NATIONAL SERVICE
MAGNIFICENT RESPONSE IN BRITAIN. IMPROVEMENT IN DEFENCE POSITION. (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, May 28. In a speech at Rutherglen today, the Lord Privy Seal, Sir John Anderson, said that the response to national service was magnificent and comparable with that in the early months of the Great War. Equipment secured included hundreds of millions of sandbags, 50,000,000 gasmasks, and the position would be far better in three months'. Events in the autumn had made people realise that the monstrous doctrine of “might is right,” was being re-estab-lished . in Central Europe.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1939, Page 5
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