27 OCTOBER 1939, page 3

A.r.p. Reductions

The statement made by Sir John Anderson last week about adjustments in the A.R.P. services has been followed up by a circular to local authorities from the Ministry of Home......

The Home Production Of Food

The Ministry of Agriculture under the experienced hand of Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith is fully alive to the need for intensive production of home-grown food from now on. Much that......

The Six O'clock Curfew

As if war had not already done enough to reduce the takings of small shopkeepers the Government has now stepped in with another Order which might have been de- signed to drive......

The New Army In Training

There are far fewer squads of new soldiers in evidence in all the towns today than there were at the corresponding period of the last War, nor is recruiting going on at the same......

Defenders Of London

Any temptation to pass adverse comment on the apparent inoffensiveness of that formidably offensive agent the ROyal Air Force in France may perhaps be tempered by the reflec-......

To "spectator " Readers It Is Urgently Necessary That...

possible readers of The Spectator should place a regular order for their copy either with a newsagent or with the office of the paper, 99 Gower Street, W.C. r, since under......

The " Continental Blockade "

So far is Germany convinced of the efficacy of blockade that she is now bent upon establishing a " Continental blockade " of her own against us and the outer world. Her trouble......