The Archive · 1940

London to Evacuate

More Children

London, Sept. 25.

Owing to the danger of bombing and infectious disease if much time is spent in deep underground shelters, the evacuation of mothers with children of any age has been organized from some hard-pressed areas of London Those wishing to go register, and the Government will make arrangements to take them to the country. Four hundred and twenty-eight thousand children of school age remain in London, Thamesside and Medway towns, and 464,000 have been evacuated..—Reuter.

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