 Springs, laminated or coiled

 Wheels, tyres and axles, whether assembled or not

 Fish plates and sole
 plates
 Wire nails and wire staples, but not including machine staples and

 insulated staples
 Wire netting, wire fencing and wire mosh
 Wrist watches with navigational attachments
 Stop watches of all kinds, including chomograph stop watches


 2. It is made clear that:-


 (a) the prohibition in respect of angles, shapes and sections of
 iron and stool includes fabricated goods and hollow mining
 drill steel:


 (b) the prohibition in respect of bars and rods of iron and steel

 includes hollow mining drill steel:


 (c) the prohibition in respect of wire of iron and steel includes
 barbed wire: and


 (d) the prohibition in respect of angles and shapes of iron and
 steel does not include machinery parts.


 3. The existing licensing requirements with respect to certain kinds of plates
and sheets of iron and steel, the of which to certain
 export was prohibited specified
destinations, have been extended and licences will, in future, be required to export
all kinds of plates and sheets of iron and steel to any destination.


 4* Applications for licences should be made to +he
 Controller, Export Licensing-*
Department, Inveresk House, 34-6, Strand, W.C.2.
Board of Trade, 6,
 M. 0.1,


 STORAGE OF OIL-CAKE BY FARMERS.



 Many farmers are participating in the scheme enabling them to purchase oil-cakes
for storage on the farm as advance allocations against their winter requirements. One

of the conditions on which a farmer is allowed to participate in the scheme is that he
must take full responsibility for the storage and the condition of the supplies which
he purchases and stores. In order to assist him in this respect giving a a leaflet
few hints on the subject has been prepared and is being issued with oil-cake invoiced
under the scheme. The leaflet reads as follows


 ’’You supplies of cake for storage: it is
 are now receiving important
 that this cake should be stored under suitable conditions, .


 Here are a few hints


 1 The store should be cool and Mould is the and the
 • dry. enemy,
 defences are good ventilation and precautions against damp.

 2. Provide under ventilation as you 'would in a hay rick: a few

 planks will do the trick.


 3. Stack your cake or bags "header and stretcher” as a bricklayer
 lays his bricks.



 A. Keep the doors and windows open when you can and let air in,
 but keep rain out.

 /5. Don’t
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 5. Don’t make the stacks too big. Three small stacks are better
 than one big one: ventilation is greater and supervision easier.

 6. If mould appears on the surface of slab cakes, brush them with a


 stiff brush and re-stack.



 Remember -
 wastage will help the enemy."
Ministry of Food, M.0.1. 7>


 GIFTS FOR AIRCRAFT.


 The Minister of Aircraft Production acknowledges with gratitude the following
 the purchase of aircraft
gifts towards

 Old age pensioners of Burnham Market, Norfolk, second instalment, 5 guineas.
 Mrs. Walter Jones, Comrie, Perthshire, • • £5OO.
 La Paz, Bolivia Spitfire Fund £2,000.
 Wellington (Somerset) and district Spitfire Fund..... £2,500.
 Devon Air Squadron Fund ........... £5,000.
 ’Warrington Spitfire Fund ......
 £5,000.
Ministry of Aircraft Production. M.0.1. 8.