ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS FOR BRITAIN
PRIORITY IN PRODUCTION TO BE GIVEN GREAT INCREASE REPORTED IN PERSONNEL , (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, June 14. In answers in the House of Commons on anti-aircraft defence, the Secretary for War (Mr L. HoreBelisha) said that the Government had decided to give full effective priority to the production of antiaircraft guns of a modern type. He forecast an early announcement of the detairs of the reorganisation now in progress to ensure that full and undivided attention was given to every aspect and detail of anti-air-craft defence, in view of its special importance in relation to general military requirements. The reorganisation was also necessitated by the great expansion in personnel. Mr Hore-Belisha_ said that recruiting for the anti-rircraft divisions was proceeding with such remarkable speed that the first division, which a year ago was 10 000, was now 20,000. and the second division, which was 9943 a year ago, was now nearly 19,000.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22429, 16 June 1938, Page 11
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