COLONIAL LOYALTY

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 July 1940, Page 7

COLONIAL LOYALTY

LARGE GIFTS TO BRITAIN.

[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, July 15. Further gifts have been received towards the war funds from the Colonial Empire. Lord Lloyd has notified the Governor of Nigeria of the grateful acceptance of £lO 000 from the “Win the War” Fund, which gift follows soon after the Nigerian Government’s donation of £lOO,OOO. The sum of £45,000 has been subscribed within four days to the Governor of Fiji’s appeal for funds to purchase bombers for Britain. The sum already received is equal to the cost of two such aircraft.

From the Legislative Council of Nyasaland comes £32,850 for purchasing military aircraft. An appeal sponsored for the same purpose by the Mauritius Press Association has resulted in 382,296 rupees. The appeal sponsored by the “South China Morning, Post” and the “Hong Kong Telegraph,’ ’for the purchase of war planes, has risen to 800,000 dollars.

EAST INDIA’S PLANES. RUGBY, July 15. Eight Spitfires, bought for Britain by the East India Fund Mor . British war services, took the air this afteinoon, after a cheque for £55,000 “on account” of payment had been handed to the Under-Secretary for Air. These .fighters have joined a squadron with a proud record, which since the war began has destroyed or severely damaged 50 Nazi planes, with the soss of only five pilots and seven aircraft.. The fund has been raised by means of an appeal launched by Calcutta businessmen “to all loyal citizens of every race and creed who, having the Empire’s cause at heart, desire to subscribe in the form of a donation or monthly contributions, or both, towards the objects directly connected with the. active prosecution of the war.”. All classes of the community in Calcutta, Bengal, and, East British India have subscribed. Sir Alexander Murray, in presenting the cheque, said: “The British Empire is united in its resolve to free the world from the Nazi heel. This

small gift, we hope, at least, will serve as a token that, notwithstanding political differences in India, Britons and Indians have now but one thought, to spare no effort to win the war.”