TROOPS IN WINTER
BRITAIN'S BIG ARMY. Plans For Welfare Until Offensive Launched. Urili.sh Official Wi role*". (Reed. 1 p.m.) RUGBY. Sept. 20. Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary of War, described to-day's plans for tin: welfare during the winter of the vast army quartered in Britain while itwaited to fight the offensive battles which lay ahead. The programme, he said, would include the welfare of the foreign contingents in Britain. The army would be doing hard, active training, and the general objective was to make sure that in its leisure hours it had comforts and distractions. | The aruiv education corps was being increased, stated Mr. Eden, with a view to a more vigorous attack upon boredom, and to stimulating thought, will and imagination. Entertainments were being organised on a large scale, including drama, vaudeville, cinema and radio, i Local hospitality was being arranged, [and a very wide organisation had been built up for the provision of personal comforts.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 10
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