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Taken with the Polish Forces now in Scotland. Photo shows the Polish soldiers at work constructing coast defences.
Britain's Fire Services Brought Under One Control
EARL OF SUFFOLK KILLED
on
The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire was killed by a bomb Monday night, toge- ther with his secretary and five others.
The Earl, who had a colourful career, suc- ceeded to the title at the age of II. Since then he has been Guards officer, op- prentice in the Mer- contile Marine and farm hand in Austra- lia.
At the outbreak of war he became liaison officer for the Scien- tific Department of the Ministry in France.-Reuter.
THE WHOLE of Britain's fire brigade
resources
-
now in the hands of 1,400 au-
thorities in England and Wales alone
to be brought under State control.
are
The Minister for Home Security announc- ed in the Commons this drastic plan for com- |bating air raid effects.
Brigades, said Murrison, will beļistration of the new organisation. grouped and directed in regions. Mr. Morrison added that it was Smallest units in the organisation no reflection on local authorities will be sub-regions, comprising up that the task had grown beyond to 30 local areas.
local resources. --British Wireless.
Hitler Decree
con-
Mobile units for reinforcing and other special duties will be creat-achieve an understanding with ed.
England through personal Greater flexibility and speed 10cts. and better direction and leader- ship are expected under the scheme than are now possible A few hours before yesterday with the. fire-fighting army afternoon's disclosure by Deutsch- divided into many small forces Landsender that Hess had town of varying size.
to Scotland, brief announce- Most of the equipment is already ment had been made that Hitler standardised. Ninety per cent of had signed a decree stating that war equipment was
bureau supplied by "the former official the Home Office.
the Fuehrer's Deputy will in Shortage of man-power will be future be known as the Chan- met by the National Service Act cellery of the Party and the of last April.
No Reflection
of
Chancellery has been taken over by me personally, Chief of the Bureau in future will be Martin
ру
The existing part-time Valun-Bormann.' teer or Auxiliary Fire Service will Bormann, who is 40, has been become part of the new national Chief of Staff to Hess since 1933. organisation,
Meanwhile it can be stated that Mr. William Mabane, Joint the Deputy Fuehrer, who since Parliamentary Secretary to the he landed by parachute on Satur- Ministry of Home Security, will day night has been treated as a supervise the creation and admin-prisoner, is at present in hospital
WHAT GERMAN PUBLIC HAS BEEN TOLD TOLD
THE STORY of the escape from Germany to Britain by aeroplane of Deputy Fuehrer Hess reach- ed the German public yesterday afternoon through its home broadcasts.
where he is receiving treatment for a broken ankle. On arrival he was served out with the usual hospital equipment and late yes- terday afternoon it was reported he was very comfortable, al- though suffering slight pain in the ankle.
Officer Detailed
An officer has been detailed to attend to the requirements of the patient.
The newspapers emphasise the remarkable achievement of the flight indicating a high degree of physical and moral courage.
Although known as an expert airman it was his first fight in. a Messerschmidt 110 and he had never before baled out.
The last public speech in Ger- many by Hess was delivered on
Prior to this statement by Deutschlandsender wireless station, information given to the German people was restricted to the German radio an- nouncement mystifying the world with the sugges-May Day at the Messerschmidt tion that Hess was insane and had either met with a fatal accident or deliberately fallen out of the 'plane in which, defying the Fuehrer's orders,, he had left Augsburg on Saturday last.
"Observance of this silence until; unpalatable truth that stress and it could no longer be maintained dissensions exist in the Nazi her will be readily understood. The archy. German authorities were obvious-
produced at these works in Which Works at Augsburg on a machine he took special pride. development of these factories
In the speech he said
the
was particularly satisfactory to whole concern consisted him for he knew. them when the.. couple of buildings which had of B
now expanded into a vast series
ly placed in a position of acute public, Hess is now reported to workers formerly employed, had difficulty by the Deputy Fuehrer's have left behind papers tending become thousands and thousands. action, proclaiming as it does the to show he thought he could-British Wireless,"
As presented to the German of gigantle sheds, and the few
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