MN AND SUPPLIES
INDIA'S PROBLEM
MEfHODS BEIF'Q EXPLORED
I i (British Official Wireless.) ] (Received June 21, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, June 20. 'The Secretary of State for India (Bffr. L. S. M. Amery) gave an assurance in the House of Commons this a/Jternoon that the Government of iindia was no less anxious than he was blimself to develop India's war capacity tD- the full. He referred to a staters aent broadcast by the Commander-in-CShief of India in which details were g liven of measures being taken by thej (jrovernment of India to raise and ( pquip forces to India's maximum capacity and also to expand her industirial productive output to provide war materials and necessaries for use both (in India and overseas.
Mr. Amery added: "It must be remembered that in India as elsewhere the development of resources in manpower is conditioned by the supply of equipment. With a view to making the best use of those resources, the Government of India and I are exploring every method of expediting the supply both of equipment and of the means of producing it and are pressing forward with our efforts to the utmost extent that is possible without hindering the supply of essential equipment required for immediate use elsewhere in the present emergency."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 8
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210MN AND SUPPLIES Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 8
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