CANADA’S EFFORT

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1940, Page 5

CANADA’S EFFORT

PREMIER'S ANNOUNCEMENT ! (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— . T ?• ■ OTTAWA, May’2o) ‘ The Canadian Prime Minister, :Mt Mackenzie King, told Pariiaiiieht tliiit the Government had planned> to '■&& celerate the despatch of naval, air :_and land forces, and also aircra'ft ■ overseas to aid the : - answered demands made for a speedier war .efr fort. He said it had been planned: (1) To advance the date of the det spateh of the second Canadian division overseas ; -(2) to raise a thirdMiy? ision; (3) to speed up thq recruiting' of reinforcements; (4) to assign a naval and military formation to active service in the ‘Caribbean and North Atlantic Seas; (5) to send another Anmj co-operation srjuadrpn overseas; (6) to form . a Canadian 1 Corps in the field; (7) to'accelerate: the training of phots and air crews; and (8) to confer special wartime powers on the Munitions Supply Department so as to enable it. -to dito the siibplyihg said that, the dominion v would ,’ bo spending over, seven hundred million dollars in the present fiscal 1 year on the war effort atone. Ho estimated 1 that Canada’s total expenditure, inU eluding the country's ordinary would exceed cloven hundred million dollars ior the year, which would b<f over three million dollars daily, Can-1 ada had • spent’ 273 million . dollars op. to May 13. Her naval expenditure!/ thus far had totalled one hundred million dollars. He added: that twenty Canadian;' vlnpynrfls were constructing ninety' war vessels, while eighty aerodromes were being made and 173 buildings for fortifications. were under construction. Three thousand out of nine thousand motor vehicles that bad Wen order d had been delivered or; sent ov-rsKis. . . ~ . . r *'• :