TO BUY AIRCRAFT

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 72, 21 September 1940, Page 10

TO BUY AIRCRAFT

GIFTS ACKNOWLEDGED

(Brltisb Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 19. The Minister of Aircraft Production, Lord Beaverbrook, acknowledges £187 towards the purchase of an aircraft from British, French, Portuguese, and Peruvian residents of Iquitos, on the River Amazon, Peru. The Governor of Kenya has gratefully accepted an offer by five local native councils in the central province of £10,095 from their reserve fund as a contribution from the '■-■ Kikuyu, Kamba, and Meru tribes towards the purchase of an aircraft to be named "Kikuyu Kamba Meru." Gratefully acknowledging a fine gift from the Durham Miners' Association of £10,000 for the purchase of two Spitfires, Lord Beaverbrook wrote: "I have received the past weeks many generous contributions from abroad from all sections of the community at home towards the cost of new aircraft, but none has moved me more deeply or given me such immense encouragement as the donation you have sent. From the members of an industry which has known cruel hardship in the past has come a gift so generous that it must kindle the imagination of freedom-loving men and women the world over, giving them irrefutable proof of our determination to gain a total victory over our enemies."