Armaments Making In Canada
1 British Official Wireless. 1 i Received 10 a.m.) RUGBY, July 6. The Minister lor the Co-ordination of Defence, Sir Thomas Inskip, was asked in the House of Commons today whether he could state what arrangements the Government had been able to make for the manufacture in Canada of aircraft and other munitions. He said the report of the recent special mission to Canada and the United States was under examination. As regards the manufacture of other munitions. orders had ben placed in Canada for shell bodies and Broun machineguns—the former direct with Canadian manufacturers and the latter in association with the Canadian Government. An order for explosives was also under consideration. The Secretary of State for Air. Sir Kingsley Wood, announced that in the six months ended July 2 the men who applied for enlistment in the Royal Air Force totalled 19.140.
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Northern Advocate, 8 July 1938, Page 6
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