GERMANS BEHEADED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 10

GERMANS BEHEADED

(Received April 20, 1 p.m.)

BERLIN, April 19,

Two men, aged 24 and 19, were beheaded for selling military secrets to a foreign Power.

menta for auxiliary hospitals and hospital ships. A notable achievement of the Red Cross in the late war was the fitting out of the Maheno as a hospital ship in less than a fortnight, and we are confident today that with our personnel we would rise to any emergency, that might present itself and that we would fulfil to the utmost the functions for which the Red Cross organisation exists." NO DESIRE TO STAMPEDE. Captain Galloway emphasised that the Red Cross Society had no desire to stampede people or engender feelings of unnecessary concern. All that it was doing was building up an organisation unostentatiously so that it would be able to function immediately when and if the occasion arose. As an indication of the work that had been accomplished to date, Captain Galloway said that close on ' 1000 women could be put into the field today either as V.A.D.s or workers with the Red Cross Society. The society, he added, would welcome further assistance, however, and he urged people who were prepared to help to enlist with the society.

EVACUATION OF CHILDREN !

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, This Day.

The evacuation of school children into safe areas in the country in the event of war or other national emergency, was discussed by members of the Air Raid Precautions Organisation with the Education Board, which asked for a plan to cover the transfer of children to the country.