BOMB DISRUPTION

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 182, 30 April 1941, Page 7

BOMB DISRUPTION

How British Post Office Carries On

(British Official Wireless.) (Received April 29, 7 p.m.)

RUGBY, April 28. r The Postmaster-General, Mr. Morrison, giving a broadcast on the work of the Post Office in wartime, said that 40,000 skilled men had joined the regular armed forces, and a Home Guard of 60,000 had been raised from the remaining ranks. “Our mails are of such bulk that they must for the most part travel by railway, and if a railway is put out of gear by bombs so is the mail," he said. “We, therefore, adopted in the war a simpler but more robust scheme for mails, giving the railways more margin and more chance to exercise their ■proved resources for overcoming little incidents of this sort. When necessary our own road transport is quickly launched to help in tiding over special times of difficulty. “There is a famous town in the West Country which not so long ago was severely bombed, and one incident of the night’s damage was the complete destruction of the post office. Yet next morning at the usual time the citizens of that town had their two daily deliveries of mails, and the mails from that town and the whole district from which it collects arrived punctually in London on the same day. One nfght last autumn a large post office in the London suburb of Battersea was completely destroyed by bombs, and next morning the usual deliveries of mail were made in Battersea."