WAR OUTLOOK
SPEECH BY LORD DERBj:. • GROUNDS FOR. OPTIMISM. IF ALL DO THEIR BEST. [Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. Mav 14, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON; May 13. Lord Derby, speaking at Liverpool,' defied anyone to say that any nation had complete air supremacy, but without fear of contradiction, vhe woUld say that on the essential days in the Somme and Arras battles 'the\" Supremacy was absolutely ours. ' Without 'it it .would. have been impossible to 'do- 'what we had done. He believed that during the, present month better brains would oe work in this country than in. qtny 'part' . of the world. We had every reason'tQ. be optimistic in regard to the general" outlook of the war. We were bound-to win if all would do their best.' There was no place in this. country for any* one not working with all his power for • the war. -
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Nelson Evening Mail, 14 May 1917, Page 4
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