LORD MAYOR’S FUND
AUSTRALIAN DONATION
(British Oflicial Wirelnus.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Oct. 21. •A donation of £IO,OOO in Australian currency by the Australian Red Cross has brought the Lord Mayor’s Fund for the war sick and wounded to £426,000. the loss of two important ships of the licet,” said Mr. liore-Belisha. “The Auxiliary Air Force lost its amateur status at Rosyth. "The British forces will be increased by militiamen in the age groups and volunteers of all ages of whom we already have taken 60,000. “No peace proposals relying for sanction on a broken word can be considered. , Nothing but guarantees for the establishment of a new order from which the menace of Nazi oppression is removed can justify the laying down of arms. Our aims are not defined by geographical frontiers, but are concerned with the human spirit. “This is not a war about a map, but to re-establish conditions under which nations and individuals, including Germany, can live again. Only the defeat of Nazi Germany can lighten tiie darkness shrouding our cities and lighten the world’s horizon."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20075, 23 October 1939, Page 7
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