Jamaica Buys Full Bomber Squadron
RUGBY, November 13.
With the telegraphing of £IO,OOO to the Air Ministry, Jamaica, according to reports from Kingston, has completed its undertaking to provide money sufficient to buy a full bomber squadron of 12 planes, one being a ‘super bomber” costing £20,000. An agency message from Dar-es-Salam states that Tanganyika, with a population of 5,000,000, which includes cnly 7000 whites, has now sent to Britain sufficient money for two fighter planes and another instalment of £3OOO for general war funds, making a war fund total of £21,000 to date.
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Northern Advocate, 15 November 1940, Page 4
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