PLANES FOR BRITISH.
GIFTS FROM THE EMPIRE.
SEVERAL LARGE AMOUNTS SENT.
(Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.)
LONDON, November 29
British men and women in all parts of the world continue to send generous contributions toward the purchase of aircraft for the Royal Air Force. A gift of £25,000 from the British community in the Argentine was acknowledged by the Minister for Aircraft Production (Baron Beaverbrook) today.- He also received £IO,OOO from the British community in China, £12,000 from the people of Tanganyika Territory, and £sooo—replacement of aircraft already supplied—from the people of Cape Town.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 43, 30 November 1940, Page 5
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