GREAT BRITAIN’S VICTORY.
WELL-FOUNDED CONFIDENCE
LONDON, Sept. 30. A warning that the war liad hardly begun yet was uttered in England today by Captain Cruicksliank (Financial Secretary to the Treasury), when opening Coventry’s War Weapon Week. He said that the first year of hostilities liad passed but, without detracting from Britain’s great successes in the air battle or from the steady destruction of German military objectives by the bombers of the R.A.F., there was a very long road to travel. Captain Cruicksliank urged that the nation must save to the limit. Till everyone made a great personal sacrifice the financial stability of the country would not have been secured, nor would the delivery of all the necessary arms and military machines have been made absolutely certain. “There is ample ground in official circles for the British confidence to face the next year of the war. The enemy has suffered very heavy losses in machines ancl pilots, the British forces have much more conserved their fighting strength. The development oi fighters and bombers has been by no means exhausted. In this respect it is thought that Germany is feeling the loss of the scientists whom she has expelled,” he added.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 262, 3 October 1940, Page 7
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199GREAT BRITAIN’S VICTORY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 262, 3 October 1940, Page 7
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