IN BRITAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1940, Page 6

IN BRITAIN

MARGATE TRANSFORMED. [(United Press Association —By Electric •Telegraph—■Copyrighc);LONDON, July 15. The author, Mr j. B. Priestly, gave a broadcast-description of'-a visit to Margate, the famous East Coast resort, which has normally been overflowing with h^iiday-Akep., He told how the aspect ®t the countryside changed strangely during his journey to the coastv, Tie r ( elatfed how he saw B.ren guns in .cornfields,' also .camouflaged coyys under trees, and concealing tanks. - ,

JJe tpld ,hoAv; the principal. crop appeared .to .be .barbed w,ire. V( Then, when lie reached Margate, lie Sjtooci alone on a deserted seafront. For miles along lie gazed at effipty benches.. All of the hotels and boardinghouses. pere ,eiflpty.. ; The windows yvyre _ • —• jtle concluded: .No ffffe would ff’ish it otherwise until the . fight for freedom jias: beenwon.”

H.M.S. COMPEADOR LOSSES

LONDON, July 14

The casualties on H. M. &>• ConipeadorV on June .24 w.ere .one officer killed, qne wounded, - four officers believed killed; one rating killed, one rating founded, and fourteen ratings believed| killed. ... |no %ea6e TALKS.. ! July 15. Trade' Union leaders, addressing the Unions’| annual meetings, vigorously denounced the holding of peace talks till Fascism had been vanquished. Mr lliAvther (Miners’ President), in his - presidential address to the rMineworkers* Federation, said : —“We must either conquer force and Fascism, or go down gj;o, pie .level of abject slavery.” He“ urged I ,the Government to exercise the same measures against “fifth columnists, who should be called traitors, .as were employed by their enemies abroad. Mr E. W. Bussey, the President of the Electrical Trades Union, said: “We-,believe in peace. . ~[\Ve shall wprk for peace. But if (peace means 'Serf-, dom, there can ke., no peace tor us. EVENTS. J:LI||TS; By .‘'i&bES.’j?v . “The Times” say%i—phone cal ls|y from Italy to foreign: countries .tfegrtported to have been suspended siiiciy Press calls are subje^e^fl^Q'hg^laj's;. The politica Ronie is an intensely eifr)sjjtffntspne, such as. usually ilar delays. affected the commumcations fieffi Bertifl?*' ? f ' :

WELCOME TO CZECHS

LONDON, July 15. In a message of welcome to Polish

and Czech troops, Mr Eden said: “As

- a ]i raftks of your comrades of life British Army, 1 extend a most cordial welcome upon 4K|j . t . your arrival on . FrOn}; thoseshored from the high seas, from the air. al<£ base of operations within .tlrSi Empire,' we are resolved; ■ with’"your" valuable aid, to attack and overwhelm the forces of our common en<£fty.| % are further resolved! never "'to relinquish that sacred caused until your beloved Mother Country for which you have bled and suffered' so long, "has been restored once and for. nil to her sons and daughters.”;,.,...