New Zealand

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1941, Page 10

New Zealand

ADEQUATE AIR SUPPORT

(Special to "The Pr|st.")

AimCKLAND. This Day,

•Reference to the advance madeS by the British Imperial troops info Libya was made by the Pr.£ me Minister (Mr. Fraser) today, when speaking at a business men's luncheon.

Mr. Fraser said he had received news yesterday to the effect that our troops have moved. i into Libya, and the latest news over the air was to the effe</-t that they were 50 miles across the Libyan border. (Applj iiisc.)

"That-means." said Mr. Frai;cr, "that, our lads, who distinguished themselves so cons]*Vicuously in Greece and in Crete, the men of our Expeditionri: vy Force, are once more on the march, but under very diffei* ent conditions. T have received a message from Major-Gene*., val Freyberg, and he assures me that our men are not under tf ie disastrous conditions that they were under in Greece and Crs ote;

"No men," continued Mr. | -raser, "carried out retreat more courageously or efficiently than the men of the New Zealand forces. Today in the dfi sert our Expeditionary Force are once more on the march. '• ~ J ~[..,

"They are not on the man } 'a this time with an inadequate Air Force as was the unfortur ii ite experience in- Crete. lam not complaining*. I know the c 1 gj Acuities of the Mother Country in bringing* the nation from; a peace economy to a war economy." ■•>■