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EMPIRE'S WAR EFFORT THOUSANDS OF AIRMEN IN TRAINING (British Official Wifeless.) RUGBY, October 3. (Received October 4, at 10.15 a.m.) The whole Empire’s war effort is growing with ceaseless momentum. By the end of September between 50,000 and 60,000 men of the volunteer militia concluding their camp training in Canada, and during 1941 nearly 300,000 will be trained. In addition, it is unofficially estimated that the total Canadian troops now in England numbers over 46,000, As announced in the first week of September, the Canadian Navy then numbered 125 vessels, while the R.C.A.F. was expected early in October to have a strength of 26,500 officers and men, of whom 16,000 were in the Empire air training project. In other parts of the Empire Canada’s material resources represent a highly important factor. The current wheat crop is estimated by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics at 561,000,000 bushels, which is about 5,000,000 below the record harvest of 1928. Oats, barley, and linseed are estimated all above last year. In nine months Canadians bought about £130,000,000 worth of war bonds. In Australia the establishment of a new infantry officers’ training school will raise the output of officers to nearly 2,000 yearly—the number required for the A.I.F. Plans have been made for a great expansion in the air defences in North-eastern Australia involving an expenditure of many millions of pounds on establishment of aircraft personnel. The proposed strength of the Air Force will be at least 8,500 officers and men. AUSTRALIA. Seven Australian shipyards are building 50 patrol craft to the design of the Navy Board, of which 20 are intended for the Admiralty. Each ship will be manned by Australians and named after Australian towns. The two Tribal class destroyers under construction in Australia will, with the King’s approval, be named Arunta and Warranunga, the names of two aboriginal tribes. The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation has handed to the Australian Government the hundredth Wirraway plane one year after production of the first. This means an output of £1,000,000 worth of planes in the first year of production. Members of 15,000 Australian war savings groups now number 1,250,000, one sixth of the population. NEW ZEALAND. There are now 1,000 New Zealanders in the R.A.F. Eight thousand two hundred and four men have volunteered for the R.N.Z.A.F. as pilots and 8,189, as technical staff. SOUTH AFRICA. In South Africa the Transvaal gold output in August broke the record at almost 1,200,000 tine ounces. The South African Air Force continues to take part in many successful raids on Italian bases in Africa, where the Rhodesian squadron of the R.A.F. has also made successful attacks. The Southern Rhodesian gold mining industry achieved the highest monthly production in 23 years during August. INDIA. In India applications for service in the I.A.F are being received, between 700 and 2,000 daily according to a recent announcement. An advertisement for 300 vacancies for pilots in the I.A.F. reserve brought 18,000 applications. Towards war industries India is producing about 20,000 different items. A factory survey will shortly be made to estimate production' capacity. Hardly a day passes without further generous Indian gifts towards aircraft purchase. kenya". Kenya’s manpower is 100 per cent, mobilised. Every-able bodied man not in the regular forces is having parttime training in the Kenya defence force. GATHERING VICTORY EFFORT. From Canada’s war expenditure of £120,000,000 since September to a £6O gift from a Falkland Islands sheep farm, from the Australian Imperial Forces 119,420 enlistments to a Seychelles field ambulance, the Empire story is one of consistent, generous, and above all, gathering effort for victory. AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION EMPIRE CONTRIBUTIONS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 2. Further contributions to the Cyprus Fighter Plane Fund, organised by the Cyprus 1 Post,’ amount to £234. The Gambia Spitfire Fund’s second contribution to the cost of aircraft for Britain is £I,OOO. The sum of £5,000 has been subscribed by the Kenya War and Welfare Fund for the relief of distress due to air raids in London. From Nigeria a further instalment of £SOOO has been sent to the war fund. The Spitfire Fund organised among the British colony in Portugal has within a month raised £13,000, and it is expected that the fund will yield sufficient for three Spitfires. The Maharaja Dhiraja of Darbhanga has given two fighters to the Bihar War Purposes Fund. One is a Spitfire for the R.A.F., which, if destroyed in action, will be replaced by the Maharaja. The second fighter is for the Indian Air Force. Tho Maharaja of Morvi has given moflfly for two Spitfires. &
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Evening Star, Issue 23698, 4 October 1940, Page 6
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