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BRITISH EQUIPMENT LOST IN FRANCE Rugby, Oct., 25. The First Lord of the Admiralty, | Mr Alexander, in an address to-night, ! said: “Some people who have criti- j cised Britain's war production seem j to have forgotten that we lost in ! France in fighting vehicles and other j ; equipment more than half of the Bril- ) fish Army's equipment that existed in | i the world at that time. It all had to be replaced, and it has been replaced.” j ! Reviewing the course of the subsequent campaigns against, the Italians! |i- East Africa. Mr Alexander said that the Italian empire had been utjterly eliminated, and the campaigns of 'Greece and Crete had dislocated Hit- | ler’s timetable. Mr Church il' had said that they ha. delayed the attack i against Russia by at ieast six .veeks. “I would put it at longer than that,” : the Minister said.—U.P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 27 October 1941, Page 5
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