INSPIRATION FROM AIRMEN

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23132, 23 September 1940, Page 6

INSPIRATION FROM AIRMEN

HEROIC DEFENCE OF

ENGLAND

TRIBUTE FROM MINISTER

From the secret information it receives daily from London, the New Zealand Government is able to gain an even far more impressive estimate of the heroic work being done by the Royal Air Force in the defence of Great Britain than can be gauged by the general public This was indicated by the Minister for Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, in an address at the Welcome Club on Saturday evening. “Our inspiration comes at the moment from the men in thg air,” Mr Nash said, “and from their great deeds night and day over London and across the seas separating England from her enemies. We know, from the secret cablegrams which we receive daily from Londdn, what amazing things the Royal Air Force is doing. Three and a* half German aeroplanes are broug down for every British aeroplane destroyed. Yet our airmen are going up into the battle as one machine to three. Even with those odds against they can bring down three and a hal / enemy machines to every one of ours destroyed. „ ~ “And that is not all. In all theannai of the British Empire I have read no more heroic deed than the ]ob tMmen did who lifted the delayed-acti bomb which was threatening St. P, au . • and of the lieutenant who so hcroicai. drove those long miles to take tn bomb into the marshes, where it cou do no damage. They have written o the roll of British honour the 6 re ® ; s scroll ever yet recorded there. R that spirit that will see us througnRight cannot lose—sometimes it is delayed in its victory, but right canno lose.”