EMPIRE WAR EFFORT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 291, 9 December 1939, Page 7

EMPIRE WAR EFFORT

LAND SEA AND AIR PHYSICAL DETERIORATION OF GERMAN ARMY i By Telegraph—Pres 1 * Association Copyright) I LONDON, Dec. 7. The Dominion Secretary, Mr. An- I thony Eden, in the House of Com- ; mons, quoted a reliable authority as 1 expressing the opinion that the Ger-1 man Army was jhysically inferior to, the standard of 1914. The reverse was the case as far as l Britain was concerned, he said. Splen- ' did types had joined up to fight the > Prussian spirit of military domination, j Mr. Eden said that, to increase still further the groat improvement in the physique and general health of the men being called up the Government was taking steps to see how best to ensure good results in the field of nutrition during the war period. Speaking on the war effort of the Commonwealth. Mr. Eden said that from the small Dominion of Newfoundland hundreds of men were coming to join the Royal Navy. South Rhodesia had raised hundreds of men who were in training and had offered three squadrons to the R.A.F. Dominion’s Forces Each of the Dominions had placed the'whole of their naval resources to co-operate with the Admiralty. On land Britain would soon have the co-operation of Australia, New Zealand and Canada in those fields of war in which they had won imperishable fame 25 years ago, he added. Turning to the air, Mr. Eden said that a large part of the R.A.F. consisted of personnel from Dominions. and, over and above that, the new air scheme was going to bring to Britain’s help thousands of pilots and air crews. He believed it was positive faith in parliamentary government by a free community which called forth these examples of self-sacrifice and loyalty. “It is in that spirit, which I find daily in the work which I have to do, that lies our certainty of ultimately winning this conflict,” he declared.