1941-05-28 — Page 7

A sufficient quantity

of MILK daily is

necessary for the maintenance health & energy

DAIRY

WHAT WILL

BERLIN DO?!

A CLEAN SWEEP?

Ten Million

Spitfires

I have just been to the Minis-

Every morning of every day The room will therefore there descend on Lord Beaver-

the retain its daytime

brook at

Ministry several hundreds of letters, each with a All the bother and dis-donation for the Spitfire Fund. comfort of leaving the And not only letters.

The other day an old woman

notes.

She refused her name.

trotted off into the street.

the heart

"For

From #174

of

By William

Mundy

SHORT OF

WAR

Mentes

For

"whip rounds," regular weekly donations from staffs of ware. houses and factories, and street collections, all figure on the list. Families send a small sum afte [each "All Clear" ús a thank-off

donations of a fixed ering--also

for every enemy 'plane brought down.

KUN

Jewellery, silver plate, family heirlooms, engagement rings, and sentimental treasure are handec

Emigrants who left their hume-| |,

land years ago have opened their A man in Uruguay cabled £10,- parses. Foreigners who have 000 and promised £ 1,000 each reading of wanton destruction and month. He keeps it up loo," an

never set foot in this country, on

to

snugness of the house for elimbed slowly up the step of the call for Spitfires. the necessarily cramped the Ministry, opened her shabby quarters of an Anderson hand-bag and handed over 25 £1 shelter are avoided by the setting up of a shelter as the R.A.F." she said simply, part of the permanent] Money for Spitfires pours furniture of a room. The from all over the world.

of the Empire ordinary routine of the from the hearts of the people house will not be changed, the Empire. and home life will retain its normal character-ex- cept that, within an air- raid zone, the shelter may be sought before the customary time for bed.

Foreign Friends

open

official at the Ministry told me.

the indiscriminate bombing of in wonen and children, have been I picked the following haphaz-

driven by anger

A Cairo

send their ard:...

group

the £23,000. A sheep farm in cheque books,

Falkland Islands sends £60. After an hour spent in the

Mayors of South Africa send Ministry of Aircraft Production,

£250,000 "and more coming." wading through hundreds of let Burma sends £160,000. Basuto- ters enclosing gifts, I begun

land £100,000. People of Hyd- erabad £ 150,000, and feel dizzy.

another

Nothing before has so appealed

sympathy Lo patriotism and

S

رما

Already the Spitfire Fund has 100,000 from the Nizam of Hy reached the ten million mark. derabad. The people of Gorakh-

Sums of £10,000 are common- £15,000.

total I tried to reckon up the to read letters from India, but gave it up - my

place, £50 is a bagatelle.

Dur

which began and ended quite sim. head reeled.

ply: "I enclose £20,000 for Splt-

to transfer 500,000 dollars to the

Gave His Pension

every way upon the An- derson shelter, there has I was amazed What every one has been no sign of any offi- inevitably been asking cial attempt to develop it. Ares," or, "Our client instructs us is when, and in It may, possibly, be urged Spitfire Fund. Yours faithfully, The men of the Services them- what numbers, the by the D.A.R.P. that the etc." A few noughts did not selves forward donations.

Regularly the Czech and Polish table-shelters can be response to his Anderson seem to matter.

There are many letters which Air Force squadrons give some... supplied. Quantities shelter offer was so dis- touched me deeply. One enclos- thing, from their pay.

H.M.S., Mess No. 9 posted have been dependent on couraging that he hesited an odd sixpence from a dom- the amount of steel which ates to ask the Dock Com- estic servant. To spare that six-16s. 8d. With it was this note. pence was doubtless! a greater"We charge id. a time for swear could be allotted for this pany or any other concern sacrifice than that represented by ing. We feel certain that further

instalments. will follow. this:" use, which is admittedly a to go to the trouble of a cheque for thousands.

From the four corners. of the Robert Bray; aged 9, and George)

foreign Clark, aged 7, of Clapham Junc- highly important one, preparing plans for the earth the gifts come. since it is for the defence table-shelter. That of holdings in diamond mines, rail- tion, sent 28. 6d. earned for clear. ways, ranches, oil wells, salmon ing snow. "We hope that this our of front-line- civilians. course is no answer at all. fisheries, sheep runs, and gold two-and-six, will give old Hitler Steel supplies were a So few people in the fields owned by every nationality forty fits," ran their messages

John Bishop, of Newmain; limiting factor in the Colony have the ground Lord Beaverbrook signs hun-Lanarkshire, sent 10s, "This is my making of the Ander- to accommodate an Andreds of personal letters to rajahs, first, old-age pension. I have work- son.. shelters. Prefer- derson shelter. Few have nabobs, and native rulers. Also ed in the old Volunteers in the ence in supply of the any great confidence in to school-children who send Boer War; also, in France during new shelters has beenjit. The table-shelter pro[ Many of the big subscribers Home Guard, and feel sure that I shown to the areas in vides a margin of salety happens to the aircraft they buy self if Hitler or any others of his

}

under the sun, z

mandarins, paramount chiefs, ed 53 years. In the mines. I serv

weekly contributions.

of

the last war. I am now in the

I left the Ministry of Aircraft Production feeling very proud to have had the privilege of looking through those letters; and run- ning through my mind was the

which the

of to a great many more so that they may pay for re gang offer to try me out bombing is judged to be people than could even pairs or replacements. greatest.

consider an Anderson The gifts from children

sums from sixpence, unwards Point of all this is that shelter It has greater at are too numerous to detall. The here in Hong Kong, al traction, from every pomt sale of lavender bags, kettle hold-

ers, and foreign stamps provides a typical message of Lord Beaver- though the new table of view. We see no reason lot of these contributions, shelter is recognised to be why the D.A.R.P. should Old-nga... pensiono a distinct advance in not try again.⠀⠀

lorry drivers who travellers a lift,

brook to some of our friends and abroad: Twice friends are they stranded who bring their support in the pubile-house hour of danger."

**

FARM

MILK

is milk in its most

beneficial form

It's Fresh from the Farm. It's still Fresh when you get it.

Pasteurised.

Cerufied T. B. Free.

Every borle individual.} ly sealed.

THESE FACTS MAKE

DAIRY FARM

MILK

WHAT IT IS

THE MINEST

IN

ONG