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6 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1945 COMPANY MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT OF VICTORY NEWS WILL NOT BE DELAYED Mr. Churchill's Assurance to M.P.s WAR PRISONERS IN GERMAN riANDS Transfers HaVe Cease'd In the House of Commons yesterday, Sir JAMES GRIGG (Secretary for War), replying to Sir Alfred Knox (C. Wycombe), said that the protecting Power had informed the British Government that the German Government stated that all transfers of prisoners had ceased in areas still under German control. Such prisoners had been collected as far as possible into from territories still held by the enemy in the West of Europe. Mr.

Churchill I shall make no statement here that is not in accord with statements" which will be made by our allies, and those Governments 'will r.ot make statements they have not considered and in the making of which they have not considered the advice of the military commanders in the different theatres of war both on the northwestern front and on the Italian front. Lady Astor (C. Sutton) If by chance the good news should come through when the House is not sitting will you wait to recall the House or will it come through the B.B.C. Mr. Churchill We will certainly not delay ithe news for a moment.

(Cheers.) It will come, I suspect, from some authorised or unauthorised source (laughter). but if the House is sitting I will take the opportunity cf coming down and informing it myself. THE HOLIDAY Mr. GranviUe (L. Eye): Will the statement to be issued ito-night make it clear whether the two days' holiday will begin with the news of cease fire or with the official notification of V.E.-Day The tendency will be for most people when the cease fire is given to begin the two davs' holidav then.

Mr. Churchill The Home Office circular will make it as clear as it can be that there will be a certain consultation between the Home Office and the managements and the workpeople. (A Member: "They won't wait for It is all very well, but we have to wait until the fast-running machinery is turned off, and a few hours notice must be given. Asked if he would bear in mind the dissatisfaction among employees of banks because they would not be released, Mr. Churchill said It seems to be absolutely impossible to have a day or more of rejoicing without making provision for a minimum staff in banks and other places to make sure that great injury is not wrought to the public interest or that old-age pensioners or others having urgent requirements to be met are not properly attended to on a minimum scale.

This will affect practically every sphere of our life, and those who come forward or are called upon to stay at their posts during such an occasion will, of course, receive their reward later in compensatory NEW M.P.s TAKE THEIR SEATS Wing Commander' Millington, the newly elected Common Wealth member for Chelmsford, took his seat in the House of Commons yesterday. He was sponsored by Sir Richard Acland (C.W. Barnstaple) and Mr. Hugh Lawson (C.W. Skipton).

and was loudly cheered by Labour members. Mr. D. Seaborne Davies (L. Caernarvon Boroughs) also took his seat.

He was sponsored by Sir Percv Harris (L. Bethnal Green, S.W.) and Sir Goronwy Owen CL. Caernarvon). TAILPIECE TO GLORY arrangement with the Evening THE BESTIALITY OF THE NAZIS Peers Demand that Camp Horrors Should be Brought Home to Germans When Mr. Arthur Greenwood (Lab.

Wakefield) asked the Prime Minister in the House of Commons yesterday whether he had any statement to make about the war situation in Europe, Mr. Churchill replied, I have no special statement to make except that the position is definitely more satisfactory than it was this time five years ago." (Laughter.) "But," he continued, "should information of importance reach H.M. Government during the four days of our sittings this week, as it might do, Iyill ask the 'Speaker's permission to ask the indulgence of the House to interrupt the business and make a brief announcement, but that would only occur if, as I said, information of exceptional importance reached us. With regard to the conditions and regulations which would occur if an announcement of decisive consequence justifying celebrations were to be made this week or at any time in the future, and that what is called Victory in Europe Day was announced, a number of arrangements have, been prepared and will be issued to-night in a Home Office circular. But this is only making reasonable preparations -to prevent inconvenience and give general guidance to the local authorities as well as to the public as to the sort of proceedings which would be regarded as not undesirable." (Laughter.) Mr.

Greenwood When a major decision has been taken, may the House understand that it will be a decision taken with the advice of General Eisenhower and that it will imply the immediate liberation of territories, some of them British, still in German hands, or are we to assume that the declaration will be confined to a declaration of capitulation without release of territor'es now in German occupation TO BE TOLD Replying, the Prime Minister said "I do not know in what form the message will reach us or whether it will reach us in a form justifying us in disturbing the debates of the House, but should such a message reach us we shall give the substance of it to the House. We do not consider that the information should be withheld until the exact occupation of all the particular zones ti achieved. The movement of troops and the surrender of enemy troops may take an appreciable period of time. Moreover, it is not by any means certain at present that a complete surrender of all the enemy's forces will make the subject of the future announcement." Mr. Greenwood My point is this, that there should not be a statement which commits the Supreme Command to an end of hostilities if it were the case that after V.E.-Day celebrations there were reprisals on this country MR.

JOHN AMERY Preferred to Surrender to the Allies" Milan, May 1. Mr. John Amery, son of Mr. L. S.

Amery, Secretary of State for India, told me when I interviewed him in San Vittore gaol here to-day that he was not interested in Italian internal politics and had been completely inactive since he arrived from Germany on March 23. He and his wife were captured while driving from Milan to Como, on the Swiss frontier, on April 25. Small and slight, with a week's growth of beard and a black shirt, he said he had not intended to try to escape to Switzerland, but preferred to surrender to the Allies rather than to the partisans. He was unwilling to talk of his experiences in Germany, but agreed that he made radio propaganda talks last autumn. Reuter.

A COMMUNIST PLAN FOR MANCHESTER The Communist party in Manchester and Salford area offers for sixpence a pamphlet it has just produced to get publicity for some of its ideas on Securing Manchester for the People." None of the proposals put forward seems more revolutionary than becomes the seasonable green of the booklet's cover, and though they are in general portentously presented most of them are common form among those who wish to improve Manchester. All the best illustrations are, with due acknowledgments, borrowed from the files of those who were making a oetter aiancnester Between tne wars, but the booklet closes with an appeal to the Labour party to bring together all Labour and progressive elements to achieve electoral unity and to win a majority in the City Council. On the figures that the booklet quotes Labour now has 59 members of the council and the Tories only seven more. No mention is made of the one Communist member. PROVINCIALINSURANCB LIMITED.

The forty-first annual general meeting of the Provincial Insurance Company, was held at Kendal on Tuesday. May 1. Sir S. xi. tocoti, fsari-, Chairman, in his statement said: Before submitting the annual report and accounts I would like to refer to the loss sustained in the death of one of our directors, Sir William Goode, E.

Sir William had been associated with us for many years and oo)t a pride in this association he had the interests of the Company very much at heart. Those of us who knew him well had a great regard and affection for him, and all his friends were filled with admiration for the stoical courage and self-forgetlul-ness with which he faced the sufferings of his last illness and its inevitable end. We shall miss a kindly and very brave friend. In the forty-one years of our history we have had the upheaval of the two wars and. considerable though our progress has been, it is probable that we might have made greater progress in normal times.

We can at least be thankful that insurance is less affected than manv other businesses. High taxation is peculiarly serious to a comparatively young insurance company, as an obstacle to the accumulation qf the reserve funds that are so essential to sound' expansion, and it is therefore satisfactory to be able to record that against a premium income of 1.727,338 the gross assets are in excess of 4,189.000. The Company is in a sound position for taking advantage of the more normal trading conditions to which we look forward. There is not much that I can say about the underwriting results, which speak for themselves. In snite of another disturbing rise in fire losses over the country as a whole our fire account shows a substantial profit very little different from last year.

The accident and general account, on the other hand, shows enod results, though less favour able than in 1B43 Dut we must, remember that in contrast the increased income for this year required an additional provision for unexpired liabilitv. The marine results are in too eany a stage as yet to be estimated with any. confidence. The known figures suggest that 1944 will again be a prontaote year, and we have now a fairly clear indication of tho exceptional profits of 1943. The results are becoming evident in the arge provision lor taxation ana in xne rise our marine I una to xu.j per cent of this year's income.

It is our policy (as well as the consequence ot lower rates of premium) to reduce our marine income substantially, and there is a beginning of this in the decrease of 171,045. It is inevitable that we shall be assessed in some measure for excess piofits tax on account of our marine profit for this and last year. What that figure will eventually be is almost impossible to estimate with any degree of accuracy, and it has been felt wise to make a special allocation to taxation reserve rather than make a transfer to profit and loss. After increasing the dividend on the Ordinary shares to 5s. per share, and placing 50,000 to the reserve for contingencies, there is a balance of 44,532 in profit and loss account to carry forward to next year.

The book and market values of the investments show substantial increases during the year, and the latter figure represents an appreciable buffer against the inevitable reactions in market values which must occur from time to time. Finally, it would be lacking on my part if I did not refer to the loyalty and fine work which the depleted staff and management at home and abroad have shown in spite of the strain of nearly six years of war. To the general manager. Mr. J.

M. Crook, who has taken his full share as well in the very responsible Home Guard duties, and to all the executive and staff (with perhaps a special word of praise for those in the London and South Coast areas who have had to stand the strain of bombs of all kinds) I would like to express our gratitude and appreciation. It is a sad duty to record that we have had quite a number of casualties since we last met and that the number of those who have given their lives is now 23. Among them are several whom we looked forward to seeing in positions of responsibility and importance in the Company's post-war development. Most of our prisoners of war are in Germany and we can hope for their early return.

With a very real sense of expectation we may look forward to the issue of next year's report under happier conditions. MANCHESTER ASSIZES Henry Richardson (23), rubber worker, and his wife, Mary Agnes Richardson 19). formerly of Boundary Street, Hulme, Manchester, pleaded guilty at Manchester Assizes yesterday to robbing with violence Martha Ellen Beswick of two tin boxes containing 16. Mr. Justice Lynskey, describing it as a most brutal assault and expressing his regret that the man was not fit to be whipped, sentenced him to 18 montns imprisonment.

His wife was bound over for twelve months. TO-DAY'S CIVIL LIST The list of cases down for hearing in the Civil Court at 10 30 a.m. to-day is as follows Aihworth t. heard Newton Mayor of slanchesteT 'pa'' ror. Ac.

of Baeap; Probjn Aadretta t. ShadwlcL. Manchester Ship Cana: SPORT H. S. SEVER RETIRES The decision of H.

S. Sever to retire from the Rugby field will bring to an end a career of fourteen years which had its heyday three years before the war began. Sever joined Sale from Bowdon In 1929, captained Sale from 1932 to 1934, and scored a record number of 59 tries in one season. He played regularly for Cheshire mber of years and for England in 193o-6 and 1936-7. He was England's outstanding player in the latter season, scoring winning points in all three matches f.

goal against Wales, an unforgettable try against Ireland, and a decisive try against Scotland. He will continue as secretary-treasurer of the club. NETBALL TOURNAMENT The inter-county tournament -organised by the All-England NetbaU Association will be played on Saturday at Whalley Range High School. Sixteen county teams, flrst'ro? Wales- will compete for the county championship. The teams are Warwiciiwre.

CheaiS. jad Btstfiardshire. The last national inter-county tourna-ent was held in 1939. also at Manchester, when, after extra time in an exciting final M1lesex and the Civil Serve tied Lancashire lost to Middlesex in the semi-final that day and are drawn the same division this year. WOMEN'S LEAGUE HOCKEY S1 uTOre Past ijeanxe Preston mnd District fv- SraTSSlSS KsWte.

aaosesr-a p. Prtsna and District Znd 2. ReatoSartS.0 rrw -wua tt Zsce crew wins Kendal XJBJOa. WtoSlS! large Stalags and the German Government nad asKea tne international reed cross ana the protecting Power to send representatives to the camps, and when the Germans withdraw- those representatives would remain in charge until the Allies arrived The obligation on the Germans was to leave behind in tne camcs sUDDlies of food to the troops. As it was an offer accepted by the four main Allied Governments, the Minister tnougnt it must De assumed tnat it was tne best thing tne Germans could do.

Replying to questions regarding the food supply to uriusn prisoners, sir James said: "All ex-nrisoners reaching this country complete a questionnaire, which enables tnem to give information about tne treatment they have received. Numerous representations have had -to be made to the Germans during the course of the war about breaches of one or other of the articles of the Geneva Convention. I gave particulars of the food given to our prisoners by the Germans on March 2. In formation recently received suggests that even these rations have been reduced, but owing to the disintegration of the German Administration and transport system during recent weeks and the large-scale compulsory transfer of our prisoners of war, it is impossible to make any statement of general application at present. RETURN OF POLISH P.O.W.

The PRIME MINISTER, answering Com mander Bower (C. Cleveland), who asked whether he was aware that owing to the delay in forming a democratic Government in Poland many thousands of liberated Polish prisoners could not return to Poland without fear of reDrisals. said "The large number of Polish prisoners liberated by the advance of the Allied armies are being given shelter and maintenance under the authority of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief at various centres. They will be continued to be cared for so long as conditions make it impracticable or undesirable for them to be repatriated or otherwise provided for. "The matter is one for inter-Allied discussion, but I cannot conceive that Poles in danger of reprisals will be sent back to Poland against their will.

(Cheers.) I trust inat tne conditions which will be created in Poland as the result of the inevitable further discussions by the Great Allies will be such that the numbers failing to return to their native land will be very few." CHILDREN FROM NAZI CAMPS Mr. MORRISON (Home Secretary), in a written reply to Mr. Price (Lab. Forest of Dean), who asked whether arrangements could be made to admit to this country for eeneral care and recovery in the houses of private persons children 1:1 i ilt wiiuuuk pditriiLs iiueiciieu jruiu ixazi cun- centration camps, said he would be prepared to consider such proposals if he were satisfied that adequate arrangements had been made for reception and main tenance ana inai proner provision could not otherwise be made. Strict medical precautions would be essential.

CANDIDATES IN SERVICES Mr CHURCHILL lntormM ST H. Wi'llinu IC Crordon S. that. tubiect fa avprrlrlln znlHtftrr abjections on operations! (rotmds. bona-flde adopted raniaxneniarr canaicatea ci ail parties in in Berrlces were belnc ftwn an opportunity to return to the United Kingdom as aoon a poaslble for reversion to home establishment.

He added: The eAnrfldatei ma then obuln temporary release It they as desire for the Kunwe oi acniiQR- an ejection. iwae arrangament also apply to servln M.P.s, who are being Informed of their exlstlmr rlahta." Mr. a. hopkinson una Mosv.eiy Are to understand that any aeallywav In th frvlw calls himself an Independent candidate Is to be released Mr CHURCHILL: I am clad to see ths sln of repentance (Lauchter.) I used the wo-di bona fide because alter all a man can't sav 1 wish t.n mm home because I wish to be a candidate." He must have wnat wouia oe cexunoerea Teasonaoj creaentlsls tnat he Is to be sunnorted In a constituency. Referring to the position of the prospective candidate overseas Mr.

Churchm added: It Fould not be possible to cr.ve a blank cheque to everyone servlnc overseas who says he would like to come home and mnt a constituency. 7ery enort is being made or who are desired by parties In a constituency or even powerful groups a chance to get back in good time, not Lu eve laiue who nave ccmiaei a vi n.r'iv.rir to xianb in election out to masc tnemseiTes anuwn. OBITUARY Prof. W. J.

Sedgefield We regret to announce the death of Dr. W. J. Sedgefield, Emeritus Professor of Manchester University, at the age of 78. He had recently undergone an operation at Alton Cottage Hospital, Hampshire, where he died late on Monday night.

Walter John Sedgefield's ancestors had practised law in Berkshire for many generations. He himself was born in 1866 in Melbourne, Australia, where his father bad settled in an official legal post. He read classics at Melbourne University, which later awarded to a thesis of his its Litt.D. To continue his education he came to Christ College, Cambridge, and, inspired by the work of Australian Anglicists like Maccallum and Tucker, his interests turned to the academic study of English. But his bent was more to linguistic than to literary studies, and he took up English philology as it was then expounded.

He had a fine ear for sounds, and could not only detect shades of variation in the way the nations pronounce but had a remarkable gift for reproducing foreign pronunciations. His Russian, nis (jrerman, nis rencn, and his Italian have been called first-rate by natives. He enjoyed his phonetics teaching most of all. and the most literary use he made of his phonetic sensitiveness was in tne sway oi metre. Leaving Cambridce.

and after period of desultory coaching, he was appointed Professor of English in the Tsarist University of St. Petersburg, a post he held until he came to Manchester in 1906 as Lecturer in English Language. He was made Professor of English Language in 1913. Perhaps because there was a wide disparity between SedgeSeld's mind and interests and those of Herford, who was Professor of English Literature, the department never acnievea a united curriculum of culture, and Sedgefield for his part fell back on the traditional Germanic Anglistic that is. Anglo-Saxon.

Gothic, and so on. He translated King Alfred's version of Boethius (1910): his Place-names of Cumberland and Westmorland" (1915) was pioneer work, but at a day before the modern technique had really been evolved. His main production in the end was an edition of "Beowulf," which is still widely used, though perhaps in later editions ne jumped at emendations more in the way of the older editors of the Latin and Greek classics. I Maybe his most memorable work in Manchester was not in Enelish but in Russian. From 1907 to 1919 he was the University Lecturer in Russian, and it was py nis enterprise that runds were raised to establish the Manchester Chair of Russian in 1920.

His retire ment in 1934 was soon to be clouded by tne deatn of his wife, a fine woman of Australian-German origin who bad oeipea mm to overcome or to hide some of his more unpractical propensities. In his last years he went back to "Cicero's Letters and was preparing a booklet of ingenious textual emendations to them. A reliable report has been received, states the War Office, that the bulk of Service personnel previously held at Marlag and Milag Nord at Vestertimcke were moVed on April 10 towards Lubeck. Next of kin will be informed as soon as possible of those prisoners of war recoverea. (By "ENTICEMENT" SUIT Father's Evidence Mr.

Stanley Walter Lough, electrical engineer, of Bulwer Road, New Barnet, father of Dorothy Bartola Lough, gave evidence in the High Court yesterdav at the resumed hearing of his "enticement action against Mr. John Sebastian Marlow Ward and his wife Mrs. Jessie Ward, leaders of the Confraternity of Christ the King. Park Road, New Barnet. Mr.

Loueh claimed damaeec. for tc loss of the services of his daughter, who ir ejguieeu, uiruugn ine aiiegea euueer-ment and harbouring of her in August, lDM, oy the defendants, without his consent, in premises occupied by them and styled 'The Abbey of Christ the The defence was a denial of the allegations. Mr. Lough, questioned by his counsel, Mr. N.

L. Macaskie, K.C., said he was present at the abbev in 1936 when his daughter was b-tised there. He understood the abbey was Church of England and did not know until recentlv it had changed. He was unaware that Dorothy became an associate of the Third Order at the abbey. Her visits to the abbey became more frequent and every time he spoke to her about the matter she cried.

When Mr. Ward suggested that, as Dorothy was a very nice girl and he did not want her to go into a factory, she should enter the abbey, witness definitely refused to agree. I told him." added Mr. Lough, that I absolutely refused to sign anything to that effect." Mr. Lough said that after Dorothy went into the abbey he asked the Wards to take steDS to eet her to come back.

Hp and Mrs. Lough wanted Dorothy to come home so tnat tney coma tain tnmgs over among themselves. Mrs. Lough gave the Wards a letter for Dorothy asking her to come home that evening. They waited up specially for her.

but she did not come. In a minute of the chapter of the confraternity dealing with that interview Mr. Ward was stated tr have reported that Dorothy's parents had both agreed that the best solution was for tnem to consent to her joining the abbev. "That is absolutely untrue" said Mr. Lough.

Letter to Daughter In a letter to Dorothy Mr. Lough wrote It now rests for you alone to decide your own fate in future, but don't forget that in years to come, when perhaps you are situated differently, memories will constantly reappear. I only hope you will decide wisely and not be influenced by anyone. Remember your own home is still open to you, together with your parents." Mr. Macaskie: Did you intend by that that you gave your consent to her joining the abbey Not at alL It was an appeal to her to come back home.

Were you under the impression that she was assisted in writing her letters Not only assisted but told what to write. Cross-examined, Mr. Lough said his daughter was absolutely truthful and honest. He had wanted her to be properly brought up and to lead the life of a decent citizen. We don want her to stick in that he declared Mr.

Ryder Richardson (for the aeiendants) Did you want her to choose her own career I suppose she could. Have you any doubt that she has chosen religion as her career? I have doubts whether she has chosen or whether it has been forced on her. You couldn't ston her havins her own way about attending the abbey services She stopped for a time. But as soon as she got the opportunity sue wem again res. Cross-examining about the Wards' interview with him August, 1943, Mr.

Richardson asked Am I right in thinking that you. as a kindlv father, would not expect anybody to throw your daughter out into the street Mr. Lough Yes. Mr. Richardson If she had been turned out of the abbey what was to happen to ner one couia nave gone to tne police who could have broueht her home.

Mr. Lough insisted that Mr. Ward had asked him to sign papers consenting to his daughter's joining the abbey. "He said he was going to arrange for her to remain there for the duration of the war. as she might not like to remain afterwards," Mr.

Lough added. Mr. Richardson If it is anv consolation to you. your daughter has not taken her nnai vows ana is tree to leave this abbev when she likes. Does that sumrise vou? It does.

When my son went to ask her to come to rus weaaing sne said she could not leave the nlaw. Mr. Lough denied that he consented to rus aaunter residing at the abbev. Mr. Richardson Your daughter' had not been happy at home It's the first I have ueara 01 jt.

Mother's Evidence Mrs. Bartola Georgina Lough, the girl's mother, was the next witness. She said that in the early part of 1943 she spoke to Mr. Ward about Dorothy's increasing interest in the abbey. She told Mr.

Ward she did not want Dorothy to enter the abbey before she was twentv-one. Mr. Ward said All right and promised to speak to Mrs. Ward about it Dorothy always wanted to go to the abbey even wheri witness wanted her to go out with her, and she thought that was because Dorothy wanted to play with the children there. Referring to the interview between Mrs.

Lough and Mr. Ward at the abbey on August 4. 1943. Mr. Macaskie asked: Did the Rev.

Father in your presence tell your daughter that she ought to go home replied Mrs. Lough. mv daughter was not in the room." When witness went to the abbey to see ner daughter because she wznted her to come home as her father was ill. Mr. Ward said.

"What security have I that she will return When the nut her arms round Dcrothv and said Darling, your father is ill. I want you to come home." the eirl replied. I don't want to go home." She was not responsive, and Mr. Ward pulled at the Sleeve nf VtT VTTm'c from witness. Mr.

Ward was wearing a The hearing was adjourned unta to-day. Conditions in German concentration camps were discussed in the House of Lords yesterday and Lord Stanhope and Lord Addison, who were members of the recent Parliamentary delegation to Buchenwald, took part in the debate. Lord DENHAM called attention to the report of the Parliamentary delegation and to reports which had appeared in the daily press to the effect that, escorted by American military police, a thousand citizens of Weimar, men and women, had been marched six miles to the ichenwald concentration camp and in groups of 100 were there made to view the conditions under which thousands of political prisoners were confined, starved, and put to death, and asked whether H.J. Government would make arrangements for as many Germans as- possible to undergo similar salutary and educative experiences in other parts of Germany. He maintained that in addition to all those who set up and ran and maintained the camps every single German throughout Germany was responsible.

(Cheers.) However callous and arrogant were the Germans who visited Buchenwald, he thought similar visits should be enforced whenever a concentration camp was liberated. "How better can we open the eyes of Germany to the sins which have been committed under the Nazi regime asked Lord Denham. He wanted as manv Germans as possible to be filled with remorse for what had been done. Once remorse came, repentance was around the corner and there then might be a chance of re-education and regeneration. MAKING GERMAN PEOPLE REALISE Lord STANHOPE, who described the general living conditions, at Buchenwald, said the prisoners who lived in one hut told the delegation that there was no room for them to lie on their backs and they had to lie on their sides.

They had no covering in the winter except such rags and remnants of blankets as they could collect Much the most painful thing I saw was the condition of those who were still living," said Lord Stanhope. Their bodies were merely skeletons covered with skin. They didn't look like human beings. Their thighs were not as thick as my wrist I was shown cuts and bruises which had been inflicted on prisoners. Children we saw were nothing but eves.

Desnite the wonderful skill and attention given bv the medical authorities of the United S'tates Army the deaths at the camp when we arrived were sun 3i a day. It was impossible, he continued, for people in this country to realise that these things were true, but they were, and he had seen them. He did not know whv it had been done, but he thought there was some sort of sadism among the German people which encouraged them to like that sort of thing. The German nation had been brought up to believe itself a superior race ana iney treaiea people or otner races and those of their own race who did not agree with them in the same way as a cruei mtie ouy migni aeai wnn a cniCKen or an ordinary person with a rat. The Germans, whom he saw visiting the camp seemed to care very little.

While he did not think it was practicable, because of transport difficulties, for all Germans to see these camps, he thought they should be compenea 10 see nims ot tnem. "We have got to make the German people realise the bestiality done in their names and with their consent and they snouia see inese nims as soon as the rruU-tarv situation makes it possible." he added. if the Allies want to stop this sort of thing in the future they have got to take com mand uermany and lor a long time issue orders to the German people and see that thev are obeved." Lord VANSITTART said that this time there was no possibility of denving the German atrocities, but a new excuse wa being cooked up." It was that they did not know about them. That was profoundly untrue. The German nation had lived on slave labour and revelled in it.

The entire ueimaxi araif enjoyea me eriorced pros' AUSTRALIA CUTS HER MEAT RATION To Maintain Britain's From our Special Cotrespondent Canberra, Mat 1. Mr. Chifiey. Acting Prime Minister, has announced the reduction from May 7 of 124 per cent in the adult civilian meat ration. 12J per cent in the supplies of commercial users fmeh as makers cf sausages, and 25 percent in the supplies to cafes.

The ration for children is not reduced. Mr. Chifiey said that as Australia's choice was to maintain her present ration or reduce supplies to the United Kingdom, the Cabinet had no hesitation in reaching its decision. The factors governing the decision were the severity of the drought which was still causing meat stocks to diminish over the larger part of Australia, the world shortage of meat which might restrict supplies to the United Kingdom from elsewh-e and the urgency of sustralia's allocation to the United Kingdom which she has undertaken to fulfil. Owing to the continuance of he drought Australia will be fortunate if sh-; produces 900.000 tons of mea this yeai.

compared with 1.035.000 tons last year. Production cf 965,000 tons was expected when the ration was previously reduced in February. titution of women from the oerunipH countries. When they had had enough of uitr women mey muraerea tnem srtn re placed them. The most appalling cruelties were perpetrated by the German rank and file and scores of thousands of just ordinary Germans took part in the extermination of 3,000,000 Jews.

They thought ii was aoa spun. Lord ADDISON said he saw no indications whatever of shame on the part of German civilians visiting the camp. It was undeniable, he thought, that the majority of the German nation knew sufficiently well what had been going on in the.se Places. The disciplining of the mind of the German nation had been attended with appalling success. The German people-really believed they were a special and auijcuur race.

The administration and control of Germany must be long continued, and unless we are prepared to face up to that the future is hopeless," Lord Addison declared. "The German ceonlo will ha-v to realise in their own lives that bullying does not pay. The Allies must set up an organisation which contemplates the occupation of Germany and its deliberate reeducation over a long period of years." The LORD CHANrRr.r.nn trrA Simon), replying, saidthe Government fully supported the action of the Supreme Commander (General Eisenhower) in obliging Germans living in the neighbourhood to visit concentration camps reached by the Allied armies. "We know," he added, that the Supreme Commander has under consideration th nnpqtinn nf fol lowing this Buchenwald precedent in other camns to whstpvpr pvont ic pstible with military requirements." oimon stressed tnat as the result of the investigations thpv be dealing with facts and not "atrocity Mones, xnougn ne nad oeen told that since they came back one member of the Parliamentary delegation had received a number of letters suseestinc pwh nnu that what was reported was another atrocity mis was not a prisoner-of-war camp. It was for political prisoners mostly Germans, and for members of what the "Herrenvolk" regarded as inferior nations.

It is important to realise that." continued the Lord Chancellor. It leads me to this reflection What is the world's real condemnation of Hitler and his Nazis Is it merely a war crime, something which happened by their orders in war I think it is something wider than that. The trim arraignment which the world brings is not limited to the conduct of the war, horrible as it has been by the German State. It goes outside that. The bestiality reported on in the Government White Paper is not bestiality of war as such.

As I understand exisiea oeiore. FOUL NAZI SYSTEM That demonstrated what the world was really accusing the Nazi chiefs of namely. a foul cruel system of government which endeavoured to force i whole nation to support one party and did so by committing all opposition to concentration camps from which thev would nevpr apt out Asking the question "(Did the ordinary if he were confronted with a German of reasonable intelligence livinc near a camn who protested he knew nothing of what was going on he would ask. If you knew nothing why were you so frightened of me iesiapo calling at your house An Englishman was not frightened when a policeman called at his house. The only explanation of why these allegedly respectable citizens behaved thus was that tney Knew wnat might happen and knew that with a power like that in the land it behoved them to be very careful to give no grounds of suspicion.

The second line they might take was. I knew, but what could i do AU the powers against me were strong." The answer to that was that these camps had been applied not only to Germany but to the occupied countries. Norwegians and Dutch knew the fat awaiting them, yet in those and other countries powerful resistance movements sprang un. It was a melancholic thina that though there might have been people in Germany who abominated these metnods no considerable resistance move, ment sprang up. CONTROL OF LABOUR' T.U.C.

Oppose the Use of Penalties The Trades Union Congress have informed the Minister of Labour "that after further consideration thev re affirm their opposition to any labour controls during the period between the end of the German war and the end of the war with Japan which carries sanc tions or fines or imprisonment. "The T.U.C" according to a statement issued yesterday, recognise that there has to be control of labour during this period in order to rehabilitate peace-time industries and to provide full employment, but they are totally opposed to the Defence Regulations being applied as they stand. These regulations do not distinguish between employers and worKers, out in practice it has been found that discrimination is always against workers. No case of an employer being sent to prison has been brought to the notice of the T.U.C. but they have had many reports of workers having been imprisoned.

SCOTTISH EDUCATION BILL The Education (Scotland) Bill passed its second reading in the House of Com mons yesterday. BROADCASTING REVIEW By our Radio Critic The serial form in broadcasting has proved successful whenever the material had enough substance: the failures have been where the play or story chosen seemed too tenuous or the characters not strongly enough drawn. Neither Barlasch of the Guard" nor "The Wheels of Chance" had anything like the drawing power of the serials that have been broadcast from Trollope and Jane Austen. How will Shakespeare sound in instalments The B.B.C. has decided to present the whole of "Henry the Fourth" in eight episodes of forty-five minutes each.

The plays will be cut and adapted by Robert Gittings. and since they are of the nature of an historical chronicle there is reason to suppose that this form may suit them well. It would certainly not be easy to give the whole thing in one performance, and Shakespeare will stand a good deal of experiment at any time. The cast will include Ralph Richardson, who will play Falstaff, and Laurence Olivier, Nicholas Hannen, and Sybil Thorndike. The first broadcast is on May 10.

On Monday there was broadcast a read ing by Valentine Dyall of the Anglo-Saxon poem The- Battle of Maldon in the late Gavin Bone's translation. One can count one of the eood thmes done bv the BB.C. when it-. introduces to the wide listening public a' work of such interest as this ancient poem of a.d. 991.

It is a poem of action, of the battle of the Saxons against the invading Danes, the men from the sea. and" in this translation it contains some fine and memorable lines such as these The will shall be harder, the courage shall be keener. Spirit shall grow great, as our strength tans away. CATHEDRAL SERVICES Kvensona as A So. flo.y comaaunioa: Sundays at 9 and i'tn Matins: Ho.j Days acd Fridays at 11 am Baptisms iiicr auc wjnesdav.

Matins asd Litiivr said at 11 am Ewnsonjc: Wilson Jri flai: Anthrm. Comfort te Soai tWest'. Service of Intvrcvasion. 1 25 to 1 50 31 be crest opportun'tles for lancashlre to re-estabUaa sirf develop her trade In these areas. Germany Was a Tery important ccslotaer.

be: it can be assumed trtai there will be little or no Borsal trade, at any rate for some years GKorr Besxtasa. A very lcapartaat eaitacaer. Swrtserlassl. A substantial trade Italy. Is like.y to become more important thaa It was In the Inter-war years Fraaee.

Since about 1939 trade had declined, out nevertheless It was important and wtll undooatedy become more so In the furore. In addition to Para. Manchester baa close connections with me Lyons, and IririelUes. Ibertaa rvnlnsabi There is a potential trade under more settled conil'tions Portocai la likely to become more valaaUe as a customer bora for the borne trade and the Portncuese colonial trade than tne part-Continuing, the letter states that it is not yet possible to fix the priority between routes because, although we are familiar with the records of past present conditions of industry and future possibilities of commerce are entirely nor can we foresee the relative rate of recovery of these various markets." We strongly urge the provision of the quickest and most direct air transport between Manchester and alt these countries (it is stated). From the point of view of anticipated long-distance travel those countries in Group A appear to justify certain direct overseas services with Manchester.

We would also point out. and emphasise, that in the case of Group B. relatively short distances, occupying, sav, two to three hours bv direct, route, much valuable time and efficiency will be lost if the journey cannot be msde non-stda. In this connection we have in mind centres in this group such as Paris and Brussels. It is not possible to estimate the volume of commercial passenger traffic but we are convinced that the figures for the future will bear no relation to those of the past.

In view of the fact that the public has bpcome infinitely more rir-minded and that for a long period rail travel on the Continent will be uncomfortable and difficult, we are convinced that the demand for facilities for air travel to and from the Continent and Manchester will be very great MANCHESTER AND CONTINENTAL AIR SERVICES Direct Links Essential to Export Trade A forecast of post-war trade prospects in the countries of Europe is contained in a letter which has been sent by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to the Director General of Civil Aviation. Signed by the secretary of the Chamber. James Ainsley. the letter emphasises the vital importance to Manchester of an early re-establishment of civil air services to and from Manchester. The letter expresses the opinion that civil air services are "essential to the needs of the export trade in this area." While appreciating that London will be "the main centre for Continental air traffic," it points out in support of Manchester's claim that direct services to and from the city were in existence before the war and that, in fact, the Dutch service between Amsterdam proved so successful that plans had been made to duplicate it the following year (1940).

As the distrtbut-ing centre for the North-west area, Manchester has close commercial relations with every country on the Continent of Europe. Stating that it is difficult to foresee the trends of our export trade, the letter goes on to give the following survey of past experiences and future prospects CBQcr A BgihuT aw Nartfc-easSwarrt- Tne Scandinavian -lalad. a xery cocsiderab-? crate was dose. ai. 1th Getnaar eliminated ss a competitor, it Is SjeUereS thit this may become a much more Ursortant market fVUtkV3sa5LaiTta.

m4 It dJHcalt to foresee Suture treads ot trade, altbomt!) a substantial badness was dace situ these eosstrxs the matslM. It is tmpocslte to predict their term ixdlcr bat It seems safe to that demard tor JUtBoacb to fcjter-wr period trad ana fercer dominated Mr Germany, ns road many and Important SSSeooa kn is tmactgitwt that there will.