LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 4 May 1926, Page 7

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

ORGANISING SERVICES

RUSH OF VOLUNTEERS,

(Reuter • Telegram.) (Beceived 4th May, noon.)

LONDON, 3rd May.

Mr. Winstone Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was walking from Downing Street to Whitehall when the crowd, which the police waa keeping ]. .e.k on the opposite side of Whitehall, lushed across and. hemmed Mr. Churchill in. A number of police had to be brought from Downing Street to clear the waj for him. Eventually Mr. Churchill waa compelled to take refuge in the Home Office. Meanwhile, a queue of a thousand strong lining the Foreign Office quadrangle waiting to sign on as volun-

teers to help the Government as special constables were ordered to report themselves BROADCASTING HEWS. The London station of the' British Broadcasting Company is functioning for the.issue of official communications which the Government may decide to broadcast. The Government has announced that it is considering the important question of supplying public news in a newspaper form. In tho meantime it will bo broadcasting nows five times at fixed hours to-morrow. ECONOMY URGED. The Postmaster-General notifies that no foreign or colonial parcels will be accepted, while inland packages aro restricted to a maximum of eight ounces. No., parcels will be delivered within the London postal area. The public are urged to economise in the uss. of telephones, telegraphs, and postal services. A Board of Trade Order establishes a milk pool for the London Provision Exchange. It is agreed that last Friday's market prices shall be made maximum prices until further notice. EVERYTHING NORMAL. The Government spokesman addressing pressmen at noon reported that the nows from the country was eminently satisfactory. There was no excitement, and everything was normal. Offers of services are pouring in throughout the country. Foodstpcks are normal on the whole, and in many cases above the average. The Stock Exchange is disorganised, and there is practically no business. Prices as a precautionary are marked down, but there is no selling pressure.