AIR MINISTRY N 0.2164.
 3.11,40 - No. 1.



 AIR MINISTRY AND MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY COMMUNIQUE.




 Very few casualties have been reported in last night’s air
raids on this country, which were on a small scale and ended
sometime before midnight. Bombs were dropped in London and the

Home Counties and in Eastern and South Eastern England. Houses
and shops were damaged at several places in these areas, but the
damage as a whole was not great.


 There was some slight enemy activity over Eastern England
shortly before dawn this morning but no reports have so far
been received of bombs being dropped.


 One enemy aircraft was destroyed during the night.
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 ■
 The following official communique was issued today from

 Cairo:-


Egypt, Palestine, Kenya: Nothing to report*


Sudan: In the Kassala sector our mechanized patrols have again
been active*




MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.
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 BROADCAST BY THE HONE SECRETARY AND BUSIER OF HOME SECURITY

 THE Rt/' HON. HERBERT MORRISON, SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER K lJ2hQju-l*

 (Not for publication whether
 other “form until after broadcast;.




 clearly that the Battle of Britain is only part
 a
 We ere seeing more and more

 And within the Battle of Britain conflict between the German
 of the world war.
 Air Force and the civilian population is itself only a parts


 Hew the of war whole future turns
 vitally important part it is I
 But what a

 in the work of our Civil Defence Army. A
 upon itl We a glow of all feel
 pride
 could we have foreseen the performance they have put up? they are -

 year ago
 labourers
 bank clerks, shopkeepers, stockbrokers, civil servants, craftsmen,
 -




 folk. The world is electrified to see thm stand. up as they have
 peaceable, steady
 them night after night
 done to the rain of fire and death that has poured upon
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 or their duty.
 staid up to it, and do their Job, and never fail their neighbours
 And our police -
 they have lived up to and surpassed their finest traditions.


 You, the ordinary citizens of the country
 -
 a solid promise of victory lies in
 and are
 the fact that for months you have stood up to the attack, kept your nerve,
 if is to oome. You have won the first round*’ won it hands down.
 ready for more more

 Not London alone, but the great provincial cities and towns yes, and
 «
 our villages
 of the country. Well done, magnificently done, men, women and
 too in many parts
 children of Britainl


 I to tell you of the plans made and the actions taken by me, for you, in
 oome

 new office of Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security. Ido not vcme to tell
 my
 and stress of war as though you were
 you how you are to be shut away from the rigour
 unfit to play your part. If, in the midst of the battle we concentrated all our
 efforts on passive defence, then our active defence would suffer and we would be

 worse off than ever. Besides, we are arming for the offensive and for that steel,
 cement ard bricks are needed, for munition and aircraft factories and aerodromes.
 Remember too, that the R.A.F. is active over Germany and its occupied territories.
 The Nazis have troubles in respect of air attacks not less than our own.



 The man or woman who clamours for everything in the way of material or labour

 to bedevoted to passive defence makes a great mistake. We are at war. The

 successful conduct of war needs widespread determined action above ground, not only
 by the armed forces, not only by the Civil Defence workers of all ranks it is well -




 for us all that they have not insisted on safety but by the workers in the war -




 factories and indeed by everybody. Victory will go to those who fight hardest and
 work hardest.


 But there is no logic and. no humanity in tolerating unnecessary danger or dis-
 comfort. I want to bring it about that everyone shall be as safe, and sleep as
 comfortably, and be as healthy as the onset of war allows o I know what sort of life

 this Blitzkrieg has brought to the people in our big cities o I have seen much and
 heard more, and I understand the background of it allo What I can do to make life

 easier, that will I do.


 In particular I want to say a word at the outset about the children. Hundreds
 of thousands still remain in the Blitzkrieg. The front line is not the place for
 children. None of us can be happy to think of them, needlessly subjected to danger
 and strain with no fair chance for health and lt is the
 duty of parents
 to let us get their children out, as we can do, effectively and kindly, to where
 they can live more normal lives. Moreover, those who remain are hindrances to our

 war effort, and their removal will help the work of civil defence.


 I oome now to deal with the provision of shelter. Remember that just as absence
*• from the scene of danger is the best protection of all, so the next best thing is to
 scatter as widely as possible within the area of danger. No shelter offers an
 absolute guarantee of complete safety. In practice there is no hundred percent

 safety. Several
 types, however, give a high degree of protection. A great many
 people - I
 glad of it want privacy or fresh air and comfort; and they are more
 am -




 interested in these things than in the possibility of slightly greater
 safety in a
 field in which I say it again there is no absolute
 -

 Other people take
 safety.
 -




 /other
other views. So we want more Anderson shelters and more communal surface shelters,

more good basements, more deep shelter where practicable and more of any other good
protections that we can secure.


 Now for the steps we are taking.

 We are making a survey of private basement taken powers to
 shelters, and have
 will be exercised by the
require the op a-th ng of such as can be opened. These powers

local authorities; but in Case those who want to keep the shelters closed without

good reason have too much influence with the local authority; I have taken special
powers for the Regional Commissioners to step in and act. Much of this basement space

will be bunked and tickets will later be issued for it.



 We shall provide for the extension of surface communal shelters, which are


popular and well used in many areas. New designs are being worked out and plans are


on foot for certain improvements to existing shelters.

 More steel has been allotted for building the larger Anderson shelter, and also
for extending in appropriate cases existing smaller shelters to 6 feet
 they so that

too can take bunks. I have secured more cement for concreting and water-proofing
Anderson shelters, and here I am grateful for the co-operation of other Ministers who
need cement. Remember, however, that in this matter of water-proofing there is much
that you can do for yourselves. Your warden or your local authority will tell you
how to do it.



 Then we shall provide for the increasing use of certain types of strong modem
building, using some floors above ground as well as the basement. Certain lower
floors vixen properly protected against blast offer excellent shelter. This type of
building exists widely in of
 big cities,
 some our and the fuller use of it to which

I have been led through the combined opinion of scientists and practical engineers
will mean another big and welcome addition to our resources.




 In London I have been able to put to use additional tube accommodation and I

expect still further additions. I would lay hands upon any other type of deep shelter
that is available,


 And now I want to say a few words about deep shelter. Two years
 ago I pleaded
for as much of it as possible. Whatever the merits of that
 controversy, everyone will
be agreed now that must fill the gaps in our
 we shelter provision by whatever means we
can. We can all agree, too, that any deep shelter we may have or can readily come by
will be very welcome. Beyond that, one thing is perfectly clear. Y/hatever view

anyone may have at one time or another on deep shelter, it is quite certain that such
shelter cannot play more than a limited part in our plans.

 I have examined the question closely and carefully, with a perfectly open mind,
as I promised, I have consulted the best expert opinion, including some fresh minds,
and I have come to these conclusions -




 1. Anything like a universal
 policy of deep shelter, for the whole
 population or thegreater part of it, is beyond the bounds of practical
 possibility. This fact I cannot alter. To attempt to build more than a
 limited amount in suitable places would mean providing deep shelter for a

 given number at the cost of leaving a much larger number with no good
 shelter at all.


 2. No appreciable amount of this deep shelter, even in the most favourable

 event, can be ready until this winter is over. This fact too I cannot
 alter.


 3. In some places, and in seme circumstances, the construction of deep shelter
 is practicable, and will be undertaken. The deep shelter provided in London
 by the tubes will be extended by tunnelling. In certain other parts of the

 country where the slope of the ground and the nature of the soil make
 tunnelling a relatively easy matter, work will also be begun. But the
 amount of deep shelter thus provided will inevitably be quite a small part
 of the total shelter in the country.

 These
 are the plain facts. I tell you the truth as I see it, knowing you to he,
not set of faint-hearts longing for fairy tales about absolute safety, but a great
 a

people standing erect and fighting for its life. Be on your guard against all who seek
to make this deep shelter cry a means of defeatist agitation.
 Political/
 3

 Political schemers sailing under all sorts of official sounding names who

seek to destroy our will to take risks in freedom’s cause are, whether they realise
it or not, playing Hitler’s game,, played Nazi as their friends the and Fascist game
of democratic disintegration in Germany and France. Their guiding principle has
been "Through chaos to triumph". They have helped to cause plenty of chaos in what
were once democratic countries; but the resulting triumph has been the triumph of

Fascism and reaction.


 These people are not numerous, but beware of them *
 they are mischievous.
Hitler is no doubt delighted with their manoeuvres* He knows
 if our people that
could be stampeded into putting a narrow personal safety before success., he would
win; that if fear could be so stimulated as to weaken our will actively to struggle
for the liberties of Britain and of all mankind* then the tragic story of France
 •




would also be the story of Britain. That mustn’t happen, And it won’t*


 I pass to other matters,


 Shelter life brings serious problems of health and comfort, and my colleagues
and I have been acting to find speedy solutions for them.

 The Ministry of Health is organising a medical service in all large shelters,
where a doctor will deal with minor ailments, and nip infection in the bud. The
First Aid Posts in shelters, too, will extend their scope to deal with all sorts of
minor ailments.



 Nearly a million and three quarter bunks have been ordered; installation has

 and before the We are
begun, greater part of the job will be done.
 long much
instituting a ticket system which, I hope, we shall be able to extend widely* It
will help to do away with queues and introduce an extra measure of order into all life
in public shelters,, Remember, however, that public shelters are not everything -
 far
from it. Even in London public shelters are used by less than one in six of the

population. Some 85% sleep in their houses or flats with local protection, in their
Anderson shelters, or in communal domestic shelters. These calm determined people
deserve the highest praise. Some people are apt to forget them - the whole 85% of
them 9 But Ido not forget them.
 They, and those who use public shelters will, I hope, benefit from a campaign
which I shall shortly set on foot to instruct people how to make the very best of
shelter life: it will, I believe, be a practicable and helpful campaign: and it
will include an effort to enlighten the very sorely tried people whose hemes are

destroyed, by making known the various main facts that a raid victim needs to have
in his or her mind.



 Reverting for a moment to the Civil Defence Workers, I know that in some respects
their conditions of work are capable of improvement. They have carried on cheerfully
like soldiers in the line. Before long I hope that there will be some good news for
them.


 That then is my interim report -
 a plain tale of how matters stand at the end of
three weeks in office.


 Thank you - all of you.


 You have repelled the Nazi attack splendidly. Months of it and still going

strong, ready if need be for more. Men and women of the cities and the bombed areas,

you are fighting a great fight in a great cause! You are an inspiration to free men,
and to who would be in all the world. I salute you. lam
 men free, proud to serve

you.



MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.
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 PRESS NOTICE




 The Lord. President of the Council, Sir John Anderson M.P.,
 >
has made the following appointments :«
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PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE,
WTEHALL, S.W., 1.
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 3,-11,40 6.
 No,




 TRADING WITH THE ENEMY,




 The Board of Trade announce that they have made a new Order
which comes into force on 4th November,, containing I’9& additions
to the ’’Black List” of traders in neutral countries with whom it
is unlawful to have dealings of any kind. Further additions
will be made in due course.



 The Order is being published by H..M, Stationery Office
under the title of Trading with the Enemy, (Specified Persons),
( Amendment), (N0,.12), Order, 1940,. (Statutory Rules and Orders
1940, No. 1870).




BOARD OF TRADE,
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 ADMIRAL MUSELIER’S TOUR OF INSPECTION.


 General Headquarters of the Free French Forces has issued

the following communique:

 Admiral Commander-in-Chief of the Free French Naval
 Muselier,
Forces, has inspected at one of the southern ports of Great Britain
a group of French Naval units which regularly takes part in the
operations of the British Fleet., The fighting spirit displayed
by the crews of these ships has frequently earned them the official
praise of the British commando


 The Commander of a submarine of the Free French Navy was

recently awarded the D s
 So o for having particularly distinguished
 o


himself during operations.


 The crews of one destroyer and of one sloop have also been
congratulated by the Admiral commanding a British port for gallant
behaviour in difficult circumstances at sea,



 In addition an important ship of the Fleet has for the fourth
 T
time been successful in bringing down a German plane.

 In conformity with French Naval traditions, Admiral Muselier
during his tour of inspection had the pleasure of taking the salute
of the officers and men of the new French units recently put into
service.


 Admiral Muselier and the officers who accompanied him
received a warm welcome from the British Naval authorities in the
spirit of the mutual confidence existing between the British and
Free French Fleets o




MINISTRY OF INFORMATION,
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 General de Gaulle has sent to General Metaxas, the Greek Prime Minister,
the following telegram:


 ”0n behalf of all French people, of those who are still fighting the
war and of those who are temporarily held in servitude by the enemy, I

express to Your Excellency and to the Government and people of Greece our

admiration and our confidence
 that, safeguarding in once more their

independence, the Greeks give to the world an example worthy of their
ancient traditions. Together with the Allies we shall beat our

common enemy.”


 President Metaxas has replied:


 ”1 warmly thank you for your telegram* All Greece is convinced that
in the present grave moment of our history the hearts of all French people
without exception are heating for the success of our just cause. The

great French nation, who have many times followed the noble example of
our ancestors and who gallantly supported us at the time of our


independence, could not but be with us once more.”



MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.
AIR MINISTRY N 0.2165.



 OF HOME SECURITY COMMUNIQUE.
 AIR MINISTRY AMD MINISTRY

 during this morning
 Enemy air activity over this country
 .few s g
and this afternoon has contisted of flights by a

 southern halt oi
aircraft over some district s in the

country.

 bombs
 Reports received up to 5 p.m* indicate that a. few
 done was not serious.
were dropped bit that the lamage
 ?



 dived from the clouds and
 In some cases enemy aircraft
 A small num
delivered short bursts of iachine-gun fire,
of casualties hss been cars.ed in these attacks.


 One of our
 One enemy bomber has ken destroyed, today.
fighters has beei lost.
AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN N 0,2166 3/11/4O - No, 11.
Air Ministry News Service.




 HALF A BOMBED EACH



 Fighter pilots and anti-aircraft gunners shared a German
bomber between them to-day. There was nothing left over for
anybody else©


 A Dornier 215 was first seen above the clouds over Essex

by two Hurricane
 pilots© They both fired two bursts and left
it dropping slowly through the clouds with one engine stopped
and smoke pouring out.


 One of the Hurricane pilots dived within ten yards of the
bomber before it disappeared into cloud. The German air
gunner fired back.


 When the Dornier appeared below the clouds, anti-aircraft
gunners spotted it, They saw that it was not quite out of
action and decided to finish the fighter pilot ’s work for them,
A few rounds brought the bomber crashing down near the Essex
coast©


 This is the second German raider which gunners had a hand
in destroying over the same spot within twenty-four hours.
The first was brought down in flames by anti-aircraft fire
yesterday evening©
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 NEW VICE-CHIEF OF AIR STAFF.


 Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman.



The Air,Mini stry announces: -




 The Secretary of State for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair) has
appointed Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman, K.C.8., D.5.0.,
M.C., to be Vice-Chief of the Air Staff in place of Air Marshal
Sir Richard Peirse who has recently taken up the appointment of
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Bomber Command*
AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN 3/10/40 -
 No. 1




 NOTE ON THE CAREER OF AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR WILFRID FREEMAN.


 (Reference to-day’s Issue No. 12) Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman served
 Air Chief
in Royal Flying Corps in France and Egypt in the last war.
 the He has held a
number of important staff appointments, and, since 1936 has been member of the
Air Council concerned with the development and production of aircraft and
ancillary equipment.

 Sir Wilfrid Freeman was born in London in July 1888. He was educated at

St. Christopher’s School, Eastbourne, Rugby Royal Military College,
 and the
Sandhurst. He was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment
in 1908.

 He gained the Royal Aero Club’s Aviator’s Certificate while serving in the
Manchester Regiment and was selected for the Royal Flying Corps in 1913* He went
to France as a Flying Offi cer pn no , 2 Squadron R.F.C, in August 1914*

 In March 1915> while still in France, he was awarded the Military Cross for
’’gallantry, ability and very valuable work performed”. The citation stated that
he had located the
 position of German batteries
 conveyed on March 10th and the
information by wireless messages from his aeroplane to our artillery. Although
his propeller and. plane had been pierced by the enemy’s bullets, he had remained
aloft for more than five hours during the day.

 and awarded the
 He went to Egypt in May 1915 to command No. 14 Squadron was


D.S.O. in November 1916.


 In December 1916, he was again in France in command of No. 10 Wing with
the rank of Wing Commander, Ho was appointed to command No. 2 Training Group
South Eastern Area in April I$MB with the rank of Group Commander and Temporary
Colonel.


 On completion of a Naval Staff Course in June 1919# he was given a permanent
commission the Air Force
 as Wing Commander in Royal and resigned his army commission.


 He became an instructor at the Royal Air Force Staff College on its formation.
He was promoted Group Captain in 1923 and two years later, was appointed to command
the Central Flying School, From January 1927 until October 1928 he was Deputy
Director of Operations and Intelligence at the Air Ministry.

 He was promoted Air Commodore in July 1929 and in the same year was posted to
Headquarters, inland Area, as Chief Staff Officer. A
 year later he went to 4raq
as Chief Staff Officer at Headquarters of the R.A.F. and, some weeks later, was

appointed to command the Royal Air Force in Transjordan and Palestine.



 He was promoted Air Vice Marshal in July 1933 arA in December was appointed
Air Officer Commanding the Staff College.


 After two years in command, of the Staff College he was appointed. Mr Member for

Research and Development in April 1936; during 1938 there was a reorganisation of the
duties of members of the Air Council, and Sir Wilfrid. Freeman became /drL.feriber for Develop
 Since it? formation in May
ment and Production, 1940 he has been attached to the
Ministry of Aircraft Production and Lord Beaverbrook has now consented to release him
to assist the new Chief of the Air Staff (Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal).

 Sir Wilfrid. Freeman was promoted. Air Marshal in January 1957, and in June of
that year was created a K.C.B. In May of this year he was given the temporary rank

of Air Chief Marshal,


 In his new appointment as Vice-Chief of the Air Staff, Sir Wilfrid. Freeman will
remain a member of the Air Council.
 Monday November 4> 1



 MI N I S TR Y OF INFORMATION


 NEWS BULLETIN No. 161


 TAKING TELEPHONE GIRLS TO WORK




 Do not confuse the initials ’’L.P.T.B. with "L.T.R." as a man in the street
did yesterday in a London suburb. He boarded a coach marked "G.P.O.L.T.R.onIy”
and protested indignantly to its passengers that he was ”a taxpayer and the L.
P.T.B. had no right to reserve any of its buses for Post Office staff.” He was

told that it was a Post Office coach for taking telephonists of the London
Telecommunications Region to and from their work.


 The sc} one was planned a few years ago but was put into operation for the
first time, over a few of the twenty routes scheduled, in mid-8ept ember. Since
then the number of coaches running has generally varied between four and 67 each
day, but on a few days none was necessary. Close touch is kept with the railway
companies and these coaches lun only when some delay on a public route appears
likely.


 The driver is employed by the private company from which the coach is hired,
but the conductor is a Po st Office volunteer, usually the first Dan who gets

aboard the particular bus. One of his jobs is to see that the number of those

standing does not exceed prescribed limits. During last month 26,000 ’’return
tickets” were issued. The system is in no way a rival of the public transport

service: its purpose is to prevent delays in the handling of telephone and
telegraph traffic.— General Dost Office M.0.1, 1,


 RAID CASUALTIES: /OFFICERS AND MEN OF INDIAN /ND BURMA FORCES
 WILL BE TOLD


 The India and Burma Offices announce thatthe scheme, published on September

23rd whereby sailors, soldiers and airmen are to be specially notified in the event
ofa near relative becoming a casualty as the result of air raids on this country,

applies to all ranks of the Indian Army, Royal Indian Navy, Indian Air Force and
the Burma Defence Forces.



 Consequently, parents, wives, children (or, failing these, a close relative)
of any Of these personnel should carry inside their National Registration Identity
Carda slip of paper on which they have clearly written, in block letters, the
number, rank, name, unit or ship and name of the I ndian or Burma Service, of any
sailor, soldier or airman who is to be informed in the event of their becoming a

casualty. They should also write on this slip their name and address and their

relationship to the sailor, soldier or airman.


 Should a person carrying such a slip of paper become a casualty, the

hospital or other
 authority receiving casualty notify the will the India Office

or Burma Office, who will notify the officer or man concerned by telegraph, at
the public expense.


 In addition, the I ia. and Burma Offices will notify personnel of the Forces
 n

mentioned in the first paragraph by telegram of casualties, to their parents, wives
or which are reported to them by persons who establish their identity as

near relations of the officer or man concerned* The India and Burma Offices

cannot, however, accept responsibility for the accuracy of information transmitted
under this procedure® ««
 India and Burma Off ices M,0.1» 2»



 /
 “
 SPITFIRE FUNDS
 B.iif?i —wf -r. !■; rill— ■■ e-r.
 STILL
 —I —>l
 ■ W-—». ■!
 I
 K itri
 GROWING
 hi —Ok———•
 M.0,1« News Bulletin P.age 2.


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 SPITFIRE FUNDS STILL GPuOVCTG



 The Minister of Aircraft Production acknowledges with gratitude the

following gifts towards the pure lias e of aircraft:-


 Frome and District Spitfire Fund.• ,•«♦•••». £5,500,
 Nuneaton, Atherstone and Bedworth Spitfire
 Fund (to be named after the towns),..»*•••••*„ £6,676-19-8.
 Batley Spitfire Fund...£5,000.
 The Village of Wraxall, Bristol.£l44.
 Hockley and District (Birmingham) Licensed
 Houses.£Jo,


Ministry of Aircraft Production M.o»I. 3,




 DIVISIONAL FOOD ORGANISATION 6HANGES



 Ministry of Food announces the following changes in the
Divisional Food Organisation: -




 Brigadier General Young, 0.8., C.M.G., D.5.0., Divisional
 Food Officer, London Division, to be Chief Divisional Food Officer
 for London and the Home Counties.


 Paymaster Rear Admiral Sir Arthur Strickland, K.0.8., 0.8.E.,
 to be Divisional Food Officer, South Western Division in succession
 to Mr. F.T. Lee-Norman, M.C., A.M.1.C.E,, who has resigned.


 Mr, J.R.P. Postlethwuit e, C.8.E., Deputy Divisional Food
 Officer, London Division, to be Divisional Food Officer, South Eastern
 Division in succession to Mr, A. Lumley who is retiring owing to ill
 health.


 Mr. W.H. Kirby, Deputy Divisiona.l Food Officer, to be
 Divisional Food Officer, London SDivision.


Ministry of Food M.0.1, 4,