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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 9, 1940.
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EVERY DAY A HOLIDAY TO CEASE
London, To-day.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE in the evacuation areas is to be made compulsory to save children from growing demoralisation.
This was announced in the House of Lords by Earl de la Warr, President of the Board of Education, re- plying to a motion by the Archbishop of Canter- bury asking the Government for a statement of educational policy.
said that out of
Earl de la Warr nearly 1,250,000 children now in the danger areas some 400,000 were re- ceiving no schooling or care at all.
Whatever the risk of air raids, and he believed the risk to be still great, that situation could not be allowed to continue, and from now on they must see that every child went to school somewhere.
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must send them to school in towns.
Fulltime schooling would be the ob- Jective but he would regard halftime provision for all children by the be- ginning of April as an acceptable mi- nimum.-Reuter.
ACCORDING TO D.N.B.
BERLIN, TO-DAY. ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL NEWS AGENCY AN EXCHANGE OF GOODS
GERMAN- UNDER THE SOVIET PACT IS NOW PROCEED- ING ON A LARGE SCALE.
Grain, oll, iron, steel and other me- 'tals, hemp, flax and manganese among the important materials volved, it claims.
GERMANY THREATENS NEUTRALS
London, To-day.
A new "warning" to neutrals was given in a broadcast by Rear Admiral von Lustzow over the German wireless.
He said: "Germany la watching with the closest attention what the neutrals will do to free them- selves from Britain's blockade measures.
"The future will reveal how Germany will retallate against thesa measures," he concluded.- Reuter.
DEATH PENALTY FOR ESPIONAGE
London, To-day.
It is understood that legal experts are considering the advisability of in- are stituting the death penalty for serious to in- cases of disclosure of information
the enemy, to which the Prime Min- Ister referred in the House of Com- mons.
Russian goods at present are being the reloaded into German trucks at frontier. At two stations, war pri- The experts' decision will be report- soners are employed to accelerate theed to the Government, who will take
any necessary-action-Reuter......... re-loading.-Reuter.
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