REPLY TO NAZIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 7

REPLY TO NAZIS.

EMPIRE AIR FORCE.

Dominions' Effort To Meet

Common Menace.

"WRITING ON THE WALL."

British Official Wireless. (Beceived 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, December 27, "The Times," in a leader commenting on the arrival yesterday of the first unit of the Australian forces, points out that this, following so soon upon the arrival of the Canadian contingent, yet further underlines the unity of the British family of nations. it says that those whom Germany has not completely hypnotised by Goebbels' propaganda will see this as the writing on the wall and an exposure of the two false assumptions on which Germany began the war, namely, that the Western democracies were too decadent to defend themselves, and that the British Empire was in an advanced state of disintegration and would fall to pieces in the face of a demand for a common sacrifice.

"The Times" further comments that the Dominions, while taking their share of the burden on land and sea, have clearly visualised the special aid which they can give in the air, and it likely that in this war the air forces will be to the Dominions what the Army u to France, and the Jiavy to Britain.