LACK OF EQUIPMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 27 October 1941, Page 5

LACK OF EQUIPMENT

BEE. ON WESTERN FRONT | DEMAND FOR PUNISHMENT OF < MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE (Rec 10.20 a.m.) London. Oct. 26. A demand for the punishment of the Ministers responsible for the inadequate equipment of the British forces in j France and Belgium was made by a member of the House of Commons, Mr j Clement Davies (L.Nat.) in an address .to the Cambridge Liberal Club. After quoting from Lord Gort’s dispatches lie ! .-aid if the men responsible had disappeared or were dead, as were many soldiers and airmen concerned, it could 1 have been said that the chapter was closed, but the men responsible still hold high office. Sir Kingsley Wood, who had said the number of planes ! accruing to the Allies was equal to that of the Axis, has been promoted to | Chancellor of tiie Exchequer and placjed again in tiie War Cabinet Sir Samuel Hoare, who at one time was j responsible for the Air Ministry, was i now Ambassador to Spain. Sir John j Simon was also in the War Cabinet and is Lord High Chancellor. The pub- ; lie will demand an inquiry into the ! stewardship of these men and should the inquiry reveal that thev failed in l their duty to the armed forces of the country they should be punished. The Government should be purged of such | men. Only now, two years after the ! outbreak of tiie war. and three years j after Munich, has the Government dis- | cover ed it is short of tanks -U.P.A.