BRITISH DEFENCE
SUBSTANTIAL AIRFORCE DOMINIONS CONTRIBUTION. rtess Association Electric Telecrnnh —Oonyrigbv (Received Monday, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday. Brigadier-General Sir 11. P. Croft, M.P. for Bournemouth, in a speech at Portsmouth, urged the Dominions to contribute to a substantial air force general scheme of Empire defence. He said that no one Avould deliberately Avage Avar against Britain if they kneAV that behind us Avere four thousand fighting planes, a thousand each from Canada, Australia and South Africa, five hundred from New Zealand, and one hundred from each CroAvn colony.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 August 1936, Page 5
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