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KATHAT Britain? What

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WHAT is this outmonwealth ing $1,300,000,000 in the war

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- exceeded. 10 per cent, of the na:: In the East End of London, tional income, workers are digging out of The resulta have exceeded all ex- blasted homes; on the Clyde- pectations. The Commonwealth Air bank, ship riveters race against Training Scheme has forged eight months ahead of schedule, allowing the Nazi U-boat-campaign-In now for a new expansion programme bomb-marked Coventry, plane which will double its present quota mechanics speed now sinews for to 72,000 airmen in a year's time. the RAF Housewives. fight To the three air squadrons now tire bombs, clerks man the oversens wil be added 20 more. Homo Guard-a nation, has., mo- bilised to meet a "total war."

But there is more to Britain than A brave and fighting island.

The 00,000 Canadians who orc guarding British interests in Ice- lund, the West Indies, Newfound- land, Britain and Africa, will now be increased by a third infantry Canadian division of some 12,000, plus an armoured division of 12,080 It is the "Aussies" who men and equipment, and an army have reinforced Singapore-who- tank brigade of 1,800 skilled opera- stormed Bardia. Canadians tora, thus raising conscripted home guard Iceland. Hindu Jats, and overseas troops to the 400,000

mark. too. fortify Singapore, and

Canada's navy, which has already Rhodesian pilots defend the convoyed some 4,000 vessels across

Hongkong Telegraph. skies of London.

Wednesday, July 2, 1941.

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WELCOME STATEMENT

THE. Colony's "bachelor" husbands will be grateful to His Excellency the Governor for his broadcast last night on evacua- tion. It was a frank, consider- ed, explanatory and encouraging statement. The husbands and their families now know where they stand.

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the North Atlantic, is being doubled New Zealanders stand guard within a year to include more than 400 naval craft, and 27,000 naval. in Palestine. Uganda tribesmen

record- Into Canadian plants a swell the forces against the Ita-personnel. lians In East Africa.

breaking stream of copper, zinc, pig

da's northern mines.

us."

INDIA

INDIA

CANADA

NEW ZEALAND

They, like the Englishman ron, are being shipped from Cana- Bren uns, Bren gun carriers, Isured by the Hongkong Telegraph to Cliffs of Dover on the day of the anil-aircraft guns, shells, cartridges

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" who looked eastward from the indicate news which is affetly copyright

"We and chemicals are coming off the under the provisions of the Telecommual-fall of France, can say:

with lines

increasing ertions Ordinance, 1938, Buch news a fight alone all 500,000,000 of production

tempo. Tanks, with which Britain will take the initiative on the con- Theirs are the Canadian tinent, are beginning to come off Low alter why or in part without presions transport trucks which carried production lines, whereas

British troops across Africa, months ago even tank designs were Canadian-made transport the 125,000,000 pairs of Indian lacking illae already passed made boots on which Empire the 40,000 production mark, are now troops are marching. Theirs is being turned out at a rate of close to the gold from South Africa, tin 000 a day.

Industrial bottlenecks and finan- from Malaya, wheat from Aus-

effort. But with mendous wor tralia, and a gift of $50,000 from clat snaga have not escaped this tre- the tiny speck of an island unity never before achieved by the called Banaba.

Dominion, Canadians have avowed their determination to drive ahead This is Britain to-day. This with every resource at their com- is the Empire which in the past mand. few months has taken on a new vigour and unity. Paced by Canada, India, Australia, and At the heart of the Empire in Lon- New Zealand, it is funneling don, talking of Indin's political pro- into the common war chest an blems is infused with a new note of If the truth were known, one ever broadening stream of guns between Government and

India's potentialities. The old rift Hindus, of the principal causes for so and butter, men and materials, which for years has been the chief much bitterness and discontent which is giving the British trouble spot of the Empire, is just

struggle a new momentum.

Os serious Os among the husbands, has been

Although u solution has not as yet the oyster-like attitude adopted

been agreed upon, Britain has never- theless been able to benefit enorm- by Government over the evacua-

Canada entered the war as a ously from the fact that India is oue tion. Pertinent but reasonable boy. To-day it is carrying on of the world's 12 leading industrial as a man. But, it took the fall countries country which turned queries have been made, only to of France in June, 1940, to work out its first smooth-bore gun as early

as 1549. be met by-nvasiveness; the the transformation.-

India's. 350,000,000, have taken the dangers of war in the south Pacific. When the war broke out, New husbands, not without cause, felt

When Canada joined Britain strategic role of chief arsenal for the Like Canada, Austraila did not Zealand had the first Commonwealth it was emphasised entire. Empire circle from Egypt to fully wake up to the gravity of the air training school erected bare- they were being treated like in its war,

Hongkong

war situation until the collapse of ly n month later. To-day, with that it was strictly Britain's

When Australians need tents and France. But, when it did, training 1,500 pilots, gunners, and air ob children expected to be seen but war, and not Canada's. Canada khaki uniforms, India will furnish camps which had innguished com- servers already fighting under the not heard. Sir Geoffry's tem- would help, but everywhere them

Australian New Zealand emblem, the Dominion in traditional in the fashion

sprang into is augmenting these with 4,000 more porary predecessor hardly ap-might be seen the "business as for

от Mediterranean, usual" routine. The Dominion's alia needs engineering equipment, tories, which had Idly revolved with

The

of Australian fac- each year. preciated the need for explaining effort was lacking in Canadian or when. London calls for 6,000,000 the full knowledge that they didn't

Infant industries, which were al- or less a side issuo, in to a bewildered, and later angry initiative, nothing like the all- more sandbags to protect homes and have to supply anywhere near their ways ca

Zealand's economy, have public, what was to him an out effort of to-day.

historic sites, the order is sent to In-home necessities, began to whir to New dia. order, and therefore sacrosanct

fill self-sufficiency orders. Farmers reached the point where they are It was the same apprentice- and to be fulfilled without ques- ship that characterised Cana-Steady streams of wood, inished more woul, and dress more meat for producti

Steady streams of wool, lac, hemp, began to plant more wheat, shear equipping their own troops with and footwear. Aircraft production has been introduced into tion; for this, he could scarcely da's role in the World War steel, scrap, manganese, chrome, and Expire markets.

the Dominion's manufacturing pro- be blamed. He was the logical, relying upon Britain for experts mica are flowing from Indian felds, One of the first achievements was gramme. fortunately the characteristic to train the army, technicians to mines, and forests to Indian factor the two-a-day capacity reached in product of his profession-the soldier who carries out an order promptly and as effectively, as possible whether he personally agrees with it or not...

CANADA

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when

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South Africa has managed to dis-

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patch several thousand troops to the East African front despite the violent opposition which at first threatened.

in increasing numbers, New.

And while the Dominion is sub- supervise factories, blueprints ics, and those of Britain cast of Suez. aircraft production new product

At the India Office in London they for Australian industry. These ordinating national economy to spend from London for each war pro- will turn up a growing inventory of inuch-needed planes will be used to $60,000,000 on vidury' are sharing duct manufactured.

India's production of Boots, field be Australia's part of the Common on its navy, individuals

the burden as though they were anti-aircraft guns, ard rides. That was a British effort guns,

DCs, wealth Air Training Schemo.

but a few miles from the scene of Charts will show the rapid expón-

Another signi@cant attainment for hostilities. The Governor of the with Canada doing some of the 'sion of Indian General Motors and

lines is the New Zealand Reserve. Bank has It has, therefore, taken a year work. To-day it is a Canadian Ford to boost an initial production of Australian production evacuation, how and why it was When France feil Canadians 70,000 a year; on the increase in the soon expected to supply complete year and turning his $18,000 pay

War orders have already Jumped ordered, and the possibilities in were sharply struck with the numbers of skilled workers enrolled outfits for every. Australian soldier, check over to the war effort fund.

in the compulsory national service. the future of it being relaxed. realisation that their existence Nor has India, neglected its man to $25,000,000 and 150,000 workers THE OTHER HUNDRED MILLION

use are boosting production to turn out as power. A remaining political un-

Tils new revitalised effort on the If the statement la tardy, it is. Was

the realisation.

tion 1,000,000 rounds of cartridges a day,

ard to make anti-aircraft guns anil- part of Britain's four major "Ailles" no less welcome, and expressed Britain's. They did not wait rest together with

modern warfare requires. that in the terms adopted by Sir for blueprints from London, but troops, are resected in the fact that tank guns, howitzers. This year will has been transmitted to other parto

their Geoffry Northcote last night, it began drafting

OW India has hot duplicated its World sco Austraila spending $325,000,000 of the Empire. becomes valuable, consoling and Canadian managers took over War mobilisation of 1,500,000 troops, on munitions alone.

production. And Canadian fac Even so, turbaned Hindu Jats, encouraging.

*NEW ZEALAND from World War days in reinforcing garri- One of the important points tories began tooling up to North famous

American specifications, which Mo Palestine to Hongkong. Cinderella' of the Dominions, New to defeat the Union's war participp- stressed by His Excellency was were actually more fitted

toons from

Ten training centres in India will Zealand is farther way from the tion. the need for pointing one's cyca Cunada's Industrial equipment. 'soon quadruple India's air force in seat of the Empire London than

Rhodesian pilots are arriving in London in to the future rather than living in the past, with its admitted

million

conscripte mine sweeping -tl-submarine, mistakes and its heart-breaking. penses, 10,000,000 Canadians mechanics each year. Gunnery, an- even of the populated world. And foundland kas sent more than

and yet a little more than a are now giving nearly 50 cents signalling schools

a half New Zealanders have drawn of Its gons, Jamalea has

all supplying are experiences. Evacuation is n

of the Suez of every dollar of their share of trained experts in modern warfare themselves Into the Empire war

Canal, supplied big issue, but there are other the national income to support to man slips which allp down the scheme as closely as any other of

colonial troops of the war. Burma equally, if not bigger issuce which are wholly interrelated.

a record-breaking $2,000,000,- ways into the Hooghly and at Bom- Britain's people.

ibay.

They proved this off Uruguay, gave oil, Uganda sent militant tribes- 000 war budget. It is as essential to tackle one

They are still talking about the when, New Zealand sailors manned men armed with modern rifles, Bar as it is another of them. In the

Nizam of Hyderabad, who subscribed the guns of the British cruiser Achil- bardos. gave sassoned sailors, and gave cotton. Nearly 1$300,000 for air services, and entire les to help disable the German poc- Tanganyika eyes of the British War Cabinet, demand correction; but the mininins two squadrons of RAF ket battleship. Admiral Graf Spea. $50,000,000 from 10 colonies has been evacuation le part of the right time must be chosen, and named after his state.

They proved it when 30,000 of their dropped into the Empire war chest. troops volunteered to man stations. This is Britain. A new spark has Colony's successful war effort; this is not the right time.

AUSTRALIA the idea may be hard toʻawal-

from London to Singapore, and when welded together not an Empire, but New Zealanders helped the "Aussies" a Commonwealth in a truer sense The old coment low, and unless it can be appre-

than over before. His Excellency gave a number If the British blitzkrieg in North to capture Bardia. clated, the rest of our war effort of assurances in his broadcast-Africa had a trade mark, it would They will prove It if trouble should of legal tes, a common king, end boing preferences may suffer, as, perhaps, it assurancos which the Colony read "Made in Australia." already has. But the future is can accept without hesitation: for I was the tastes who gur break out in the South Pacific and conceale

For today in battle which is the still ours, to make or mar; we They go a long way towards brised Sidi Barrani. It was these 10,000 home defence troops go into strengthened by something new and have the means, but there must meeting the plaints of the hus-, tall, good-natured, but under Linked closely to Australia in the prelude to the search for juster peace,

volunteer troops from Down be the determination to make bands, and in this knowledge, who under Intense fire stormed war programme, New Zealand has be- 500.000,000 people are reafirming those menna productive. It is the husbands can increase their through the defences of Bardia gun to expand Industries and their common desire for freedom Austraila, has given the Empire strengthen Les with the Mother with a vigour which not only pro not a question of letting by efforts to fulfil the task which 120,000 of these troops. It is con- Country in a manner which promises enises a closer Empire union, but gones bo bygones, for there are a thoirs by circumstance and scripting 200,000 for overseas and to to find a new role for the far-away, which harbingers a new era of world some things which, one day, will | heritage.

guard the Commonwealth against the Empire member;

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