By BUD FISHER
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12-26
TORPEDOING PILOTS ARRIVE FOR
SPRING ATTACK
OF GERMAN DESTROYER
Details are now given of an air operation an- nounced yesterday morn- ing in which a Germa destroyer was torpedoed.
The Air Ministry Communique. late In the entuse of recon-
uperntiems. ance and patrol by murerait of the Coastal Comi
mand yesterday, attarles were ade with torpedors o enemy destroyers off the Norwegian coast. One enemy vessel was hit amid- hips
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ONE OF THE LARGEST batches of air trainees from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, were wel- comed in Britain yesterday by Lord Cranborne (Dominions Secretary) the High Commissioner for Canada, Mr. Vincent Massey, the High Commission- er for Australia, Mr. S. M. Bruce, the High Commis- sioner for New Zealand, Mr. W. J. Jordan, and Cap- tain Harold Balfour (Under-Secretary of State for Air).
Noble Company
"You have come to join a very noble company and I am sure you will add to it further lustre and fame.
The contingent from Canada in- ; quite certain you would not wish eluded British who had been to miss that. framed in that country under the A single arrerait of the Bomber
Empare Air Training Scheme and Command carried out an attack Australians and New Zealanders on the nil tanks at Phishing, the
who training had nearly been docks at Antwerp and other ob-completed in their own countries retives in enemy-occupied terri- and who. with the rest of this tory.
eontingent, will be posted direct In the early hours of this mort. to an operational training unit. "You have been trained under ing. forty aircraft of the samie
Many are piluts and all
the Empire Air Training Scheme Command bombe:t
members of air crews. enemy
which is not only one of the most en the coast of North-West Ger-
impressive examples of Imperial Ind Cranbourne, welcoming cooperation but also one of the many,
them said: "You have come just most important, for even though at the right moment, because by it is still uncertain the air power all appearances, the Spring cam-alone can win this war, it is cer paign is newly upon it and I am
bases
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From all these operations, of our aireralt is missing, British Wireless.
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drawn with
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play a vital
made clear
t.il!: htt it must part in winning it.
"That has been by our experience in Dunkirk, in the Battle of Britain and in the recent weeks of Libya.
"I can imagine nothing could be more exasperating or dis- couraging to Hitler and his col- laborators than to see this steady, increasing and inexorable wave of the finest pilots in the world coming steadily across the At- lantic to our shores, not only to defend this island, but to strike continued and increasing blows at vital parts of Germany.” — Bri- tish Wireless.
N.Z'S WAR WORK
The manufacture of munitions has become an important part of New Zealand's war work, said Mr. Sullivan, New Zea- land Minister of Supplies yesterday.
Production covers Bren-Gun carriers, trench-mortars and bombs, including high explosives, steel-helmets and sinall arms
munition.
Minesweepers are being built and an improved type will soon be produced..
After the report of Britian experts, it is expected
that pro-
Britain would establish grammes suitable for -New Zen- land's fulfilment,
The New Zealand Government is conducting an intensive opera- tions scheme for the training of munition workers, — Reuter,
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