PURCHASE OF FIGHTERS
GIFT FROM KENYA NATIVES ' (Brjtlsh Official Wireless) RUGBY, Nov. 5. (Received Nov. 6, at 7.30 p.m.) v: Native subjects in Kenya want aeroplanes “ to defend King George’s house,” and the latest cable messages -if'Kofn-Niarpbi state that the Kiambu Native Council subscribed £1603 to- ■■ viterdS; the purchase of a fighter, and with £10,075 already put up by tribes of the, central provinces, this enables'the purchase of at least two The idea of purchase of aircraft came spontaneously from ‘.the Africans, and although warned that their planes might be destroyed .on the first flight, they replied, “We know what may happen, but we know they will bring down several enemy planes with them/’
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24449, 7 November 1940, Page 9
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