EVACUATING CHILDREN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 201, 3 June 1940, Page 3

EVACUATING CHILDREN

WARNING IN BRITAIN. LONDON, May 30. Thirty-nine thousand children will be removed from south-east coast and Medway towns to South Wales and the Midlands on Sunday. At the same time 8000 school children who were evacuated from London and the Medway towns in September to areas in the 10mile coastal belt between Sheringham and Folkestone, will be transferred to South Wales and the Midlands. Appealing to parents in all other evacuation areas to help the Government by registering school children during the next few days, the Minister for Health (Mr Malcolm MacDonald) said in a broadcast speech: “On this occasion the war is going to lie brought right homo to this island. Indiscriminate, savage air attacks on our industrial cities and towns, the same as those experienced by our Allies op the Continent, must be expected. The enemy certainly will not desist in our case. Rather lie will endeavour to strike us most hard and most mortally, for here, in this island is one of the decisive, indomitable centres of resistance to his will. We must be prepared to receive his onslaught. “One important feature of our plan to resist and withstand the shock with as little loss of life as possible, is the removal at the right moment of as many school children as possible from the evacuation areas.”—British Official Wireless.