STAY IN LONDON

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20034, 5 September 1939, Page 7

STAY IN LONDON

GOVERNMENT SEAT CABINET RECASTING MORE CHANGES LIKELY - CONSCRIPTION BILL FOOD PRODUCTION (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 4, 2.20 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 3. The House of Commons rose at 4.36 p.m. until 2.45 p.m. to-morrow. The patronage Secretary of the Treasury, Captain H. D. Margesson announced that the seat of Government would remain at London as long as possible. There may be further' recasting of •the Cabinet. It is announced that the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain has invited the collective resignation Of the Cabinet to enable a reconstruction to b e made. The King has approved of the new appointments. Mr. Winston Churchill resumes the post as "First Lord of the Admiralty which he held in 1914. Sir Archibald Sinclair and othe: Liberal leaders in both Houses de clined to join the Government, bu assured Mr. Chamberlain that the) will support all the necessary wa: measures. The House of Commons passed several military measures including the prolongation of the Nationa Service Armed Forces Bill. Last To Be Called Up The Secretary for War, Mr. L ■ Hore-Belisha, replying to a Labou amendment to aim at increasing th age liability from 18 to 20 year assured the House that this lowe. age group would be the last callet up. “Let its hope we get through th whole of this war without havin to call upon them,” the Ministe added. “1 think there is no good pur pose to be served by carrying ai amendment of this kind when boy. of 17 years are defending Poland a this very moment. We are takinj from the active forces prepared foi overseas all men under 19 and w< db not intend to send them to Franc although they have enlisted as regular soldiers.” The country now had ail the mer it required except certain classes of tradesmen. It would therefore be some time before they called on another age group The bill was passed.

The Minister of Agriculture, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith has appointed a war agricultural executive committee in each county of Englanc qnd Wales, who will be given as free a hand as possible to increase the production of foodstuffs. Their im mediate task is to see that addi tional land is brought under th* Plough with all speed. The aim i to obtain for the 1940 harvest a increase of about 1,500,000 acres i the tillage area of England an Wales.