FOREIG:N PRESS REVIEW DAILY SURVEY OF. WORLD COMMENT ON THE W'AR COMPILED FROM TELEGRAPHIO REPORTS RECEIVED BY THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION 52 No. ......................................~~~~...~~~E9.~., 1940 FINLilND -OBS'l'_!:i.CLES IN WAY OF ALLIED HELP. -~---·---~ Although the .American Press, corrm1enting on the Russo-Finnish Peace oontains some criticism of the Allies, the more general view is that difficulties ­particularly geographical problems -facing Britain and France in connection with the provision of armed assistance for }!,inland, were too great to be overcome. The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS writes today: 11Is it a blow to. the Allies? We think not. Suppose Finland had called on France and Britain•••• ,, In the end Scandinavia would have become a b loody shambles, while the Allied fighting front would have become greatly extended and the strategic advantage would have lain with Germany. "The Finns, the Russians, the Allies and Germany are all better off. If the Russo-Finnish peace could somehow spread to England, France and Gennany, all Europe would be better off,, 11 The NEW YORK TIMES states: 1'For Gennany the gain may seem greatest cf all. There will no longer i-,·e any interrupt ion in Russian supplies, or in the flow of Swedish ir,m-ore, or j..n the threa·c of Allied intervention in the North. "But it cannot be comf::.rtable for Germany ·~o see Rus:zia extending her naval and military control of the Eastern Baltic, Ribbentrop can hardly boast about the growth of German prestige in consequence of the :B'innish-Russian peace. His visit to Rome was a humil:i.ating and abject failure. He seems to have been snubbed by Mussolini and i·eceived with cold formality by the Pop.e, and actually to have been insulted "!Jy a leadine; Fascist newspaper. "Germany will not live down her partnership with Russia, no matter now hard she tries. For years to come, w:1erevc:r freedom lives in the hearts of men, the discredit and dishono'ur of Russia~:.:; adventure in Finland will reflect rm the Soviet's partner"11 The NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE declares: "It is impossible to 0verkok the very formidable character of the military problem presented. If it was another Munich, there are real military reasons for it as there were unquestionably military reasons for the original Munichr" Mr. Lloyd George's criticism that the Allies are r:always too late", is qunted by the NEW YORK DAILY MIRROR whic:!'.l states in an editorial article: "Because England and France have permitted another democracy to be trampled up~n, they can never again ask f or .Ai~erican armed assistance on the familiar grounds -1 this is not only our war, it is a war to make the world sri"e for Democracy and safe for the little nations. 1 England and France were p!.ain dumb not to help Finland. 11 The NEW YORK WORLD 11'ELEGRAiv'i wr... t e last night: "You cannot lightly accuse the Allies of failing tu strike while the iron was hot. Geography won this northern war for Hitler end Stalin by forcing the Allies to default." 14.3.40. The view that it was Russia, and not Finland, which was degraded by the conclusion of peace, was taken by the NEW YORK POST, which added: "This terribly hard victory over a small weak opponent has ex~osed both the myth of Russian might and the fraudulent moral basis of Russian Foreign Policy. Where is this anti-Soviet war? If one had been in the making, surely the invasion of Finland would have crystallised it. Finland will be restored long before Soviet prestige can be rehabilitated, for the moral ruin of Russia is greater than the ph;Ylsical hurt of her.small neighbour," V!riting in this paper, Ludwig Lore declared: "Quantity, not quality, VfOn a victory over one of the finest peoples in Europe. The losers are the Allies. All Northern Europe is now under the control of Russia and Germany whether Sweden, Norway and Denmark believe it or not. The cfnsAnsus of opiniohl in diploma.tic and political circles, is that the Scandinavian countries will go the way of their Baltic neighbours. "It is certain that the Allies twice offered to send troops before the final offer last Thursday. In this paper we commented on these offers bojrlt times. That will not deter Berlin and Moscow and their New York Propaganda Branches from insisting that the Allies deserted Finland -and there will be all too many who will believe and repeat the.se lies." DENMARK: ALLIES' HELP FOR FINL.AND. The view that Finland's call for help to Britain and France did not "fall on stony ground" is expressed in a leading article in today's NATIONALTIDE.NDE~ "Both these '!belligerent powers sent incessant sup:plies of arms in great quantities," declares this paper. "It was certainly not done only out of sympathy for a little, proud and brave people, fighting the over-whelming power of Bolshevism, but also because it was of the greatest interest to Britain and France that Soviet Russia should be pinned down as long as possible on the Finnish front so that Russia 1 s production had only a minimum to spare for the support of Nazi Germany. "In France and Britain, national interests and national sympathies coincide.a and to Finland's request for help, came the answer 'yes'. " POLITIKEN, in a leading article, states: "When the international spot-ligli+" are turned on Scandinavia in order to establish responsibility for the · insufficncy of help to Finland, then we would, in all reasonableness, just say this -let them also be turned on London and Paris. Here are many dark corners that need to be illuminated." HOLL.AND: I1VIPO~.£i!~~-OF FINLA.."llJD'~ GE9GR.APHICAL POSITION. The difficult geographical position of Finland in relation to Allied help, is stressed in today's Dutch Press. HET VOLK, the Social Democratic Labour Party organ, states: "The strategic, economic and moral position of the Allies is weakened, but the geographical position of Finland was, without doubt, the decisive fa!'Itor." DE TELEGRAAF doubts if Russia will keep the new treaty any more than Germany did in the case of Czechoslovakia, and this paper also admits the geographical difficulties of sending help to the Finns. Sweden is criticised ~y this paper for the part she played. DE MAASBODE, the Catholic organ states: "The new development has advantages and disadvantages for the Allies. The fact that another small country has been the victim of aggression vrithout effective help will not increase the Allies' prestige with the small States." The view of the NIEUWE ROTT1:LRD..AJ.11SCHE GOUR.ANT is that Germany, despite her immediate satisfaction.. must feel unc8mfortable at Russia's increased power in the Baltic, 14. 3. 40. ,: '"E~Di<;N L:m NOR\-U.Y CRI TICI SED• ...__..... -~~-··...;oo.~--'-~----- Sweder. and Norvray a!·e cri'.:.ic:isea. in today's Swiss Press for failing ta give right of passu.se ta Al1iec3-forces f or Fi :::i.lancL The GAZE'rTE DE :r,.'l.U3Ai'll\E ~ the L{beral newspaper, writes: "h'hat prevented the Allies fr om gi virg ~1elp was the attitude of Svveden and Norway in opposing t he tn:i;.is:!. t of reinforcements a.cross their territory. This explains the liestern Pmvers 1 :p<1ssivity_, 11 The NATIONALZ}.:;I'l'ill:G,, the P.aili.ca1 democ:::-atic organ, declares that the Peace Treaty repr esen-cs a threat to Swcc.env and adds: "~i'b.at Scandinavia most fears is perhaps postponed but not disposed of. " The Rig~1t-wing organ, the JOUHNAL DE GENEVE" declares: nForce has prevailed against justicep 'but nothing is final in history. As a quarter of a centu~cy agoP hope h~ kept 8.Iive thr::.t a'..:'ter injustice 9 equity will triumph," DER BUND states: "~he ..'.\.lli;.;s 1 of?a.r came too late. The Allies will bear the consequences of this :.::ieaceo Hitl er has been relieved of great anxiety r egar ding Swed:. ~;:--. ore Dncl Hus~Ji.an ex90::..~ts. He can concentrate on the west without fearing an extension of the war to the north." "Fifty thJuSDn:~,mx1 ;:;11~41t h:ivr::: 1t:•\',gl-fc -( clie:E\ but it is equally certain that Germany would-h~int<::i-rnn.ed _j_f Scai1dir:.av~La had. allowed the pa ssage of troops", declares the l:f'BU.8 ZUl::t1CHEil. ZEITDNG, irsvvedc-rr·'Would-· then have been involved in war and ·would have been obligeC. ·i;o bear the brunt of it because a small Allied e:x:pedit~onary force could not have vvithstood the German onslaught, and effective aid vroul d have been possible only later o" FINLA...'f\J1); PHII.OSOI:'l-U:C~\.~, VJ.~Yi OF 'E~AGE TRJ:-:A.TY. ·~ ------·--·-·-·-..~··---..................-----··..-~____ ..______......_ ---­ The belief that ·che F'innish d"012gat ion to ·che Moscow peace talks made the best of the exist ing situation W3.2> expressed by the SVENSKA PllliSSEN last night. This paper add.eC-~ aThe::..~e is certainly no conflict between the political and military aut hori ties' inten-cions and opinions. Corrunents, both private and publicD must r emember this, ti The paper t hen refer:-ea. to the sn.crifices made by the Finns and asked if they had been made in vain. In conclu j_on i t was stated: "If we had without resistance given way our J.1i.:mil:i.atioE woul d. have been an episode quickly forgotten by the v:orld~ e..nd Finla.nd.. wou:'_d have sunk to something in a catagory one does not bother ahou c. "With a clea:;:·ness sc.'.l.r(!ely para.1:;.e1ea. i n vrnrld. history we have shown we are worthy of freedom and pe2.0eo Our dead have saved values without whieh our people could not continue to liveo 11 HUHGA..L?.Y : 11F'IN1~S Il!\.VE NOT DO:NE BADLY. " ----------..-~.--~-·-·-~------·--...---------...-_,. "The Finns have not done badJy. " This comment was made ye<./cerday by P:;i;STI HIRLAP: which stressed "the primary i r,1portance of the moral J.esson that a small people, determined to vindi­cate its independencd ~ i. s capa1;le of:' r)rrJ'GOG ting i ts living space. " The paper concluded by saying that it was believed that the course of the Anglo­French-German war wculd. not be aff~cted., E.'i.GYARSAG chg_::_~c..ctcr:..Bed the pe:::i.ce as 3. "triumph of Italian and German diplornacy. 11 3a GERLlANY: PROFESSED VIEWOF PEACE TIEJ.i.TI . · . A proi'essedly disintere_~ted attitude to the Russo-Finnish peaee agreement was expres~ed yesterday by Marshal Goering's papen the NATIONAL ZEITUNG ot Essen. This paper wrote: "Soviet Russia now acquires the position in Europe whieh is her due." The writer had apparently forgotten that, alongside an artiole in his paper on February 25th, . describ~ng old struggles between Russia and Finland, there were two photographs with captions sympathetic to the Finns. One picture Yvas that bi'.~ peas~nt boy and the other of a Karelian landscape with a large ecclesiastical :ii ding in the background. The caption to the second picture read "Since the m1ddl7 ages the Rus8ians have repeatedly attempted to conquer the Karalian frontier district polit~cally and culturally. For this purpose, the Greek Orthodox Church was chiefly used. Magnificent monastries and ehurch buildings are evidence of this today," A small ne':vs item in the VOELKISCHERBEOBACHTER headed "Free '?fireless Licences ".reminded. "all comrades" who had been hithez1;o excused pa:'1llent of fees for wireless licences that they "must now make application for e:>e·mptions from this pa;)l!lent by Uarch 15th. The application has to be addressed to the Department of Public Assistance". The fee for listening licences (about 30/-) is almost an ineseapable ta.Jc in Germany because without very acceptable reasons, no-one dares to cancel his listening licence. A large mumber of listeners were, however, always exampted from payment of a fee Which was found too heavy, The new short notice to renew exemptions 1vill, presumably, result in a large number of exemptions being cancelled, SWEDEN: "NO OBSTACLE11 TO ALLIED HELP? "A month ago the Hestern P0 wers formed units for Finland and these were ready waiting in certain harbours. Why were they not sent as volunteers? There was no obstacle." This rather surprising statement was made in last night's .AFTONBLADET, which went on to say: "At the eleventh hour the VTestern Powers make glCIWiJlg promises, the acceptance of which would only have extended the war and destroyed Finland and Scandinavia." This paper considered that Viborg might have been saved had Sweden and other countries sent more volunteer help, and added: "Sweden must not conunit the error of making enemies where she most needs friends. Sweden must continue hel ping Fi nland and help rebuild the country." NYA DAGLIGT ALLEHANDA deplored the hard terms of the Peaee Treaty but considered that Finland for the time being at any rate had escaped the fate that would have been the result of accepting Russia's demands last autumn. This paper added: "Sati sfaction in Gennany should take less . extravegan.t forms for in the long view it is clear that tha Russ1an.i-• advanne involves deterioration of Germany's position. Russia has paid dearly for the present gains but it is doubtful whether Russian expansion will now stop for all time." GO'rEBORGS HAL"IDELS -OCH SJORFARTSTIDNING stated: "England found the conditions of the Treaty such that she could not foI'1:1ard them. But Sweden did the job. Sweden spoiled the possibility of a northern union••.. Sweden's reputation has not stood lower in the world's eyes for a long time." FINLiilW1S "ONEROUS" PEACE. The French Press,. commenting on the Russo-Finnish Peace, nas stressed the fact that British and French help was waiting for Finland. M.Lucien Bourgues, vrriting in the PETIT PARISIEN, described the peace as "onerous" and added: ''Up to the last moment .ooura.geous Finland had been materially and morally supported by England and France. If she had finally tit cane to an agreement with the detested enemy,. it was primarilly in order to prcte•t. her neighbours, who begged her to give way. The profound gesture whieh she has just made, can only add to the glory or this cruo.ified nation." Herr von Ribbentrop's visit to the Pope was described by M.Charles Pichon in the EPOQUE as a failure and this writer added yesterday: "Without paying a:ny attention to the countless rumours in the Vatican, it is possibl~ to get some idea of what happened during the two interviews -one with the Pope and the ether with the Cardinal. Three questions dominate the relations between the Holy See and the Third Reich. The first and most important is the Doctrinal conflict betweeh the two Powers -a conflict which, translated int~ action, is seen 1n the oalaulated suppression of German Catholioism, and the no less calculated suppression of Austrian, Czech and Polish Catholicism, whieh is now being carried out, On this point it is clear that there can be no •ono.ilia.t1,Pn, ~M-PCJ'.Pe, has made this understood with unmistakeable olarity, .. NORWAY: PLEA FOR BETTERMENT OF .l\NGIP:l{ORWEGI.AN -~LATIONS. A plea for better relations between._the Norwegian and British Gov~ents has been made in the Norwegian Press. NORGES H.ANDELS OG SJOFA,RTSTIDENDE wrote yesterday: "Relations between the ~8.l\ and Briti.sh people are of the best. Unfortunately however this is not the •ase with the respeetive governments. The greatest possible efforts must be made to put .Ang~ie.n.relations in order again as far as it rests in our power."" After stating that the Western Powera would have preferred to have intervened in Finland in ,S.£reement with the Soanainavi.an oou.ntries, the ARBEIDERBLADET added.: . "But Norway and Sweden have ohoae:a a p,qlicy o£ keepiJl.g their~()ut •f war as lnng as it is in their power. It is that, • <>mbi:led with the l•~t chance ef extending the ~front, which explains the rage ef' the French and English Press. There are many unreasonable attae'cs ~'0weden and N~:rway in this C>Qtlnet"ti.on -attacks whioh oan only M ~t• the fa.ct that net the slightest attempt has bee;n made in London o~ Par!& to understand the position in. 5¢andinavia." The .AF.rENPOSTEN last night made a sharp reply to Allied Press eritioisms • f Seandinavia, stating: "It is true that we will make every possible effort to ~ems.in neutral and keep out of the war for which we have no reGponsibility. They can e.ritieise us for that if they like, but oritie:i..sm must be baaed •n a.otual faets, 1n international justice and the rights of man, It has been aJ.leged that Norway until new .. "sat like a hare in a busli not daring te move f•r the fear ~f hungrey foxes outside. If, by the grace ~f destiny and fertune, N•rway comes through the war, this lesson will ~ever be forgotten and N,xway will never again be left defenceless." · TURKEY: WHAT THE GERl1iANS OVERLOOKED. Referring te the revelation of the device to render magnetic mines harmless CID.ffiURIYET wrot~ ·in a recent issue: "Germany had probably overlooked the fact that Brite.in is her equal in the soientific field." YENI SABAH declared: 1188 long as the type of mentality which led · Germany to attack Poland and Russia to attack Finland still exists, there will be no seourity 'for 8ID&ll. f)r e-Yen great ~· This is the ~son why all right-thinking people are praying for the victory o'f the Allies. " 5 BRAZIL: J!'IHNTSH PEACE NEWS FEATURED. 'rhe news of the B.us~30-Finnish peace was carried prominently in all the Brazilian papers and :: JORi\f.AL stated yesterday that Sweden and Germany urged Finland to accept the Russian terms and the Allies were anxious to prevent Russia strengthening her position in the Baltic_ Discussing Herr van Ribbentrop's visit to Rome, the CORREIO DA MANHA declared that the German Foreign Minister's conversations in the Italian capital showed German weakness~ This paper declared: "An early peace will enable Germany to make war again within a few years with a good ch2nce of victory, Will Nazism lead Germany to her death, or resign itself t ,., death to save Germany?" In a leader, the l~~RREIO. DA MANHA stated that the German wireless had mutilated President Vargas's recent speech in which he said that Brazil was neither English nor German, but a sovereign State. Th0 paper went on to say that the words "nor German" were out out and the misinterpreted speech was "a ren.l marvel, made i n Germany." LEBANON: WHY ARABS SUPPORT DEMOCRACIES. Concluding its pl.obise5:.:e on "Why Arabs Should Support the Allies", A..l\JNAHAR published a declaration by Dr. Mustapha Abou Izzeddin, the well-kn~wn political l eader, in which he -r.-as r eported as saying: "Mutual interests should form the bases for our relations with the Allies. Our ultimate aim is independence. "We want to be masters in oL:.r ovm countries, but independence does not come by wishes -it comes by force or the understanding of force.We have no force Ona. urrlrsmud"trgdms not mean the Mandatories' departure from our countrie.s, as their departure i nvolves our i nnnediate loss of independence and the occupation of our countries by other p01vers. Therefore, for our independence, we should fulfil t he following condition -to have mutual interests militarily able to protect us during the period of transition, to be financially capable of developing our country, economically and othe:r'V'.rise, to have experience in Oriental politics for the respect of creeds, traditions and customs, to have enough colonies, so that we shall not hi-o•.ve to add fresh ones. "Where shall we find such powers -among the Allies ,.,r their enemies? The i?..nswer is obvious." EGYPT : FRANCE 1 S FIGHT TO A :B,INISH. France' s determination to fight until Nazism is eliminated, was r eferred to by AL MOKATT.AM yesterday. "In the past, G-ennany fought France over the question of a :province or two, but now },ranee is menaced with ensl avernent," declared this paper. "What the French feel is the same as the Bri tish feel. Therefore they have decided, definitely, not to conclude a hotch-potch peace, for they fully understand Nazi political wil es, and they are not willing to allow their lives -indeed their existence -to be threo_t cned. France did not build. the Maginot Line and di d not spend millions of francs f or fun, She realised that the Nazi threat was no longer merel y a question of frontiers, but was the universal question of saving civilisationo" Referring to Herr von Ribbentrop~s visit to Rome, AL BALAGH stated: "Vfuat­ever its repercussions, ~'.ile:<~8 ~ts no doubt that the East is confident in the milit ary forces rnassed on its territories to defend its security, Of all countries in the East, Egypt is the cal mest, owing to the armies of Egypt and her Ally the British Empi re. " Plu"\JAMA: ~\.LLEGBD VIOL.t;.TIOhS OF PANA1.iA U~CL.'.ffiATION, In a leading article entitled "They fall on deaf ears" the STAR !:..l'm HERALD ·wrote: "Violations of the Declaration of Panama are getting so common as to be simp]y read and dismissed. The British, having a so.O..called safety zone, well patrolled, are not in any mind to give the Declaration heed as lohg as there is a Nazi ship hanging around the ~\merican shores and biding its time to make a getarvay. "The British Admiralty has flatly refused to give the Declaration weight in the circumstances and they still re]y on the old principle 1 the freedom of the seas'. The Germans of course take the view that they cannot show any respect to the warning unless the British do likewise. "1iihen the German ships have all left their harbours of refuge in the viestern hemisphere and are either captured; scuttled or have escaped, then and only then will the Declaration have o.ny force and effect, but on]y because there is no further reason for violating it. "Protesi/s, it has been shmm, are worse than useless~ Coneeivabiy, as soon as they reach their destinati0n they are acknowledged as a humdrum procedure and pigeon-holed for the duration of the war. Protests vrithout any follow up in the way of penalties amount to no more than pouring water through a sieye. There hEl.s been talk of penalties but it seems to have been drovmed out by the flood of ideas as to what form these penalties should take. 11It is probable that more protests w111 result from the recent violations of the safety belt in the l\'iona Passage near the Canal's eastern bulwark of defenee, but if couched in no different form from the others they will doubtless go the same "\my. In framine a complaint of this kind its advocates should at least have provided the Declaration with sharp teeth." GERMANY: ALTMARK AFFAIR P~"VIVED. The German Press has sudden]y decided to revive the _utma.rk affair. The K€lEL.NISCHE ZEITUNG in a front page article yesterday entitled "The righ'm of the Al tma.rk" wrote : "The discussion of the case of the steamer Altmark is by no means ended." Arter overlooking in typical fashion the abuse by German warships of neutral waters -referred to by Mr. Chamberlain on February 20th -the paper stated: "England, realising the weakness of her legal case, seeks other grounds for her action and finds them in an alleged ill-treatment of the prisoners. " The papers p.ibl.:ished a German news agency message reporting a bomb explosion in the Nazi headq_uarters at Montevideo. The YJESTF.AELISCHE LANDES­ZEITUNG headed the message "Jicked attempt on Reich Germans -bomb outrage in l.fontevideo." The message added: "Rumour has it that the British Secret Service again has its hand in this mean crime." The Finnish-Soviet peace terms were given great prominence in all Bulgarian newspapers, and l'IIR yesterday compared Finland's present position with that of Bulgaria in 1918. The greatest difference, according to this paper, was that Finland had a chance of discussing peace terms. SLOVO thought that the peace ·,vas "one more game lost by the Democracies." IMPORT LICENSING DI;PART~iTENT NOTICE TO IMPORTERS NO 49 Iron and Steel 1. At the request of the r.~inistry of Supply the Board of Trade have issued a further Order ('bhe Import of Goods(P~'tb--iit10.1l) (F o.11) Order, 1940), adding to the list of goods prohibited from importation, "Iron and steel products of the following descriptions:-Jack chain .Lincluding mattress chain) and mattress hooks"!_ rrhis Order will take effect on 18th March, 1940, but any goods covered by the Order ·which are proved to the satisf'action: of the Customs authorities to have been despatched to the United Kingdom before the 18th March, 1940, will not require a .licence. 2. Importers are informed that at present iti·~s not intended to gr!illt Licences in respect of the $OOd? covered by this further Order. 3. Firms requiring further information on the subjects are advised to consult the Iron and Steel Control, steel House, Tothill Street, Westminster, London s.w. 1. I mport I,icensing Department, Board of Trade, 25, Southampton Buildings, London, w.c. 2. _....,.________..,... __ 14/3/40 -No. 3. FRENCH OFFICIPJ., COMMUNIQUE (lWRNING) Paris, Thursday, March ll.1.• The following Gomm.unique was issued this morning by the French G.H.Q.:­Nothing to reportw • MINISTRY OF LABOUR & NATIONAL ~ SERVICE -iJ1-,,...:~·~; \\IJ (~' ,, Press Notice NOT TO BE HJBLiflliED ON THQ CI1UB Ti-IPES OR_BY BRO.A.WAST OR IN ANY OTHER WAY BEF~4p~EmIBDAY, 14-'L'H MARCH, 19·10. UNEMPIDYl'ENT INSlffiANCE 8TATUTORY C01VII1IT'11 TEE. ----·-· The Unemployment Insurance Statutory Comrrilttee was appointed in 1934 and one of its main functions is to keep a watch on the finances of the Unemployment Insurance scheme. It makes a report each February on the financial condition of the Unemployment Fund at the end of the previous calendar year and may report at other times. If the Committee finds that the li'und is not paying its way, or if it finds that the Fund is accumulating an uruiecessary surplus, the Committee must recorrunend some changes in the provisions of the scheme with a view to restoring the balance. Such recommendations require the approval of Parlian1ent before they can become effectiVB. The Committee reports separately on the condition of the General Account of the UnempJ.oyment Fund~ and on the condition of the Agricultm·al Account. It has now presented to the IVIinister its seventh report on the General Account, and its fourth report on the Agricultural Account . The General Account of the :BUnd. The Committee had anticipated a loss of about £8,250,000 on the General Account during the year 1939. Instead, there was a gain of about £16,600,000. Thus the Account was nearly £25 ,000,000 better off than was expected. The Corrurrtttee attribute some of the improvement, if not all of it, to the effect of defence expendit'Ure. On the other hand, they assume that there will be a rise in unemployment after the war in respect of which large expenditure will fall upon the Unemployment Tund. For this reason they say that it is impossible for them to regard any part of the present balance as disposable surplus. They recommend, however, that £37, 000, 000 of the balanc'3 of £f57 9 555, 222 should be used to pay off debt under the special powers of the Act of 1938 which enable re­borrow:ing, in case of need. The repayment of £37,000~000 of the debt vvill reduce the annQal debt charge, and so release, after allowing for loss of interest, an annual sum of £1,100.• 000 for the be.1ef:Lt of the General Scheme. The Corrunittee recommend that this should be used to increase by 1/-the weekly rate of dependants 1 benefit f')r the firat twG> children of atlJr person receiving benefit. This would mean that 4/-a week, instead of 3/-, would be paid for each of the first two dependent children. The l\gricultural Account of the Fu.nd. · During 1939 the Agricultural Account of the Unemployment :BU.nd gained. £623 ,ooo, and there was a bala..11.ce at the enCJ_ of the year of about £3,39? ,ooo. The Committee recommend that, +'ur agricultural claimants also, the dependants 1 benefit rate for each of the first two children should be increased from 3/­to 4/-a week., and that the maximum weekly rate of benefit should be increased from 33/-to 35/-. They estimate that these improvements would cost the Agricultural Account about £25,000 a year. Press Office, Ministry of Labour and National Service, }fontagu House, Whitehall, S.W.1. Telephone: Whitehall 6200. 14th March, 1940. H.Q.389-500 C.Jo (61t17-H2Q} Wt. 47177-7024 20,000 2/40 T.S. •11 • 14/3/40 No. 6. NOT TO BE PUBLISHED BLFORE DELIVERY ­9 p., m. 14th March., 1940., Message from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Czech people, to be broadcast in the Czech news tall{ on March 143 To-morrow a year v-irill have passed since the German Fuehrer, in spite of his most solemn assurances, proclaimed a Protectorate over your country and sent his troops to occ.upy your ancient capitalo By that brutal and treacherous act Herr Hitler destroyed all faith in the pledged word of himself and of his Government. But the act itself is less brutal than the rule of terror which has followed ito During the past year the world has learnt with indignation of the closing of your universities and schools, the arrest of your intellectual leaders, the systematic attempts to deprive your children of the educational facilities for which the country of Masaryk is justly famed and to destroy not only the economic, but also the spiritual, life of your nation. That these attempts have failed is a tribute to your courage and to your unity in adversity, and in your determined struggle for freedom the admiration and sympathy of the British people go out to you in equal measureo It is with the firm resolve to restore your freedom that the Governments and peoples of the British Empire have taken up arms together with their Allieso It is their high purpose to right the wrongs which you have suffered and to create a new Europe in which the recurrence of such evil will be made impossibleo ++++++++++ 14/3/40 -No... 7. WATERING IT . DOVJN. The United Kingdom,. :Cire, Australia, and New Zealand. are the greatest tea-drinking countries in the world, according to a report by the Northern Ireli:md Divisional Food Controller, and Northern Ireland consumes more per head than the rest of the United Kingdom. Ulster's average annual consumption works out at about 10 pounds per head as against 9 pounds for the Kingdom as a \vhole•. The Controller· suggests ways of cutting down War­time imports of tea..-He recommends the use of smaller teapots, the omission of the extra spoonful "for. the pot", the drinking of vveaker tea and the use of "left-over" cold tea with fruit beverages which combine to make a refreshing drink. ----000---­ 1£1/3/40 .-No.8. BOi;RD OF TRADE ANNOUNCEE.E:NT. The Board of ·Trade have issued the Export of Goods (Control)(No.8) Order, dated 8th March, which comes into on Monday, l bth March. The changes effected by this are as follows:­ (a) Licences will be required for the export to European destinations of andalusite, fibrolite, kyanite, sillimanite and zir·con; (b) Licences will be required for the export to any destination of nearly all non-ferrous metals and alloys thereof in unwrought or seriii-manufactured forms (including angles, shapes, sections, pipes and tubes); waste cordage and waste twine; cadmium mass and caamium sulphide; ethyl morrhuate and sodium morrhuate; and tar oil and other heavy coal tar oils; (c) Licences will no longer be required for the export of graphite and ammonium chloride to destinations outside Europe; (d) Licences will no longer be required for the export to any destination of single-vision spectacle lenses, silver wire, scythes, sickles and othe1"' agricultural and horticultural tools (except forks, shovels and spades). Copies of the Order may be obtained from H.M. Stationery Office, or through any bookseller, and its full text will also be published in the Board of Trade J6urnal of 21st N2rch. BOARD OF TRADE, 14th March, 1940. 1.~.3/40 -ilio. 9. 1'.!J.Lfollowing is issued by Haval !.ffairs for such use as the Press wish to raake of it. :l'R-\.\JLEHS HIT BACK. On Thursday last the trawler "Castor", Skipper ~J.B. Davidson, was fishing in the North Sea in company with other craft. Soon after 1.0 p.m. a German seaplane appeared, flew round the trawler, and then disappeaI·ed to the north-west. Some four hours later three Heinkels were sighted to the eastward9 ancl coming on attacked the "Castor" and two other trawlers in his imri1edi ate vicinity ­the 11 <"1ueen11 and 0 Uontana11 • 1.ll three replied with their machine guns during a concerted enemy attack which lasted from 5.10 p.m. until 6.20 p.m. Describing his experiences yesterday, Skipper Davidson, who served during the last war both as a soldier and at sea, told what happened. One of the aircraft first dropped a bomb near the "Queenu, and then opened fire on the 11Castor1 r. Most of the trawler's crew 9 meanwhile, had taken cover below on the skipper's instructions, leaving Davidson himself at his gun with the third hand, Critton, to assist with the loading, and the mate at the wheel.. The aircraft passed overhead, spraying the trawler with bullets. .!:..t first Davidson had difficulty with his gun and could not open fire. But circling round 9 the first aircraft attacked from the other side, letting go a bomb which missed. Then she c'J.ived on towards the 11Castori' from a height of about 40 feet firing her guns. Davidson, as he said, then "let her have it1t, firing 80 rounds straight into her nose. The Heinkel sheered off and disappeared to the eastward. The other two aircraft 9 presently reinforced by a third, continued the attack for over an hour. In all they flew over the 11 Castor•1 between 20 and 30 times and dropped four bombs, all of which missed, besides attAcking again and again with machine guns. Skipper Davidson replied till all his ammunition was exhausted, firing in all nearly 500 rounds. Not a man in the "CastoP11 was hit, though she had more than 20 bullets through the funnel 9 while many others hit the hull 9 deck and casing. The attack over, the "Castor;( resumed her fishing and in due course returned to harbour. Davidson seemed completely unperturbed at his experience, and declared that no German aircraft were going to prevent him from fishing if he wanted to. "I reckon11 , he s aid, "that these guns have made a difference to us trawler chaps. They give us a chance to hit back at the blighters11 • I v \JAR V!ORK FOR SivIALL :B1Im:rs Chambers of Commerce assist Ministry of Supply. At the reg_uest of Mr· . Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, 110 Chambers of Commerce throughout the country, members of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, are co-operating in the task of bringing the smaller industrial establishments into war production. Mr. R.B. Dunwoody Secretary of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce has received the following letter from tho Ministry "I ani directed by the Minister of Supply to inform "you that in setting up an Arca Organization t hroughout Great '~Britain· and Northern Ireland one of the object s which the "Minister desires to attain is to bring increasingly into "production some of the avajlable engineering capacity of the "·smaller industrial establishments. · "rt is proposed t o examine the offers of capacity11 of all those firms viho '\Nish 1..; o be considered for munitions "production thrcugh the meditl.i11 of the Area Advisory Committees "and the Area Boerds which h.ave been or are being set up. "The task of bringing the--smaller industrial establishments "into war producticn is one in which the Ministry desires to "enlist the active help oi' the industrial organizations of the 11 country. 11 With this end in view, I am to ask if the 11Association of British Chambers of Commerce could assist "the Ministry by inviting the Secretaries of local Chambers "of Commerce t o render what practical help they may be able "to give, in an advisory capacity9 t o the Secretaries of tho "Area Boards who are the channel t o the Advisory Committees "for the reference of all offers of capacity." Secretaries of Chambers of Commerce have agreed to give every possib1e---aB-s.istance to the Socretar~es of the Area Boards. The Area Boards consist of representatives of the Admiralty Air Ministry 9 Ministry of Labour & National Service and the Minis-try of Supply and it is possible that re:prosontatives of the Board of Trade will be added in tha. interest s of export trade ., The duties of t he Area Boards are : {a) To secure the rapid, effectual and continuous co­ordination of the efforts of all Government officials in tho Area in connection with tho production of war stores,1. (b) To provide for t J!o speedy exchange of information between Ministries and Service Departments and the Area Advisory Committees. (c) To settle by agreement, in so far as is possible, all local difficulties likely to delay output. ( d) To transmit t o Headquarters proposals for tho exploitation of additi onal capacity f ound in the Area. (e) To advise Hoad.g_uarto:r's on tho adjustment of difficulties over priority of contracts. , ~ 'rho Area Boards a "e advised by Arca Advisory Cornmittoes which arc composed of rcpretentatives of the Engineering Employers Federation and tho Trade Union Congress General Councilo The terms of reference to the Arca Advisory Committees are :­ (1) To advise the Area Board regarding the efficient out­put of anything req_uired by the Ministry of Supply and the Defence Departments, and to assist the Board in overcoming local difficulties. (2) To survey the Area within ·which th2 Ccmmittcrn is working with a view t ·:i ::.nc-;:'c..using efficient production in the Area. (3) To consider and make recommendations to the Area Board upon any matter arising out of the terms 1 and 2 except matters which are properly tha concern of the Ministry of Labour and Nat:!.onal Service or are normally handled by the j oint organization of employers and t rade unions in connection with ·wages and conditions of employment. The Committees have been supplied with details of variou8 stores for v1hich addition.al manl.-:.facturing capacity is needed and which it is thought thu smaller firms could mak,;. It is the intention t:.1at the Committees shall make recommendations to the Area Boards rega rding f irms which they think could undertake this work and it is hopod that in this way it will be possible to give more wcrk to smaller industrial establishments. In addj.tion to tho Associat:i.cn of British Chambers of Commerce, the Federation of Dr:l.tish Industries is cc-operating with the Ministry of Sup~ly in tho work of bringing smaller firms into war productiono Ministry of Supply, Press Office, Adelphi, w.c.2. 14/3/40. ·G.374. 14/3/40 -No.11 MINISTRY OF SHIPPING .ANNOUNCEMENT The formal investigation ordered by the Minister of Shipping into the circtrrastances attending the stranding of the steamship Charles Livingston (Liverpool Pilot JBoat No. 1) on 26th November last has been fixed for hearing at St. George's Hall, Liverpool, on Monday, 22nd April, beginning at 10-30 aom~ ----000----­ 14/3/40________No--i~,__1_2. Officers and men of the 1st Canadian Division at Aldershot recorded their earliest votes to-day in the Dominion election. Lists of candidates are posted throughout the Training Area, stating their addresses, occupations and constituencies but in accordance with an agreement and Parliamentary usage in Canada, not the party labels of the politicians who are standing. Commissioned officers from each Unit of the Division are doing duty as Ballot Officers and Canadians VIill be able to mark their voting papers on any day e:ccept Good Fr>iday and Easter Sunday until March 23rc1c The same system is being used in the Training Area many miles away where the 1st Royal Canadian Air Force Squadron is quartered. ++++++++++ EMPIRE _AFFAIR._~ 14/3/40 -No.13. -' PRESS NOTICE The Tr-.asury have issued the Import Duties (Dr awback) (No.2) Order, 1940 9 which provides for an increase in the allowance of drawback, payable on certain board made from paper. or pulp used in th~ manufacture of suit cas~s and attache cases 9 from £3.14.0 per ton to £6. 4.0 p€r ton. The Or der comes into operation on 15th March,1940, and is published by His Ma j esty's Stationery Office today as Statutory Hules and Order, 1940, No.26l.· TREAS UHY CIL~JvlBERS , s. w.1 1 ;Jc'-1 ... 'lI"Ch ] 9'10 _:~::__l_._.!:,!_c:_,__':.:Z.._ _:_~::_ -~-c+ E 1 c u J, 'I' u n z A N lT C U l'T C :S M E N T. 1110 help mt;r3t the demand :ro1' ser;;d potatoes fr-om t1•uG stocks, t he I·:inistry oi' Agr iculture has hitl)epJ.:;o ar:.:•anced: 3<~.ct1 seErnon, for the inspection of C)'.'0\7:i.:og c:i.-0ps j_n :cn[(-<:1~\d and l:Va:i.cs 1;Vi th a view tc; their certifi C<'J.tj_ 011 :1.:Z' f :J"L1.nc1 :io !Jc t:cue ~ o °tYJ:''; and rea:::10nc1.b1y t'ree i'rom rogue So T i:.e ~.U.nistry ho.::.-; n•JVi dccirl_<::c'l. to 0xtend thfo certifi cation s cheme in 1 940 to cover virus diseo.ses,_, cr.:1..,t i. ~~ic\ ,;::Js m1.d.er ·t;ie 3Xtandec1 scheme wi l l b e issued in respect only of c~o9G which satisfy the followinc conditions:­ ( 1) tt:e pt:E' <::o-t f::~toc1.: rm.1..Gt ·bt; Clnss j= (Scotch)~ C1P.S3 I (Irish), Class I (r;nr~Jis~1 i.)peci o.l f:\t::..d;:)~ or Class I (\1felsh Fl~Jeci.al stock), o•:-i a stoc~z l-~nuvv11 to -~~}le rr~~Y-~ts t;:--;r tc bP re:~ ~·.:o. eq_l:.:Liin_J_ ~;-~·..:: u s·::.:111d,f1.rlc1:; ( ;;) Y.{lc c ~·sys must -oe ;?;row:i::t at lee.st 50 ym·ds i"r"Jm any other crop of' •1·) 1" 1 -1-r.;.·i-··=··"' •10·:· ..,J ·i o .. 'i-b 1 --~ ·i'"'or en+·-·•v l111c~e--. (1) <>bC·''<'' 1::'-<"l.J. V -•-' Cl. v V .... ~·t;,,._,.J,_V ·· · .. u .... c) -.J. J. \-"' u. ,. \ \'.,;) ( 3) the c1~op 0n :·~ ns:pe cc J.on j_s f i:;und to be t2ue to type and also at tains a presc:e:Lbed stands.rd (;:£' :r::.~eedor,1 :f:'rom vir us dise8.ses,, 111 add i t.iol1; t':Jt oc:'.c Geec1 ~:-1.cpcrts will l:le iss ued in respect of croi)s ·which avts.in 11igL.er st.::i:nC'.2,:co.B ~-f pUI'it;>r anc1. hua1tl1.., Fotif'ication of t he cr<;:ps e1 igfb:1.e fol' ;:-,;tee~;: Sl""!ed Pe1y:1rtr-i wLL1 be c;iven a:Cte:i., the :normal inspecttan 1.rnclsl' t'.'.°H~ schemu o It is 8.ntL:; j_~9e.t,~cl ·cha ts at the outset, t he crops uhich ~each the hicher standards cf the Stock Seed Reports will b e mainly those r 2.:Lsc d. sp0::c:LalJy -.~o:c r>c ecl by m·::rn"bera of seed Potato G:c~owers' Assoc iati() l'J.S,, Apl1is, or Greenfly·_~ :i.s ..me of tl;.c l':lPincipa:J. agents cf virus disease in pote.tc» crops and ·L,h.::: atten-cj_0n of g;:oFcPs is cl.ravm tc the !"'act t hat aphis co11trol on spr-:;·,xtinc; s tc-cL in c~1it.ting hc'uses or c.l.ur j_ng s to1~0.f£e may be eff'ectec1 by nj cotinc fux,1ica:cion~ Arro.11c:;ements ar<:: now hej_nt:: mc.i.de f 'or tl1e :lnspection o:f thi s year's crops and all gror:ers in :=n;:;la.ncl and \·1e.1es r1ho j_nteDd to seJ_l potatoes for pl anting next see.son ~.re ~nvj_ted. tc ap1)ly f or t;~1e inspection uf their croi)s,. Definite identificatio:~:. of potato varieties can be unc~crtal:en onl y when the ~Qlants are in ::'.:'u2.l growtll9 and i t is essential.~ theref'c r e thf. t applications should b e submttted earJ.y en that :Lrn:.>JJectir;n can be made before the foltage has died n_c1:rl10 A:i;:i:ol.ications i n T<~spect of early varieties should be m2.cle not 1E1.ter t~1an ]~ay 15th arn1. those f'or l ater vo.rieti-es s:1ould oe iTI:'J.C:e befope nay 3J.sto The fee paynble on ap2:>1ication fr,:;r ins:9ection is at the rate o:f 2s., 6d,, per s.cre 01' part of an acre uith a m1nirnum cho.rge of' 5so Od., Forms of appl ication may ·be obtained :f':rcm t~1e JVIi;.1istryt s Offices, De"De.rtme:nt X... A~, 83 , Eaker Street~ London, W~la In order to secure pu:re nnd. healthy C>t0cks, c-:;ror,crs are Pec.ornmencl.ed t o dopt the folloni11g i:irncttces \Ibic:1, 11.or:ever.~ wj1l not be in.s1_s.:recf""u2.)on d11r i ng the initial year of the extended scheme~ ·­ (a) The crops shoul d be separated from other potato crops an~ from all -DrE-rns ica. c-eoi::::s by a hedge r:;r a tall cr0~'.') such 2 s C8. t.s or be1:ms or, a1term.1tiyely~ by a O.istcn-1cc <:)f o.t ~ ee.st 50 yar'~~s; a:nd should not be grcwn within 50 ya.rc"..s of an uve~' "'Ninte:;:'ed 1.n'..rnsic2. cn..:q" (:sr a sFJica.e include Cabb8.(__:<; ~ I~.al.c s Brusr\eJ. s S:pr ou Ls, Bore ccle an<-3. r:rm·.. .rnpa) ~ ( b) Tlie crO:p3 sLcu:i.o. nc·~ be grorm Oi! 1an6. \Y!\icll lH:is been unc1er pote.tr::es durii'lg the previ :us trro year•s 01' en whL..::1 i:.i{Jt.1'.t0 .;s hnve been clamped within the prt~vicus tl1rE-;e ~res.rs<> ( c) Rogue potatoes sllou1cl be rerncv.3c:_ by d:Lg:_:;in'. crna. not ·o~,r _pull:i.ngo ( (~-) BoJ.ters --::Tc Certi.Cica.te \!il1 bu i.ssued i11 l' <·rnp·~ct o:f stc;clcs C-l:, ~:e::.rly Varietj_es j_i1 which fr::. l·tsr ty~y.;s -:Jr,::c1c'fl1inG.te uver t[1e normal type of ' p:Lants ,? or fnr· i.:s.incrr<9 2.nd J..e.tc Vetrtc:;ties i:n whic'1 Belter t ypes are dee1;1ed to be l;xcesr3:i.v<::" Applicut\cJ fo1,ms vrill t'hOl'tly b3 pc.sted. to GroY1ers who bo.ve "­su1Jmi ttea. stccL:s of i-'r.:..-t,a.to·~'8 f o:;:• ccrtH'ico.ticn j_n previous years" rt will theref'c~.:e not lJc nece3s2ry for s •.1ch CJ'.'OFers to s.p~0ly for fcrmso 14. 3. 40______----·_N_o_.j2.!.. PRES'-> NOTICE . FOR MORNING PAPERS ONLY. NOT TO BE DUBLISHF.D ON THE CLUB. ThPES OR BY B:ROADC.1'.ST OR IN ANY OTffPR W/,Y BEFORE THE MORNING OF FRI DAY, 15th MARCH, 1940. The TreRsury have issued The Import Duties (Exemptions) (No. 1) Or der 1940, which A.dds t o the Free L1st the following iron nnd steel goods:­ 1. Railway Rnd trgmwcty coristrliction mat erial of the f ollowing descriptions :­ Sleepers, tie r ods, tie b2rs, fish ~lates, sol e plates and continuous joint nlates, 2. Bolts, whet her thresded or not, bolt ends, set screws ::i.nd screw studs, fl.nd other screws for metal, and nuts. whether t apped or not (including washers assembled with any of those articles. ) 3. Coach screws. 4. Rivets (other than bifurc2t ed rivets manufactured from wire and tubular rivets with open ends) and washers. 5. Wire ne tting, wire f encing and wire mesh, of all kinds (including woven wire ). 6. Na ils (including hobnails and boot ci.nd show studs and spikes), tacks and staples (other than insul2ted staples) 7. Jack chain (including m~ttrcs~ chain) and mattress hooksT 8. PRrts of ra ilway and trmnway rolling stock, being products of iron or steel of t he following descriptions:­Wheels, tyres, axles and buffers. The Treasury have also issued The AdditJonal Import Dut j_es (No. 2) Order 1940 and the J\ddi tional Imr,ort Duties (No. 3) Order 1940 which are consequentiRl upon The Im'Jort Duties (ExemQtions) (No.1) Order 1940. The Orders come into operntion on the 18th March, 1940, and 2re published by His Majesty's Stationery Office as St a tutory Rules and Orders 1940 No. 352 11 " 11 " 11 No. 353 11 tr n " " No. 354 .TJFlf\2.1,!R_Y CHNAB~RS, :?..·_w·-1..!.. 14Ti-I MARGE" 1940. No . 16. -------------................8 •• -..~ --~ -·-­ I.~ .Ji.. I!' • l 73 • M I N I S T R Y 0 F A G R I C U L T U R E ANNOUNC EM~iNT -----------·-----------------------------------------------------------­ Tl..,e r:j_ni0 try· of Agdcnltu.re ancl. Fisr~eries is offerj_ng for mvard again tLiD year• a 111J.111be1: of s.:;110:.1:1.rs~i:L-Jr:; fo:e the sons and d8.c.1s:ht;c::."s cf' e.f.:..l'i~ul tur::tl '1Dr}::•1m1 or eitl.J:;r rural vvori<:erc3 in a similr:.r e0 Ci(,omic :PO st tJ on an C. to lJe ;:·son~; v11:10 are tllernsP-1 ve s bona fide agric ult11rG.1 vrorlcers o Tlle 1;1n.in p·Ll.Y'.)Ose of these s 1:;h0Js.rs:!l.i_)s is to p2ovidc an o.01JOl"'tun.:i t;r i'l)l' ;young a::;ricuJ. tnral uorkers to i1n-orove their tcfjhnical know1cc'l.c:s0 and. J;;o learn s0:netLinz o1' the scientific principles of agriculture, and to wideL th~ir outlook generally so thE try on which tl10ir live1ihood depeno.s . T:ne:;.'e is also a sm2ll nu111ber of oe::1ior sc~1olarchi1)s vrhich :nrovic1_e an o~portunity for those w~o have reached a hi~h stand&rd of ed.ncaticm at scconc.1:ary schools to :;ont:i.nne t:teir studies in agricult,1.re or one of the oll ieQ sciences at a UnivGrr:~i ty with s. view to quc.J.if'ying for ac-;.miniRtroti-re, teaching, research or advisory appointments of an agricultu1"ai no. ture. This ;:>c:1e:-irn has now been in operation for 18 years and during that perior1 ass:!.~;tance has been g:eanted to n.ear1y 2,000 persons. Many ~Jast stuc1ents 11'.lve succeeded in ir:Tproving their pc3itions subst~mtiall;y~ o. ffL'.rnber obtc,ining imyortant 2Josts , sci er: ti1':;.c and othf.::I'\':ice, in the agricul~ural indu?try. For example, two r'ore1er 1'£1rm '>'JOrke:rs have obtained nost2 of Assic:tant County Agricul tu1"'al Or[;anis8r a::i.<1 m&Eage:.• of a -l arge farm respectively; a former dalry-maid i s now an instx•uctress at a Farm I::i.stituts an1 a former poultry assistant is now em9loyeJ as the mano.ger of a large scc.~lc poul t1"y farm. Most of those who have held the Ju:aio1" scLola:cships have returr::.ed to b etter Do.id and n1ore res·9onsible poet tions in practical agrj_cul ture, and many now hold posts of a supervi.sOI'Y ch3.racte:e sncll as ms.nagers of' furn:s , nursePies, dairies, farm bailiffs, i·oreman and so on. These scholarsJlj_ps afford an excc;Jlent Ol)iJOrtw:i:i.Jcy to youag people in the cot:.ntr:{ to e.6.cJ. to the lcnowledge and slci11 v1llich they co.n apply to G./!,2':'ict1.l tural occupations. CancUclC:l.tes for scholErs1.1ips nust be (a) sons or ds.ne;hters of agricul t1.,1.1•u.l vroi'.'Jnnen or of v1orlcing bailiffs, or of ornallholdcrs or other rural workers v1hose means u.nd rnetho~~ of livelihood ere com-t)&rable r1ith t:1cse or' agricultural ~'rn:elcmen , or ( b) bona fide workers in agriculture . The schol&rships offered for award this year are ­ 5 Senior scholarships ter"able at Agricu1tural Colleges or University De}!Sl'tment of Agri culture fo:-e Degre<:: or ·,_::Lp1oma courses in an agricu1tn;."al subject , or· at VetcI'inary Colleges for couPses in Vt"terinary scisnce. 90 ,:Tunior scholarships , tenable at Far:-i~ In.stitutes or similar' institutioT~s f'or courses not exceeding a year in dux·ation in agric~ulturE., lw:eticr..1 tu:..·e, (1_aii-ying or pou.1try husb2,ndry. The value of the awarc':.s is such that neit:1.er rec i-pients no1" thE:ir :oarents are :n.or;-,1nll~f rec~ui:..•e:i to contri bute <.:E1ything towards the cost of' the training provided.. The me thoCl. OJ.. s elcc tion is usually by interviev1, no vvri t cen examtns.tion being h~;;l ,=i., but candidates must be able to satis fy the Select ion Co:1F1j_ttee that they a:r:e in a position to derive educ a t iona1 bencf'i t from the pro_pos ed. courses of ins truction nnd must al::-:;o in.telld. to follow an agricul tural pursuit on comple tion of their' t:eaining. :B'ull information conce1~ning the scheme including forms of application and a leaflet outlin:Lng the t;y-:pes of career op en to student s who have coupl c tcd courses of tr•ai ning rne.y be obtained from t he Secretary, Minis try of Agriculture and Pisheries, 83, Baker Street, London, W.l. , or locally from the off ices of County Councils. The lat est date for submitting applications is April 30th, 1940 • • / 2. 14/3/40/ No. 17 IUPORT LICENSING DEPARTLI~NT NOTICE TO IMPORTERS N0.48. Canned or bottled fruit At the request of the Ministry of Food the Board of Trade have issued an Order (The Import of Goods (Prohibition) (No.10) Order 9 1940) adding fruit preserved (with or without added sweetening~ matter) in airtight containers 9 excluding fruit pulps, jruu and marmalade to the list of goods 9 the importation of uhich is prohibited except under licence. The i.iinistry of Food i,,-;;ish to emphasise that the purpose of the Order is to enable the Ministry to secure a proper control of the commodities, in order to regulate the trade in the manner best calculated to serve the national interest. The Order will be published on the 16th March and will come into force on the 19th March, 1940, but any goods covered by the Order which are proved to the satisfaction of the Customs authorities to have been despatched to the United Kingdom before the Order cmne into effect will not require a licence. Importers are warned that no Open General Licence permitting the import without specific licences of canned or bottled fruit from Dnpire countries generally has been issued. Any enqu1r1es by importers on matters arising out of the Order should be addressed to:­ The Ministry of Food, (Canned Fruit Branch), Great \,/estminster House, Horseferry Road, London, S . W. 1 • Import Licensing Department, Board of Trade, 25 1 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, Vi. C. 2. 14th March, 1940. No.32. WAR b.OM.[IBNTARY, By General Sir Bugh Ellesi. One page two of Issue No. 18 14/3/40, please note the following correction:­ In l ast paragraph on that page third line f rom the bottom read "Austria, Sudetenland and Bohemia" instead of "Australia," etc • .,..---..000..,.---­ FOR PUBLICATION AFTER ~_5 P. M. THIS ( THUJ:1SDAY) EVENING. Mem. to Sub-Editors: As this script is being issued in advance, it is ~ecessary to check it against the actual broadcast at 9o20 p.mo this evening (March 14, 1940) on 449 or 391 metreso WAR COMUENTARY by GENERAL SIR HUGH ~LLES. K. C. B. , K. C. H. G. I want to-night to talk a little about the German Armyo The question I want to answer, and I am going to try :to answer, is this~ Is the German Army of 1940, in the changed circumstances, a better or a worse military machine than was its predecessor of 1914? The ansvver is important, ·because after that very long struggle more than twenty years ago -we did beat the old German Army -once con­sidered the best in the '~vorld -and beat them thoroughly in the field~ That is an historical fact of which I shall have more to say. Before I begin my talk I just want to say that while my facts will be facts, such opinions as I give are my own opinions and are not official opinions. Now the first point I want to touch on is the position of the old German Army in the State in 1914. It was a very great position ­it was in fact the position in the country. To be a high officer in the German Army was very much to be somebody., Military :rank meant so much that even the Chancellor Bethman von Hollweg assumed it on the outbreak of war; he was a Colonel in the Reserve3 Can you see Mro Chamberlain doing that? The old German Army, to use a soldier's phrase, chucked its weight about and the German people loved to see it chuck its weight abouto The Army was rigidly non-politioal as far as internal politics went -but the Great General Staff in Berlin was the most powerful body in the State and, as far as foreign politics went, the German General Staff overshadowed even the Foreign Office itself., Now all this had been going on for yearso It was -as indeed, was the whole of the military machine -the growth of generationso There were naturally led into the ranks of the Corps of Officers the very pick of the youth of the nation~ The Army offered a wonderful career. All those things, of course, reflected themselves in the self con~idence and ability of its leaders. Individuals, you will agree· are very much made by their opportuni,tieso Let me turn for a moment now to the Gerirnan Army of 1940" The ~ld Army, the laborious growth of a hundred years, was knocked out in 1918 and a new Army was formed. It was limited to one hundred thousand men -that is a pretty big drop from the five million odd with which Germany finished the war.. And not only was it limited in numbers "but it \Vas not allowed anything but the very .simplest equipmento An Inter Allied Commission of Control sat in Berlin to see that disarmament was accomplished and that the small new Army kept to the terms -the very rigid terms -that had been imposed.. For sixteen years that Army struggle~ for existence. To some extent it succeeded in evading the terms by one deception or another, and probably even before the Allied Commission withdrew in 1927 it could have laid its hands on many more than its official number of men ­but it could not show them nor could it train them openly.. It/ -. -2­ I twas, however, about this time that the :·::rov"lin?· :i::o1.'1or of No.zidom o.nd the creation of vast Brovmshirt forces aY)'lJCaroc. to offer challon:..,,·o to the 2.)rivilcgcd portion of the Army; but.. it wo.s not until 1934, when Hi tlcr was firmly in the s ad.c1le, tho. t the crisis came. The professional Army and the private Army under the Nazi Commander Roehm, wore en.:sa.o~od in a bittor struggle for control. H:i.tlcr had to docio.G between the two and he plumpeCl. for the :.?rofessionals. Then carno tho famous 21urgc of tho 30th of June -when Hi tlcr shot his best friend without trL1l D.no. rou;-;hly a thousand of his followers, o.nd tho inconvenient General von Scleichcr ~ once Crw.ncel1oP; WA.s murdoJ;>oct with his wife. The r.ffair~ q_uito o.rio.rt from tho Gxccutionf:l,, with which the Army hnd nothing to C1.o ~ wns an in1111ensc triumph for the soldiers. The next steus in aClvance wore o.lso due to the Fuehrer' s action In 1935 ho announcea COm!Julsory seryice for the nation anc1 his intention to expanc1. the Army to thirty-six front line divisions ­th3.t is n ::[)ence strength of getting on for six hunc1red thousand men. It was those thirty-six divisions tho. t staggered. the wor1c1.. From tho.t moment the Army hns never 1001.~ed b 3. ck ctnd it is Hitler who has been the im:r,:iellin.::r force. Tho Generals, if they are not of his mind in all that he does, o.ro, at ell events, tho men of his choice. 11No11 He h::l s got rio. of the last of the troublesome men -General von Fritsch, against whom the most monstrous and unproved calumnies were alleged by tho. t ghastly Himmler-and who died very sucldenly and very mysteriously nec.r the front line in Poland. Von Fritsch vw.s a very, very goocl. soldier ancl enormously ros:pocted. So you sec the professional soldiers of 1940 are in no way allowed to control ns they were in 1914. The Supreme Commander is the Fuehrer, to whom they have taken an oath of allegiance; but it is yet to be proved that thiC? extr8.ordinary man har=i the milit:o.ry genius of a Nn:yJleon. I am quite sure that the German gonero.ls have their doubts on that ) Oint, ana. I am qui to sure that there arc gro.ve misgivin;;::s Rs to whore he is loncl.ing them -they h3.ve never liked the ·western front, and they have never liked a W8.r with the French and ourselves -they' vc been too bo.d.ly bitten once. From every point oi' view they are badly pl8.ccd compc..rod with their :~>rccl.ocessors of the last war ant they have before their eyes tho f a to of inconvenient Generals I hr1ve given you some sort of idea of the beginnings of the growth of the novv Gormnn Army. Since 1935 u:9 to the be::,:;irm:·.ng of the w.:tr the strength of its front line troops h~d just about trebled. Tho. t in itself is o. very rapicl expnnsi on. But, if I knmv my Germnn, there mu.st hav8 been going on n very, very much bigger exynnsion behin~ this front lino of reserve divisions, perhaps double, perhaps more. Novi, quite a:9nrt from getting the rank anc1.. file o.nc1 the e g,uipment, there is the problem of officers -especially the problem of Staff Officers -more especially the problem of traininc:; the hi~hest Commnncl.crs ana. sto.ffs in the t ask of manipulatin~; immense bodies of men, of feeding them a.no. of maintaining them. In tho old German Army these processes ho.cl. been goins on for years. There were annually the great manoeuvres methocl..ically and systemo.ticc-tlly preparea.. There wns o.n immense pool of trnine(l_ officers in Reserve o.nr3. n very l arge cn°. very competent Corps of Stnff Officers. Nearly all this ground h:o.s ho.r. to be mci.de up in the l ar.;t four or five year .c:. In spite of the prnctice they have hn~ in the peace occupations of Austria, .. Sudetenlanc1 o.ncl. Bohemia, -and in· spito of the Polish war -in which every advantage of strRtegic position, numbers and of armament w2s in favour of the: German -there must be a lot of leeway to mnke up No/ ~· 3 No, the GePmrm f\rmy of 191 l~ hrts n big 1JUll there over 1940. How I wn.nt to sity j.ust n word o.bout equipment, It is cortnin, I think, tho.t Gormnn equipmen:t will be p;ood, just 1-ts it wo.s in 1914 .;.._his o.rmmnents hnvc alwnys been first-clnss, But I wonder if he ho.s not made some mistakes owing to the sneed nt which rearmament hns boon cnrried out, Then I come to the question of su1Jnly of war m11terj_al, oil, nnd all thnt. f\nd here I nm impnessed by the way German pro~~go.nd8 has bellowed ~nd shrieked th~t they ~ro all right for SU1)ply nnd if thnt is so I would me:rely f1.Sk "Thon why mGkc o.11 this noise about it?11 And I imflgine thnt the Great General Staff in Berlin is alrondy looking over its shrn1lder about supply at a very much er:i.rlicr st2go thnn did its predecessors. i.s to the fighting quality of the German troops, it is too cri.rly end we hnvc too little inforrnFJ.tion ns to whether it has improved or deteriorated, The Boche hns nlwo.ys been a brave fic.,;htor i:'.nd he hrs always been rflther a clumsy fighter. I think we may expect much the s:Jmo. But there nre just two little things that ho.ve come to light which mo.y be significc.nt, The young German atrmo.n is very fond of tip and run, and second , G0rman po.trols, I am told, nre all selc:;cted men, Stoss-Stnffel they call them-"Pushil dct:1.chments. Tho.t docs not e0em to reflect ~rc-::.t confidence in the o.vcro.gc German subri.l term, But they will fi.ght well these new Boche, let us mnke no mistnke about th~t~ · Before I finish there is just one more point I wnnt to make. I think it is o.. very importo.nt point in mnkin.~: 2 comparison between the German Army of 1914 and of 1940. It is this, that in 1914 the Gcrmc:m came to the Western front r.gP,inst the Western o.llies with tho trndition of victory behind thorn. Today they come:; to the Western front ag2inst the Western ~llics with the tradition not of victory, but of defeat. For twenty years they h".vc drummed into their gullible nation that thc J,rmy w2.s not dofcc. tad in tho field but only botr2.yed upon tho Home front. v~at are tho fo.cts of history and not the lies? Tus these, they were nointed .out by Sir .John Dnvidson in a letter to the "Times" thnt anner>.red curiously enOUC4h, while I wo.s prcp2ring my scrint on. this very noint:­ After four years of war durin~ which on the Western front our fortunes f ell and rose and fell ago..in, there came a day which I,udondorff hr:ts cnlled tho P.l11cl{ Dny of the German Army. It was the 8th of August, 1918, wh~n the grcnt nllied offensive began with tho att2ck of the British Fourth /\rmy from Ami ens :1nd in just under 1 00 dnys, by the 11th November, we hn.d beCl ten the Germans out of position F.lfter position. They had lost in prisoners 400,000 mc,n and in guns 6,000 ~· that is, enough guns to equip 60 divisions libernlJ.y. The Armies were in confusion, the Supreme Commcmder fled. The Armistic0 w.'1s imooscd without conditions - Bedingungslos. If tho. t is not defcnt in the field -what is? And vvhntevc.. r else they mny procl8.im, the leRders of the German Arnw know thgt who.t I hnve said is true. They know it only too well, for the simple r onson they wore nearly all of them there. -----oOo----­ 14/3/40 No.19. The Ministry of Economic .Warfare is moving during the present week from its existing adclress, Houghton street, Aldwych, London, W. C.2. to Berkeley Sq_uare House, Berkeley Square 9 London W.l. (Telephone Number Grosvenor 4060). It is expect ed that the move will have been completed by the end of the weeko All cornrnunicat:l.ons should henceforth be sent to the new address. The telegraphic address of the Ministry remains unchanged: Whiskers, London. MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC WARFARE. No.20. FOR PUBLIC.1\T10N NOT BEFORF. FRIDAY MORNING N"P,Wr'JP/ PERS z MARCH 15TH. I MPORT PROHIBITIOn ORDER RELf'. TING TO TIN~TCD AND BOJ'TLED FRUITS. Tinned and bottled fruits h8vc been added to the list of goods which may not be imported except under license because we have now very lnrgc stocks in this country. There had been a very substantial increase in the imports of such fruit in the first eight months of 1939 largely from the United States. Since the outbreak of war importations have continued on a grently incre11scd scale, and quite recently there h:::.ve been unmistakeable si~ns of the placing of further 12rger orders. It has therefore become necossnry to control imports in order to conserve exchange. It will 8lso h~vc the effect of saving tonnage and preventing the accumulation of unnecessarily large stocks. This is of course purely a measure which results from the wo..r •. Its objects are simply those stated above, and it is not intended to cause a permanent diversion of the normal channels of trndc•. IMPORT I,IU: :... ,j il'iJG DEP1i.RTMJ:mT, Doarcl of '.::x•c1de, 25, ;:Jouthampton Duildings , W. c. 2 14/3/40 -N Oo 21. PRE38 NOTICE. Mr. William Westwood, O. B .• E., J.P., who has been released from his duties as General Secretary of the Ship Constructors and Shipwrights Association, has been appointed Principal Materials Officer on the Staff of the Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs. ADMIRALTY. S. W.l 14/3/40. ·-No. 22. BOJill:D OF TRADE AlT:EOUrCEMENT. The President of the Board of Trade has made the following further a1)pointrnents to Local Price Regulation Committees set up under the Prices of Goods Act:­ North Eastern Region of :C:ngland Mrs. D. Saunders~ North Eastern District of Scotland -·----­ Mr~ James L. Glegg. J\Torthern District of Scotl8.Ild BaiJ.ie Hugh Fraser, J.P. Provost A. J . Mackenzie. Bo[',rd of Trade, . . . . 14th March , 1940 Pv~r~s •· Sann0ers is the Secretcry of the Bridl:i.ngton Branch of the R~tional Council for Wrnncn , t he Secretary oi' the BricUinGton }~)ranch of t he v.romen Is Voluntary Service for Civil Defence , and ha8 taken part in other Imblic work in the Brhn:;.ngt on d.if:trict. ,!ylr._ Gle.i;~,r.i: is a director of Glegg & Thomson Limited, V!holeoale and. Retail Iron lVItJrchants of Aberdeen and is a mem·oer of the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce. ].§.i:\:_~e H. Frase:iz. is a J'ustice of the Pee.ce for Inver11ess-shire 9 Convener of the · Inverness Public Assistance Com1ni ttee and a leading 1nember of the Inverness Council. Provost Mackenzie is Provost of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. ­ 14/3/L~o. -!Jo..!..?} •• J30A.RD OF TRAD~ AFi;ounc:i:MENT. CO'i1TON Ii\DUSTRY ACT.J._'tl±.Q. The above Act received the Royal Assent tocl.ay. Under its terms a Board is set up to advj_se Governrnent Departments and perform certain services primarily in the interests of the export trade, and a levy is im:-iosed on rav; cotton purchased by cotton spi~ners. The rate of the levy is 5d. per 100 lbs., and comes intq operation at once•. The President of the Board of Trade has ap~ointed Sir Percy Ashley, K.B.E., C.B., to be Chairman and the following gentlemen to serve on the Cotton Board:­ As having special knowledge of the industry Mr. Frank Platt. As having special knowledge of the business of respectively:­ a merchant Sir John Barlow, Bart. buying and Mr. W.J •. Walmsley Ex-President of the selling Liverpool Cotton cotton fibre Association, formerly partner in Messrs~ Reynolds & Gibson ~t~ . manufacturing lVir• J. s. Addison A Managing Director rayon fibre of Courtaulds Ltd, spinning Mr. T. Dutton Vice-Chairman Greenhalgh & Shaw Ltd, , Bolton, Senior Vice-President, Ve~eration of Master Cotton Spinners Associations. weaving Mr. Joe Nelson Director of James Nelson Ltd, and Lustrafil Ltd. finishing Mr.A.Roger Walton Director of John Walton (Collyhurst) Ltd. Chairman -Employers :i?ecleration of Dye:"s and Finishers. -1­ a merchant engaged in the export trade. Mr. R. B. BaI'Clay Director of Rober~ Barclay & Co. Lta anli. of The Whitwor'"~.}:: Street Packing Co,::it. ·: _. The interests of operatives in:­ spinning Mr.H. Booth.maYi General Secretary,Arr,algamated Association of Opera,tive Cotton Spinners and Twiners. weaving Mr.Andrew Naesmith General Secretary, A.'llalgamated Weavers Association. finishing Mr.G.G. Bagnall Secretary,National Union of Dyers, Bleachers & Textile Workers. Mr. Frank Platt is Managing Director of the Lancashire Cotton Cor~oration, but has leave of absence therefrom for the duration of the war. Sir John Barlow is a partner of Messrs. Thome.s Barlow & Brother. (The firm will rid itself of its cotton interests while he holds his present office). Sir Percy Ashley will continue to a :t as C~tton Controller, Mr. Frank Platt as Deputy Controller. A Cotton Board with more limited functions i.vas set up by the President of the Board of Trade and the Minister of Sup~ly early in the war, and the mer1bers of this Board with one exception become members of the new Board. The exception i s Mr. Angus Carnpbell, who was precluded from accepting appointrru::::n-!: to the nevi Board owing to the pressure of his duties as President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, an office whi0h he assumed in February. Board of Trade. 14th March, 1940. -2­ PRESS NOTICE.. A lost gas mask ~ill in future cost 2.6de to replace. A scale of charges for the renewal of lost respirators and the ~epair or replacement of damaged masks is contained in a circular issued by the Ministry of Home Security to local authorities. Everyone who loses or damages a gas mask issued by the Government will either have to pay for the lost mask, or for its renewal or re­pair if it is damaged. It is already an offence, under the Civil Defence Act, and will continue to be an offence, to fail to use reasonable care for the preservation of a mask, but up to the present, it has been possible to obtain free replacement of lost or damaged respirators. In future charges will be made for loss of, or damage to, respira­tors according to the following scaleo In respect of (adult) civilian respirators ­ s. d. For loss of a complete respirator (including carton) 2. 6 For loss o~ or damage to: a facepiece 1. 6 a container }. O a carton o. 2 In respect of a child's respirator ­For loss of a complete respirator (including carton) 3. 6 For loss of or damage to: a facepiece 2. 6 a container 1. 0 a carton Oo 2 In respect of babies' anti-gas helmet ­For loss of a complete helmet (including carton) 25. 0 For loss of or damage to: a main frame (without tail-piece) 4. 9 an adjustable tail-piece on frame 2~ 0 a supporting strap with webbing straps for attaching to main frame. 2. 0 an enveloping bag 11. 6 a draw tape on bag O. 3 a bellows 1. 6 an elbow connector 1p 0 a valve unit (inside elbow) o. 9 a container 1. O a strap for securing the air unit to frame O. 3 a carton o. 6 No charge will be made in respect of gas masks lost or damaged in air-raids, or in the case of persons in receipt of public assis­tance or unemployment assistance, or their dependents. In the case of loss of or damage to a child's respirator or baby's helmet where the charge is above 2. 6a.. , and the local authority oonsider that the person responsible cannot reasonably afford the charge, they may reduce it, but not to a less amount than 2s.6d. The system of charges is to come into operation as soon as local authorities are able to make the necessary arrangements, but in any case not later than April 8th. It is important to note that repaired respirators, or respirators issued in replacement of respirators lost or damaged, remain the pro~ perty of the Government, even though a charge has been made for repair or for the replacement of a lost or damaged part. It still remains that no one may hold more than one respiratoro MINISTRY OF HOME SECURI~Y. -----~--000-------­ The War Offioe, London, s.,w.1. 1Li.th March, 1940. SERVICE I.I BRARIES & BOOKS FUND. In response to the joint a~peal of the Lord Mayor of London and the Lord Provost of Edinburgh for the Service Libraries and Books Fund, some extremely generous and encouraging donations have been received, including £2,500 from Mrs. Lilian Ibbetson, £1,000 from Mr. Simon Marks and £500 from Viscount Wakefield. The Pilgrim Trust has made a grant of £1,000 toward.a the administrative expenses of the Fund; and £2,000 a year has been promised by the N.A.A.F.I. for the same purpose. Further donations, which are urgently needed for the development of' the work, may be sent to the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House, London, E. c.4., envelopes being marked "Books''• Books and periodicals of all descriptions are being received from the Public at the officially authorised receiving depot, Finsbury Barraelm, City Road, E-. G.,1 • The V/ar Of'f'ice, London, S. W.1. 14th March, 1940~ The .·war Off'ice wishes to clear up any misunderstanding that may have resulted f'rom a recent announcement on the subject of Army Comf'orts, which might give rise to an erroneous impression that the provision of' further comforts is not required for the time being. Local organisations and others who are 1cnitting woollen comforts, are asked to go on with this work, which means so much to the troops, and which will certainly be r equired in greatly increased volume as thu Armies expand. Organisations for collecting comforts are being set up in Counties under the Director-General of Voluntary Organisations. Work parties and individuals should send their completed work to these organisations or direct to the Army Comforts Depot, 12, St. Mary's Butts, Reading. Although at present the troops overseas have suff'icient woollen comforts, these become used up and the Army i s constantly increasing. If' local organisations stop lcnitting, a shortage will occur l ater on when the need for these comf'orts again arises. All knitted comforts are required, but there is a strong feeling in the B.E.F. that luxuries in the form of chocolates, sweets, etc., should not be sent. Monetary donations will still be welcome and should be sent to the Secretary, Army Comforts Committee, Romney House, Marshfu~ St., s.w.1., or the Director-G~neral of Voluntary Organisations ; 80 -82 Pall Mall, s. w.1. The money received will be spent on requirements needed at the time. The War Office would lik:e to take this opr)ortunity to thank Collecting Organisations and the public for the generous gifts which they have supplied during the past Winter, and which have contributed so much to the comfort of the troops during that period, Arrangements will be announced later regarding the collection, as warmer weather approaches, of woollen comforts from the troops. PRbSS NOTICE. List of Prisoners of War. flank Christian Surname Names. Unteroffizier Karl MISSY Boots.mansmaa t Masch. Gefreiter Yi/ ilhelm Willi POST MOTSCH Masch. Gefreiter Friedrich STEINERT Funkgefreiter iViaschinenobergefreiter Feldwebel Heinz Fritz Hermann PETZOLD SCHEFFLER WILMS Mech~ Obergefreite1" Otto SPROTT WP..H OFFICE WHITEHALL, S.W.1o 1L/3{l!-O -No. 27.• Where from Age. Gladback :VR hi.nland 27 West~men Westfahlen 24 Borne bei Magdeburg 20 Tauscha 21 Oschatz 18 Werden i/Sachsen 23 Erfurt Rheinhausen given as 25.7.1940. No.28. P.OR MORNI NG PAPERS QI:ILY. MR . EDEN WITH THE C.ANf, DIA!\TS. Mro Anthony Eden, SecrctRry of Ste.to for Dominion Aff o.irs, spcn t four hours with the 1st Cano.diem Di vision to-dny nnd was impressed by "the rcmnrknblc results achieved" under what he cnllod 11 n.c tive service we fl ther conditions". When he dropped into the mess hall of tho Royal Cc.nndi an Artillery Field Brigade he made a brief impromptu speech by populAr dcmando Moro than seven hundred soldiers were att~cking ~ roPst beef and vegctnble lunch, but ceased fire t o shout: \iSpeech, 'l'ony" o Tho Minister mounted a bench and said: ''I want to thr.nk you fine soldiers for coming over. I know I sny that on behalf of nll the people in the United Kingdomo I henr some of you ar c getting impc.tient, but remember that Rll things come to those who vmi t.! 11 Major Genernl A.G.L. McNnughton conducted Mr.Eden on his tour, nnd in the p!'lrty were also Mr. Vincent Massey, High Commissioner f or Cnnnda, Mc:ljor General H.D.G. Crernr, and several officials from t he Dominions Office. They braved the unpl easRnt weQther t o see the Royal Imperinl hegimcnt at mnchinc-gun drill in the field and the 48th Highlanders from Toronto digging trenches and attacking a wooded copse in speedy Bren gun carriers. They wo.tchcd the Royal C