BRITISH DEFENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 167, 14 June 1940, Page 7

BRITISH DEFENCE.

FURTHER PRECAUTIONS. LONDON, June 13. An Order-in-Council provides maximum imprisonment of a month and a maximum fine of £SO for the publication of any' report or statement relating to matters connected with the war which is likely to cause alarm or despondency unless defendant proves that he believed the statement true and publication was not malicious. The Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Food (Mr R. G. J. Boothby), in the House of Commons, said hotel, restaurant, and other caterers were submitting proposals to limit the number of meals and courses. Three-course meals may be reduced to two and so on, although an effort is being made to retain nutritive value. “Less packing and more vitamins ’ will be the order of the day. Already restaurant customers arc rationing themselves. _ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary to India (the Duke of Devonshire), in the House of Lords, said 11,000 Austrians and Germans at present were interned in Britain compared with 2800 on May 11. All male Italians of under 20 years’ residence have been interned, also those against whom there is ground for suspicion. Six hundred Brito is have been arrested and a considerable number detained temporarily. Replying to a debate in the House of Commons on local defence, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security (Mr W. Mabanej said the nation must expect that the enemy was waiting for the time when he would attack on a wide front with full force in a furious effort to paralyse and dislocate. Britain’s war machine. The civil defence organisation must conform to those hard needs, and their aim must be to make it universal, practical and-quick. Seven hundred and fifty 7 children inaugurating London’s great evacuation entrained for Cornwall while hundreds of troops on a neighbouring platform were entraining for France.