LONDON SCHOOLS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20951, 2 November 1939, Page 7

LONDON SCHOOLS

BRITISH BOAT SUNK

ALLEGED DELAY

THE SEIZED VESSEL

AMERICAN NEUTRALITY

SOME TO RE-OPEN NOT ALL=CLEAR SIGNAL GOVERNMENTS SOLUTION (omclai Wireless? (Received Nov. 2, 1.45 p.m.) RUGBY, Nov. 1 The President of the Board of Education, Earl De La Warr, in the House of Lords, referring to the fact that more than half the school children who, if the parents had taken advantage of the Government’s voluntary scheme for evacuating them to a reception area, could be at school in comparative safety, were in fact sitll in vulnerable areas and receiving little or no education, said there were two solutions—(l) The compulsory removal of all remaining children out of the vulnerable areas, a measure the Government would be unwilling to take in any but the most desperate circumstances; and (2) some measure of reopening the schools in vulnerable areas, which was the course on which the Government had decided. I This decision must not be taken as i an “all clear” signal, for return to ; the evacuation areas. The Govem- ; ment had been influenced solely by the fact that the nation could not j afford to let 750,000 children grow up without education, school discipline, or medical care. The numbers will have to be limij ted, and many schools would be I operating on a double shift basis. The j Government, nevertheless, had dei cided that as many schools as posJ sible in the evacuation area should be opened for the education of children whose parents desired them to attend.

BY GERMAN SUBMARINE ALL ON BOARD SAVED \ 'Unite* Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Nov. 2, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 1 The steamer Bronte, which was sunk in the Atlantic by a submarine several days ago, remained afloat for a considerable time, but the efforts of another ship to tow her to port failed.

The 40 members of the crew and the one passenger were rescued and landed at a British port.

AIR MAIL SERVICES I EXPLANATION IN LORDS ■■ - ■■ | (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Nov. 1, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 31 Lord Strabolgi, in the House of ; Lords, raised the question of the hindrance to exports which the postal and cable censorship delays were causing. He said there was great delay from Australia and New Zealand. He re- | ceived a letter on October 20 from ! Wellington, posted by air mail on September 5. The resumption of air mails in various countries was of j little use unless the censorship was :speeded up. Lord Cobham, Under-Secretary | for War, replying, said much of the : criticism of the postal and telei graphic delays was ill-founded. Where there were delays they were not always attributable to the censorship. Transport disorganisation was largely responsible for the delays from Australia and other distant countries. The Government was considering a special censorship section to deal with air mail letters. Lord Cobham announced that a number of commercial codes would be allowed within a few weeks. Arrangements of other parts of the Empire are being awaited.

HOPE FOR RECOVERY MR ROOSEVELT’S STATEMENT United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright; WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 President Roosevelt today told journalists that he still hoped the United States would recover the City of Flint.

The Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, indicated that the Justice Department might be represented at the German Prize Court proceedings. The City of Flint is now being taken on a devious route to Germany. The vessel is being navigated almost entirely in Norwegian waters. A Norwegian warship is closely following the City of Flint, it is reported from Bergen, to see that there is no infringement of Norwegian rights.

COST OF MAINTENANCE INCREASE IN ARMED FORCES (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 President Roosevelt told press representatives to-day that the maintenance of America's neutrality would j cost 275,000,000 dollars in the first 10 months of the war. \ The chief items of expenditure l would be upon an increase of 100,000 in the personnel of the armed forces, an increase in the number of antiespionage agents, and the recommissioning of 50 Great War destroyers for the maintenance of the neutrality 1 »one patrol.