MORE REACH ENGLAND
RECRUITING GOES APACE
BIG WAR CONTRACTS
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
(Received August 3 9 a.m.) OTTAWA, August .2. «
The Defence Minister, Lieut.Colonel Ralston, announced that Canada's second division had arrived safely in the United Kingdom.
Canadian recruiting is proceeding at such a pace that there are now only 5982 .vacancies in the Canadian active service force. In the past six we?eks more than 50,000 men have enlisted.
The Minister of Munitions announced that war contracts totalling 14,900,000 dollars were awarded in the past week, several important aircraft contracts being placed in the United States.
The Minister of Finance announced that Canada's war expenditure in the current year would total approximately 1,000,000,000 dollars.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 11
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