By Onive Dun London. March 29.
"The Queen's Convoys" sounds like the title of a million-dollar film about Drake and Releigh, with Amy Robsart disguising herself as a powder-monkey in order to get on board Raleigh's ship in the fight with the Armada (did he fight against the Armada?) and subsequently causing a row between Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury. But actually it refers to a fleet of motor lorries which are to act as a flying squad to carry food to bombed areas. Eight of these vehicles are our Queen's own gift, the other ten have been given by the British War Relief Society of America Tha whole set are to be known by the Queen's hame, and she inspected the first two convoys at Buckingham Palace this week. Every convoy includes a water carrier. two kitchen lorries capable of producing 2,000 meals an hour, two food lorries with enough tea, bread, sugar, margarine and soup for meals for 4,500 people, and two mobile canteens holding enough to feed 500 people, One might "discourse most eloquent sic" on the theme of the purse that the motor engine has been to the age that invented it. but it can convey some benefits. as for example this generous present from the Queen and from our warm-hearted American friends,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.