OLD LOVE LETTERS
USE FOR WAR PURPOSES BRITISH SALVAGE CAMPAIGN (United Press Assn.— Elec. Tel. Copyrlsnt) LONDON, Aug. 13 “ Old love letters can be turned into cartridge wads, bones into explosives, tin-cans into tanks and garden tools into guns,” said Mr Herbert Morrison, Minister of Supply, discussing the new national salvage campaign. “ I ask householders to overhaul their possessions, turn out attics, clean up lumber-rooms, clear out woodsheds, delve into garages, and collect old gadgets, ornaments, bits and pieces which are of little value to the individual but of enormous value in the mass to the State,” he said. “ Thus the housewife will help to put the lid on Hitler. • I have instructed the local authitles serving populations over •00 that the collection of the three :n items of salvage—p /,er, bones >.! scrap metal—is now compul-
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21191, 14 August 1940, Page 8
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136OLD LOVE LETTERS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21191, 14 August 1940, Page 8
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