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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 15, 1940.

INSPIRING

SPEECH BY

MR. EDEN

London, To-day.

Mr. S. M. Bruce, High Com

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missioner of Australia, and permission to sell the cargo ships Mr. Anthony Eden, British Dominions Secretary, yester- day inspected R.A.F. Coastal Command Headquarters.

In the personnel of the Station is a unit of the Royal Australian Air Force--the first complete Dominion air unit on service overseas.

After warmly welcoming the Aus- tralian airmen in a brief speech, Mr. Eden said: "There is no doubt of the task that lies before us and no doubl of the nature of the struggle in which we are engaged. The present leaders of Germany want world dominion. To be fair to them, they have been quite frank about it and they have told us Hitler calls it "peace under the protection of German power.”

GERMAN POWER

us

NAZI MACHINES MAKE OUR

ARMS

Britain is using machinery made in Germany to wage war against Hitler. A tour of an armaments works yes- terday disclosed that ponderous com- theplicated pieces of machinery labelled "Berlin" or "Hamburg" make predic- tors with which British soldiers cal- culate the range at which to set anti- aircraft guns.

"There are several small nations who have already learned what protection of that power means. It is peace for them to the death.

"Curiously, these people are quite sincere when they say to

that they want to give us the protection of German power and they cannot quite The firm making them once concen- understand why we do not want it:trated on the manufacture of gramo But we don't. We have our own view which is just the opposite: that peoples, great and small, should be allowed to live their own lives in freedom as they would.

phones and wireless sets. The problem was to find in sufficient quantities and as rapidly as possible machinery capa. ble of making certain parts of the pre- dictors. The search led to Germany.

"It is therefore, a struggle for world civilization. The outer defences, some of the small nations, already been overrun and it is its great bul- warks which' are now being attacked.radio sets for the domestic market If they were to fall, there would be has slumped owing to the war, but the no lasting peace for freedom loving companies whose headquarters were nations anywhere. The struggle in visited yesterday have rapidly switch- which We are engaged is one not only for ourselves but for our chil- dren and our children's children.

Meantime, other British Arms, ure have busy making machinery in the quan- titles required. The manufacture of

COMMON EFFORT

"It is because you understand that so well that from Australia and else-

where in the British Commonwealth you have come to join us in the common effort. It because of that fact, be-

ed over to war needs.

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and men.

The sets are especially powerful, cause you are here and because count-capable of picking up British broad- less other thousands in the British Commonwealth are In this struggle, that we are confident of the final vic-they are submitted to a special vibra- tory."

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the firing of big guns.

tion test lasting eight hours before. being sent out. This ensures that they Mr. Bruce, addressing the Australian will not be thrown out of order-by airmen in particular, said: "We are all in this war. We are going to co- operate and see it through and we are going to win. Honour and pres- tige and the good name of Australia reside in your hands. We are look- ing to you with confidence to uphold it as the men of the A.E.F. did in the last war."

AUSSIE SQUADRON

NAZI LACK

OF PLANES

An Italian journalist with the Ger- man Army on the Western Front re- ports that the following Information was volunteered to him by an of- ficer of the Supreme Command:

The Australian squadron is operat- ing the flying-boats which, it will be recalled, were ordered for the Royal Australian Air Force early last year and which, with the consent of the Australian Government, remained for

An air offensive on a large scale duty with the R.A.F. together with personnel. The remainder of trained has not yet been attempted because it. personnel to bring the

could not be efficiently undertaken squadron up

unless Aus- and continued

four reserve

to full strength arrived from tralia on Boxing Day.-British Wire-machines are available for every one

less.

AMERICAN TOURISM

on the front.

The Germans have not yet reached this stage of preparedness, but ex- pect to do so within a short time.

It is doubtful whether the French (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")

and the British could ever have such Washington, To-day.

number of aircraft President Roosevelt has proclaimed an enormous

American available. Hence the conclusion has to be a "year of tourism" since the European conflict been drawn that the French and the has prevented American citizens from British will never be able to assume'

Havas. travelling to Europe.

the offensive.

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