AN URGENT APPEAL.
GERMAN AIR FORCE NEEDS. YOUTH URGED TO ENLIST. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m). LONDON, June 2. For the first time since the outbreak of the AA’ar, all German stations broadcast an urgent, appeal to German youth to enlist in the Air Force. CHILDREN EVACUATED NEARLY 50,000 FROM COAST. OVER 100,000 TO LEAVE LONDON. (Receh-ed This Day, 12.55 p.m). LONDON, June 2. Nearly 50,000 children, conveyed by 97 special trains, evacuated, towns- dn the east and south-east coast to-day for the Midland and Western Counties. Soldiers took their places as the playgrounds were transformed into battlegrounds as a precaution against invasion. \
Over 160,000 schoolchildren in the Greater London area, registered during the week-end under the Government’s second evacuation scheme, will shirtly bo drafted to safer areas.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 201, 3 June 1940, Page 5
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