WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 21 May 1941, Page 5

WAR ITEMS

INSURANCE COMPANIES DUB UP.

(Received May 20, 6.30 p.m.). RUGBY, May 19.

When Sir George Wilkinson, Lord Mayor of London, opened the City of London’s savings centre at the Mansion House, Mr P. C. Crump, joint secretary of- the Prudential Assurance Company, handed him a cheque for five- million pounds’ worth .of two and a half per cent. National War Bonds. Sir George announced that he had been/ promised more than four million pounds by other commercial houses.

General Sir Walter Kirke, former Commander-in-Chief of the Home Forces, said that Londoners were fighting valiantly on all fronts, and those at home were obviously determined not to let them down.