MINISTER’S COURAGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 262, 3 October 1940, Page 7

MINISTER’S COURAGE.

DANGERS IGNORED.

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 1. Fifteen times 'in the ' past three weeks the Minister of Health (Mr MacDonald) has run the gauntlet of air raids. He usually visits the London control centre first to see the officials at their posts; then he. goes to the A.R.P. posts, first-aid posts, shelters, and food and rest centres for the homeless. On one night he was close to a church that was bombed, on another night he was in the midst of falling incendiary bombs, and on another he got out at every station along a tube railway to see the conditions for himself.

Street coffee stalls, which were a feature of the London night life before the war and where all classes met in‘the early hours of the morning for plain, wholesome refreshment, have been called upon by Lord Woolton to play their part in the emergency feeding of Londoners affected by the raids. He has asked coffee-stall proprietors who have gone out of business to come into operation again, as he wishes them to provide food tor people in’ airraid shelters. . . He said the Ministry would be glau to secure petrol and supplies of food for them and arrange which shelters to go to, while protection would be given against air-raid risk.