LONDONERS CHEERED SHELTERS & FOOD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1940, Page 6

LONDONERS CHEERED

SHELTERS & FOOD

AFTER ALL'NIGHT VIGIL ON HEARING OF ATTACKS ON BERLIN. INDUSTRIAL AREA BOMBED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) ' LONDON, October 1. It was 'a great consolation to Londoners as, tired after their twenty-fourth successive all-night vigil in their shelters, they went tp work in the morning, to learn that Berliners had received their largest dose of the same medicine so far. Five waves of bombers at considerable intervals penetrated Berlin’s defences and attacked the city and suburbs. Neutral correspondents comment on the surprising paucity of anti-aircraft fire, enabling the bombers to reach their objectives almost without molestation. British activity for the most part was concentrated on the outskirts, where most of the industrial buildings are located. A special German communiquqe states that three British planes were shot down.

NEW MEASURES IN LONDON EVACUATION OF MOTHERS AND CHILDREN. NOW ARRANGED IN FOURTEEN BOROUGHS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. The Health Minister (Mr Malcolm MacDonald) stated that an opportunity would be given to mothers and children in six more London boroughs to evacuate to the country. The Government was arranging transport and billets and paying lodging allowance. The householders’ evacuation now applies to fourteen boroughs. Lord Woolton (Ford Minister) stated that 58 emergency feeding centres had been opened in London’s bombed areas. Provision had also been made for a further two hundred. Food was available to anyone ready and willing to pay. There was no desire to give anything for nothing. Arrangements were also being made for mobile vans to feed people in shelters, particularly in the mornings. Similar feeding centres were being established in other big centres.

POLISH AIRMEN MEMBERS OF FAMOUS SQUADRON. AWARDS MADE BY'GENERAL SIKORSKI. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. General Sikorski (Polish Prime Minister) has awarded several high Polish decorations to the celebrated Polish squadron which shot down 101 planes to September 30, thirty of them on September 27.