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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24144, 10 December 1941, Page 8

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LEND-LEASE SCHEME

AMERICAN MUNITIONS

GERMANY'S MISTAKE

(Eecd. 5.35 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 A White House statement to-day Baid: "Obviously Germany did all she could to push Japan into war. It was the German hope that if the United States "and Japan could be pushed into war such a conflict would put an end to the lend-lease programme. "As usual, the wish was father to the thought behind the broadcasts and announcements < emanating from Germany with relation to the war and the lend-lease programme. That such German broadcasts a!nd announcements are

continuously and completely 100 per cent inaccurate is shown by the fact ' that the lend-lease programme is .and will continue in full operation." Every effort, it is stated, will be made to maintain supplies to the British armies in the Middle East on the same basis as in recent months. ■, Mr. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labour, to-day appealed for the ending of strikes in the defence industries, and called on workers to produce as the workers of no other country ever produced, and to ' keep steadfastly on the job until victory and final peace were won.

Mr. John L. Lewisj president of the Miners' Federation, is supporting the Administration.

Army, navy and marine recruiting offices throughout the United States .were besieged with volunteers to-day. In Nsw York the navy recruiting offices had to close shortly after noon, when the enlistments were higher than double the number taken in the first day of the war in 1917. Senator A. H/Vandenberg, a leading isolationist, in a statement said: "I have fought every trend leading toward war, but when war comes to us I stand for the swiftest and most invincible

answer. The unproYoke'd Japanese attack is a brutal disclosure of a purpose which violates every element of civilised society." Mr. Charles Lindberg stated: "Now that war has come, we must meet it as united Americans regardless of our attitude in the past."

SWEEP OVER FRANCE

GERMAN TOWN BOMBED (Heed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 8 An Air Ministry communique states: "Our fighters, including bomb-carrying Hurricanes, made a sweep over southern France to-day. A factory was effectively bombed, and several enemy fighters on the ground were damaged by gunfire. Five enemy fighters were destroyed "in air combats. Ten British planes are missing. "Strong forces of aircraft of the Bomber Command were over western Germany last night. The railway town of Aachen,, which was the principal objective, was heavily attacked. The docks at Os'tend, Calais, Boulogne, Dunkirk and Brest were also attacked. The Fighter Command destroyed an enemy bomber over an enemy aerodrome. Four aircraft are missing.

BRITISH TOWN BOMBED HEAVIEST', RECENT RAID (Kecd. 10.40 p.m.) * LONDON, Dec. 9 The Heaviest air raid for some months ■was launched on a north-east coast town in Britain last night. Bombs were dropped, over a wide area. Houses in . a working-class district were struck. ■ There are 'believed to have been a number of casualties.