GIFT FROM KING

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 29241, 11 October 1940, Page 5

GIFT FROM KING

AMBULANCES & CANTEENS DEFENCE OF LONDON WORK IN BOMBED AREAS (Omclal Wireless) (Received Oct. 11, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 10 At Buckingham Palace the King handed over to the London County Council four motor ambulances and two of eight mobile canteens which are his personal gift to the civil deThe decision to make the gift followed the King’s tours through London’s bombed areas. The ambulances and canteens, which will be distributed throughout the London borough, were drawn up in the inner quadrangle at the Palace, when the King and Queen inspected them. Each vehicle bears the inscription: “ Presented by His Majesty the King to the London County Council for the civil defence of London, October 1940.” The King and Queen were told that the two canteens were provisioned and would go out into the bombed areas this afternoon. DAMAGE IN LONDON PROMINENT PLACES HIT AUSTRALIA HOUSE INCLUDED CHURCHES AND HOSPITALS

(United Press Assn.—Elec. Te!. Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 9 It is now permissible to name nearly 100 additional places in London damaged by German bombs. They include the following:— Australia House, South Africa House, Southern Rhodesia House, the courtyard of the British Museum, the Guildhall, the Imperial War Museum, the Japanese Embassy, the Law Courts, Saville Row, the Spanish Embassy and Somerset House. The churches bombed include St. Dunstan’s, Fleet Street. The hospitals include the London Hospital, St. Thomas’, the Charterhouse clinic, and Queen Mary’s and Great Ormonde Street hospitals. Concert Underground While the German raid on London was at its height on Tuesday night an entertainment party gave London’s strangest concert to hundreds of •tightly-packed men, women and children from a platform in Aldwych tube station. It was the first of a series of similar entertainments designed to brighten the long, dull hours for those in shelters, who are now marking out places in tube stations throughout London. Civilians Machine-gunned There have been 26 recorded cases of German planes machinegunning civilians. BULGARIA NEXT ? HOPES OF GERMANY PEACEFUL OCCUPATION PLANS (United Press Asn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright* LONDON, Oct. 10 It is clear that the Germans hope to arrange to occupy Bulgaria as peacefully as they have taken control of Rumania, and plan to get as far as possible without fighting, says the diplomatic correspondent of the Times. Encouraged by their success in Rumania, they hope to reach the Turkish frontier. Wilhelmstrasse propagandists are already declaring that they will soon reach an arrangement with M. Bagrianoff. the Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture, during his visit to Berlin.

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