CALL TO COLOURS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1940, Page 5

CALL TO COLOURS

FURTHER CLASSES IN BRITAIN TO REGISTER SERIES OF SWEEPING NEW EMERGENCY MEASURES. DISTRIBUTION OF FOODSTUFFS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, May 28. Two new classes, representing the 28 and 29-year-oJds and the newly-turned 20-year-olds, will register on June 15 and June 22 for military service. More than 600,000 men are involved, bringing the total registrations to 2,850,000. A series of sweeping new measures, to prepare the home front for any emergency ahead range from the conversion of schools into shadow factories to Lord Woolton’s food scheme, which is a revolution in the British system of food dispersal. Foodstuffs will be stored in a very large number of small centres instead of keeping huge stores concentrated in the ports till needed. Congestion will be avoided and the foodstuffs will not be exposed to the risk of enemy action. The scheme will enable the roads to be kept clear for the conveyance of troops and other military operations.

Outlining the plan to convert schools into factories, a Board of Education memorandum urges technical schools and colleges to assist the war effort by concentrating on the production of machine tools for use in the armament industry. The Board is satisfied that the students are capable of making many of the parts required. General Sir Edmund Ironside warned the motor industry and repair shops and garages that their utmost services would be required to maintain military vehicles in the event of hostilities within Britain.

EVERY MAN CALLED UP IN FRANCE. EVEN THOSE ON RESERVED LIST. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS. May 28. It is officially stated that France is calling up every man, even those on the reserved list for reasons of health or other incapacity.