EVACUATING CHILDREN
POSITION IN DOVER URGENCY STRESSED • LONDON, Dec. 10. The Dover Town Council has decided to ask the Regional Commissioner to use his powers to compel the evacuation of the children. The Education Committe pointed out the dangers from bombing and shelling, and added that the children were receiving no education in the town. “It is deplorable,” said Mr. F. H. Morceraft, “to find the children's educati on neglected. They go about the streets or spend long hours in shelters. It must be detrimental to their health.”
Mr. F. Powell, chairman of the Education Committee, said that the number of schoolchildren was between 400 and SCtO, but another member thought there was good reason for believing the number to be about 1000.
Children run about the streets of Dover at all hours of the days during shelling and bombing, said Mr. W. H. Gates. During a bad raid, he said, a five-yqar-old child who was out asked him, “Are they German aeroplanes up there?”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20457, 18 January 1941, Page 2
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