WAR TIME REQUISITIONING
Pretoria, To-day.
Wider wartime requisitioning pow- ers are granted the Union Govern- ment by new regulations under the Defence Act contained in a "Gazette! Extraordinary."
Officers of the defence force and public services are authorised to take possession in time of war of buildings and other premises, supplies of food- stuffs and forage, horses and other transport animals, vehicles and all other articles which may be necessary to maintain in the field "the defence forces or any portion thereof and all other of his Majesty's forces acting in co-operation therewith."
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PRESENT WAR SITUATION NOT REGARDED IN LONDON AS DESPERATE
London, To-day.
THAT THE present war situation is grave no-one in au-
ENGLAND'S PARA-
thority in London donies. It is, however, by no SHOOTERS
means desperate, Reuter was told in well-informed circles last night.
London, To-day.
MR. CHURCHILL'S statement in the Commons that fight- ing is taking place in and around Boulogne shows the suddenness and swiftness of the German
The Local Defence Volun- thrust at the Channel ports but though this con- teers, who in the five days stitutes a grave menace to the Allied line of com-ended May 20 numbered over munication it is stated these lines are, at the mo- ment, in no immediate danger.
The strength or weakness of the - whole position from the Allied point of view is the swiftness in which a counter-offensive on a scale sufficient
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and in this both the British French armies have implicit faith In General Weygand.
In 1920, during the Russo-Polish war, he averted what seemed certain defeat for the Polish army by turning away the Russians when they were
EMPIRE
London, To-day.
250,000, will serve as re- inforcements of the very con- siderable existing organisa- tion for home defence.
The Under Secretary for War in the Commons debate on the Bill making provision for the new force popularly known as "parashooters" said it would be invaluable in preventing the dis- Viscount Caldecote, the persal on guard duty in small packets actually at the gates of Warsaw by Dominions Secretary, in a with home defence battalions in free- of first line troops and by cooperating his brilliant strategy.-Reuter.
message to the Dominions, ing organised divisions of the army says: "The fate of Western from having to meet. the immediate civilisation under God is in need of local defence. the hands of the Allied peoples.
SUBVERSIVE says: THOUGHTS AGAIN
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"I would like to repeat that importance of every effort to produce supplies was never greater.
"One aeroplane immediately is LAUNCHING A CAMPAIGN worth ten in six months time. AGAINST SUBVERSIVE THOUGHT, "The path to victory must be THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE, SHO-trodden by unwearying effort on a SATSU KIMURA, YESTERDAY scale never before attempted."-Reu- URGED ALL PRESENT AT A CON- ter. FERENCE OF JUDGES AND PRO- CURATORS TO BE DEFENDERS OF TRULY JAPANESE. THOUGHT.
He added the tightening of the economic restrictions was beginning to be seriously felt by the people.
There was no doubt, therefore, that some people in Japan were misled by allen organisations bent on promoting disturbances in foreign countries, who were disturbing. the thoughts of the people behind the guns.
FOOD POSITION SECURE
They were wanted to deal with the action of small enemy parties landed from the air and also for purposes of observation and information of land- ings and for helping in the very ear- llest stage in preventing movement by enemy parties landed from the air by blocking roads, denying them access to means of movement and seeing they were as completely as possible hemmed In: from the moment they landed.
Vulnerable Spots
Volunteers are also urgently re- quired to assist in patrolling and pro- tecting vulnerable spots..
Volunteers would be soldiers un der military" command and would not be allowed to move about the -country at will.
London, To-day, Lord Woolton, the Minister of the Food, speaking at a meeting. of Food Manufacturers' Federation in The response of volunteers, parti- Mr. Kimura stressed the duty of London yesterday, said they had secularly of middle aged and elderly juridicial officials was to eradicate cured for wartime sufficient food sup-men, has been so great in some areas Communism and other subversive plies in this country to keep us go that recruiting may have to be tem
porarily suspended. ideas from the country. He expressing.
ed his conviction that the Japanese He added: “Whatever may happen
The Bill was passed through" all its masses would never be contaminated within the bounds of probability the seriously by subversive doctrines.- enemy will not be able to starve us stages in the Commons. British Wire-
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