THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 11, 1941
BISHOP BARNES HITS OUT
GERMAN
GESTAPO WOULD SHOOT MAGNETIC
CEMENT RING
DR. E, W. BARNES, Bishop of Birmingham, made an outspoken attack on the cement monopoly ring when he made a plea for steel and concrete "Haldane" shelters at an exhibition organised by |Birmingham A.R.P. Co-ordinating Committee.
Asking why these shelters were not being built, he said, "The monopolists whose companies are now disquietingly prosperous, naturally desire to take no action which would injuriously affect their post-war profits.
"In Germany," he continued, "the chief men of the cement taken by the group would be
Gestapo to a concentration camp.
A few days later
announced that they
shot while trying to
would be
had been escape
A
month later, adequate supplies of cement would be forthcoming."
'Take Over Plants'
TURNED OUT AT
ALERT
AIR MINE
Details of the German
BIG
CHANGES AT B.B.C.