AT WORK AGAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1941, Page 5

AT WORK AGAIN

MR CHURCHILL RETURNS

TO LONDON

WELCOMED BY CHEERING THOUSANDS. MEETING OF WAR CABINET.

(Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON. August 19. Thousands of people blocked the, station and the streets to cheer the Prime Minister, Air Churchill, when he returned to London this morning after travelling' overnight from the port at which he landed following his Atlantic talk’s with President Roosevelt.

The New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, who was among those on the platform, received a particularly warm greeting. The United States Ambassador, Mr Winant. and the First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr Alexander, were also there.

Mr Churchill paid a tribute to the way the Navy had looked after him. Mr Alexander replied that the Royal Navy had been very proud to look after the Prime Minister. As he left the station yard Mr ghurchill lifted his hat again and again to acknowledge the cheers of the crowd. Mr Churchill lost no time in getting in touch with his colleagues, and soon after his return he presided at a meeting of the War Cabinet. Mr Fraser attended.

Mr Churchill was given an equally warm welcome at the port at which he disembarked. As he drove through the streets of the town to his special train people shouted "Best of luck!”

Mr Churchill smiled and raised his favourite yachting cap. An eye witness said, "He looked very happy indeed.”

NO SUBMARINES SEEN

A British newspaper man on board one of the destroyers which escorted Mr Churchill home said that there were no signs of German ocean-going submarines or long-range bombers. The Prime Minister, he said, had real friends on the trip. The rendezvous lay somewhere in the North Atlantic, but only a few officers knew exactly where. The escort also included Canadian destroyers and Catalina flying-boats. The flying-boats sighted a large convoy fifty miles away, homeward bound. Mr Churchill had never seen a large convoy at sea and did not want to miss it. so the course was altered.

The newspaper man said that as far as lhe eye could see there were ships —tankers, freighters, big ships, and little ships—over eight miles of ships.

The Prince of Wales steamed right, through the convoy, and steamed through it a second lime, and then after wishing it "God speed," sailed on to Iceland.

AUDIENCE WITH KING

(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August 19.

Mr Churchill had an audience with the King today and afterwards lunched with his Majesty at Buckingham Palace. Mr Churchill was loudly cheered by a large crowd as he drove from Downing Street.

BROADCAST ON SUNDAY

(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.48 a.m.) RUGBY, August 19

The Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, will broadcast next Sunday at a time to be announced later.