"NOT A LONELY FIGHT”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 47, 25 February 1941, Page 5

"NOT A LONELY FIGHT”

; EMPIRE IS BEHIND BRITAIN ! MR. MENZIES BROADCASTS FROM LONDON ' Received Feb. 24, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 23. J An impression of the united Empire i behind Britain's war effort was gained ifrom the broadcast to-day by Mr. R. ;G. Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia. “You must never even ne tempted," Ihe said, “to think that your - fight is | a ionely one. I am sure of that, not I only for Australia, but the whole ißritish Empire beyond the seas. I say 'to you ‘We are in this most holy war with you. Everything we have or manpower or the treasure of skill and iof determination is pledged to work and fight for you. We are with you until victory is attained and a better land Juster day dawns for the world in which oir children ar e to live.’ “This is supported by every deed of which <ve are capable. The total population of Australia is consideri ably loss than tae population of London. But the Australian Imperial Forces include already army corps of four divisions and corps of troops and thousands of personnel which already have made their blows. I have visited the Mediterranean ships of the Royal Australian Navy, which, from the day war broke out, co-operated with yours in the seven seas and have ■by their skill and fighting qualities not subtracted from the glories of the ißoyal Navy. I have seen the Empire lair training scheme grow in power until it brought into training not I hundreds, but thousands of young | Australians, who, entering the air war iwith their brothers in Britain and the I Dominions, are destined t| see the ■ British Empire as just a mistress of ithe air as she has been these many generations the sure protector of the I seas. ; “Add to these things our munitions effort, which already produces 20 times our volume of production when war began, and you v/ili see that Australia’s message blings no empty words.”