1941-02-12 — Page 25

*

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 12, 1941:

BRITAIN DEVELOPS AIR RAID SHELTER FOR INSIDE HOUSE

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT have suc-

ceeded in achieving a satisfactory design for ITALIAN

London home shelters and are to make a free

issue in certain areas to people with incomes POSITION

below £350 a year. shelters will be on sale.

A proportion of such

Announcing this in the Commons yester- day, the Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security, Mr. Herbert Morrison, said "The course of events in the past few months has given strong emphasis to the advantages of shelter in the home.

it achese not only a degree of safety, but warmth and dryness ; and avo dance of the dislocation of the family Experienes of the effect of dung has shown that thia

IT d Tole protection than wa

fune supposed We have, therefore, turned to the question of suitable

designing a shelter for installation

Indoors

which Mould afford protection

aganet the

serueres of being

PAID TOO

MUCH FOR EGGS

STORMED

A communique issued from General de Gaulle's headquarters in London states: "Our forces from Chad, supported by our air force, are continuing their successful operations in Southern Libya.

A motorised column under the command of Colonel Leclere has gained ground by taking several positions in the Koufra area.

After a very successful bombing raid carried out by our squadrons, in which they destroyed important objectives and nun.erous aero- Mr. G. C. Frampton, of Messers. planes on the ground, the Italian The enemy pinned under the debía, on a house Frampton and Sons, licensed egg position was stormed.

of Somerset, who suffered heavy losses in men and brought down by a bond explod- | packers,

£5 at Taunton for material. Our operations are still were fined ing near it "

buying five dozen eggs at a half-progressing satisfactorily."

than the penny a dozen max mun wholesale price #xed by the lowert to the Ministry

Food,

told the of a hotle of two or three storeys | Bench that for some years he had and would accommodate two been a member of the Government adults and one alder child or two Advisory Committee for Egg- younger children.

marketing.

Mr. Moreson and that the shel-¦ ter derided upon was designed for installation

Priority Areas

01

more

"Everybody is clamouring for It would not be practicable in eggs to-day," he said, "and but- the early stage of distribution to chers, bakers and others are buy-

whole ing, with the result that we cover anything country and he had, accordingly, losing customers wholesale.

like the

are We

In consultation with Regional; know perfectly well that they are Commissioners, seleted a num- paying more than we are allowed ber of areas to whien priority to pay. It is a very serious mat- would be given.

ter to us, because it is our liveli- hood."

Mr.,

In answer to a question, Morrison said that the new indoor shelters were not yet in production but would be by the end of March.

He added that while the income limit for free distribution of shel- ters was formerly £250, it had been devided to increase it to

£350.

Can Be Used As A

Table

Describing the Government's ; new home shelters in a broadcast, Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Joint Par- liamentary Secretary to the Min- istry.of Home Security, said: “Our experts have produced a strong steel structure for inside the house. You can use it as a table for meals or work. so that the whole room e not put out of action.

At night screens nock on to the sides There is the added protection of the house walls, a steel top to support debria and a means of escape through detachable ends and sides.

The table shelter has been so designed that householders can put. it together themselves with a spanner and a hammer -- im- portant because there is no la- bour to spare for erecting."

Miss Wilkinson added that the shelters could only be produced to the extent of half of the steel allotted by the production execu tive.

alleged that the

Mr. Framplon

brought at the prosecution was instigation of their competitors.

A Ministry inspector said that to pay more than the maximum price for eggs was unfair to those who observed the regulations, and they regarded the principle as very important.

POSE AS AIR

OFFICER

ALLEGED

Dew

When Lewis Henry (45), company director, of Por- chester Place, Bayswater, W. was accused, at Marlborough Street, of posing as an R.A.F. wing com- mander, he asked to be allowed to speak to a Miss, "a friend

of mine."

Asked by the Magistrate if it was on business, he replied: “I just want to apologise for this humilia- tion."

His request was refused. Detective-sergeant Cyril Green said he saw Dew in a car in Wat- dour Street, W.; and told him be would arrest him on the charge.

On arriving at Marlborough Street police station he said he did not quite understand, and the cificer repeated the charge.

He then replied: "Good Lord!

Koufra in an important military position of the first importance for Italian communications in Libya and Abyssinia. Six hundred miles of desert separate Koutra from the Chad frontier and the desert in this part of the Sahara is most difficult Jor operations. British Wireless.