RECIPROCAL AID

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 203, 28 August 1942, Page 3

RECIPROCAL AID

Many Weapons Of War Sent

To United States

MINISTER'S STATEMENT

Rec. 1 p.m.

RUGBY, Aug. 27.

While expressing his sincere appreciation of the generosity of spirit in which the United States had administered the lease-lend agreement, the Minister of Production, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, in a broadcast to the United States, pointed out that Britain, too, was doing her share under this agreement and had sent to the United States, under what is known as reciprocal aid, some things of which they were in urgent need, for instance, anti-aircraft guns, defence balloons, planes and submarine chasers.

Dealing with the efficiency of British weapons, Mr. Lyttelton' said, "To-day our pursuit planes are the fastest and most efficient lighting weapons in the world. Our 3.7 antiaircraft, our 25-pounder field guns and 6-pounder anti-tank guns have proved outstanding successes, and at least equal to any produced by the enemy "or the United States."

Britain's early tanks had some defects, but these were now remedied, and he was confident the latest types had at least no superior.