The Archive · 1940

Providing Machinery

The Bill provided necessary machin. ery for enforcing various foreign coiles, and also dealt with the action British civil authorities were to lake regurd to arrest of deserters and the holding of foreign " servicemen sentenced to imprisonment, and power of billoting foreign troops.

The House, Sir Edward Grigg de-lared, might well be proud to. pass: the Bill, "because a new birth of freedom was implicit mit, and it represented the innermost aspirations of at least 100,000,000 human beings at present under the Nazi heel—Reuter, Cordial Atmosphere at The Captain of the vessel was i jured bya bomb splinter. Four bombs were dropped in the water near the. Maevitle, The attack was carried out when the Maeville was 40 miles off the west coast of Ireland.

The Welsh collier Prestatyon Rose reported that it was attacked by. three German planes from 300 fect om Tuskaetlight and was subjected machine-gunning and. bombing United Press Meeting of Governors Gibraltar, Aug. 22.

So. cordial was the atmosphere the occasion of the official visit of the Governor of -Algeliras, General Grandes, thatthe dinner in his honour scheduled to last 40 minutes was extended to an hour and a half. 'The Governor, Sit Olive Liddell, toasted General Fran-oleo Franco' and General Grandes ed his glass to the King.

The ceremony, tchich is formal I

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