MUNITIONS DRIVE
More Weapons Needed
LONDON, May 8. Londoners heard with gratitude a message from General Sir Thomas Blarney, Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Forces, on the occasion of the opening of the munitions drive. General Blarney said that never before had the people and the soldiers of the British Empire been so united in spirit, arising from the fact that they had faced dangers in common. While the civilian population was bearing the bombing raids with fortitude, the soldiers had met the Germans in the field and just as 25 years ago, they found themselves the better, man for man, so they found it to-day. As in the last war, the Germans had prepared their weapons ahead, but just as the British troops knew they were better men they also knew that their weapons were the better, but they did not have enough of them. “Give us these weapons in an ever increasing flow so that we may meet the enemy on equal terms,” urged General Blarney.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21959, 10 May 1941, Page 7
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167MUNITIONS DRIVE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21959, 10 May 1941, Page 7
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