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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 21, 1941.
ONE LONDON SHOP TANK RAN
IN FOUR
MAY BE
BE CLOSED
THOUSANDS OF SHOP GIRLS will be released
for munitions work and national service within the next three months through a revolutionary scheme to close down branches of chain and departmental stores.
Under the Government "concentration" scheme, if firms do not voluntarily cooperate com- pulsory powers will be used. If may be necessary in London and the provinces for one store in four to close.
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One surgestion is that the big- chain and
firms, eluding departmental stores, should adept¦
the following plan
"X" A
would close its
hranches in some towns while "y";
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firm would remain open but leave į An Admiralty communique other towns free for their rivals.
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The President of the Board of Trade, in the Commons said. There is 90 plan to reduce pers manently the number of small firms mandustry or rast of all
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2 BURIED
Two people were buried beneath the ruins of a shop in South Street, Lewes, Sussex, when a heavy tank travelling in convoy crashed into the building and demolished it.
They were Alfred Humphreys, nged Afty, shoemaker, and a woman customer. Soldiers and Civil Defence workers dug them out and they were taken to hospt- tal.
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The premises looked as it they had had a direct hit from heavy bomb.
The tank ran on to the pile of bricks that was left.
Painted in white on the tank's side was the name Rapscallion.
NO BOMBINGS UP
TO 8 P.M.
states: "On Monday night a Heinket! 111 was engaged and shut down An Air Ministry and Ministry of off the East Coast by H. M. traw- Home Security communique yes- Jers Tranio, Thomas Leeds and terday stated: "Although there has Stella Leonis. The enemy aircraft been a little enemy, activity over had previously been under fre coastal regions to-day Nowhere and damaged by H. M mine- have the enemy own far inland. sweeper Princess Elizabeth. No Up to 8 p.m. no reports have
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