LONDON CHILDREN

Evening Star, Issue 23688, 23 September 1940, Page 5

LONDON CHILDREN

EVACUATION URGED SUFFERING TERRORS OF CONSTANT HOMSING Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 22. The ‘ Daily Mail ’ says; “ The slogan ‘ Get the children out ’ should be pinned up in every Ministry in Whitehall. Night after night thousands of children in danger areas are suffering the terrors of constant bombing. Hundreds are* being killed and some have seen their parents slaughtered and watched their world crumble. The search for safety is a pilgrimage of misery. Children are condemned to sleep in the humid atmosphere of stations which are unhealthy, and there is no sanitation. These dreadful ordeals must be spared the generation to which we look to build a brave new world after the war. Evacuation must be speeded up, and something more vigorous is needed than the Government gently urging parents to let their children go. A lot of nonsense is written about the wise-cracking Cockney joking of horrors around him. These horrors are not jokes, and the average Cockney does not think them funny.” INDIAN SUPPLIES PLANS FOR MANUFACTURE SCHEME TO CULTIVATE FLAX (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 22. (Received September 23, at 11.40 a.m.) In India a conference of controllers of supplies is at present investigating the manufacture in India itself of many ordnance stores hitherto imported. The scheme for expansion of clothing production is being implemented, and production is steadily rising. A report on germination tests of flax seeds was considered satisfactory, and it has been decided to proceed with the scheme for the cultivation of flax. Britain has been informed that India can, after meeting the present steel demands from the Middle East, Iraq, Kenya, and Uganda, provide a balance of light steel products of 10,000 tons a month, also a further 10,000 tons of scrap a month for the next 12 months. Arrangements have been completed for the supply of 300,000 tons of pig and foundry iron to Britain at the rate of 50,000 tons.