27.!+. 46 No.1. 
ENLISTED 1908 STILIJ SERVING 
POST OFFICE EXCHANGE OFFICIAL'S TERRITORD~L RECORD first 
There can be few filembers of the/rerritorial Lrmy units formed in 1908 who have .served since, th8t date and Dre sti 11 in the "Terriers". This is the proud record of IVir. L.li. Whittingham, M.B.E., who is a ::noaber of the Post Office Engineering staff at the Wood Street telephone exchange, London. 
Mr. Whittingham ,joined the old volunteers in February, 1908. When,lator in that year, Haldane's new TerritDri0l ]1orce C8me into being, Sapper Wbittingham signed bis attestation fona to enrol in the now citizen army at ten minutes past midnight on the first morning of its existence. In 1914 he served with the rank 
of sergeant in the Royal Enigneers in Hallipoli and on the Western Front. He carried on between the wars in the newly formed Signal Corps, and bad rea cbed the rank of c.s.M. when he was mobilised in 1939 for the second time in his service. Ho served throughout the war in the Anti""'.Aircraft defence Signals as Regimental S:ergoant Major, and is still a R.S.IV4 on tho cl?ss Z Reserve awaiting bis final 
discharge from the Forces. 
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27.4. 46 No.2 
IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDi\IJ iWl..UIDS 
THIRTY-THREE POST OFFICE WOMEN HONOURED 
The London Gazette armounces awards of 267 Imperial Service medals to retiring Post Office workers. Thirty-three worn.en ore na1:1ed in the list i ncluding two holders of the B.E.M.: -Miss M. Campbell, Kyle ; and Miss E. :M. Couzens, "Portsmouth. 
In Scotland, there are t.ventyone awards, including nine in Glasgow~ Wales has five. There are ten medallists in Manchester, six in Birmingham and ~our in Liverpool. Eighty-three medals go to London. +++++++++++++++++++ 
GENERAL POST OFFICE 

Air Ministry News Servi ce A.M.B1 No. 21605 
R. l\. . F. s.L\.LurEs THE DUTCH 
A bouquet of flowers -red roses , orn.nge co.rnati ons ancl blue lilac -ancJ a message from the Chief of the Air staff, Marshal of the R. A. F. the LorcJ Teclcler, G. C.B. are to be droppecl by a Lancast er of Bomber command over Hollancl on .fl.pril 29th for queen Wilhelmina if weather conditions n.re favourn.ble. The ceremony is to mark t he first anniversary of the dropping of food by t he Royal Air Force to the Dutch last spring as the Germans were dri ven out of the countr y. 
The flowers and message will be Clropped in a container on Soesterberg n.irfield, near Amerfoort. The C6ueen will be at the Palace soestdijk five miles awn.y o.nd the container will be tukert -Oy car to the Palace. 
The Lancaster will be escorted by six others , belonging to NQ~35 (Pathfinder) Squ.adron, stationed at Graveley, near Huntingdon. This S.qun.ar on was formed in February, 191 6, ancl is one of the oldest in the R.A.F. It was olso the first Squadron to be engaged in food clropPing over the Netherlands. 
The aircraft will fly in oox formation at 1 , 500 fed and when near the selecteel airfield, No. 7 will break away from formation, make the clrop over the runway, ana then dip in salute over the Royal Pal11ce. All seven aircraft will then return to base, flying low over Rotterdam, The Hague , }IJn.steraam and Utrecht on their way . 
Leader of the formation will be W/ Odr, A,J.L. Craig, D.S. O., 
D. F .•C., ancl No. 7 Lancaster will be piloted by the first R.A.F. pilot to clrop foocl parcels over Hollo.ncl -s/1ar. T.S. Harris, D.F.C. 
Between 29th April, 1945 o.nd 8th May, 1945, aircroi't o:f' Bomber Ccrnmana made 3,341 sorties and dropped 61 685 tons of food for the Dutch. 
_27_,__fa:_,_;1+_6__No~ 4-• 
NOT FOR PUBLICATION, BROADC.AST IN OVERSEAS BULLETINS, OR USE ON CLUB T.APESBEB'ORE 23.30B.S.'l'. ON SATURDAY, APRIL 27 (i.e. FOR ~UNDJSMORNING PAPERS). NOT TO BE BROJ0)CJ1ST Ttf'.fif:rf1ITDNIGHT :NEWS OF 27/c.o APRIL. TRIS ElvIB.ARGO SHOlJ'LD BE RESPECTED OVERSEAS B:r PREFACING Ai'JY ].•jESSll.GES 
FILED WITH THE EllBJi.RGO. 
SPEEDIER POSTS. 
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In o.ccordnnco with post office policy to do everything possible to ir.1provo tho postnl services of thQ -country, nore Travelling post Offices ore to be put into 
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operni..ion. On lvID.Y 6th the follovd.ng T. P.O' swill bogin -vvorking:­
1. 	M;idlo.nd T. P. o. running in each direction between Bristol nnd Newcastle­
on-Tyne. This will inprove tho postnl services bobvoon the vtest of 
Englond o.nd. the North Enstorn counties. 

2. 	south WDlos T. P. o. running iri ooch direction between Bristol ond Con1nrthon 
will speed the postal services to nnd fron south YvDlos. 

3. ·London~york-Edinburgh T.P. o. running frrn~1 London to Edinburgh will lend 
to improved postal services frou London, southorn ond Eastern counties to 
North Eastern counties, nnd south-Eetst scotlnna_ below Edinburgh. 

4. 	
Edinburgh-York T.P.O. running fron Edinburgh to York will benefit the 
postal services fron Eo.stern scotla'ld to tho North Enstorn counties of 
England o.nd Yorkshire. 


5. 	
North Eastern T.P.O. Up running fron Novmostlo-on-Tyne to London vrill 
m.oo.h bettor postal services fror,1 North Eostcrn counties to London o.nd the 
Eastern ond southern counties. 



The restorntio1,· of these T. P.01 s hos boon nnde possible by tho co-opero.tion of the Rnilwny co1:1ponies concerned who? in sono coses, hnvo npprecio.bly speeded up trnins to noot Post office requirenents. 
Just before the vrnr the whole of Grent Britain was covered by n network of r.10:re thnn seve11ty T. P. 0 1 s which travelled neorly four r.tlllion .r.tlles onnually. Five hu:\dred post Offices non were dnily ongogod in sorting letters while these tro.ins ro.n 8t speeds up to eighty Diles on hour. 
Everything thnt rnilwns engineering exporionco cnn suggest hos boon 
or.1bodied in these Tro.volling post Offices -descendo.nts of that converted horse-truck tho.t over one hundred yeors ago wo.s the first Travelling post office in this country. GENERAL POST OF'FIC"B. ++++++++++++-r-++ 

27/4/46 -No~ 5 
NOT FOR PUBLICATION, BROJ\JJCJ;.ST IN OVERSEAS BULL~TINS, OR USE ON CL1JB TAPES 
BEFORE 2330 B. S. T. ON SJ1TURDAY, APRIL 27th (i.c • FOR SUNDAY Pl1P.bRS). NOT 
TO BE . BROli.DCAST IN THE 1VIrDNIGHT 1\IEV\iS OF _APRIL 26-27 · THIS El.'JBJ,RGO SHOULD · 

B:J RJSPECTED OVERSEJ1.S BY PIIBFJ1CING Ji.NY ~·,IBSSAGE:S FIL:iiiD WITH Tllli ENIBARGO 
J1.NI1'1J1TED SXl<~I,f<!TONS FIGHT FOR GRASS 
A sworn stntome nt rogord.ing the GEirno.n otrocitics cornc:ittod in Mnutho.usen concentreition Cor.1p o.ncl nnde by co'ptoin J. A. R. sturr, o. resident of NGWco.stlo-unclor L.Yne, is now: in the ho.ncls of tho United Nntions Wo.r crinos con-u-.cission. Co.pto.in stDrr who wns token prisoner in July 1 943, so.ys tho.t Iv.Inutho.uson ""ilOS nn extcn:i.inntion oor:1p r,1orc tho.n n conee ntrntion cor:i.p, indeed, the words ttyou will never cone outn wore engrnvod upon the prison gate . 
Duripg his inco.rcorat.ionthere were sone forty-five thousnnc1 im.1a.tes, 
iimcluding Germa.n criL1innls, who wore put in chnrgo of, nnd hnd the right 
of life or dea.th, over prisoners. The death roll was 500 n dny through 
sta.rvntion, illness, bentings, go.s, being thrown over a stone qunrry, 
chevvcd up .by hungry dogs, hnnged or shot. 
When prisoners came in, tho ill were nndo to undress. when co.pt_nin starr o.rrived it wns bitterly cold o.nd sick people vrere kept in n state of complete nudity for tho whole dny. In thG evening they vrero forced by 
brutal boo.tings into n hot shower, after which, thoy were forced into tbe 
o pan ngoin un;Gil well into the night with no clothes or nny moons of drying ther:1selvo s. Eo.rly in tho morning they ;irero pushed into. the showers ngnin nnd then brutnlly driven into tho open~ Mo.ny collo.pscd nnd a_ied, o.nd others died from the beatings' they r.ocoived wltlle boing forced in l'l.lld out of the showers. 
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T~e.r:e WD.S the usual gas chomber at Mauthnusen, ana every aay some 200 were marchea in ana extennino.tea. Capt ain Starr was in No.3 Camp and each night, the German crhninnls in charge, thrashed t hem with thongs to make them huddle together, hena to feet like sardines, to mn.ke room for all. In March 1945, No.3 Cnmp was evacuatea ana a thousand inmates, all sick to the point of death, were driven into five hut s. Every article was moved out , blankets, palli asses and feeding bo:wl s , until nothing remained. The c~p was then. looked Up , and a thousand s iok inmates abanaonea to perish from hunger . The gates were c.,nly opened to collect the dead, 
Captain sta.rr himself has seen animated skeletons fighting with 
each other to obtain a blade of gras_s to eat. 
In April 1945, American fortresses raided Linz, near Mauthausen. sane were brought down and the crews bcilea out. Captain Starr saw the camp Commandant ride in on a horse dragging beh.~na h:i.rn two .American airmen bound by rope. Some prisoners caught escaping from P.O. If. camps were brought to Mauthausen ana made t(; run up 80 steps from a quarry, qarrying on tr.eir shoulders a huge block of stone. When pr isoner s fell exhausted , the S. s . guards. used huge hammers to break the stone on their backs, ana so kill them. Forty-five American and British prisoners were killed this way. 
Other methods were the injection of petrol into the prisoner ' s veins and the use of a height-measuring-stand. When the top measuring piece was brought to the level of the head of the prisoner being measured , a bullet was automn.t ically fired into the back of his neck. captain sto.rr says "Had I not escaped , I never expected to cane out. 11 
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UNITED NATIONS WAR CRIMES COMMISSION 

Wl'i....R. OFFICE "'\ND AIR, MINISTRY ANNOUNCEMEN'l 
LEAVE SHIP IltTERRUPTION The so.iling of the. 180.vo ship bctwoon Cuxho.von o..nd Hull vvill bo intorruJ_'.)tcd, omJ. men GxPectcd t ::; o.rrivo in this c:Juntry by this r:'.luto 
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vvfll be dolo.yod o.b ::;ut 24 ·h::;urs. Tho f :Jll::mi1:-ig lco..vo po.rt;ios vv:Ul rcporjc. bo.ck 24-h:Ju'.cs lo.tor th.on tho do.to stOJnped '.)Jl J~hoir loo..vo pc.ssos 
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by Movement C:Jntr:Jl: -. 
B.A.O.R. lco.vo po.rtios: N~s. 626 and 631. 
WAR. OFFICE. 
27/4/46 -No , 7. 

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The destroyer H. n~.s. TYRHN i s expected to arrive at Harwich from the Far E8st on the morning of April 30th. TTIU:J,N has been on overseas service a yea:r. 
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ADMIRALTY. 

NOT FOR PUBLICI\TION, BRO;iDCJ1ST IN OVERSE;~S BULLETINS OR USE ON CLUB 
Tl\PES. BI;;~CREJ 2330 B. S. T.. CN _i\PRIL 27, 1946 ( i, e. FOR SUNDllY MORNTiifG P.i\PJ<.RS). NO'r TO BE BR.01\DC.bST IN THE :MIDNIGHT N£VVS ON /\.PRIL 27/28 
THIS j)lvffiJLk.GO SHOUID BE RESPECTED OVER0.EJ\S BY PREF.t1CING ;'\I'JY 1VIESSiiGES 
FILED WI'rH TID..:: EMBIIRGO 

Tb0.ce [lre no chDnges in the vrilues of points coupons for rDtion period No.11 ·Hhich begins on Su.nd0y, April 28th, EJld ends on S8tu'£dciy, 
May 25 tl-i. 

The Pointe Rcitioning Order hcis been &mended to include Camembert Cheese i!rvorted from France. Points vci1ues rire ns follows:­De scrip tion Po in ts V81 ue .Camembert Cheese 6 per -i1hole cheese J1s from the beginning of r8tion period No.11, the foJJ_owing points V8lues in respeci:'. of ·biscuits ·aill operE\te:­
De serip ti2n..,_ Old Foin ts Vnlue 


2 per 1b.
lli?i tzos 
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MINISTRY OF FOOD 


27.4.46 -No.11 
PRICES OF PRE-PACKED OAT FL!J\ES 
The Minister of Fooa ho.s mo.cle nn oraer ~ncreasing by ~a. per lb. the mnximurn prices of prc-po.ckecl ont flokes o.s from April 28, 1946. 
MINISTRY OF FOOD 

PRICES AND USE OF S:EMOLINA 
The Minister of Fooc1 ho.s mo.cle an Orc1er further o.rnenc1ing the Flour OrcJer , 1945 o.s wnendeCJ, i ncreasing the presoribeo price f or semolinn. proc1ucec1 in the UnitE::a KingcJorn by 20s. OcJ. per 280 lb. in the cnse of sDles otheX"\lllise t hc,n fo:r export onc1 increasing by ta. per lb. the rno.xirnurn price of sernoiihn when sol c1 by reto.il except wheh po.eke() in hDlf-pouna containers. 
The ornend ing or a er o.lso removes the restriction on the use of sernoliro in the production of rneo.t or fish po.ste or o.n;y other manuf neturea proCluct . conto.ining meo.t. 
The oroer will come into force on the 28t h April, 1946. 
MINISTRY OF FCOD.