FOUR MILLION MEN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24685, 14 August 1941, Page 7

FOUR MILLION MEN

BRITAIN’S MILITARY FORCES REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT RUGBY, Aug. 12. Stressing Germany’s failure to overcome Britain by bombing, a writer' in Pravda states: “In the course of the war unprepared England has created an enormous military machine of more than 4,000,000 men. The remorseless , bombing of London and other cities, calculated to terrorise the population, had precisely the opposite results, while the world sees every reason to expect very soon even more important and more successful blows against Germany by the British Air Force, which will at the same time.be capable of supporting land operations against the Reich. Furthermore, the British Navy and merchant fleet have proved capable of ensuring a constant supply of oil and war materials to England as well as to her armies in Africa and Asia, while the German navy is being chased from the surface of all the world’s oceans.”