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APPENDIX.

THIRTY-ONE TOWNS AND THEIR POPULATIONS.

TOWN

Population

on 30th

TOWN

September.

Great Yarmouth

22,379

Margate

Population

on 30th September.

14,176

Lowestoft

20,119

Broadstairs

4,383

Southwold

1,882

Aldeburgh

1,428

Ramsgate Minster

13,882

1,438

Felixstowe

7,639

Sandwich

2,420

Harwich

9,182

Deal

11,632

Frinton and Walton

5,235

Dover

18,971

Clacton

9,580

Folkestone & Sandgate

17,500

Southend-on-Sea

61,894

Hythe

5,048

Ipswich

88,455

Ashford

21,557

Colchester

48,462

Canterbury

20,700

Hastings

37,200

Bexhill

12,563

Eastbourne

27,000

New Romney

1,615

Lyda

1,360

Rye

3,250

Seaford

4,830

Newhaven

4,841

ANNEX II.

COMPULSORY EVACUATION OF THE THIRTY-ONE TOWNS AND BRIGHTON.

Summary of Conclusions of Memorandum by the Ministries of Home Security, Health and War Transport and the Board of Education.

(1) That the aim should be to evacuate the thirty-one towns, (i.e.

the existing evacuation towns, excluding the Brighton Group) as one operation beginning at Z-15 days. Even allowing for some disloɑntion the move should be completed before Z-7,1.0., before the worst dislocation due to bombing is likely. (2) That the coastal towns within the two railway groups, which

include the four inland towns Ipswich and Colchester, and Ashford and Canterbury, should be evacuated at the same time as these towns. Although the aim would be to evacuate all thirty-one towns simultaneously, the plans should enable the two groups containing the inland towns to be evacuated sooner if necessary.

(3) That, notwithstanding \-]? in scheme for the separate

evacuation of school children from the thirum no towns should be kept in being, together with plans for the subsequent removal of the rest of the population.

(4) That the grave objections to the evacuation of the Brighton

Group of towns should be carefully weighed before any request is formulated for the preparation of a scheme of evacuation.

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