The Archive · 1941

Bank Holiday

exhorted" his: tank. workers fo have -a ood Alter a record tank month Tord Beaverbroole Bank Hotiday and "come back on Tuesday with the certain knowledge that you ore going make Augusta better tanka month than July The shade of Sir John Lubbock, vatterwards 20 One of the lions i Trafalgar Square-guarding some of the National Savings Campaign Lord "Avebury, wilt probably rejoice. thay this Hie posters which were displayed. there during @ recent.drive to buy war weapons, 'Aunust bank "holiday, which "he secured. for Shanghailanders should' take some of the slogans to heart.

The Voluntary War the' nations workers, in 1871. by the Act which he' carried through the, House of Commons.

"Contribution Fund wants to be able to buy its second squadron by August 15. being observed despite. the fact that the bigest war in the worlds history is in' progress. It

Women of the nation engaged In' the mos ise, measures to see that ie jen and Britain's War Effort More Excuses Mrduous, work' of manufacturing munilionst should have a respite from their Inbours, and Pion Sil eh ce Of all the various reasons given for: the rest from Saturday afternoon, to. Tuesday olan Gus we es Bae slowness of the German and. German-Finnish ferning should remove all fear that Jack and siemens Sen ty Ute advance surely: those given by the. Berlin ce his Jil wilt be made ull people by all wore Cee an at vB et"

Fespondent of the "Berne. newspaper "Bund! and no play. 'But there is rather more, fre the most interesting, Describing conditions filferent phases of. Britain's war. effort, and Sob dae dette than "thet, "ihe observance of: the holiday. Qh the Finnish. Rtussian frontier he writes. of Invfiselt' an indication. that, the <Governmentis. eretannis pre ems Sh.

An: endless column. of-heavily laden soldiers satisfied, with the output of, the moony for carry= however. that the critic, even if misinformed, lets seen A ec plete unarch. gasping. and, curing throu the night. ing.on the war against the enemy. 'The loss of mare of endless foresis- 'There are no roads, no 4o'many million "working days by this short Ber alt el nates fommunisaNoné, ni" lorries "and "no motor~ oulday is Indeed no small matter, and the fact eyeies. Only" the' absolute essentials of eauipthat it hasbeen "made possible. speaks" well of Parliament. who, have plenty of facilities for iment are carried, overcoats and, blankets being, for the labour which has been put in during Jett behind although the nights are. terribly the past year or so. It proves more, It shows setae essed Ric cold and damp. 'The days are frightfully hot, thas'tord Beaverbrook with fis highly dynamite While millions of torturing. mosquitoes swarm ertonality has been able to do for the pro Sima tat, Sty Att 'Over' the labouring soldiers' heads. Often the Buction of tanks what he did for. the manus Soldiers must wade "knee-deep through black Sha a cine Med ty read Swamps" It all sounds very terrible but Taciute of agropianes. apd chat he inspings the workers under ts control, So today. thous fo be remembered that If the invaders iPmay. bea different holiday from' that cal ok Snir fre sullering in this manner, so-also are. the BER ale" a age pean giber years, perhaps. thousands will rather on anti sat, Ramee eats fallen Ruslons: They find the days frightfully Hampstead "Hea tothe biage of the rounds jot and the night terribly cold anid' damp, abouts and the shouts of the "barkers® exhort ERs tine ae eae ete The mosquitoes sting Hussian just as much {ng the crowd to be merry. Probably Adolf they "do Germans and Finns. Often "Russian wilt by now have taken over the role of AUnE Tad bh aye th actu soldiers have fo wade through swamps. and Bally, allowing the crowd to throw at his agy march through endless forests. Local conditions Hees arena ae Saas operate just' as much against one. side those, hard Bais: which they would fow at him' in: person. \Cockneys and. their Hee Win eli does. against the other. and to, plead those dis-Donahs wil Indulge in & little exercise on the rote hi ata gta Advantages. as. responsible for" the failure swing, or reposing under the trees coax the of the German-Finnish troops to, make much Shy relimning winkle from his shells or stand headway does not in the circumstances appear eae te ced, Mina very convincing. Rather is it to be assumed ing round, tall aifcuss euch' delicacies ay the whelle and the cockle, But the fact is that the that the Russlans.sulféring under the same con-Workers of Great, Britain are" ablo: to fake a ditions.ag their enemies are able to surmount holiday' and" that, asa well-known "nego Hee ha eer etn their" difficulties and resist the invaders ina character is said to have temarkeds "ts supine Eien hae cee manner which docs them infinite credit, It is Ben rule ead ela all very well for the German propagandists to find' all sorts of excuses because the Jnvaders A Gay Thought Grit ose Rg areas RE ute Very "fact ey, are doing so is highly are, woefully boning their linetable, Git the The BBC. appears to have struck an en.

hee Rae at eae! coa Significant as proof that who Germans are tirely' new note, "Ht, did remarkably: well with fole Wed eerie Tonger having it all their own way. for "Wiciory Drondense capturing the Toathes' Hitler "and all his works. But" Imagination of all that part of tha world which Bans ili aoa oak Selle umu Urata tae

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