DECISION WELCOMED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 30 November 1939, Page 5

DECISION WELCOMED

STATEMENT IN LONDON AT FRONT IN SPRING (British Official Wireless.) Reed. M a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 29. Mr. R. G. Casey, the Australian Minister of Supply, who is attending conferences for the co-ordination of the Empire’s war effort, has issued the following statement: “I have just received a cablegram from Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Prime Minister, advising me that the Commonwealth Government has decided that the special division which has been recruited for service at home in Australia or abroad, as occasion might arise, will proceed overseas when.it has reached a suitable stage of training. It is anticipated that this will be early in the new year. “After further training overseas, the division should be able to -take its place in the theatre of war in the spring. This decision will be welcomed with deep gratification in Australia as, I feel sure, by the people of Great Britain.” In reference to the decision of the Commonwealth Government to dispatch' a military force overseas from Australia, the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain said in the House of Commons: “The House , will, I am confident, agree when I say how warmly we welcome this further evidence of Australia’s resolution to put forward her full effort in the common cause.”