MONEY FOR PLANES

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 85, 7 October 1940, Page 8

MONEY FOR PLANES

SUDANESE GIFT

MORE EMPIRE DONATIONS

(Received October 7, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, October 6.

The Sudan Government's gift of £100,000 for the purchase of a squadron of fighter planes.is officially stated to have been made to signify in practical form the gratitude of the people of the Sudan for the benefits conferred by the British Government and their confidence in British victory.

Lord Beaverbrook, in a message to the Sudan Government, describes it ac an inspiring demonstration of loyalty and devotion, and adds: "It rejoices our hearts in an hour when the valour and might of the nation are mobilised to overcome our enemies. We send your aircraft to battle and our gratitude to you. When victory brings peace once more to the world we shall not forget those who have helped us so nobly in the day of peril."

With the seventh instalment of £4000 the Gold Coast Spitfire fund has reached the total of £40,000. Sierra Leone has sent to Britain £20,000 for a bomber, and Trengganu, in Malaya, 50,000 dollars towards the air funds.

Amongst gifts towards the purchase of aircraft is one of £4 8s 6d and another of £54,000—the latter from the Nawab of Bhopai for the purchase of a flight of Spitfires and the former a contribution from the South Oxford Council Schoo] in memory of an old boy. an airman who was killed in action. German refugee children at Kensington contributed 9s.

Nearly £640,000 was promised within half an hour of the launching of Cardiff's war weapons week yesterday. The Lord Mayor. Alderman Henry Johns, expressed dissatisfaction at the city's aim of only £1.000,000. "It should have been £2.000.000." he said, "for the honour and credit of Cardiff as the leader in Wales and the bordering counties of England. We must immediately declare in favour of £2,000,000."