The Archive · 1940

Be Compulsory London Boys Go Into Big

Camp Boarding School SPECIAL TO THE "N.CD.N."

London, Feb. 20.

School attendance is being made compulsory for children over eleven years of age in London after March 1, and it is hoped to enforce attendance of children over eight years of age after Easter.

A party of 250 boys from Ilford have begun the occupation of a £20,- 000 camp near Reading, where they will live a boarding school life for a period with no cost to their parents but the Government evacuation fee of about 6s. a week—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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