MASS EVACUATION
WOMEN AND CHILDREN BRITISH DANGER ZONES (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 13. In a letter to the chairman of the women’s voluntary services for civil defence, the Minister of Health, Mr. W. E. Elliot, said: “We shall in a day or two have completed, I trust, the transfer of school children, mothers, children tinder school age, expectant mothers and “ other women from thickly-populated areas to relatively safer parts of the country.”
The Minister expressed the Government’s thanks and appreciation for the invaluable help giver, by the women’s voluntary services in this gigantic movement.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20095, 15 November 1939, Page 7
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