London, Sept. 25.
Children were being evacuated from London at the rate of 2,000 daily Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Minister of Health, said terday. As many as 2,600 left the city on one day recently, he stated.
"Every second child in London of school age has now been evacuated and is now in the country," the Health Minister said. "There remain in Greater London, and in the Thames-side and Medway towns 428,000 while 464.000 have been eva-enated.
"Arrangements are also underway to take care of the aged, infirm and bedridden," he added.
Mr. MacDonald said officials were The Government orders warned Frenchmen that suspects sent before the new court martial would _be liberated, goaled or executed within 48 hours after their arrest.
The announcement added that the British naval squadron was continuing to shell Dakar yesterday in accordance with a second British ultimatum declaring that the British commander felt obliged to attack Dakar if the city failed to surrender by 6 am. yesterday, The new Government decree order: ing the arrest of all sympathizers with the de Gaulle movement in France was introduced before the Council of Ministers by the Minister of Justice, M. Raphael Auber "The present _cireumstances, he said in explaining the bill. "completely justify the creation of n special court martial. The entire nation is deeply shocked and indign: ant over the attack on French West Africa, "This attack is all the more odious because de Gaulle participated in it. Whatever his excuses may be, everyone now agrees that his role is to create dissidence in France's visiting air raid shelters and urging parents to evacuate children with the Government paying all cos
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