CHANNEL ISLANDS
EVACUATION DEFENDED. MANY PEOPLE BROUGHT AWAY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. July 31. Answering criticisms in the House of Commons regarding the evacuation of the Channel Islands, the Home Office Under-Secretary, Mr O. Peake, said it was regrettable that any part of the British Isles should be abandoned to the enemy, but the Government could not disregard the advice given by the military authorities. The Government’s information was that there were reasonably good stocks of most of the principal foodstuffs in the islands. "The Government has nothing with which to reproach itself." he said. “Regrettable as was the decision to evacuate the islands, it is a matter of some satisfaction that so many people were so successfully brought away and that the islanders, however hard their lot may have been spared the most. cruel horrors of bombardment and moY?rn warfare."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1940, Page 4
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