London, Nov. 2. The successful achievement of Britain's gigantic: evacuation, and satisfactory measures to normalise the life of evacuees since their trans-for, were outlined by the Minister of Health, Mr. Walter Elliot, in the House of Commons today. Over 1,500,000 evacuees. he said, were con. veyed to their destinations; fed and housed within four days without single casualty.
Mr. 'Elliott paid a tribute to the magnificent way in which housewives accepted the task of caring for evacuees. An investigation showed that 50 per cent. of evacuated mothers, and over 78. per cent. of eva-enated children, still' remained in evacuation areas, governments had tendered, and a fifth Many people. the? Minister said, feared that epidemies -might be This meant that the would be obliged to widespread, but returns showed that the figures for. epidemic diseases Proclaim the breakdown of the Con-were actually lower in the past two stitution as far as the provinces were concerned, and take their administra-months than for the corresponding period last year. tion into its own hands.
To: move 12,000 mothers with a 1 msd Britain's war aims, the small nursing personnel. and to im-Minister declared; "It is sometimes proviso accommodation, was an an-Still, said in India that we are fightxious task. Over 3,500 confinements ing to maintain Imperialism there. of evacuated women occurred in the But every step we have taken since first: six weeks of the war, Mr Elliot 1919 has emphasized and ratified the added, and the proportion of com-determination of the people of this plicated, accouchements was no higher country to work for self-government than normal.—Reuter. in India. Our intentions remain what they have been since 1919. We are striving with all sincerity to assist in removing the obstacles Gestapo Chief Thaelmann "which at present lie in the path of ible a "ar 3—of promises which Said Conferring have been made.—Reuter.
Paris, Nov, 3, The report that the German Communist leader, Ernst Thaelmann, has
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