MUST BE EQUIPPED
MR HUGHES ON GREECE. The Australian Minister for the Navy,. Mr Hughes, said recently that the successful resistance of the Anzacs at Tobruk showed that, properly equipped, they could undoubtedly have held the lines allotted them in Greece. Mr Hughes said that by equipment he meant all things that went to make the efficient army in modern war—aeroplanes, tanks and the rest. In Greece our aeroplanes had been outnumbered by 10 and 20 to one. The lines stretching from Mount Olympus and, later, from Thermopylae, Mr Hughes said, were easier to defend than those at Tobruk. At Tobruk our troops were well equipped. They had not been well equipped in Greece. Asked whether he thought that the British Government should have provided more aeroplanes in Greece, Mr Hughes said that the machines required could not be flown to Greece, and ships could not get them there in time,
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4430, 26 May 1941, Page 4
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