APPEARANCE OF CALM NORMALITY
LONDON, TO-DAY,
MEN BETWEEN 18 AND 19% NOT YET LIABLE TO MILITARY SER- VICE WILL BE ACCEPTED AS MEM- BERS OF THE HOME DEFENCE FORCE.
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Intensive preparations are ceeding in a spirit of eager determina-. tion, concealed under an outward ap- pearance of calm normality."
In London, there are few apparent signs of the preparations. Transport services are completely normal and there is less interruption of civilian activity, than in the first weeks of the
war.
Typical of this seeming contrast was seen on Sunday when factories were working at full blast and churches were crowded to overflowing for the Day of National Prayer--a striking demonstration of the spirit in which the people of Britain are facing the grave times.-British Wireless.
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BRITAIN IN THE WAR ZONE
London, To-day.
The German drive on the French coast is being watch- ed by the British public with anxious steady gaze and un- flinching resolve.
There is full appreciation of the fact that the British islands are now right in the war zone but this has done nothing to shake the faith of the British people in ultimate victory.
That faith is grounded in the con- Adence of the superiority man for man of the British soldier over the enemy, the strength of the British Navy, the immense economic reserves of the British Empire and the firm be- lief in French powers of endurance.--- British Wireless
THE WAR OFFICE CASUALTY LIST
London, To-day. gives the names of two officers killed, The War Office Casualty List No. 5
two wounded, two prisoners of war, and five other ranks killed, three died Letters under two ounces will be of wounds, fifteen wounded, 163 miss-
ing and 38 died.--British Wireless.
THE WAR OFFICE ANNOUNCES THAT IN VIEW OF THE In the Lys sector, says one corres-
*HEAVY No telegrams may be sent and post MILITARY TRAFFIC, IT HAS BEEN offices have been instructed to refuse pondent, the Germans threw artillery, FOUND NECESSARY TO CANCEL parcels and packets, registered letters motorized troops, infantry and avia-TEMPORARILY tion into a determined drive to break SERVICE TO THE B.E.F. IN FRANCE weight.
THE TELEGRAPH and all letters over two ounces in the Belgian line but registered only | AND TO MAKE CERTAIN AMEND- slight local advantages at tremendous MENTS IN THE POSTAL SERVICE. accepted as usual-Reuter. loss to themselves,
In the vicinity of Valenciennes, the Germans threw everything they had into two attacks on the French posi- tions on the Scheldt but without suc- cess. The Nazis sustained enormous losses, he said.
Battleground Covered With German Dead
In the Montmedy sector, another correspondent says, German losses on Saturday were exceptionally heavy." The French, after counter-attacking, found the battle ground literally cov ered with enemy dead and wounded."
Referring to German air losses, the correspondent says that the enemy's losses are now estimated at 100 or 125 daily, Losses of mechanized vehicles, etc., are also reported to be on a large scale.
The same correspondent writes that, according to military circles in Paris, enormous numbers of German tanks and armoured cars have been destroy- ed, especially during the German: ad-|- vances into Picardy-British Wireless,
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